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IIK greatest of English historians, M u li i it, and o fthe most brilliant writers of 

the present century, has said: "The history of a country is best told in a record of the 

lives of its people," In conformity with this idea the Portrait ami Bioobafbk u 

" of this county has been prepared. Instead of going t<> must] ro ords, and 

taking therefrom dry statistical matter that can be appreciated by but few, oui 

AgS8gj?jvSSjK corps of Writer- have irono to the people, tllC 111(11 .'111(1 women who have, l>y tlicll 

I V:T ' enterprise and industry, brought the county to rank second to none among those 

3.-: v comprising this great and noble State, and from their lips have the story of their life 

["'-<•' struggles. No more interesting or instructive matter could be presented to an intelli- 

gent public. In tlii- volume will be found a record <>f many whose lives arc worthy the 
imitation of coming generations. It Lells how some, commencing life in poverty, by 
industry and economy have accumulated wealth. It tells how others, with limited 
advantages for securing an education, have become learned men and women, with an 

J jjV influence extending throughout the length and lucadth of the land. It tells of nun who 

have risen from the lower walks of life to eminence as state-nun. and whose names have 
become Famous. It tells of those in every walk in life who have striven to succeed, and 
records how thai success has usually crowned their efforts. It tells also of many, verj 
many, who, nol Beehang the applause of the world, have pursued "the even tenor of their waj ." content 

to have it said of them as Christ said of the woman performing a deed Of mercy — "they have done what 
they could." It tells how that many in the pride and strength of young manl d left the plow and the 

anvil, the lawyer's office and the counting-room, left every trade and profession, and at their country's 

call went forth valiantly "to do (>r die.'* and how through their efforts the Union was restored and peace 

once more reigned in the land. In the life of every man and of ever] woman is a lesson thai Bhould nol 

l>c lost upon those who follow after. 

Coming generations will appreciate this volume and preserve it as a sacred treasure, from tie fad 

that it contains so much that would never find its way into public record-, and which would Otherwise be 

Inaccessible. Great care has been taken in the compilation of the work and every opportunity possibu 
given to those represented to insure c or r ect ness in what ha- been written, and the publishers Hatter them 
seh as that they give to their reader- > work with few error- of consequence. In addition to the biograpl 

leal Sketches, portraits of a Dumber of representative citizens arc given. 

The faces of -..me. and biographical -ketches of many, will he mi— ed in t hi- volume I'd this the 

publishers are not to Maine. Not having a proper conception of the work, some refused to give the 

information necessary to compile a -ketch, while other- were indifferent ( Occasionally s member of 

the family would oppose the enterprise, and on account of such Opposition the BUpporl of the intorestl d 
one would 1>C withheld. In a few instances men could never be found, though repeated call- were made 
at their residence or place of husiness. 

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1 1 K Father of our Country wis 
l>orii in Westmorland Co., Va., 
'Feb. 22, 1732. His parents 
were Augustine and Mary 
(Ball) Washington. The family 
1 which he belonged has not 
) been rily traced in 

England. His great-grand- 
father, John Washington, em- 
igrated to Virginia about 1657, 
and became a prosperous 
' planter. He had two sons, 
Lawrence and John. The 
former married Mildred Warner 
and had three children, John. 
itine and Mildred. A 

tine, the father of George, first 
married Jane Butler, who 
him four children, two of whom, 
Lawrence and Augustine, reached 
maturity. < >f sis children by ins 
id marriage, George was the 
eldest, the others being Hetty, 
Samuel, Joan Augustine, Charles 
and Mildred. 
Augustine Washington, the father of George, died 
in 174;,, leaving a large landed property. To his 
I, Lawrence, he bequeathed an estate on 
Patomac, afterwards known as Mount Vei 

and 1 I I lie left the parental resident- 

received only such education as the neighborhood 

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Remarkable stories are told of his great physica 
strength and development at an early age. He was 
an acknowledged leader among his companions, and 
arly noted for that nobleness of character, fair- 
ness and veracity which characterized his whole life. 

When t reorge wa S 14 J ears old he had a desi | 
sea, and a midshipman's warrant W d for him, 

but through the opposition of his mother the idea was 
abandoned. Two years later he was appointed 
surveyor to the immense estate of Lord Fairfax. In 
this business he spent three years in a rough frontier 
life, gaming experience which afterwards proved verj 
essential to him. In 175 1, though only 19 years ol 
age, he was apiointed adjutant with the rank of 
major in the Virginia militia, then being trained foi 
active ser\ it the Krem h and Indians. Soon 

after this he sailed to the West Indies with his brother 
Lawrence, who went there to restore his health They 
soon returned, and in the summer of 1752 Lawrence 
died, leaving a large fortune to an infant daughter 
who did not long survive him. On her demise the 
estate of Mount Vernon was given to GeOl 

U|)on the arrival of Robert Dinwiddle, as Lieuten- 
ant-Governor of Virginia, in 1752, the militia wa- 
reorganized, and the province divided into four mili- 
I which the northern was .1 
. adjutant general. Shortly alter this 
a very perilous mission was assigned him and 
cepted, whu h others had refused. This was I 

I to the French post near Lake Erie in North- 
im Pennsylvania. The distance to be trav< 

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GEORGE WASHINGTON. 



irip was a perilous one, and several limes he came near 
losing his life, yet he returned in safety and furnished 
a full and useful report of his expedition. A regiment 
of 300 men was raised in Virginia and put in com- 
mand of Col. Joshua Fry, and Major Washington was 
commissioned lieutenant-colonel. Active war was 
then begun against the French and Indians, in which 
Washington took a most important part. In the 
memorable event of July 9, 1755, known as Brad- 
dock's defeat, Washington was almost the only officer 
of distinction who escaped from the calamities of the 
day with life and honor. The other aids of Braddock 
were disabled early in the action, and Washington 
alone was left in that capacity on the field. In a letter 
to his brother he says : " I had four bullets through 
my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet I escaped 
unhurt, though death was leveling my companions 
on every side." An Indian sharpshooter said he was 
not born to be killed by a bullet, for he had taken 
direct aim at him seventeen times, and failed to hit 
him. 

After having been five years in the military service, 
and vainly sought promotion in the royal army, he 
took advantage of the fall of Fort Duquesne and the 
expulsion of the French from the valley of the Ohio, 
to resign his commission. Soon after he entered the 
Legislature, where, although not a leader, he took an 
active and important part. January 17, 1759, he 
married Mrs. Martha (Dandridge) Custis, the wealthy 
widow of John Parke Custis. 

When the British Parliament had closed the port 
<-jf Boston, the cry went up throughout the provinces 
that "The cause of Boston is the cause of us all." 
It was then, at the suggestion of Virginia, that a Con- 
gress of all the colonies was called to meet at Phila- 
delphia,Sept. 5, 1774, to secure their common liberties, 
peaceably if possible. To this Congress Col. Wash- 
ington was sent as a delegate. On May 10, 1775, the 
Congress re-assembled, when the hostile intentions of 
England were plainly apparent. The battles of Con- 
cord and Lexington had been fought. Among the 
first acts of this Congress was the election of a com- 
mander-in-chief of the colonial forces. This high and 
responsible office was conferred upon Washington, 
who was still a member of the Congress. He accepted 
it on June 19, but upon the express condition that he 
receive no salary. He would keep an exact account 
of expenses and expect Congress lo pay them and 
nothing more. It is not the object of this sketch to 
trace the military acts of Washington, to whom the 
fortunes and liberties of the people of this country 
were so long confided. The war was conducted by 
him under every possible disadvantage, and while his 
forces often met with reverses, yet he overcame every 
obstacle, and after seven years of heroic devotion 
and matchless skill he gained liberty for the greatest 
nation of earth. On Dec. 23, 1783, Washington, in 
.1 parting address of surpassing beauty, resigned his 



commission as commander-in-chief of the army 10 
to the Continental Congress sitting at Annapolis. IT 
retired immediately to Mount Vernon and resumed 
his occupation as a fanner and planter, shunning all 
connection with public life. 

In February, 1 789, Washington was unanimous!} 
elected President. In his presidential career he was 
subject to the peculiar trials incidental to a new 
government ; trials from lack of confidence on the pan 
of other governments ; trials from want of harmony 
between the different sections of our own country; 
trials from the impoverished condition of the country, 
owing to the war and want of credit; trials from the 
beginnings of party strife. He was no partisan. His 
clear judgment could discern the golden mean; and 
while perhaps this alone kept our government from 
sinking at the very outset, it left him exposed to 
attacks from both sides, which were often bitter and 
very annoying. 

At the expiration of his first term lie was unani- 
mously re-elected. At the end of this term many 
were anxious that he be re-elected, but he absolutely 
refused a third nomination. On the fourth of March, 
1797, at the expiraton of his second term as Presi- 
dent, he returned to his home, hoping to pass there 
his few remaining yeais free from the annoyances of 
public life. Later in the year, however, his rei>ose 
seemed likely to be interrupted by war witli France 
At the prospect of such a war he was again urged to 
take command of the armies. He chose his sul - 
ordinate officers and left to them the charge of mat 
ters in the field, which he superintended from his 
home. In accepting the command he made the 
reservation that he was not to be in the field until 
it was necessary. In the midst of these preparations 
his life was suddenly cut off. December 12, he took 
a severe cold from a ride in the rain, which, settling 
in Irs throat, produced inflammation, and terminated 
fatally on the night of the fourteenth. On the eiuh- 
teenth his body was borne wi'h military honors to its 
final resting place, and interred in the family vault at 
Mount Vernon. 

Of the character of Washington it is impossible to 
speak but in terms of the highest respect and ad- 
miration. The more we see of the operations of 
our government, and the more deeply we feel the 
difficulty of uniting all opinions in a common inleies', 
the more highly we must estimate the force of his tal- 
ent and character, which have ben able to challenge 
the reverence of all parties, and principles, and na- 
tions, and to win a fame as extended as the limits 
of the globe, and which we cannot but believe will 
be as lasting as the existence of man. 

The person of Washington was unusally tan, erect 
and well proportioned. His muscular strength was 
great. His features were of a beautiful symmetry 
He commanded respect without any appearance of 
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President and the first Vice- 
President of the United Slates, 
w.is l>orn in Braintree ( now 
Quincy).Mass., and about ten 
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i 1735. Elis great-grandfather, Henry 
Adams, emigrated from En 
about 1640, with .1 family of eight 
sons, and settled at Braintree. The 
parents of John were John "and 
Susannah (Boylston) Adams. His 
father was a fanner of limited 
means, to which he added the bus- 
iness of shoemaking. He gave his 
eldest son, John, a classical educa- 
tion at Harvard College. John 
graduated in 1755, and at once took charge of the 
school in Worcester, Mass. This he found but a 
■ol of affliction," from which he endeavored to 
gain relief by devoting himself, in addition, to the 
study of law. For this purpose lie placed himself 
under the tuition of the only lawyer in the town. He 
had thought seriously of the clerical profession 
but seems to have been turned from this by what he 
termed "the frightful engines of ecclesi.istii.il coun- 
iU. of diabolical malice, and Calvanistic good nature, - ' 
of the operations of which he had been a witness in 
his native town. He was well fitted for the 

profession, possessing a cl oice, being 

ready and ilueiit of speech, and having quick pen ep- 
ive powers. He gradually gained practice, and in 

;'■ 1 married Abigail Smith, a daughter of a minister, 
iml a lady of su|x-rior intelligent e. shortly after his 
marriage, (1765), the attempt of Parliamentary 
•ion turned him from law to i«>litii 3, He took initial 
steps toward holdin D a town meeting, ind the n 



tions he offered on the subject became very populai 
throughout the Province, and were adopted word fol 
word by over fort) different towns. He moved toBoa 
ton in r.768, and became one of the most couragi 
and prominent advocates of the popular cause, and 

hosen a member of the General Court (the 
lislature) in 1770. 

Mr. Adams was chosen one of the first delegates 
from Massachusetts to the first Continental C01 
which met ill 1774. Here he distinguished himsell 
by his capacity lor business and for debate, and ad- 
vocated the movement for independence against th« 
majority of the members. In May, 1776, he moved 
and carried a resolution in Congress that the Colonies 
should assume the duties of self-government. He 
was a prominent member of the committee of vivei 
appointed June 1 1, to prepare a declaration of inde- 
pendence. This article was drawn by Jefferson, but 
on Adams devolved the task of battling it through 
icss in a three days debate. 

On the day after the Declaration of Indc|>endence 
was passed, while his soul was vet warm with th-; 
glow 1 if exi ited feeling, he wrote .1 letter to his wile 
which, as we read it now, seems to have been dictated 
by the spirit of prophecy. " Yesterdaj ." he says, "the 
greatest question was decided that ever was debated 
in America; and greater, perhaps, never was or wil 

be decided among men. A resolution was | 
without one dissenting colony, 'that thee United 
States are, and of right ought to be, free and inde- 
pendent states ' The day is passed The fourth ol 
July, 1776, will be a memorable epoch in the history 

of America. I am apt to believe it will be celebrated 
by succeeding generations, as the great annivi 
festival. It ought to be commemorated as the d 
deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to Almighty 
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games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations 
from one end of the continent to the other, from this 
time forward for ever. You will think me transported 
with enthusiasm, but I am not. I am well aware of 
the toil, and blood and treasure, that it will cost to 
maintain this declaration, and support and defend 
the^e States; yet, through all the gloom, I can see the 
rays of light and glory. I can see that the end is 
worth more than all the means; and that posterity 
will triumph, although you and I may rue, which I 
hope we shall not.'' 

In November, 1777, Mr. Adams was appointed a 
delegate to France and to co-operate with Bemjamin 
Franklin and Arthur Lee, who were then in Paris, in 
the endeavor to obtain assistance in arms and money 
from the French Government. This was a severe trial 
to his patriotism, as it separated him from his home, 
compelled him to cross the ocean in winter, and ex- 
posed him to great peril of capture by the British cruis- 
ers, who were seeking him. He left France June 17, 
1779. In September of the same year he was again 
chosen to go to Paris, and there hold himself in readi- 
ness to negotiate a treaty of peace and of commerce 
with Great Britian, as soon as the British Cabinet 
might be found willing to listen to such proposels. He 
sailed for France in November, from there he went to 
Holland, where he negotiated important loans and 
formed important commercial treaties. 

Finally a treaty of peace with England was signed 
Jan. 21, 1783. The re-action from the excitement, 
toil and anxiety through which Mr. Adams had passed 
threw him into a fever. After suffering from a con- 
tinued fever and becoming feeble and emaciated he 
was advised to goto England to drink the waters of 
Bath. While in England, still drooping and despond- 
ing, he received dispatches from his own government 
urging the necessity of his going to Amsterdam to 
negotiate another loan. It was winter, his health was 
delicate, yet he immediately set out, and through 
storm, on sea, on horseback and foot,he made the trip. 

February 24, 1785, Congress appointed Mr. Adams 
envoy to the Court of St. James. Here he met face 
to face the King of England, who had so long re- 
garded him as a traitor. As England did not 
condescend to appoint a minister to the United 
States, and as Mr. Adams felt that he was accom- 
plishing but little, he sought permission to return to 
:iis own country, where he arrived in June, 1788. 

When Washington was first chosen President, John 
Adams, rendered illustiious by his signal services at 
home and abroad, was chosen Vice President. Again 
at the second election of Washington as President, 
Adams was chosen Vice President. In 17 96, Wash- 
ing hi retired from public life, and Mr. Adams was 
elected President,though not without much opposition. 
Serving in this office four years,he was succeeded by 
Mr. Jefferson, his opponent in politics. 

While Mr. Adams was Vice President the great 



French Revolution shook the continent of Europe, 
and it was upon this point which he was atissuj wuh 
the majority of his countrymen led by Mr. Jefferson. 
Mr. Adams felt no sympathy with the French people 
in their struggle, for he had no confidence in their 
power of self-government, and he utterly abhored the 
classof atheist philosophers who he claimed caused it. 
On the other hand Jefferson's sympathies were strongly 
enlisted in behalf of the French people. Hence or- 
iginated the alienation between these distinguished 
men, and two powerful parties were thus soon organ- 
ized, Adams at the head of the one whose sympathies 
were with England and Jefferson led the other in 
sympathy with France. 

The world has seldom seen a spectacle of more 
moral beauty and grandeur, than was presented by the 
old age of Mr. Adams. The violence of party feeling 
had died away, and he had begun to receive that just 
appreciation which, to most men, is not accorded till 
after death. No one could look upon his venerable 
form, and think of what he had done and suffered, 
and how he had given up all the prime and strength 
of Ins life to the public good, without the deepest 
emotion of gratitude and respect. It was his peculiar 
good fortune to witness the complete success of the 
institution which he had been so active in creating and 
sup|)orting. In 1824, his cup of happiness was filled 
to the brim, by seeing his son elevated to the highest 
station in the gift of the people. 

The fourth of July, 1826, which completed the half 
century since the signing of the Declaration of Inde- 
pendence, arrived, and there were but three of the 
signers of that immortal instrument left upon the 
earth to hail its morning light. And, as it is 
well known, on that day two of these finished their 
earthly pilgrimage, a coincidence so remarkable as 
to seem miraculous. For a few days before Mr. 
Adams had been rapidly failing, and on the morning 
of the fourth he found himself too weak to rise from 
his bed. On being requested to name a toast for the 
customary celebration of the day, he exclaimed " In- 
dependence forever." When the day was ushered 
in, by the ringing of bells and the firing of cannons, 
he was asked by one of his attendants if he knew 
what day it was? He replied, "O yes; it is the glor- 
ious fourth of July — God bless it — God bless you all." 
In the course of the day he said, " It is a great and 
glorious day." The last words he uttered were, 
" Telferson survives." But he had, at ore o'clock, re- 
signed his spirit into the hands of his God. 

The personal appearance and manners of Mr 
Adams were not particularly prepossessing. His face, 
as his portrait manifests.was intellect iial ard expres 
sive, but his figure was low and ungraceful, and hx 
manners were frequently abrupt and uncourteous. 
He had neither the lofty dignity of Washington, nor 
the engaging elegance and gracefulness which marked 
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horn April I, i J \ ;. ii Shad- 
lywcll, Albermarle county, Va. 
I [is parents were Peter and 
Jane ( Randolph) Jefferson, 
irmei a native ol Wales, 
anil the latter born in 1 
don. To them were born six 
daughters and two so: 
whom rhomas was the elder. 
When t4 years of age his 
father died. He received a 
most liberal education, hav- 
ing been kept diligently at si hool 
from the time he was live years "I 
age. In 1760 he entered William 
Mid Mary College. Williamsburg was then the seat 
of the Colonial Court, and it was theobodeol fashion 
a. id splendor. Young Jefferson, who was then 17 
old, lived somewhat expensively, keeping fine 
horses, and much caressed by gay society, yet he 
was earnestly devoted to his studies, and irreproai ha- 
able in his morals. It is strange, however, under 
Such influences,thal he Was not rimed. In the sec - 
ond year of his college course, moved by some un- 
explained inward impulse, he discarded his I,. 

v, and even 1. violin, to which he had 

previously given mill h time. Heoften devoted, fifteen 
I 1 .lay to hard Study, allowing himself for ex- 
en ise only a run in the evening twilight of a mile out 
of the city ami back again, lb- thus attained very 
high intellectual culture, alike excellence in philoso- 
phy .on) the languages. 1 he mosl diffi< n an. I 
- authors he read with facility. A more finished 

SCDOlftl bat seldom gone forth from college halls ; and 



there was not to be found, |)erhaps, in all Virginia, a 
mine pureminded, upright, gentlemanly young man. 

Immediately ti|x"m leaving college he began the 
of law. For the short time be continued in the 
practice of his profession he rose rapidly and distin- 
guished himsell bj his energy and ai cutcness as a 
lawyer. Bui the times called for greater action. 
The policy of England had awakened the spirit of 
resistant: e of the American 1 lolonies, and the enl 
views whii h JetTerson had ever entertained, soon led 
him into active (xjlitical life. In 1769 he was 1 Ik , set 
a member of the Virginia House ol Burgesses !n 
1772 he married Mrs. Martha Skelton, a very beauti- 
ful, wealthy and highly accomplished young widow 

U|ion Mr. Jefferson's large estate at Shadwell, th ire 
swell of land, called Montu ello,whi< I 
commanded a prosper t of wonderiul extent and 
beauty. This spot Mr. Jefferson selected lor his new 
home; and here he reared a mansion of modest ye' 
nt architecture, which, next to Mount Vernon 
became the most distinguished lesoit in our land. 

In 1775 he was sent to the Cclonial Congl 
where, though a silent member, his abilities as .1 

wiitei and a reasonei scon become known, and be 
w.is placed upon a number ol important committees 
and was chairman of the one appointed lor the draw- 
ing up of independence. Thiscom- 
mittei d of Thomas fefferson, John Adams. 
Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Roberl R. 
Livingston. Ji in, as chairman, was appointed 
to draw up the paper. Franklin and Adams suggested 
a (i:w verbal 1 hanges before it was submitted to 1 

On June z8, a few slight changes were made 
in it by Congress, and it was pis,, ned I llj 

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man — what the emotions that swelled his breast — 
who was charged with the preparation of that Dec- 
laration, which, while it made known the wrongs of 
America, was also to publish her to the world, free, 
soverign and independent. It is one of the most re- 
markable papers ever written ; and did no other effort 
of the mind of its author exist, that alone would be 
sufficient to stamp his name with immortality. 

In 1779 Mr. Jefferson was elected successor to 
Patrick Henry, as Governor of Virginia. At one time 
the British officer, Tarleton, sent a secret expedition to 
Moniicello, to capture the Governor. Scarcely five 
minutes elapsed after the hurried escape of Mr. Jef- 
ferson and his family, ere his mansion was in posses- 
sion of the British troops. His wife's health, never 
very good, was much injured by this excitement, and 
in the summer of 1782 she died. 

Mr. Jefferson was elected to Congress in ^83. 
Two yeirs later he was appointed Minister Plenipo- 
tentiary to France. Returning to the United States j 
in September, 1789, he became Secretary of State 
in Washington's cabinet. This position he resigned 
Jan. j, 1794. In 1797, he was chosen Vice Presi- 
dent, and four years later was elected President over 
Mr. Adams, with Aaron Burr as Vice President. In 
1804 he was re-elected with wonderful unanimity, 
and George Clinton, Vice President. 

The early part of Mr. Jefferson's second adminstra- 
tion was disturbed by an event which threatened the 
tranquility and peace of the Union ; this was the con- 
spiracy of Aaron Burr. Defeated in the late election 
to the Vice Presidency, and led on by an unprincipled 
ambition, this extraordinary man formed the plan of a 
military expedition into the Spanish territories on our 
southwestern frontier, for the purpose of forming there 
a new republic. This has been generally supposed 
was a mere pretext ; and although it has not been 
generally known what his real plans were, there is no 
doubt that they were of a far more dangerous 
character. 

In 1809, at the expiration of the second term for 
which Mr. Jefferson had been elected, he determined 
to retire from political life. For a period of nearly 
:'jrty years, he had been continually before the pub- 
lic, and all that time had been employed in offices of 
the greatest trust and responsibility. Having thus de- 
voted the best part of his life to the service of his 
country, he now felt desirous of that rest which his 
declining years required, and upon the organization of 
the new administration, in March, 1809, he bid fare- 
well forever to public life, and retired to Monticello. 

Mr. Jefferson was profuse in his hospitality. Whole 
families came in their coaches with their horses, — 
fathers and mothers, boys and girls, babies and 
nurses, — and remained three and even six months, 
f.ife at Monticello, for years, resembled that at a 
fashionable watering-place. 

The fourth of July, 1826, being the fiftieth anniver- 



sary of the Declaration of American Independence, 
great preparations were made in every part of the 
Union for its celebration, as the nation's jubilee, and 
the citizens of Washington, to add to the solemnity 
of the occasion, invited Mr. Jefferson, as the framer. 
and one of the few surviving signers of the Declara- 
tion, to participate in their festivities. But an ill- 
ness, which had been of several weeks duration, and 
had been continually increasing, compelled him to 
decline the invitation. 

On the second of July, the disease under which 
he was laboring left him, but in such a reduced 
state that his medical attendants, entertained nc 
hope of his recovery. From this time he was perfectly 
sensible that his last hour was at hand. On the next 
day, which was Monday, he asked of those around 
him, the day of the month, and on being told it was 
the third of July, he expressed the earnest wish tha 
he might be permitted to breathe the air of the fiftieth 
anniversary. His prayer was heard — that day, whose 
dawn was hailed with such rapture through our land, 
burst upon his eyes, and then they were closed for- 
ever. And what a noble consummation of a noble 
life! To die on that day, — the birthday of a nation,- - 
the day which his own name and his own act had 
rendered glorious; to die amidst the rejoicings and 
festivities of a whole nation, who looked up to him, 
as the author, under God, of their greatest blessings, 
was all that was wanting to fill up the record his life. 

Almost at the same hour of his death, the kin- 
dred spirit of the venerable Adams, as if to bear 
him company, left the scene of his earthly honors 
Hand in hand they had stood forth, the champions of 
freedom; hand in hand, during the dark and desper- 
ate struggle of the Revolution, they had cheered and 
animated their desponding countrymen; for half a 
century they had labored together for the good of 
the country; and now hand in hand they depart. 
In their lives they had been united in the same great 
cause of liberty, and in their deaths they were not 
divided. 

In person Mr. Jefferson was tall and thin, rather' 
above six feet in height, but well formed; his eyes 
were light, his hair originally red, in after life became 
white and silvery; his complexion was fair, his fore- 
head broad, and his whole courtenance intelligent and 
thoughtful. He possessed great fortitude of mind as 
well as personal courage; and his command of tem- 
per was such that his oldest and most intimate friends 
never recollected to have seen him in a passion. 
His manners, though dignified, were simple and un- 
affected, and his hospitality was so unbounded that 
all found at his house a ready welcome. In conver- 
sation he was fluent, eloquent and enthusiastic ; and 
his language was remarkably pure and correct. He 
was a finished classical scholar, and in his writings is 
discernable the care with which he formed his style 
upon the best models of antiquity. 




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VMES M VDISON, "Father 
of the Constitution," and fourth 
President of the United States, 

.ni Man h 1 6, i 757, and 
died at his home in Virginia, 
ie 28, 1836. The name of 
fames Madison is inseparably con- 
nected with most of the important 
events in that heroic period of our 
country during which the founda- 
tions of this great republic were 
laid. He was the last of the founders 
of the Constitution of the United 
States to he called to his eternal 
reward. 

The Madison family were among 
the early emigrants to the New World, 
landing upon the shores of the Chesa- 
peake but 15 years after the settle- 
ment of Jamestown. The father of 
James Madison was an opulent 
planter, residing upon a very fine es- 
tate called "Mont|ielier,"( (range Co., 
Va. The mansion was situated in 
the midst of scenery highly pictur- 
esque and romantic, on the west side 
of South-wesl Mo 
Blue Ridge. It was but 25 miles from the hon 
Jefferson at Monticello. The closest personal and 
political attachment existed between these illustrious 
men, from their early youth until death. 

The early education of Mr. Madison was conducted 

mostly at home under a private tutor. At the .1 
18 h to Princeton College, in New J 

Her.- he applied himself to Study with the most im- 



prudent zeal; allowing himself, for months, hut three 
hours' sleep out of the -'.). His health thus became SO 
seriously impaired that he never recovered any vigor 
istitution. He graduated in 177 1, with a feeble 
body, with a character of utmost purity, and with a 
mind highly disi iplined and richly stored with learning 
which embellished and gave proficiency to his subs 

quent career. 

Returning to Virginia, he commenced the study of 
law am seof extensive and systematic read 

This educational course, the spirit of the times in 
which he lived, and the society with which he 
ciated, all combined to inspire him with a strong 
love of liberty, and to train him for his life-work 01 
a statesman. Being naturally of a religious turn ol 
mind, and his frail health leading him to think that 
his life was not to be long, he directed especial atten- 
tion to theological studies. Endowed with a mind 
singularly free from passion and prejudice, and with 
almost unequalled powers of reasoning, he weighed 
all the arguments for and against revealed religion, 
until his faith became so established as never to 
be shaken. 

In the spring of 1776, when 26 years of age, he 
was elected a member of the Virginia Convention, to 
frame the constitution of the State. The next year 

(1777), he wis ,1 1 andidate for the General Assembly. 
He refused to treat the whisky-lovir.g voters, and 

piently lost his election; but those who had 
witnessed the talent, energy and public spirit ol the 
modes! young man, enlisted themselves in his behalf, 
and he was appointed to the Exe< utive Council. 

Both Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson «ct; 
morsof Virginia while Mr, Madison remained 

member of the Council ; and their anpiei iation ol Ins 



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intellectual, social and moral worth, contributed not 
a little to his subsequent eminence. In the year 
1780, he was elected a member of the Continental 
Congress. Here he met the most illustrious men in 
uur land, and he was immediately assigned to one of 
the most conspicuous positions among them. 

For three years Mr. Madison continued in Con- 
gress, one of its most active and influential members. 
In the year 1784, his term having expired, he was 
elected a member of the Virginia Legislature. 

No man felt more deeply than Mr. Madison the 
utter inefficiency of the old confederacy, with no na- 
tional government, with no power to form treaties 
which would be binding, or to enforce law. There 
was not any State more prominent than Virginia in 
the declaration, that an efficient national government 
must be formed. In January, 1786, Mr. Madison 
carried a resolution through the General Assembly of 
Virginia, inviting the other States to appoint commis- 
sioners to meet in convention at Annapolis to discuss 
this subject. Five States only were represented. The 
convention, however, issued another call, drawn up 
by Mr. Madison, urging all the States to send their 
delegates to Philadelphia, in May, 1787, to draft 
a Constitution for the United States, to take the place 
of that Confederate League. The delegates met at 
the time appointed. Every State but Rhode Island 
Tas represented. George Washington was chosen 
president of the convention; and the present Consti- 
tution of the United States was then and there formed. 
There was, perhaps, no mind and no pen more ac- 
tive in framing this immortal document than the mind 
and the pen of James Madison. 

The Constitution, adopted by a vote 81 to 79, was 
to be presented to the several States for acceptance. 
But grave solicitude was felt. Should it be rejected 
we should be left but a conglomeration of independent 
States, with but little power at home and little respect 
abroad. Mr. Madison was selected by the conven- 
tion to draw up an address to the people of the United 
States, expounding the principles of the Constitution, 
and urging its adoption. There was great opposition 
to it at first, but it at length triumphed over all, and 
went into effect in 1789. 

Mr. Madison was elected to the House of Repre- 
sentatives in the first Congress, and soon became the 
avowed leader of the Republican party. While in 
New York attending Congress, he met Mrs. Todd, a 
young widow of remarkable i>ower of fascination, 
whom he married. She was in person and character 
queenly, and probably no lady has thus far occupied 
so prominent a position in the very peculiar society 
which has constituted our republican court as Mrs. 
Madison. 

Mr. Madison served as Secretary of State under 
Jefferson, and at the close of his administration 
was chosen President. At this time the encroach- 
ments of England had brought us to the verge of war. , 



British orders in council destioyed our commerce, and 
our flag was exposed to constant insult. Mr. Madison 
was a man of peace. Scholarly in his taste, retiring 
in his disposition, war had no charms for him. But the 
meekest spirit can be roused. It makes one's blood 
boil, even now, to think of an American ship brought 
to, upon the ocean, by the guns of an English cruiser. 
A young lieutenant steps on board and orders the 
crew to be paraded before him. With great nonchal- 
ance he selects any number whom he may please to 
designate as British subjects ; orders them down the 
ship's side into his boat; and places them on the gun- 
deck of his man-of-war, to fight, by compulsion, the 
battles of England. This right of search and im- 
pressment, no efforts of our Government could induce 
the British cabinet to relinquish. 

On the 1 8th of June, 181 2, President Madison gave 
his approval to an act of Congress declaring war 
against Great Britain. Notwithstanding the bitter 
hostility of the Federal party to the war, the country 
in general approved; and Mr. Madison, on the 4th 
of March, 18131 was re-elected by a large majority, 
and entered upon his second term of office. This is 
not the place to describe the various adventures of 
this war on the land and on the water. Our infan 
navy then laid the foundations of its renown in grap- 
pling with the most formidable power which ever 
swept the seas. The contest commenced 111 earnest 
by the appearance of a British fleet, early in February, 
18 13, in Chesapeake Bay, declaring nearly the whole 
coast of the United States under blockade. 

The Emperor of Russia offered his services as me 
ditator. America accepted ; England refused. A Brit- 
ish force of five thousand men landed on the banks 
of the Patuxet River, near its entrance into Chesa- 
peake Bay, and marched rapidly, by way of Bladens- 
burg, upon Washington. 

The straggling little city of Washington was thrown 
into consternation. The cannon of the brief conflict 
at Bladensburg echoed through the streets of the 
metropolis. The whole population fled from the city. 
The President, leaving Mrs. Madison in the White- 
House, with her carriage drawn up at the door to 
await his speedy return, hurried to meet the officers 
in a council of war. He met our troops utterly routed, 
and he could not go back without danger of being 
captured. But few hours elapsed ere the Presidential 
Mansion, the Capitol, and all the public buildings in 
Washington were in flames. 

The war closed after two years of fighting, and on 
Feb. 13, r8r5, the treaty of peace was signed at Client. 

On the 4th of March, 1817, his second term of 
office expired, and he resigned the Presidential chair 
to his friend, James Monroe. He retired to his beau- 
tiful home at Montpelier, and there passed the re- 
mainder of his days. On June 28, 1836, then at the 
age "f 85 years, he fell asleep in death. Mrs. Madi 
son died July 12, 1849. 




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\MI - MONROE, the fifth 
.Presidentof The United States, 
was born in Westmoreland Co., 
V .! , Vpril » 8, 1758. His early 
life w is passed at the plat e • if 
nativity. His ancestors li id foi 
«> many years resided in the prov- 
ince in which he was born. \\ Inn, 
I at 17 years of age, in the process 
% of completing his education at 
William and Mary College, the Co- 
lonial Congress assembled at Phila- 
delphia to deliberate u[>on the un- 
just and manifold oppressions of 
tl Britian, declared the separa- 
tion uf the Colonies, and promul- 
gated the Declaration of Indepen- 
dence. Had he been l»rn ten years before it is highly 
probable that he would have been one of the signers 
of that celebrated instrument. At this time he left 

school and enlisted among the patriots. 

He joined the army when everything looked hi 

gloomy. The number of deserters increased 
from day to day. The invading armies came |Kiuring 
in; and the tones not only favored the cause of the 
mother country, bul disheartened the new recruits, 
who were Suffil ientlv terrified at the progpei I of con- 
tsnding with an enemy win 111 they had been taught 
to deem invincible. To su< h brave spirits as James 
Monroe, who went right onward, undismayed through 
difficulty and danger, the United States owe their 
1 ipation. The young cadel joined the 
ranks, and his injured country, 

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for liberty. Firmly yet sadly he shared in the mel- 
ancholy retreat from H.ule.ini Heights ami Whit* 

Plains, and .11 1 ompanied the dispirited arm) as it lied 

before its foes through New Jersey. In four month; 
alter the Declaration of Independence, the patriots 
had been beaten in seven battles. At the battle of 
Trenton he led the vanguard, and, in the act of charg- 
ing upon the enemy he received a wound in the left 
shoulder. 

As a reward for his bravery, Mr. Monroe was pro- 
moted a captain Of infantry; and, having recovered 
from his wound, he rejoined the army. I le, however. 
receded from the line of promotion, by becoming 
Officer in the staff of Lord Sterling. During the. 

sof 1777 and 1778, in the actions of Brandy 
wine, Germantown and Monmouth, he com 
aid -de-camp; but becoming desirous to regain his 
|iosition in the army, he exerted himself to coll, 
regiment for the Virginia line. This scheme failed 
owing to the exhausted condition of the State. Upon 

this failure he entered the office of Mr. |efferson, at 

that peiiod Governor, and pursued, with considerable 
Bldor, the study of common law. He did not, however 
entirely lay aside the knapsack tor the green 
but on the invasions of tin- enemy, served as a volun 
teer, during the two j cats of his legal pursuits. 

In 1782, lie was elected from K inly, 

.1 member of the 1 eglislature of Virginia, and b_\ that 
body he was elevated to a seat in the Executive 

Council. lie- was thus honored with the confide 

of his fellow citizens at 1 ; and ha\ 

at this early period displayed some of that abihtv 
and aptitude lor legislation, which were afterwards 
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he was in the succeeding year chosen a member of 
die Congress of the United States. 

Deeply as Mr. Monroe felt the imperfections of the old 
Confederacy, he was opi>osed to the new Constitution, 
Thinking, with many others of the Republican party, 
that it gave too much power to the Central Government, 
and not enough to the individual States. Still he re- 
tained the esteem of his friends who were its warm 
supporters, and who, notwithstanding his opposition 
secured its adoption. In 1789, he became a member 
of the United States Senate; which office he held for 
four years. Every month the line of distinction be- 
tween the two great parties which divided the nation, 
the Federal and the Republican, was growing more 
distinct. The two prominent ideas which now sep- 
arated them were, that the Republican party was in 
sympathy with France, arrd also in favor of such a 
strict construction of the Constitution as to give the 
Central Government as little power, and- the State 
Governments as much power, as the Constitution would 
warrant. The Federalists sympathized with England, 
and were in favor of a liberal construction of the Con- 
stitution, which would give as much power to the 
Central Government as that document could possibly 
authorize. 

The leading Federalists and Republicans were 
alike noble men, consecrating all their energies to the 
good of the nation. Two more honest men or more 
pure patriots than John Adams the Federalist, and 
James Monroe the Republican, never breathed. In 
building up this majestic nation, which is destined 
to eclipse all Grecian and Assyrian greatness, the com- 
bination of their antagonism was needed to create the 
tight equilibrium. And yet each in his day was de- 
nounced as almost a demon. 

Washington was then President. England had es- 
poused the cause of the Bourbons against the princi- 
ples of the French Revolution. All Europe was drawn 
into the conflict. We were feeble and far away. 
Washington issued a proclamation of neutrality be- 
tween these contending powers. France had helped 
us in the struggle for our liberties. All the despotisms 
of Europe were now combined to prevent the French 
from escaping from a tyranny a thousand-fold worse 
than that which we had endured. Col. Monroe, more 
magnanimous than prudent, was anxious that, at 
whatever hazard, we should help our old allies in 
their extremity. It was the impulse of a generous 
and noble nature. He violently opposed the Pres- 
ident's proclamation as ungrateful and wanting in 
magnanimity. 

Washington, who could appreciate such a character, 
developed his calm, serene, almost divine greatness, 
by appointing that very James Monroe, who was de- 
nouncing the policy of the Government, as the minister 
of that Government to the Republic of France. Mr. 
Monroe was welcomed by the National Convention 
in France witn the most enthusiastic demonstrations. 



Shortly after his return to this countrv, Mr. Mon- 
roe was elected Governor of Virginia, and held the 
office for three years. He was again sent to France to 
co-operate with Chancellor Livingston in obtaining 
the vast territory then known as the Province of 
Louisiana, which France had but shortly before ob- 
tained from Spain. Their 'united efforts were suc- 
cessful. For the comparatively small sum of fifteen 
millions of dollars, the entire territory of Orleans and 
district of Louisiana were added to the United States. 
This was probably the largest transfer of real estate 
which was ever made in all the history of the world 

From France Mr. Monroe went to England to ob- 
tain from that country some recognition of out 
rights as neutrals, and to remonstrate against those 
odious impressments of our seamen. But Eng- 
land was unrelenting. He again returned to Eng- 
land on the same mission, but could receive no 
redress. He returned to his home and was again 
chosen Governor of Virginia. This he soon resigned 
to accept the position of Secretary of State under 
Madison. While in this office war with England was 
declared, the Secretary of War resigned, and during 
these trying times, the duties of the War Department 
were also put upon him. He was truly the armor- 
bearer of President Madison, and the most efficient 
business man in his cabinet. Upon the return of 
peace he resigned the Department of War, but con- 
tinued in the office of Secretary of State until the ex- 
piration of Mr. Madison's adminstration. At the elec- 
tion held the previous autumn Mr. Monroe himself had 
been chosen President with but little opposition, and 
upon March 4, 1817, was inaugurated. Four years 
later he was elected for a second term. 

Among the important measures of his Presidency 
were the cession of Florida to the United States; the 
Missouri Compromise, and the " Monroe doctrine.' 

This famous doctrine, since known as the " Monroe 
doctrine," was enunciated by him in 1823. At thnt 
time the United States had recognized the independ- 
ence of the South American states, and did not wish 
to have European pow'ers longer attempting to sub 
due portions of the American Continent. The doctrine 
is as follows: "That we should consider any attempt 
on the part of European powers to extend their sys- 
tem to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous 
to our peace and safety," and "that we could no' 
view any interposition for the purpose of oppressing 
or controlling American governments or provinces in 
any other light than as a manifestation by European 
powers of an unfriendly disposition toward the United 
States." This doctrine immediately affected the course 
of foreign governments, and has become the approved 
sentiment of the United States. 

At the end of his fecond term Mr. Monroe retired 
to his home in Virginia, where he lived until 1830 
when he went to New Vork to live with his son-in- 
law. In that city he died, on the 4th of July S31 




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sixth President of the United 
I . u ,, born in the rural 

home of his honored father, 
John Adams, in Quint y, M 

the i ith cf July, 17^17. lbs 
mother, .1 woman ol exalted 
3 worth, watched over his childhood 
during the almost constant ab- 
sence of his father. When but 
eight years of age, he stood with 
• his mother on an eminence, listen- 
ing to the booming of the great hat- 
lie on Bunkers Hill, and gazing on 
u|>on the smoke and flames billow- 
ing up from the conflagration of 
Charlestown. 

When hut eleven years old he 
took a tearful adieu of his mother, 
to s.dl with his fatner tor Europe, 
through 1 ilcct oi hostile Hritish cruisers. The bright, 
..initiated boy sj>ent a year and a half in Paris, where 
in-, father was associated with Franklin and Lei 
minister plenipotentiary. His intelligence attracted 
>he notice of these distinguished men, and he received 
from them flatti ring m iks of attention. 

Mr. John Adams had scarcely returned to this 
iv, in 1770, err he was again sent abroad. Again 
Quincj accompanied his father, At Paris he 
applied himself with great diligence, for six months, 
dy; then accompained his fathet to Holland, 
where he entered, lirst a -,. hool in Amsterdam, then 
the University al Ley den, AIjoui a year from this 
time, in 1781, when the manlj Loj wa I urteen 

s was elei ted by Mr. 1 tana, our min- 
ister to the Russian court, as his private secretary. 
In this s< hool of incessant labor and of enobling 

culture In- spent fourteen months, and then returned 

'.1 I lolland tin. I lenm irk, II UTlbui 

lire iien. This li ng juuriicv he took alone, in the 

winter, when in his sixteenth imed 

.Ms siudi'-s, undei 1 pt> w «te tutor, it Hague. Thence 



in the spring of 1782, he accompanied his father . 

traveling leisurely, and for:- 
with the most distinguished men on the Con': 
examining architectural remains, galleries ot pan/ 
and all renowned uorks ol art At Paris he a 
became associated with the most illustrious mi 
all lands in the contemplations of the loftiest u mporal 
themes which can engross the human mind, 
a short visit to England he returned to Paris, ano 

1 rated all his energies to study until M 
when he returned to America. To a brilliant young 
man of eighteen, who had seen much ol the world, 
and who was familiar with the etiquette of court 
resilience with his father in London, under such cir- 
cumstances, must have been extremely attractive 
but with judgment very rare in oneol his age, he pre- 
ferred to return to America to complete his education 
ill an American college. He wished then to study 
law, that with an honorable profession, he might li- 
able to obtain an independent suii|kih. 

Upon leaving Harvard College, at the age of tvi 
he studied law for three years. In June, : 7 04 . be- 
ing then but twenty-seven y< 

pointed by Washington, resident minister at the. 
Netherlands. Sailing from boston in July, 1 
Londo iber, where he was imm dmit- 

ted to the deliberations ol Mess is. Jay and Pinckne) 
assisting them in negotiating a commercial treaty witt 
Britian. After thus spending a fortnight i 
London, he proceeded to the 1 1 

lu July, 17117, he lefl thi 1 1 I ortupa! as 

minister plenipotentiary. On hi- waj i" Portugal 
upon arriving in London, he met with 1 
directing him to the c outl ol 1 ilin, but 1 
him to remain in London until he should receive bit 
instructions. While- wciting he- was mairied to a* 
American lad) to whom he had been previous!} en 

;. M : ss Louisa Catherine fohnson, daughta 
il Mr. Ic.shu.i John I ndon 

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He reached Berlin with his wife in November, 1797 ; 
where he remained until July, 1700. when, having ful- 
filled all the purposes of his mission, he solicited his 

recall. 

Soon after his return, in iSc, he was chosen to 
the Senate of Massachusetts, from Boston, and then 
w.i^ elected Senator of the United States for si\ j 
from the 4th of March, 1804. His reputation, his 
ability and his experience, placed him immediately 
among the most prominent and influential members 
of that body. Especially did he sustain the Govern- 
ment in its measures of resistance to the encroach- 
ments of England, destroying our commerce and in- 
sul ting our Bag. There was no man in America more 
familiar with the arrogance of the British court upon 
these points, and no one more resolved to present 
a firm resistance. 

In 1809, Madison succeeded Jefferson in the Pres- 
idential chair, and he immediately nominated John 
Quincy Adams minister to St. Petersburg. Resign- 
ing his professorship in Harvard College, he embarked 
at Boston, in August, 1S09. 

While in Russia, Mr. Adams was an intense stu- 
dent. He devoted his attention to the language and 
history of Russia; to the Chinese trade; to the 
European system ol weights, measures, and coins ; to 
the climate and astronomical observations; while he 
Kept up a familiar acquaintance with the Greek and 
Latin classics. In all the universities ot" Europe, a 
more accomplished scholar could scarcel] be found. 
All through lire the Bible constituted an important 
part ot his studies. It was his rule to read five 
chapters o erj day. 

On the 4th of March, t S 1 7 . Mr. Monroe took the 
Presidential chair, and immediately appointed Mr. 
Adams Secretary of State. Taking leave of hismim- 
- friends in public and private life in Europe, he 
sailed in Jane, 1S19, for the United States. On the 
1 Stb. of August, he again crossed the threshold of his 
home in Quincy. During the eight years of Mr. Mon- 
S administration, Mr Adams continued Secretary 
ot State. 

Some time before :he close of Mr. Mona">e's second 
term of office, new candidates began to be presented 
foi th( \ . The friends of Mr. Adams brought 

forward his name. It was an exciting campaign. 
Party spirit was never more bitter. Two hundred and 
sivtv electoral votes were cast. Andrew Jackson re- 
ceived ninety-nine; John Quincy Adams, eighty-four; 
William H. Crawford, forty-one; Henry Clay, thirty- 
\s there was no choice by the people, the 
question went to the Ho ise ^( Representatives. Mr. 
Oa) gave the vote of Kentucky to Mr. Adams, and 
De was elected. 

The friends of all the disappointed candidates now 

ii led in a venomous and pers ssault upon 

Ml \ 1 mis. There is nothing more disgraceful in 

»K< V vist htston of our country than the abuse which 



was poured in one uninterrupted stream, upon tins 
high-minded, upright, patriotic man. 'There never was 
an administration more puie in principles, more con- 
scientiously devoted to the best interests of the coun- 
try, than that of John Quincy Adams; and never, per- 
haps, was there an administration more unscrupu- 
lously and outrageously assailed. 

Mr. Adams was, to a very remarkable degree, ab- 
stemious and temperate in his habits; always rising 
early, and taking much exercise. When at his heme in 
Quincy, he has been known to walk, before breakfast 
seven miles to Boston. In Washington, it was said 
that he was the first man up in the city, lighting his 
own fire and applying himself to work in his library 
often long before dawn. 

On the 4th of March, iSjo, Mr. Adams retired 
from the Presidency, and was succeeded by Andrew 
Jackson. John C Calhoun was elected Vice I'roi- 
dent. The slavery question now began to assume 
portentous magnitude. Mr. Adams returned to 
Quincy and to his studies, which he pursued with un- 
abated zeal. But he was not long permitted to re- 
main in retirement. In November, 1830, he was 
elected representative to Congress. For seventeen 
years, until his death, he occupied the post as repre- 
sentative, towering above all his peers, ever ready to 
do brave battle' tor freedom, and winning- the title of 
"the old man eloquent." Upon taking his seat in 
the House, he announced that he should hold him- 
self bound to no party. Probably there never was a 
member more devoted to his duties. He was usually 
the first in his place in the morning, and the last to 
his seat in the evening. Not a measure could 
be brought forward and escape his scrutiny. I he 
battle which Mt. Adams fought, almost singly, against 
the proslavery party in the Government, was sublime 
in its moral dating and heroism. For persisting 

ting petitions for the abolition o( slavery, he 
was threatened with indictment by the grand jury 
with expulsion from the House, with assassination 
but no threats could intimidate him, and his final 
triumph was complete. 

It has been said of President Adams, that when his 
body was bent and his hair silvered by the lapse ol 
fourscore years, yielding to the simple faith of a little 
child, he was accustomed to repeat every night, before 
he slept, the pr.ner which his mother taught him in 
his infant years. 

On the -Mst oi February. 1 848, he rose on the tltxir 
of Congress, with a paper in his hand, to address the 
speaker. Suddenly he fell, again stricken by pur.Jy 
sis, and was caught in the arms o\ those around him. 
For .1 time he was senseless, as he was conveyed to 
a in the rotunda. With reviving conscii - 
ness, he opened his eyes, looked calmly around aid 
said " This is tkt en.: sn after a moment's 

-e he added. "J mm ..• These were the 

last words of the grand "Old Man Eloquent.* 





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AM)I,'I.U JAC.KSO.V 





M'kKU JACKSON, the 
seventh President of the 
United States, was l>om in 
Waxhaw settlement, N. C, 



Mar. h 15, 1767, .1 few days 






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V 



after his Cither's death. His 
parents were i*x>r emigrants 
from Ireland, and took up 
their alnxle in Waxhaw set- 
tlement, where they lived in 
deepest poverty 
Andrew, or Andy, as he was 
universally called, grew up a very 
1, rude, turbulent boy. I li-. 
features were coarse, his form un- 
g.iinh ; and there was hut very 
little iii his character, made visible, which was at- 
live. 
When only thirteen years old he joined the volun- 
teers of Carolina against the British invasion. In 
1 7 Si, he and his brother Robert were captured and 
imprisoned for a time at Camden. A British officer 
ordered him to brush his mud-spattered boots. " I am 
a prisoner of war, not your servant," was the reply of 
the dauntless buy. 

The brute drew his sword, and aimed a desperate 
at the head 01 the helpless young pii 
Andrew raised his hand, and thus received tWO fear- 
ful gashes, — one on the hand and the other upon the 
head. The offil er then turned to his brother 1 
with the same demand. He also refused, and le- 
d a blow from the keen-edged sabre, which. piite 
disabled him, and which probably soon alt 
hisdeath. They Buffered much other ill-treatment, and 
were finally stricken with the small-pox. Their 
■other was successful <o obtaining their exchange, 



and took her sick boys home. Alter a long ill 

Andrew recovered, and the death of his mother on 
left him entirely friendli 

\ idrew supported himself in various ways, sj 
working at the saddler's trade, teaching si hool and 

clerking in a general store, until 1 7 S4 , when he 
entered a law office al Salisbury, N. C, He, however, 
gave more attention to the wild amusements of the 
times than to his studies. In 17SS, he was appointed 
solicitor for the western distrii t .■! North Carolina, <>i 
which Tennessee was then a part. This involved 
many long and tedious journeys amid dangl 
every kind, but Andrew Jackson never knew 
and the Indians had no desire to repeat a skirmish 
witn the Sharp Knife. 

In 1791, Mr. 1 .11 kson was married to a woman who 
supposed herself divorced from her former husband. 
Great was the surprise of both parties, two years later, 
to find that the conditions of the divon e had just been 
definitely settled by the first husband. The marriage 
ceremony was performed a second time, but the occur- 
rence was often used by his enemies to bring Mr 
Jackson into disfavor. 

1 taring these years he worked hard at his pn 
sion, ami frequently had one or more duels on hand. 

' whi( h, when he killed 1 li. kenson, « 
iall\ 'al. 

In I inu try, 1 796, tip- Territory of Tenriesse* then 
irly eighty thousand inhabitants, the 
people met in conventional Knoxville to frame 
stitution. Five were sent from each of the elev • . 
counties Andrew Jackson w I the deleg 

The new State was entitled to but one 1 
the Natio i il I louse of Reprt Vndn * 

son was. hosen that member Mounting his ho' 
rode to Philedelphia, where I then 1 eld it* 



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ANDREW JACKSON. 



ins, — a distance of about eight hundred miles. 

Jackson was an earnest advocate <■<( the Demo- 
cratic party. Jefferson was his idol. He admired 
Bonaparte, loved France and hated England. As Mr. 
Jackson took his seat, Cen. Washington, whose 
second term of office was then expiring, delivered his 
i.ist speech to Congress. A committee drew up a 
complimentary address in reply. Andrew Jackson 
did not approve of the address, and was one of the 
twelve who voted against it. He was not willing to 
say that Gen. Washington's adminstration had been 
'' wise, firm and patriotic." 

Mr. Jackson was elected to the United States 
Senate in 171)7. but soon resigned and returned home. 
Soon ifter lie was chosen Judge of the Supreme Court 
01' his State, which position he held for si\ years. 

Wheu the war of [8is with Great Britian com- 
menced. Madison occupied the Presidential chair. 
Aaron Burr sent word to the President that there was 
an unknown man in the West, Andrew Jackson, who 
would do credit to a commission if one were con- 
ferred upon him. Just at that time Gen. Jai 
affeied his services and those o( twenty-five hundred 
volunteers. His offer was accepted, and the troops 
were assembled at Nashville. 

\^ the British were hourly expected to make an at- 
tack upon New Orleans, where lien Wilkinson was 
in command, he was ordered to descend the river 
with fifteen hundred troops to aid Wilkinson. The 
dition reached Natchez; and after a delay of sev- 
eral weeks there, without accomplishing anything, 
the men were ordered back to their homes. But the 
energv Gen. Jackson had displayed, and his entire 
devotion to the comrfort of his soldiers, won him 
golden opinions ; and he became the most popular 
man in the Stale. It was in this expedition that his 
toughness gave him the nickname of "Old Hickory." 

- 'a after this, while attempting to horsewhip Col. 
Thomas 11. Benton, for a remark that gentleman 
made about his taking a part as second in ,1 duel, in 
which a younger brother o( Benton's was engaged. 
he received two severe pistol wounds. While he was 
lingering upon a bed of Suffering news came that the 
Indians, who had combined under Tecumseh from 
Florida to the Lakes, to exterminate the white set- 
ters, were committing the most awful ravages. De- 
cisive action became necessary. Gen. Jackson, with 
his fractured bone just beginning to heal, his arm in 
;i sling, and unable to mount his horse without assis- 
tance, gave his amazing energies to the raising of an 
army to rendezvous at Fayettesville, Alabama. 

The Creek Indians hail established a strong fort on 
one of the bends of the Tallapoosa River, near the cen- 
ter of Alabama, about fifty miles below Fort Strother. 
With an army of two thousand men. Gen. Jackson 
traversed the pathless wilderness in a march o( eleven 
days. He reached their fort, called Tohopeka or 
Horse-shoe, on the 27th of March. 1814. The bend 



of the river enclosed nearly one hundred acres of 
tangled forest and wild ravine. Across the narrow 
neck the Indians had constructed a formidable btva l- 
work ot logs and brush. Here nine hundred warriors, 
with an ample suplv of arms were assembled. 

The fort was stormed. The tight was utterly des- 
perate. Not an Indian would accept of quarter. When 
bleeding and dying, they would fight those who en- 
deavored to spare their lives. From ten in the morn- 
ing until dark, the battle raged. The carnage was 
awful and revolting Some threw themselves into the 
river; but the unerring bullet striuk their heads as 
they swam. Nearly everyone of the nine hundred war- 
rios were killed A tew probably, in the night, swam 
the river and escaped. This ended the war. The 
power of the Creeks was broken forever. This bold 
plunge into the wilderness, with itstcrriftic slaughter, 
so appalled the savages, that the haggard remnants 
o\ the bands came to the camp, ! r peace. 

This closing o\ the Creek war enabled us to con- 
centrate all our militia upon the British, who were the 
allies of the Indians No man of less resolute will 
than lien. Jackson could have conducted this Indian 
campaign to so successful an issue Immediately lie 
was appointed major-general. 

Late in August, with an army of two thousand 
men, on a rushing march. Gen, Jackson came to 
Mobile. A British fleet came from lYns.uvla. landed 
a force upon the beach, authored near the little tort, 
and from both ship and shore commenced a furious 
assault The battle was long and doubtful. At length 
one of the ships was blown up and the rest retired. 

Garrisoning Mobile, where he , had taken his little 
army, he moved his troops to New Orleans, 
And the battle o\ New Orleans which soon ensued, 
was in reality a very arduous campaign. This won 
for Cen. Jackson an imperishable name. Here his 
troops, which numbered about four thousand men, 
won a signal victory over the British army ot about 
nine thousand. His loss was but thirteen, while the 
loss of the British was two thousand six hundred. 

The name of Cen. Jackson -.ix>n began to be men- 
tioned in connection with the Presidency, but, in 1824, 
lie was defeated by Mr. Adams. He was. however, 
successful in the election of iSjS. and was re-elected 
for a second term in 1832. In 1S20. just before he 
assumed the reins of the government, he met with 
the most terrible affliction of his life in the death of 
his wife, whom he had loved with a devotion which has 
perhaps never been surpassed. From the shock ot 
her death he never recovered. 

His administration was one of the most msmorabie 
in the annals of our country; applauded oy one party, 
condemned by the other. No man had more bitter 
enemies or warmer friends. At the expiration of his 
two terms of office he retired to the Hermitage, where 
he died June 8. [845. The last years of Mr. lack- 
son's life were that of a devoted Christian man. 




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EIGHTH PRESIDl 



V^N* "K~ 








AKTIN VAN BUREN, the 
eighth President of the 

United States, was horn at 
Kinderhook, N. V., Dec 5, 
1782. He died at the same 
[>!.u e, July 24, t86a. His 
body rests in the cemetery 
» at Kinderhook. Above it is 
a plain granite shaft fifteen feet 
high, bearing a simple inscription 
alxwt halt way up on one fa* e. 
The lot is unfenced, unbordered 
or unlwniuleil by shrub 01 fli 

There '• out little in the life of Martin Van liuren 
of romant S: interest He fought no battles, engaged 
in no wild adventures. Though his life was stormy in 
political and intellectual conflicts, and he gained many 
signal victories, his days passed uneventful in those 
incidents which give /est to biography. His an- 
cestors, as his name indicates, were of Dutch origin, 
and were among the earliest emigrants from Holland 
to the banks of the I [udso ■ His lather was a farmer, 
residing in the old town of Kinderhook. His mother, 
also of Dutch lineage, was 1 woman of superior intel- 
e and exemplary piety. 
,ie was decidedly a pre' ocious boy, developing un- 
usual activity, vigor and strength of mind. At the 
age of fourteen, he had finished his ai ademic Si 
in his native village, and commenced the study "I 
As he had not a collegiate education, seven 
vears of study in a law-office were required of him 
before he 1 idmitted to the bar, Inspired with 

J lolly ambition, and const ioilS ol his |K>wers, he 

sued his studies with indefatigable industry, 
spending six year* in an office in u ^j native village, 



he went to the city of New York, and prosecuted his 

studies for the seventh year. 

In 1803, Mr. Win liuren, then twenty-one years ol 
age, commenced the practice of law in his native \il 
lage. The great conflict between the Federal 
Republican party was then at its height. Mr. Van 
liuren was from the beginning a politician. He had, 
perhaps, imbibed that spirit while listening to the 
many discussions which had been carried on in his 
father's hotel. He was in cordial sympathy with 
Jefferson, and earnestly and eloquentl] : the 

cause of State Right-.; though at that time the I .'- 
eral party held the supremacy lioth in his 
and State. 

His success and increasing ruputation led him 
after six years of practice, to remove to Hudson, ill. 
county seat of his county. Here he spent seven years 
constantly gaining strength by contending in th* 
courts with some of the ablest men who have ad- 
the bar of his State. 

Just before leaving Kinderhook for Hudson, Mi. 
Van liuren married a lady alike distinguished t'.u 
beauty and accomplishments. After twelve 
year, she sankinto the grave, the vii tim ol > onsuiTtp. 
tion, leaving her husband and four sons to weep ovei 
her loss. For twenty-five years, Mr. Van liuren was 
an earnest, Ful, assiduous lawyei ["he record 

oftho is barren in items "i public interest. 

In 181 a, when thirty years of age, he was .ho. en to 
the State Senate, and gave his strenuous support to 
Mr. Madison's adminstracion. In 1815, he was a|~ 
pointed Attorn ■ - I, and the next year moved 

to Albany, the capital of the Si 

While he was acknowledged ..s one of the 1 
p. ominent leaders of the Democratic party, he had 



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MARTIN VAN BUREN. 



trie moral courage to avow that true democracy did 
not require that " universal suffrage " which admits 
the vile, the degraded, the ignorant, to the right of 
governing the State. In true consistency with his 
democratic principles, he contended that, while the 
path leading to the privilege of voting should be open 
to every man without distinction, no one should he 
invested with that sacred prerogative, unless he were 
»n some degree qualified for it by intelligence, virtue 
and some property interests in the welfare of the 
State. 

In 182 1 he was elected :. member of the United 
States Senate; and in the same year, he took a seat 
in the convention to revise the constitution of his 
native State. His course in this convention secured 
the approval of men of all parties. No one could 
doubt the singleness of his endeavors to promote the 
interests of all classes in the community. In the 
Senate of the United States, he rose at once to a 
conspicuous position as an active and useful legislator. 

In 1827, John Quincy Adams being then in the 
Vresidential chair, Mr. Van Buren was re-elected to 
.he Senate. He had been from the beginning a de- 
ermined opposer of the Administration, adopting the 
'State Rights" view in opposition to what was 
"deemed the Federal proclivities of Mr. Adams. 

Soon after this, in 1828, he was chosen Governorof 
the State of New York, and accordingly resigned his 
seat in the Senate. Probably no one in the United 
States contributed so much towards ejecting John Q. 
Adams from the Presidential chair, and placing in it 
Andrew Jackson, as did Martin Van Buren. Whether 
entitled to the reputation or not, he certainly was re- 
garded throughout the United States as one of the 
most skillful, sagacious and cunning of politicians. 
It was supposed that no one knew so well as he how 
to touch the secret springs of action; how to pull all 
the wires to put his machinery in motion; and how to 
organize a political army which would, secredy and 
stealthily accomplish the most gigantic results. By 
these powers it is said that lie outwitted Mr. Adams, 
Mr. Clay, Mr. Webster, and secured results which 
few thought then could be accomplished. 

When Andrew Jackson was elected President he 
appointed Mr. Van P.uren Secretary of State. This 
position he resigned in 1S31, and was immediately 
appointed Minister to England, where he went the 
same autumn. The Senate, however, when it met, 
refused to ratify the nomination, and he returned 



home, apparently untroubled; was nominated Vice 
President in the place of Calhoun, at the re-election 
of President Jackson; and with smiles for all and 
fiowns for none, he took his place at the head of that 
Senate which had refused to confirm his nomination 
as ambassador. 

His rejection by the Senate roused al! the zeal of 
President Jackson in behalf of his repudiated favor- 
ite; and this, probably more than any other cause. 
secured his elevation to the chair of the Chief Esecu 
tive. On the 20th of May, 1836, Mr. Van Buren re- 
ceived the Democratic nomination to succeed Gen. 
Jackson as President of the United States He was 
elected by a handsome majority, to the delight of the 
retiring President. " Leaving New York out of the 
canvass," says Mr. Parton, "the election of Mr. Van 
Buren to the Presidency was as much the act of Gen. 
Jackson as though the Constitution had conferred 
upon him the power to appoint a successor." 

His administration was filled with exciting events. 
Tlie insurrection in Canada, which threatened to in- 
volve this country in war with England, the agitation 
of the slavery question, and finally the great commer- 
cial panic which spread over the country, all were 
trials to his wisdom. The financial distress was at- 
tributed to the management of the Democratic party, 
and brought the President into such disfavor that he 
failed of re-election. 

With the exception of being nominated for the 
Presidency by the "Free Soil" Democrats, in 1848, 
Mr. Van Buren lived quietly upon his estate until 
his death. 

He had ever been a prudent man, of frugal habits, 
and living within his income, had now fortunately a 
competence for his declining years. His unblemished 
character, his commanding abilities, his unquestioned 
patriotism, and the distinguished positions which he 
had occupied in the government of our country, se- 
cured to him not only the homage of his party, but 
the respect ot the whole community. It was on the 
4th of March, 1841, that Mr. Wan Buren retired from 
the presidency. From his fine estate at Lindenwald 
he still exerted a powerful influence upon the politics 
of the country. From this time until his death, on 
the 24th of July, 1862, at the age of eighty ; ears, he 
resided at Lindenwald, a gentleman of leisure, of 
culture and of wealth; enjoying in a healthy old 
age, probably far more happiness than he had before 
experienced amid the Stormy stenes ol his active life. 




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WILLIAM 1IK.NKV 1J ARK I SOX. 




ILI.IAM HK\K\ II \KKI- 
Sl IN, the ninth President ol 
the United States, was born 
at Berkeley , Va., Feb. 9, 1773. 
1 lis father, Benjamin I larri- 
son, was in comparative! 
ulent « in umstances, and was 
• if the most distinguished 
men of his day, He was an 
intimate friend of George 
Washington, was early elected 
.1 member of the Continental 
Congress, and was conspicuous 
among the patriots of Virginia iii 
resisting the encroachments of the 
British crown. In the celebrated 
Congress of 1775, Benjamin Har- 
rison and John Hancock were 
both candidates for the ofhi 
s J leaker. 

Mr Harrison was subsequently 
chosen Governor of Virginia, and 
was twice re-elected. His son, 
William Henry, of course enjoyed 
in childhood all the advantages which wealth and 
intellectual and cultivated society could give. Hav- 
ing rei eived a thorough • v hool education, he 
entered Hampden Sidnej College, where he 
with honor soor. after the death of his father. He 
'.lien repaired to Philadelphia to study medicine under 
the instructions of Dr. Rush and the guardianship of 
Morris, both of whom were, with his father, 
ugners of the Declaration of Independence. 

1 the outbreak of the Indian troubles, and not- 
withstanding the remonstrances of his friends, he 
:<i"vd his medii es and entered the army, 

aaving obtai"— 1 1 commission of Ensign from Presi- 



dent Washington. He was then but ig years old 
From that rime he passed gradually upward in rank 
until he became aid to General Wayne, aftei whose 
death he resigned his commission. He was then a|>- 
pointed Se< retary of the North-western Territory. This 
Territorj .vas then entitled to but one member in 
ress ind Capt. Harrison was chosen to fill that 
position. 

In the spring of 1S00 the North-western Territory 
was divided by Congress into two portions. The 
eastern portion, comprising the region now embraced 
in the State of Ohio, was called "The Territory 
north-west of the Ohio." The western portion, which 
included what is now called Indiana, Illinois and 
Wisconsin, was called the "Indiana Territory." W'il 
liam Henry Harrison, then 27 years of age, was ap 
pointed by John Adams, Governor of the Indiana 
Territory, and immediately after, also Governor of 
Upper Louisiana. He was thus ruler over almost as 
extensive a realm as an) sovereign u|>on the globe. He- 
was Superintendent of Indian Affairs, and was in- 
I with powers nearly dictatorial over the now 
rapidly increasing white population. The ability and 

fidelity with which he discharged these responsible 

duties may be inferred from the fai 1 that he was tour 

rimes appointed to this office first U John Adams, 

by rhomas Jefferson and afterwards b) I'rcsi- 

Madison. 

When he began his adminstration there were but 

three white settlemeiitsin that almost boundless region, 

dow 1 rowded with cities and resounding with all the 

tumult of wealth and traffic One of these settlements 

was on the Ohio, nearly opposite Louisville; one at 

Vincennes, on the Wabash, and the thud ■ French 

settlement. 

The vast wilderness over whii h Gov. liar 
reigned was filled with many tribes of Indiana Aboo' 



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the year 1806, two extraordinary men, twin brothers, 
of the Shawnese tribe, rose among them. One of 
these was called Tecumseh, or " The Crouching 
Panther;" the other, Olliwacheca, or "The Prophet." 
Tecumseh was not only an Indian warrior, but a man 
of great sagacity, far-reaching foresight and indomit- 
able perseverance in any enterprise in which he might 
engage. He was inspired with the highest enthusiasm, 
and had long regarded with dread and with hatred 
the encroachment of the whites upon the hunting- 
grounds of his fathers. His brother, the Prophet, was 
an orator, who could sway the feelings of the untutored 
Indian as the gale tossed the tree-tops beneath which 
they dwelt. 

But the Prophet was not merely an orator: he was, 
in the superstitious minds of the Indians, invested 
with the superhuman dignity of a medicine-man or a 
magician. With an enthusiasm unsurpassed by Peter 
the Hermit rousing Europe to the crusades, he went 
from tribe to tribe, assuming that he was specially sent 
by the Great Spirit. 

Gov. Harrison made many attempts to conciliate 
the Indians, but at last the war came, and at Tippe- 
canoe the Indians were routed with great slaughter. 
October 28, 1812, his army began its march. When 
near the Prophet's town three Indians of rank made 
their appearance and inquired why Gov. Harrison was 
approaching them in so hostile an attitude. After a 
short conference, arrangements were made for a meet- 
ing the next day, to agree upon terms of peace. 

But Gov. Harrison was too well acquainted with 
the Indian character to be deceived by such protes- 
tations. Selecting a favorable spot for his night's en- 
campment, he took every precaution against surprise. 
His troops were posted in a hollow square, and slept 
upon their arms. 

The troops threw themselves upon the ground for 
rest; but every man had his accourtrements on, his 
loaded musket by his side, and his bayonet fixed. The 
wakeful Governor, between three and four o'clock in 
the morning, had risen, and was sitting in conversa- 
tion with his aids by the embers of a waning fire. It 
was a chill, cloudy morning with a drizzling rain. In 
the darkness, the Indians had crept as near as possi- 
ble, and just then, with a savage yell, rushed, with all 
the desperation which superstition and passion most 
highly inflamed could give, upon the left flank of the 
little army. The savages had been amply provided 
with guns and ammunition by the English. Their 
war-whoop was accompanied by a shower of bullets. 

The camp-fires were instantly extinguished, as the 
light aided the Indians in their aim. With hide- 
l>us yells, the Indian bands rushed on, not doubting a 
speedy and an entire victory. But Gen. Harrison's 
troops stood as immovable as the rocks around them 
until day dawned '• they then made a simultaneous 
charge with the bayonet, and swept every thing be- 
fore them, and completely routing the foe. 



Gov. Harrison now had all his energies tasked 
to the utmost. The British descending from the Can- 
adas, were ot themselves a very formidable force , but 
with their savage allies, rushing like wolves from the 
forest, searching out every remote farm-house, burn- 
ing, plundering, scalping, torturing, the wide frontier 
was plunged into a state of consternation which even 
the most vivid imagination can but faintly conceive. 
The war-whoop was resounding everywhere in the 
forest. The horizon was illuminated with the conflagra- 
tion of the cabins of the settlers. Gen Hull had made 
the ignominious surrender of his forces at Detroit. 
Under these despairing circumstances, Gov. Harrison 
was appointed by President Madison commander-in- 
chief of the North-western army, with orders to retake 
Detroit, and to protect the frontiers. 

It would be difficult to place a man in a situation 
demanding more energy, sagacity and courage; but 
General Harrison was found equal to the position, 
and nobly and triumphantly did he meet all the re 
sponsibilities. 

He won the love of his soldiers by always sharing 
with them their fatigue. His whole baggage, while 
pursuing the foe up the Thames, was carried in a 
valise; and his bedding consisted of a single blanket 
lashed over his saddle. Thirty-five British officers, 
his prisoners of war, supped with him after the battle. 
The only fare he could give them was beef roasted 
before the fire, without bread or salt. 

In 1 S 1 6 , Gen. Harrison was chosen a member of 
the National House of Representatives, to represent 
the District of Ohio. In Congress he proved an 
active member; and whenever he spoke, it was with 
force of reason and power of eloquence, which arrested 
the attention of all the members. 

In 1 Si 9, Harrison was elected to the Senate of 
Ohio; and in 1824, as one of the presidential electors 
of that State, he gave his vote for Henry Clay. The 
same year he was chosen to the United States Senate. 

In 1836, the friends of Gen. Harrison brought him 
forward as a candidate for the Presidency against 
Van Buren, but he was defeated. At the close ot 
Mr. Van Buren 's term, he was re-nominated by his 
party, and Mr. Harrison was unanimously nominated 
by the Whigs, with John Tyler forthe Vice Presidency, 
The contest was very animated. Gen Jackson gave 
all his influence to prevent Harrison's election ; but 
his triumph was signal. 

The cabinet which he formed, with Daniel Webstei 
at its head as Secretary of State, was one of the most 
brilliant with which any President had ever been 
surrounded. Never were the prospects of an admin- 
istration more flattering, or the hopes of the country 
more sanguine. In the midst of these bright and 
joyous prospects. Gen. Harrison was seized b) a 
pleurisy-fever and after a few days of violent sick- 
ness, died on the 4th of April; just one month after 
his inauguration as President of the United States. 





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TENTH PRESIDEXT. 



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J I) I (A TYLEE 




OHN TV I ER, the tenth 
Presidentofthe United States. 
II '.is 1 k >rn in Charles-) ity 
'. u, Man h -•<). 1 790. I [e 
was the favored child of <i- 
fluence and high social |h>- 
sition. At the early .1. 
twelve, John entered William 
and Mary College and grad- 
uated with much honor when 
hut seventeen ye. irs old. Vfti 1 
graduating, he devoted him- 
self with great assiduity to the 
stiiily of law, partly with his 
lather and partly with Edmund 
Randolph, one of the most distin- 
guished lawyers of Virginia. 

At nineteen years of age, lie 
commenced the practice of law. 
His >Ui ■ ss was rapid and aston- 
ishing. It is said that three 
months had not elapsed ere there 
scarcely a case on the dock- 
et of the court in which hi 
i»ot retained. When but twenty-one years of age, he 
was almost unanimously elected to .1 seat in the 
lature. He connected himself with the D 
. rati< party, and warmly advocated the mi 

Jefferson and Madison. For five successive years he 

d to the Legislature, receiving nearly the 
unanimous vote or ln> 1 ounty. 

When but twenty--.ix years of age, he was ell 
1 member of C Here he ai ted earnestly and 

ably with the Democratii party, opposing a national 
hank, inte*"*! improvements by the General **overn. 



ment, a protective tariff, and advocating a strii 1 
struction of the Constitution, and the most careful 

nee over State rights. His labors in 1 
were so arduous that before the close of his si 
term he found ii necessary to resign and retire to his 
estate in Ch.nles-. ity Co.. to re< 1 uit his health. 1 1 
however, soon after consented to take his seat in the 
State Legislature, where his influence was powerful 
in promoting public works of great utility. With a 
reputation thus constantly increasing, he was chosen 
by a very large majority of votes, Governor of his 
native State. His administration was signally a suc- 
cessful one. His popularity secured his re-election. 

John Randolph, a brilliant, erratic, half-crazed 
man, then represented Virginia in the Senate of the 
United States. A portion of the Democratic party 
was displeased with Mr. Randolphs wayward course, 
and brought forward John Tyler as his opponent, 
considering him the only man in Virginia of sufficient 
popularity to succeed against the renowned orator of 
Roanoke. Mr. Tyler was the victor. 

In accordance with his professions, upon taking his 
seat in the Senate, he joined the ranks of the op|»si- 
tion. He opposed the tariff; he s|>okc against and 
voted against the bank as unconstitutional; he stren- 
uously opposed all restrictions 1 1 j k >ii slavery, resist- 

II projects of internal improvements by the l 
eral Government, and avowed his sympathy wil 
Calhoun's view of nullification ; he <!c< land that ( len. 

1 .11 kson, by Ins opposition to the nullifiers, had 
abandoned the principles of the Democratic ; 
Such was Mr. Tylers record in Congress, — a record 
in pen rdance with the principles which he 

h id always avi >» 1 d 

Returning to Virginia, he resumed the pi 
his profession. Then- was 8 rplit in the Di 



JOHN TYLER. 



Jiarty. His friends still regarded him as a true Jef- 
fersonian, gave him a dinner, and showered compli- 
ments upon him. He had now attained the age of 
forty-six. His career had been very brilliant. In con- 
sequence of his devotion to public business, his pri- 
vate affairs had fallen into some disorder; audit was 
not without satisfaction that he resumed the practice 
of law, and devoted himself to the culture of his plan- 
tation. Soon after this he removed to Williamsburg, 
for the better education of his children ; and he again 
took his seat in the Legislature of Virginia. 

By the Southern Whigs, he was sent to the national 
convention at Harrisburg to nominate a President in 
7839. The majority of votes were given to Gen. Har- 
rison, a genuine Whig, much to the disappointment of 
the South, who wished for Henry Clay. To concili- 
ate the Southern Whigs and to secure their vote, the 
convention then nominated John Tyler for Vice Pres- 
ident. It was well known that he was not in sympa- 
thy with the Whig party in the North : but the Vice 
President has but very little power in the Govern- 
ment, his main and almost only duty being to pre- 
side over the meetings of the Senate. Thus it hap- 
pened that a Whig President, and, in reality, a 
Democratic Vice President were chosen. 

In 1 84 1, Mr. Tyler was inaugurated Vice Presi- 
dent of the United States. In one short month from 
that time, President Harrison died, and Mr. Tyler 
thus .'cund himself, to his own surprise and that of 
the whole Nation, an occupant of the Presidential 
chair. This was a new test of the stability of our 
institutions, as it was the first time in the history of our 
country that such an event had occured. Mr. Tyler 
was at home in Williamsburg when he received the 
unexpected tidings of the death of President Harri- 
son. He hastened to Washington, and on the 6th of 
April was inaugurated to the high and responsible 
office. He was placed in a position of exceeding 
delicacy and difficulty. All his long life he had been 
opposed to the main principles of the party which had 
brought him into power. He had ever been a con- 
sistent, hontit man, with an unblemished record. 
Gen. Harrison had selected a Whig cabinet. Should 
he retain them, and thus surround himself with coun- 
sellors whose views were antagonistic to his own? or, 
on the other hand, should he turn against the party 
which had elected him and select a cabinet in har- 
mony with himself, and which would oppose all those 
views which the Whigs deemed essential to the pub- 
lic welfare? This was his fearful dilemma. He in- 
vited the cabinet which President Hanrison had 
selected to retain their seats. He reccommended a 
day of fasting and prayer, that God would guide and 
bless us. 

The Whigs carried through Congress a bill for the 
incorporation of a fiscal bank of the United States. 
The President, after ten days' delay, returned it with 
nis veto. He '<suegested, however, that he would 



approve of a bill drawn up upon such a plan as he 
proposed. Such a bill was accordingly prepared, and 
privately submitted to him. He gave it his approval. 
It was passed without alteration, and he sent it back 
with his veto. Here commenced the open rupture. 
It is said that Mr. Tyler was provoked to this meas- 
ure by a published letter from the Hon. John M. 
Botts, a distinguished Virginia Whig, who severely 
touched the pride of the President. 

The opposition now exultingly received the Presi- 
dent into their arms. The party which elected him 
denounced him bitterly. All the members of his 
cabinet, excepting Mr. Webster, resigned. The Whigs 
of Congress, both the Senate and the House, held a 
meeting and issued an address to the people of the 
United States, proclaiming that all political alliance 
between the Whigs and President Tyler were at 
an end. 

Still the President attempted to conciliate. He 
appointed a new cabinet of distinguished Whigs and 
Conservatives, carefully leaving out all strong party 
men. Mr. Webster soon found it necessary to resign, 
forced out by the pressure of his Whig friends. Thus 
the four years of Mr. Tyler's unfortunate administra- 
tion passed sadly away. No one was satisfied. The 
land was filled with murmurs and vituperation. Whigs 
and Democrats alike assailed him. More and more, 
however, he brought himself into sympathy with his 
old friends, the Democrats, until at the close of his term, 
he gave his whole influence to the support of Mr. 
Polk, the Democratic candidate for his successor. 

On the 4th of March, 1845, he retired from the 
harassments of office, tothe regret of neither party, and 
probably to his own unspeakable telief. His first wife, 
Miss Letitia Christian, died in Washington, in 1842; 
and in June, 1844, President Tyler was again married, 
at New York, to Miss Julia Gardiner, a young lady of 
many personal and intellectual accomplishments. 

The remainder of his days Mr. Tyler passed mainly 
in retirement at his beautiful home, — Sherwood For- 
est, Charles-city Co., Va. A polished gentleman in 
his manners, richly furnished with information from 
books and experience in the world, and possessing 
brilliant powers of conversation, his family circle was 
the scene of unusual attractions. With sufficient 
means for the exercise of a generous hospitality, he 
might have enjoyed a serene old age with the few 
friends who gathered around him, were it not for the 
storms of civil war which his own principles and 
policy had helped to introduce. 

When the great Rebellion rose, which the State 
rights and nullifying doctrines of Mr. John C. <ni- 
houn had inaugurated, President Tyler renounced his 
allegiance to the United States, and joined the Confed- 
erates. He was chosen a member of their Congress; 
and while engaged in active measures to destroy, bv 
force of arms, the Government over which he had 
once presided, he was taken sick and soon died. 



ELEVEN Tit PRESIDENT. 



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Wj was l>om in Mecklenburg 
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*ta£y ents were Samuel and Jane 
(Knox) Polk, the former a son 
P of Col. Thomas Polk, who lo 

at the abuse ; 'lie of the 

first pioneers, in 1 735. 

In the year 1006, with his wife 
and children, ar.d soon after fol- 
lowed by most of the members of 
the l'olk farnly, Samuel Polk emi- 
grated some two or three hi 
miles farther west, to the rich valley 
of the Duck River. Here in the 
midst of the wilderness, in a region 
which was subsequently tailed Mau- 
ry Co., they reared their log huts, 
and established their homes. In the 
hard toil of a new farm in the wil- 
derness, James K. l'olk spent the 
early years of his 1 hildhood and 
youth. His father, adding the pur- 
suit cf a surveyor to that of a farmer, 
1 gradually increased in wealth until 

he became one of the leading men of the region. 1 lis 
mother was a superior woman, of strong common 
sense and earnest piety. 

Very early in life, James develoj>ed a taste for 
reading and expressed the strongest desire to obtain 
a liberal education. His mother's training had made 
him methodical in his habit-., had taught him punct- 
uality and industry, and had inspired him witli lofty 
principles of morality. His health was frail ; and his 
Esther, fearing that he might ;jot be able to endure a 



sedentary life, got a situation for him behind the 
counter, hoping to fit him for commercial pursuits. 

This was to James a bitter disappointment He 
had no taste for these duties, and his daily tasks 
were irksome in the extreme. He remained in this 
uncongenial occupation but a few weeks, when at his 
earnest solicitation his father removed him, and made 
arrangements for him to prosecute his studies. Soon 
after he sent him to Murl'reesboro Academy. With 
ardor which could scarcely be surpassed, he pn 
forward in his studies, and in less than two and a half 
years, in the autumn of 1S15, entered the sophomore) 

i) the University of North Carolina, at Chapel 

Hill. Here he was one of the most exemplar] of 

scholars, punctual in every exercise, never allowing 

himself to be absent from a recitation or a religious 

ii >•. 

He graduated in r8l8, with the highest honors, be- 

emed the best scholar of his class, both in 
mathematics and the classics. He was then twenty- 
three years of age. Mr. Polk's health was at this 
time much impaired by the assiduity with which he 
had prosecuted his studii era short season of 

lion he went to Nashville, and entered the 
office of Felix Grundy, to study law. Here Mi. Polk 
renewed his acquaintance with Andrew Jackson, who 
resided on his plantation, the Hermitage, but a few 
miles from Nashville. They had probably beep 
1 quainted b< tore. 
Mr. Polk's father was a Jcffersonian Republican 

and James K. l'olk ever adhered to the same 1 x >1 it i- 

ith. He was a popular publii Bpeaker, am 

IJtl) ( ailed upon to address the meetings of his 
part) friends. I lis skill • that 

he was popularly called the Napoleon "i the stump. 

He was a man of unblemished morals, gi 



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courterus in his bearing, and with that sympathetic 
nature in the joy s and griefs of others which ever gave 
him troops of friends. In 1823, Mr. Polk was elected 
to the Legislature of Tennessee. Here he gave his 
strong influence towards the election of his friend, 
)Mr. Jackson, to the Presidency of the United States. 

In January, 1824, Mr. Polk married Miss Sarah 
Childress, of Rutherford Co., Tenn. His bride was 
altogether worthy of him, — a lady of beauty and cul- 
ture. In the fall of 1S25, Mr. Polk was chosen a 
member of Congress. The satisfaction which he gave 
to his constituents may be inferred from the fact, that 
for fourteen successive years, until 1839, he was con- 
tinued in that office. He then voluntarily withdrew, 
only that he might accept the Gubernatorial chair 
of Tennessee. In Congress he was a laborious 
member, a frequent and a popular speaker. He was 
always in his seat, always courteous ; and whenever 
he spoke it was always to the point, and without any 
ambitious rhetorical display. 

During five sessions of Congress, Mr. Polk was 
Speaker of the House Strong passions were roused, 
and stormy scenes were witnessed ; but Mr. Polk per- 
formed his arduous duties to a very general satisfac- 
tion, and a unanimous vote of thanks to him was 
passed by the House as he withdrew on the 4th of 
March, 1839. 

In accordance with Southern usage, Mr. Polk, as a 
candidate for Governor, canvassed the State. He was 
elected by a large majority, and on the 14th of Octo- 
ber, 1839, took the oath of office at Nashville. In 1841, 
his term of office expired, and he was again the can- 
didate of the Democratic party, but was defeated. 

On the 4th of March, 1845, Mr. Polk was inaugur- 
ated President of the United States. The verdict of 
the country in favor of the annexation of Texas, exerted 
its influence upon Congress ; and the last act of the 
administration of President Tyler was to affix his sig- 
nature to a joint resolution of Congress, passed on the 
3d of March, approving of the annexation of Texas to 
the American Union. As Mexico still claimed Texas 
as one of her provinces, the Mexican minister, 
-Almonte, immediately demanded his passports and 
Weft the country, declaring the act of the annexation 
to be an act hostile to Mexico. 

In his first message, President Polk urged that 
Texas should immediately, by act of Congress, be re- 
ceived into the Union on the same footing with the 
other States. In the meantime, Gen. Taylor was sent 



with an army into Texas to hold the country. He was 
sent first to Nueces, which the Mexicans said was the 
western boundary of Texas. Then he was sent nearly 
two hundred miles further west, to the Rio Grande, 
where he erected batteries which commanded the 
Mexican city of Matamoras, which was situated on 
the western banks. 

The anticipated collision soon took place, and wai 
was declared against Mexico by President Polk. The 
war was pushed forward by Mr. Polk's administration 
with great vigor. Gen. Taylor, whose army was first 
called one of "observation," then of "occupation,' 
then of " invasion, "was sent forward to Monterey. The 
feeble Mexicans, in every encounter, were hopelessly 
ana awfully slaughtered. The day of judgement 
alone can reveal the misery which this war caused. 
It was by the ingenuity of Mr. Polk's administration 
that the war was brought on. 

'To the victors belong the spoils." Mexico was 
prostrate before us. Her capital was in our hands. 
We now consented to peace upon the condition that 
Mexico should surrender to us, in addition to Texas, 
all of New Mexico, and all of Upper and Lower Cal- 
ifornia. This new demand embraced, exclusive of 
Texas, eight hundred thousand square miles. This 
was an extent of territory equal to nine States of the 
size of New York. Thus slavery was securing eighteen 
majestic States to be added to the LTnion. There were 
some Americans who thought it all right: there were 
others who thought it all wrong. In the prosecution 
of this war, we expended twenty thousand lives and 
more than a hundred million of dollars. Of this 
money fifteen millions were paid to Mexico. 

On the 3d of March, 1849, Mr. Polk retired from 
office, having served one term. The next day was 
Sunday. On the 5th, Gen. Taylor was inaugurated 
as his successor. Mr. Polk rode to the Capitol in the 
same carriage with Gen. Taylor; and the same even- 
ing, with Mrs. Polk, he commenced his return to 
Tennessee. He was then but fifty-four years of age. 
He had ever been strictly temperate in all his habits, 
and his health was good. With an ample fortune, 
a choice library, a cultivated mind, and domestic ties 
of the dearest nature, it seemed as though long years 
of tranquility and happiness were before him. But the 
cholera — that fearful scourge — was then sweeping up 
the Valley of the Mississippi. This he contracted, 
and died on the 15th of June, 1S49, in the fifty-fourth 
year of his age, greatly mourned by his countrymen. 




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AUlAkY TAYLOR, twelfth 
of the United States, 
'was born on the -:4th oi 
17S4, in Orange ('<>., Y.i. His 
lather, Colonel Taylor, was 
*y a Virginian of note, and a dis- 
t^ languished patriot and soldier of 
the Revolution. When Za< hary 
was an infant, his father with his 
wife and two children, emigrated 
j to Kentucky, where he settled in 
the pathless wilderness, a few 
miles from Louisville. In this front- 
ier home, away from civilization and 
all its refinements, young Zachary 
could enjoy but few social and educational advan- 
When six years of age he attended a common 
school, and was then regarded as a bright, active boy, 
rather remarkable for bluntness and decision of » har- 
11 ter He was strong, fearless and self-reliant, 
manifested a strong desire to enter the army to fight 
•he Indians who were ravaging the frontiers. There- 
is little to he recorded of the uneventful years of his 
childhood on his father's large but lonely plantation. 
I.i 1808, his father succeeded in obtaining for him 
the commission of lieutenant in the United States 
army; and he joined the troops which were stationed 
at New Orleans under C.c-n. Wilkinson Soon after 
this he married Mi-.^ M irgaret Smith, a young lady 
r rom one of the first families of Maryland. 

Immediately after the dei taxation of war with I 
land, in l8t2, ('apt. Taylor (f<>r lie hid then been 

promoted to that rank) was put in command ol 

Harrison, on the Wabash, about fifty miles above 
Vim ennes. This fort had been built in the wilder- 
ness by Gen. Harrison,on 1 ii ^ march to Tippecanoe. 
It was one of the first points of attack by the Indians, 
led by Tecumseh. its garrison consisted ot a broken 



company of infantry numbering fifty men, many of 
whom were sick. 

Earl) in the autumn of 1812, the Indians, stealthily, 
and in large numbers, moved upon the fort. Their 
approach was first indicated by the murder of two 
soldiers just outside of the Stockade. (apt. Taylor 
made every possible preparation to meet the antici- 
pated assault. On the 4th of September, a band of 
forty painted and plumed savages came to the tort, 
wavinga white flag, and informed (apt. Taylor that 
in the morning their chief would come to have a talk 
with him. It was evident that their objee t was merely 

ertain the state of things at the fort, and Opt. 
Taylor, well versed in the wiles of the savages, kept 
them at a distance. 

'The sun went down ; the savages disappeared, tht 
garrison slept upon their arms. One hour before 
midnight the war whoop burst from a thousand lips 
in the forest around, followed by the dischar. 
musketry, and the rush of the foe. Every man, sick 
and well, sprang to his ]>ost. Every man knew that 
deleat was not merely death, but in thi - 1 cap- 

ture, death by the most agonizing and prolonged tor- 
ture. No pen cm describe, no immagination 
conceive the scenes whi< h ensued. The savages su< - 
ceeded in setting lire to one of the block-house* 
Until six o'clock in the morning, this awful conflil t 
continued. The savages then, baffled .it every |>oint 
and gnashing their teeth with rage, retired. (apt. 
1 tyli 1. foi defence, was promoted to the 

rank of major by bl 

Until the close of the war. Major Taylor was placed 
in sin h situations that he saw but little more of at tive 
servii e. He was sent far away into the depths of the 
wilderness, to Ton ■ River, which 

empl: I B j Here tl ■ » I but little 

■ lone but to wear away the tedtOUS hours asone 
best could. There were no no in- 



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tellectual stimulus. Thus with him the uneventful 
years rolled on Gradually he rose to the rank of 
colonel. In the Black-Hawk war, which resulted in 
the capture of that renowned chieftain, Col Taylor 
took a subordinate but a brave and efficient part. 

For twenty-four years Col. Taylor was engaged in 
the defence of the frontiers, in scenes so remote, and in 
Employments so obscure, that his name was unknown 
/beyond the limits of his own immediate acquaintance, 
jln the year 1836, he was sent to Florida to compel 
the Seminole Indians to vacate that region and re- 
tire beyond the Mississippi, as their chiefs by treaty, 
iiac" promised they should do. The services rendered 
tie.e secured for Col. Taylor the high appreciation of 
the Government; and as a reward, he was elevated 
ic he rank of brigadier-general by brevet ; and soon 
ifter, in May, 1838, was appointed to the chief com- 
mand of the United States troops in Florida. 

After two years of such wearisome employment 
imidst the everglades of the peninsula, Gen. Taylor 
obtained, at his own request, a change of command, 
.»nd was stationed over the Department of the South- 
west. This field embraced Louisiana, Mississippi, 
Alabama and Georgia. Establishing his headquarters 
jit Fort Jessup, in Louisiana, he removed his family 
>o a plantation which he purchased, near Baton Rogue. 
Here he remained for five years, buried, as it were, 
from the world, but faithfully discharging every duty 
jmposed upon him. 

In [846, Gen. Taylor was sent to guard the land 
between the Nueces and Rio Grande, the latter river 
being the boundary of Texas, which was then claimed 
by the United States. Soon the war with Mexico 
ffa; brought on, and at Palo Alto and Resaca de la 
PaJma, Gen. Taylor won brilliant victories over the 
Mexicans. The rank of major-general by brevet 
was then conferred upon Gen. Taylor, and his name 
was received with enthusiasm almost everywhere in 
tiio Nation. Then came the battles of Monterey and 
E uena Vista in which he won signal victories over 
icyces much larger than he commanded. 

His careless habits of dress and his unaffected 
simplicity, secured for Gen. Taylor among his troops, 
-1 e sobriquet of "Old Rough and Ready.' 

The tidings of the brilliant victory of Buena Vista 
spread the wildest enthusiasm over the country. The 
name of Gen. Taylor was on every one's lips. The 
H hig party decided to take advantage of this wonder- 
fuf popularity in bringing forward the unpolished, un- 

•' "red, honest soldier as their candidate for the 
Piesidency. Gen. Taylor was astonished at the an- 
nouncement, and for a time would not listen to it; de- 
claring that he was notatal! qualified for such an 
office. So little interest had lie taken in politics that. 
for forty years, he had net cast a vote. It was not 
wiihout chagrin that several distinguished statesmen 
who had been long years in the public service found 
■!. ur claims set aside in behalf of one whose name 



had never been heard of, save in connection with Palo 
Alto, Resaca de la Palma, Monterey and Buena 
Vista. It Is said that Daniel Webster, in his haste re- 
marked, " It is a nomination not fit to be made." 

Gen. Taylor was not an eloquent speaker nor a fine 
writer His friends took possession of him, and pre- 
pared such few communications as it was needful 
should be presented to the public. The popularity u( 
the successful warrior swept the land. He was tri- 
umphantly elected over two opposing candidates, — 
Gen. Cass and Ex-President Martin Van Buren. 
Though he selected an excellent cabinet, che good 
old man found himself in a very uncongenial position, 
and was, at times, sorely perplexed and harassed. 
His mental sufferings were very severe, and probably 
tended to hasten his death. The pro-slavery party- 
was pushing its claims with tireless energy, expedi- 
tions were fitting out to capture Cuba ; California was 
pleading for admission to the Union, while slavery 
stood at the door to bar her out. Gen. Taylor found 
the political conflicts in Washington to be far more 
trying to the nerves than battles with Mexicans or 
Indians 

In the midst of all these troubles, Gen. Taylor, 
after he had occupied the Presidential chair but little 
over a year, took cold, and after a brief sickness of 
but little over five days, died on the 9th of July, 1850. 
His last woids were, "I am not afraid to die. I am 
ready. I have endeavored to do my duty." He died 
universally respected and beloved. An honest, un- 
pretending man, he had been steadily growing in the 
affections of the people ; and the Nation bitterly la- 
mented his death. 

Gen. Scott, who was thoroughly acquainted with 
Gen. Taylor, gave the following graphic and truthful 
description of his character: — " With a good store of 
common sense, Gen. Taylor's mind had not been en- 
larged and refreshed by reading, or much converse 
with the world. Rigidity of ideas was the conse- 
quence. The frontiers and small military posts had 
been his home. Hence he was quite ignorant for his 
rank, and quite bigoted in his ignorance. His sim- 
plicity was child-like, and with innumerable preju- 
dices, amusing and incorrigible, well suited to the 
tender age. Thus, if a man, however respectable, 
chanced to wear a coat of an unusual color, or his hat 
a little on one side of his head; or an officer to leave 
a corner of his handkerchief dangling from an out- 
side pocket, — in any such case, this critic held the 
offender to be a coxcomb (perhaps something worse), 
whom he would not, to use his oft repeated phrase, 
'touch with a pair of tongs.' 

"Any allusion to literature beyond good old Oil- 
worth's spelling-book, on the part of one wearing a 
sword, was evidence, with the same judge, of utter 
unfitness for heavy marchings and combats. Inshoi* 
few men have ever had a more comf >>vw. 

saving contempt for learning of every kind/ 



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III \kl> FILLMORE, thir- 
teenth President of the United 

States, w.is Kirn at Summer 
Hill, Ca; Co., N. Y ., on 

the 7 th of January, 1X00. His 
father was a fanner, and ow- 
ing u> misfortune, in humble cir- 
cumstances. 1 >f his mother, the 
daughter of Dr. Abiathar Millard, 
* of Pittsfield, Mass , ii has been 
said that she possessed an intellect 
of very high order, united with mu< h 
personal lovelim tness of dis- 

position, graceful manners and rx- 
quisite sensibilities. She died in 
1831 ; having lived to see her son a 
man of distinguished prom- 
,se, though she was not permitted to witness the high 
dignity whii li he finally attained. 

In consequence of the secluded ho:ne and limited 
means of his father, Millard enjoyed but slender ad- 
vantages for nine itio 1 in his early years. The com- 
mon .c hools, which he occasionally attended were 

institutions; and I ks were 

end expensive. There wis nothing then in his char- 
acter to indicate the brilliant career upon which he 
ter. He was a plain fanner's boy; 
intelligent, good-looking, kind-hearted. The s 
influences of home had taught him to revere the Bible, 
and hnl laid the foundations of an upright < ham ter. 
When founeen y< ge, his father sent him 

hundred miles from home, to the then wilds -if 
Livin i.tv, to leant the trade of a elothier. 

Neai ti»- mill there was a small villiage, when- some 



enterprising man had commenced the collection of a 
village library. This proved an inestimable Messing 
to young Fillmore. His eveni spent in read- 

ing. Soon every leisure moment pied with 

hooks. His thirst for knowledge became insatiate 
and the selections whii h he made were continually 
more elevating and instructive. He read history, 
biography, oratory, and thus gradually there was en- 
kindled in his heart a desire to be something more 
than a mere worker with his hands; and he was be- 
coming, almost unknown to himself, a well-informed, 
educated man. 

The young clothier had now attained the agi ot 
nineteen years, and was of fine personal appearance 
and cf gentlemanly demeanor. ll SO happened thai 
there was a gentleman in the neighborhood of ample 
pecuniary means ami of benevolence, — Judge Walter 
Wood, — who was struck with the prepossessing 
pearance of young Fillmore. II made his acquaint- 
ance, and was so much impressed with his abilit) 
attainments that he advi ed him to abandon his 
trade and devote himself to the Study of the law. The 
young man replied, that he had no means of his 
no friends to help him and thai In- previous educa- 
tion had been very imperfect B il I tdge Wood had 
so much confidence in him that he kindly offered to 
take him into his own office, and to loan him such 
money as he needed Mosl gratefully the generous 
offer v. i| ,1 

There is in many minds a strange delusion a i 
a ■ ollegiate edu< ation. A young man is sup]*^ 
he liberally educated if he has graduate 

But many a boy loiters through university hal' 
«tnd then enters a law office, who is by no metUU »s 



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well prepared to prosecute his legal studies 
Millard Fillmore when be graduated at the clothing- 
mill at the end of four years of manual labor, during 
which every leisure moment had been devoted to in- 
tense mental culture. 

In 1^3. when twenty-three years of age, he was 
admitted to the Court of Common Pleas, He then 
to the village of Aurora, and commenced the 
practice of law. In this secluded, peaceful K .. 
his practice of course was limited, and there was no 
opportunity for a sudden rise in fortune or in fame. 
Here, in the year iS.*o, he married a lady of _ 
moral worth, and one capable o( adorning any station 
she might be called to till. — Miss Abigail Powers. 

His elevation of character, his untiring industry, 
his legal acquirements, and his skill as an advocate, 
illy attracted attention ; and he was invited to 
enter into partnership under highly ad- 
circumstances, with an elder member of the bar in 
Buffalo. Just before removing to Buffalo, in 1839, 
he to < - sc it in the Assembly, of the 

State of New York, as a representative from Erie 
:y. Though he had never taken a very active 
part - -. his vote and his sympathies were with 

the W ■. The State was then Democratic, 

and he found himself in a helpless minority in the 
statute, still the testimony comes from all parties, 
that his courtesy, ability and integrity, won, to a very- 
unusual degu e the respect of his associal 

In the autumn of 183a, he was elected to a seat in 
the Unite - gress He entered that troubled 

irena in some of the most tumultuous hoi 
national history. The great conflict respecting the 
national bank and the removal of the de; - - 
the-. - - _ 

His term of: 5ed; and he returned to 

tofession, which he pursued with increasing rep- 
utation and s sss. Mtei a lapse of 
he again became a candidate for grcss; was re- 

elected, and took his seat in 1S57. His 
rience as a repres gav< him >:iength and 

confidence. The first term of service in C i ■- 

e but little more than an introduction. 
He^ -active duty. All his ener- 

■vere broug - upon the public good. Every 

meis'ire received his itnprc" 

M Fillmor. a man of wide repute, and 

his popularity filled the - i in the year 184] 

be was elected Comptroller o( the State. 



Mr. Fillmore had attained the age of forty->. 
years. His labors at the bar, in the Legislature, in 
,-ss and as Comptroller, had given him very con- 
siderable fame. The Whigs were casting about to 
find suitable candidates for President and Vice-Presi- 
dent at the approaching election. Far away, on the 
waters of the Rio Grande, there was a rough old 
soldier, who had fought one or two successful battles 
with the Mexicans, which had caused his name to be 
proclaimed in trumpet-tones all over the land. But 
it was necessary to associate with him on the same 
ticket some man of reputation as a statesman. 

Under the influence of these considerations, the 
names of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore became 
the rallying-cry of the Whigs, as their candidates for 
President and Vice-Peesident. The Whig ticket was 
- . illy triumphant. On the 4th of March, 
Gen. Taylor was inaugurated President, and Millard 
Fillmore Vice-President, of the U S :es. 

On the 9th of July, 1^50. President Taylor, but 
about one year and four months after his mat , 
tion, was suddenly taken sick and died. By tin 
stitution, Vice-President Fillmore thus became Presi- 
dent. He appointed a very able cabinet, of which 
the illustrious Daniel Webster was Secretary of State. 

Mr. Fillmore had very serious difficulties to contend 
with, since the opposition had a majority in both 
ses. He did everything in his power to com iliate 
the South; but the pro-slavery party in the South felt 
the inadequacy of all measuresof transient conciliation. 
The population of the free States was so npidl] 

g -. er that of the slave States that it was in- 
evitable that the power of the Government should 
soon pass into the hands of the free States. The 
famous compromise measures were adopted under Mr. 
Fillmore's adminstration, and the Japan Expedition 
sent out. On the 4th of March. 1 $5 5. Mr Fill- 
more, having served one term, retired. 

In 1S56. Mr. Fillmore was nominated for the Pres- 
idency by the " Know Nothing " party, but was beaten 
by Mr. Buchanan. After that Mr. Fillmore lived in 
retirement. During the terri I of civil war. 

he was mostly silent. Il _ - posed that 

- 53 mpathies were rather with those who were en- 
deavoring to overthrow our institutions. President 
Fillmore kept aloof from the conflict, without \ 
cordial words of cheer to the one party or the other. 
He was t • He lived to a ripe 

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fourteenth President of the 
' United States, was born in 
Hillsborough, N. H., N 
23, 1804. His father was a 
Revolutionary soldier, who, 
with his own strong arm, 
hewed out a home in the 
wilderness. He was a 
of inflexible integrity; of 
strong, though uncultivated 
mind, and an uncompromis- 
ing Democrat The mother of 
I iklin Pierce was all that a son 
! desire, -an intelligent, pru- 
dent, affectionate, Christian wom- 
an. Franklin was the sixth of eight children. 

Franklm was a very bright and handsome boy, gen- 
erous, warm-hearted and brave. He won alike the 
love of old and young. The hoys on the play ground 
loved him. His teachers loved him. The neighbors 
icx»ked upon him with pride and affection. He was 
by instinct a gentleman; always spe. iking kind words, 

doing kind deeds, with a peculiar unstudied tacl 
which taught him what was agreeable. Without de- 
veloping any precocity oi . or any unnatural 
devotion to books, he was 1 j'»«l scholar; in body, 
in mind, in affections, 1 finely-developed l*>y. 

When sixteen years of age, in the year 1820, he 
entered Bowdoin C Brunswick, Me He was 

one of the most popular young men in the college. 
1 fiuritj f his moral character, the unvarying 

courtesy of his demeanor, his rank as a scholar, and 



genial nature, rendered him a universal favorite 
There was something very peculiarly winning in his 
address, and it was evidently not in the slightest de- 
gree studied: it was the simple outgushing of his 
own magnanimous and loving nature. 

1 pon graduating, in the year iX^a, Franklin Pierce 
commenced the study of law in the office of Judge 
Woodbury, one of the most distinguished 1 • 
the State, and a man o( great private worth. Th« 
eminent social qualities of the young lawyer, his 
father's prominence as a public man, and the brilliant 
|x>litical career into which Judge Woodbury was en- 
tering, all tended to entice Mr. Pierce into the f.ici- 
nating yet perilous path of [x>litical life. With all 
the ardor of his nature he espoused the cause of Gen. 
Jukson for the Presidency. He commenced the 
practice of law in Hillsborough, and was soon elec ted 
to represent the town in the State Legislature. Here 
he served for four yeais. The last two years In 
c hosen speaker of the house by a very large vote. 

In 1833, at the age of twenty-nine, he was elec ted 
a meinbei.it Congress. Without taking an 
part in debates, he was faithful and laborious ind 
and ever rising in-tlie estimation of t 'nose with whom 
, assoc iatad. 

In 1837, being then but thirty-three 
he was elec ted to the Senate of the United States; 
takinghisseat just as Mr. \'.m l'.uieli COmmi 
his administration. IK wis the youngest member in 
the Senate. In the year 1834, he married Miss Jane 
Vppleton, a lady of rare beauty and accom- 
plishments, and one idmirably fitted to adi 
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three sons who were bom to them, all now sleep with 
their parents in the grave. 

In the year 1838, Mr. Pierce, with growing fame 
and increasing business as a lawyer, took up his 
residence in Concord, the capital of New Hampshire. 
President Polk, upon his accession to office, appointed 
Mr. Pierce attorney-general of the United States; but 
the offer was declined, in consequence of numerous 
professional engagements at home, and the precariuos 
state of Mrs. Pierce's health. He also, about the 
same time declined the nomination for governor by the 
Democratic party. The war with Mexico called Mr. 
Pierce in the army. Receiving the appointment of 
brigadier-general, he embarked, with a portion of his 
troops, at Newport, R. I., on the 27 th of May, 1S47. 
He took an important part in this war, proving him- 
self a brave and true soldier. 

When Gen. Pierce reached his home in his native 
State, he was received enthusiastically by the advo- 
cates of the Mexican war, and coldly by his oppo- 
nents. He resumed the practice of his profession, 
very frequently taking an active part in political ques- 
tions, giving his cordial support to the pro-slavery 
wing of the Democratic party. The compromise 
measures met cordially with his approval; and he 
(strenuously advocated the enforcement of the infa- 
mous fugitive-slave law, which so shocked the religious 
sensibilities of the North. He thus became distin- 
guished as a " Northern man with Southern principles.'' 
The strong partisans of slavery in the South conse- 
quently regarded him as a man whom they could 
safely trust in office to carry out their plans. 

On the 1 2th of June, 1852, the Democratic conven- 
tion met in Baltimore to nominate a candidate for the 
Presidency. For four days they continued in session, 
=nd in thirty-five ballotings no one had obtained a 
two-thirds vote. Not a vote thus far had been thrown 
for Gen. Pierce. Then the Virginia delegation 
brought forward his name. There were fourteen 
more ballotings, during which Gen. Pierce constantly 
gained strength, until, at the forty-ninth ballot, he 
received two hundred and eighty-two votes, and all 
other candidates eleven. Gen. Winfield Scott was 
the Whig candidate. Gen. Pierce was chosen with 
I unanimity. Only four States — Vermont, Mas- 
sachusetts, Kentucky and Tennessee — cast their 
electoral votes against him Gen. Franklin Pieice 
»;is therefore inaugurated President of the United 
States en the 4th of March, 1853. 



His administration proved one of the most stormy our 
country had ever experienced. The controversy be 
tween slavery and freedom was then approaching its 
culminating point. It became evident that there was 
an " irrepressible conflict " between them, and that 
this Nation could not long exist " half slave and half 
free." President Pierce, during the whole of his ad- 
ministration, did every thing he could to conciliate 
the South ; but it was all in vain. The conflict every 
year gTew more violent, and threats of the dissolution 
of the Union were borne to the North on every South- 
ern breeze. 

Such was the condition of affairs when President 
Pierce approached the close of his four-years' term 
of office. The North had become thoroughly alien- 
ated from him. The anti-slavery sentiment, goaded 
by gTeat outrages, had been rapidly increasing; all 
the intellectual ability and social worth of President 
Pierce were forgotten in deep reprehension of his ad- 
ministrative acts. The slaveholders of the South, also, 
unmindful of the fidelity with which he had advo- 
cated those measures of Government which they ap- 
proved, and perhaps, also, feeling that he had 
rendered himself so unpopular as no longer to be 
able acceptably to serve them, ungratefully dropped 
him, and nominated James Buchanan to succeed him. 

On the 4th of March, 1857, President Pierce re- 
tired to his home in Concord. Of three children, two 
had died, and his only surviving child lud been 
killed before his eyes by a railroad accident ; and his 
wife, one of the most estimable and accomplished of 
ladies, was rapidly sinking in consumption. The 
hour of dreadful gloom soon came, and he was left 
alone in the world, without wife or child. 

When the terrible Rebellion burst forth, which di- 
vided our country into two parties, and two only. Mr. 
Pierce remained steadfast in the principles which he 
had always cherished, and gave his sympathies to 
that pro-slavery party with which he had ever been 
allied. He declined to do anything, either by voice 
or pen, to strengthen the hand of the National Gov- 
ernment. He continued to reside in Concord until 
the time of his death, which occurred in October, 
1869. He was one of the most genial and social of 
men, an honored communicant of the Episcopal 
Church, and one of the kindest of neighbors. Gen- 
erous to a fault, he contributed liberally for the al- 
leviation of suffering and want, and many of his towns- 
people were often gladened by his material bounty 




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St.it> >, was born in a small 
frontier town, at the foot of the 
eastern ridge of the Allegha- 
nies, in Franklin Co., Penn.,on 
the ; \d of April, 1791. The place 
where the humble cabin of his 
father st^od was called Stony 
Putter. It was a wild and ro- 
mantic s|»t in a gorge of the moun- 
tains, with towering summits rising 
grandly all around. His father 
was a native of the north of Ireland; 
a poor man, who hail emigrated in 
783, with little property save his 
own strong arms. Five years afterwards he married 
Elizabeth Spear, the daughter of a respectable farmer, 
and, with his young bride, plunged into the wilder- 
staked his ' laim, realed Ills, log-hut, ope: 
clearing with his axe, and settled down there t<> per- 
form his obscure part in the drama of life. In this se- 
1 ludcd home, where James was 1mm, he remained 
for eight years, enjoying but (i I or intellectual 

advantage 1, When James was eight ) I e, his 

father removed to the vill Ige of Men erslmrg, where 
on was placed at school, and • ced a 

study in English, Latin and Greek. lli> 
pid, and at the age "i fourteen, he 
entered Dickinson College, at Carlisle. Here he de 
velo|ie<l remarkable talent, and took his stand among 
the first scholars in the institution. His application 
tc study was intense, and yet his native powei 



abled him to master the most abstruse subjects w 

facility. 

In the year 1.S09, he graduated with the highes 
honors of his class.. He was then eighteen years ol 
age; tall and graceful, vigorous in health, fond of 
athletic sjiort, an unerring sIkjI, and enlivened with 
an exuberant fli id spirits. He immediately 

commenced the study of law in the citj I I 1 • Ster, 
and was admitted to the bar in 1812, when he was 
but twenty- age. Verj rapidly he rose 

in his profession, and at once took undisputed stand 
with the ablest lawyers of the State. When hut 
twenty-six years ol age, unaided by counsel, he 5UC 
. essfully defended before the State Senate one of tin 
S of the State, who was tried upon articles ol 
impeachment. At the age of thirty it was generallj 
admitted that he stood at the head of the bar; am. 
there was no lawyer in the Slate who had a more lu- 
crative practii e. 

In iXjo, he reluctant!) consented t" run as I 
• indidate for ' ele< ted, and foi 

ten j ears he remained a member of the I owei 1 1 
During the v u at ons 1 : 1 mall) 

tried some important case. In 1831, he n 
altogethei from the toils ol his profession, havii 
quired an ample fori 

1 ,, : hi his elevation to the Presidi 

appointed Mr. Buchanan minister to Russia. 'I Ik 
duties of his mission he performed with ability,whicl 
give satisfaction to all parties. Upon his return, ii 
. he was elei led 10 a seat in the 

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Clay, Wright and Calhoun. Headvo meas- 

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sals against France, to enforce the payment of our 
claims against that country; and defended the 
course of the President in his unprecedented and 
wholesale removal from office of those who were 
not the supporters of his administration. Upon 
this question he was brought into direct collision 
with Henry Clay. He also, with voice and vote, ad- 
vocated expunging from the journal of the Senate 
the vote of censure against Gen. Jackson for remov- 
ing the deposits. Earnestly he opposed the aboli- 
tion of slavery in the District of Columbia, and 
urged the prohibition of the circulation of anti- 
slavery documents by the United States mails. 

As to petitions on the subject of slavery, he ad- 
vocated that they should be respectfully received; 
and that the reply should be returned, that Con- 
gress had no power to legislate upon the subject. 
"Congress," said he, "might as well undertake to 
interfere with slavery under a foreign government 
as in an}- of the States where it now exists." 

Upon Mr. Polk's accession to the Presidency, Mr. 
Buchanan became Secretary of State, and as such, 
took his share of the responsibility in the conduct 
of the Mexican War. Mr. Polk assumed that cross- 
ing the Nueces by the American troops into the 
disputed territory was not wrong, but for the Mex- 
icans to cross the Rio Grande into that territory 
was a declaration of war. No candid man can read 
with pleasure the account of the course our Gov- 
ernment pursued in that movement. 

Mr. Buchanan identified himself thoroughly with 
the part}- devoted to the perpetuation and extension 
of slavery, and brought all the energies of his mind 
to bear against the Wilmot Proviso. He gave his 
cordial approval to the compromise measures of 
1850, which included the fugitive slave law. Mr. 
Pierce, upon his election to the Presidency, hon- 
ored Mr. Buchanan with the mission to England. 

In the year 1856, a national Democratic conven- 
tion nominated Mr. Buchanan for the Presidency. 
The political conflict was one of the most severe 
in which our country has ever engaged. All the 
friends of slavery were on one side; all the advo- 
cates of its restriction and final abolition on the 
other. Mr. Fremont, the candidate of the enemies 
of slavery, received 114 electoral votes. Mr. Bu- 
chanan received 1 74, and was elected. The popular 
vote stood 1,340,618 for Fremont, 1,224,750 for 
Buchanan. On March 4, 1857, Mr. Buchanan was 
inaugurated. 

Mr. Buchanan was far advanced in life. Only 
four years were wanting to fill up his three-score 
years and ten. His own friends, those with whom 
lie had been allied in political principles and action 
for years, were seeking the destruction of the Gov- 
ernment, that they might rear upon the ruins of our 
free institutions a nation whose corner-stone should 



be human slavery. In this emergency, Mr. Bu- 
chanan was hopelessly bewildered. He could not, 
with his long-avowed principles, consistently op- 
pose the State-rights party in their assumptions. As 
President of the United States, bound by his oath 
faithfully to administer the laws, he could not, 
without perjury of the grossest kind, unite with 
those endeavoring to overthrow the Republic. He 
therefore did nothing. 

The opponents of Mr. Buchanan 's administration 
nominated Abraham Lincoln as their standard- 
bearer in the next Presidential canvass. The pro- 
slavery party declared that if he were elected and 
the control of the Government were thus taken from 
their hands they would secede from the Union, tak- 
ing with them as they retired the National Capi- 
tol at Washington and the lion's share of the ter- 
ritory of the United States. 

As the storm increased in violence, the slave- 
holders, claiming the right to secede, and Mr. Bu- 
chanan avowing that Congress had no power to 
prevent it, one of the most pitiable exhibitions of 
governmental imbecility was exhibited the world 
has ever seen. He declared that Congress had no 
power to enforce its laws in any State which had 
withdrawn, or which was attempting to withdraw, 
from the Union. This was not the doctrine of An- 
drew Jackson, when, with his hand upon his sword- 
hilt, he exclaimed. "The Union must and shall be 
preserved!" 

South Carolina seceded in December, 186(1, nearly 
three months before the inauguration of President 
Lincoln. Mr. Buchanan looked on in listless de- 
spair. The rebel flag was raised in Charleston; Ft. 
Sumter was besieged; our forts, navy-yards and 
arsenals were seized; our depots of military stores 
were plundered; and our custom-houses and post- 
offices were appropriated by the rebels. 

The energy of the rebels and the imbecility of 
our Executive were alike marvelous. The nation 
looked on in agony, waiting for the slow weeks to 
glide away and close the administration, so ter- 
rible in its weakness. At length the long-looked- 
for hour of deliverance came, when Abraham Lin- 
coln was to receive the scepter. 

The administration of President Buchanan was 
certainly the most calamitous our country has ex- 
perienced. His best friends cannot recall it with 
pleasure. And still more deplorable it is for his 
fame, that in that dreadful conflict which rolled its 
billows of flame and blood over our whole land, no 
word came from his lips to indicate his wish that 
our country's banner should triumph over the flag 
of the Rebellion. He died at his Wheatland re- 
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ft sixteenth President of the 

tes, was bom in 

.... Co., Ky., Feb. i-\ 

^gJ* 1809. About the year 1780, a 

..-r_r° man hy the name of Abraham 

Lincoln Lit Virginia with his 

c family and moved into the then 

wilds of Kentucky. Onlj two years 

after this emigration, still a ) 

1 man, while working one da] 

field, was stealthily appro iched by 
an Indian and shol dead His widow 
was left in extreme poverty with five 
little children, three boys and two 
girls. Thomas, the youngest of the 
boys, was four years of age at his 
father's death. This Thomas was 
the father of Abraham Lincoln, the 
President of the United Si 
whose name must henceforth forever lie enrolled 
with the most prominent in the annals of our world. 
t »f course no record has been kept of the life 
of one so lowly as Thomas Lincoln. He was an 
the |K>orest of the |>oor. His home was a wretched 
bin; his food the coarsest and the meanest. 
Education he had none; he could never either 
or write. As soon as he was able to do anything for 
himself, he was compelled to leave the cabin of his 
starving mother, and push "'it into the world, a friend- 
wandering boy, work He hired him- 
self out, and thus spent the whole of his youth 
fcborer in the fields of others. 

When twenty-eight ye e he built a 

cabin of his own, and married Nancy Hanks, the 
daughter of another family of poor Kentucky emi- 
ts, who had also come from Virginia, Their 
second child was Abraham Lincoln, the 
this sketch. The mother of Abraham was a noble- 
woman, gentle, loving, pensive, created to adorn 
a palace, doomed to toil and pine, and die in a hovel. 
"All that I am, or hope tc. be," exclaims the grate- 
ful son " I owe to my angel-mother. 

When he was eight years of age, his father sold his 



cabin and small farm, and moved to Indiana Whei- 
two years later his mother died. 
Abraham scon bee ame the sc libe of the unedui ated 

Community around him. He could not have had c 
better school than this to teach him to put thoughts 
into words. He also became an c der. The 

books he could obtain were few ; but these he 
and re-read until they were almost committr^ u 
memory. 

Vs the years rolled on, the lot of this lowly tan. >l v 
was the usual lot of humanity. There were joj 

. weddings and funerals. Abrahams sisu > 
Sarah, to whom he was tenderly altac bed. was ma I 
ried when a child of but fourteen years of age, ant 
soon died. The family was gradually scattered. M- 
Thomas Lincoln sold out his squatter's claim ! n 1S30 
and emigrated to Macon Co., III. 

\ iraham Lincoln was then twenty-one years of age. 
With vigorous hands he aided his father in firing 
another log-cabin. Abraham worked diligent!) al this 
until he saw the family comfortable, settled, and then 
small lot of enclosed prairie planted with com, when 
he announced to his father his intention to leave 
home, and into the world and seek hi 

tune. Little did he or his friends imagine how bill 
liant that fortune was to be. II w the vali 
education and was intense!) earnest to improve his 
mind to the utmost of his power He saw the ruin 
which ardent spirits were 1 ausing, and bee ame 
strictly temperate; refusing to allow a dropol 1 
eating liquor to pass his lips. And he had read it 
word, "Thou shall not take the name of the 
Lord th) God in v .1I1 ;" and a profane expression he 
was never heard to utter. Religion he revered. Hil 
morals were pure, and he was uncontaminated 
.ic e. 

Voung Abraham wc irked for a time as a hired la!>ore 
among the Farmers. Then I 

where- he was employed in I nihil- I | 

In this he took a herd of swine, floated them do* 

the Sangamon to the Illinois, and thence by the 
sissippi to New Orleans. What \ bam I.ii 

coin undertook, he performed so faithfully j> to giv. 
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ture his employers were so well pleased, that upon 
his return they placed a store and mill under his care. 

In 1832, at the outbreak of the Black Hawk war, he 
enlisted and was chosen captain of a company. He 
returned to Sangamon County, and although only 23 
years of age, was a candidate for the Legislature, but 
was defeated. He soon after received from Andrew 
[ackson the appointment of Postmaster of New Salem, 
His only post-office was his hat. All the letters he 
received he carried there ready to deliver to those 
he chanced to meet. He studied surveying, and soon 
made this his business. In 1834 he again became a 
candidate for the Legislature, and was elected Mr. 
Stuart, of Springfield, advised him to study law. He 
walked from New Salem to Springfield, borrowed of 
Mr. Stuart a load of books, carried them back and 
began his legal studies. When the Legislature as- 
sembled he trudged on foot with his pack on his back 
one hundred miles to Vandalia, then the capital. In 
1836 he was re-elected to the Legislature. Here it 
was he first met Stephen A. Douglas. In 1S39 he re- 
moved to Springfield and began the practice of law. 
His success with the jury was so great that he was 
soon engaged in almost every noted case in the circuit. 

In 1854 the great discussion began between Mr. 
Lincoln and Mr. Douglas, on the slavery question. 
In the organization of the Republican party in Illinois, 
in 1856, he took an active part, and at once became 
one of the leaders in that party. Mr. Lincoln's 
speeches in opposition to Senator Douglas in the con- 
test in 1858 for a seat in the Senate, form a most 
notable part of his history. The issue was on the 
slavery question, and he took the broad ground of 
he Declaration of Independence, that all men are 
created equal. Mr. Lincoln was defeated in this con- 
test, but won a far higher prize. 

The great Republican Convention met at Chicago 
on the 16th of June, i860. The delegates and 
strangers who crowded the city amounted to twenty- 
live thousand. An immense building called "The 
Wigwam," was reared to accommodate the Conven- 
tion. There were eleven candidates for whom votes 
were thrown. William H. Seward, a man whose fame 
as a statesman had long filled the land, was the most 
nrominent. It was generally supposed he would be 
the nominee. Abraham Lincoln, however, received 
the nomination on the third ballot. Little did he then 
dream of the weary years of toil and care, and the 
bloody death, to which that nomination doomed him: 
xnd aslittledid he dream that he was to render services 
to his country, which would fix upon him the eyes of 
(he whole civilized world, and which would give him 
.1 place in the affections of his countrymen, second 
i.uly, if second, to that of Washington. 

Klei tion day came and Mr. Lincoln received 1S0 
electoral votes out of 203 cast, and was, therefore, 
1 .institutionally elected President of the United States. 
The tirade of abuse that was poured upon this good 



and merciful man, especially by the slaveholders, was 
greater than upon any other man ever elected to this 
high position. In February, 1861, Mr. Lincoln started 
for Washington, stopping in all the large cities on hi . 
way making speeches. The whole journey w.t. trough 
with much danger. Many of the Southern State-shad 
already seceded, and several attempts at assassination 
were afterwards brought to light. A gang in Balti- 
more had arranged, upon his arrival to" get up a row," 
and in the confusion to make sure of his death with 
revolvers and hand-grenades. A detective unravelled 
the plot. A secret and special train was p-ovided to 
take him from HarrisL-urg, through Baltimore, at an 
unexpected hour of the night. The train s'nrted at 
half-past ten ; and to prevent any possible communi- 
cation on the part ol the Secessionists with their Con- 
federate gang in Baltimore, as soon as the train hau 
started the telegraph-wires were cut. Mr. Lincoln 
reached Washington in safety and was inaugurated, 
although great anxiety was felt by all loyal people 

In the selection of his cabinet Mr. Lincoln gave 
to Mr Seward the Department of State, and to other 
prominent opponents before the convention he gave 
important positions. 

During no other administration have the duties 
devolving upon the President been so manifold, and 
the responsibilities so great, as those which fell to 
the lot of President Lincoln. Knowing this, and 
feeling his own weakness and inability to meet, and in 
his own strength to cope with, the difficulties, he 
learned early to seek Divine wisdom and guidance in 
determining his plans, and Divine comfort in all his 
trials, bo f h personal and national. Contrary to his 
own estimate of himself, Mr. Lincoln was one ot the 
most courageous of men. He went directly into the 
rebel capital just as the retreating foe was leaving, 
with no guard but a few sailors. From the time he- 
had left Springfield, in i86r, however, plans had been 
made for his assassination, and he at la>t fell a victim 
to one of them. April 14, 1865, he, with Cen. Grant, 
was urgently invited to attend Fords' Theater. It 
was announced that they would be present. Cen. 
Grant, however, left the city. President Lincoln, feel- 
ing, wiili his characteristic kindliness of heart, that 
it would be a disappointment if he should fail them, 
very reluctantly consented to go. While listening to 
the play an actor by the name of John Wilkes Booth 
entered the box where the President and family were 
seated, and fired a bullet into his brains. He died the 
next morning at seven o'clock. 

Never before, in the history of the world was a nation 
plunged into such deep grief by the death of its ruler. 
Strong men met in the streets and wept in speechless 
anguish. It is not too much to say that a nation was 
in tears. His was a life which will fitly become a 
model. His name as the savior of his country will 
live with that of Washington's, iis father; hisc <-;ntry- 
mer. being unable to decide which is the neater. 








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i\i NDREW JOHNSON, seven- 
« A teenth President of the United 
^2? States. The early life of 
km Andrew Johnson contains but 
tJlf* the record of poverty, destitu- 
*'' tion and friendlcssness. He 
..5..., "7 was born December 29, 1808, 
in Raleigh, N. C. His parents, 
belonging to the class of the 
"poor whites "of the South, were 
in such circumstances, that they 
could not c ;n!*r :/er. the slight- 
est advantages of education upon 
their child. When Andrew was five 
years of age, his father accidentally 
lost nis life while herorically endeavoring to save a 
friend from drowning. ''nril ten years of age, Andrew 
,ed boy abour the streets, supj>orted by the 
labor of his mother, who obtained her living with 
her own hands. 

He then, having never attended a school one day, 
and being unable either to read or write, was ap- 
prenticed to 1 tailor in his native town. A gentleman 
I . the habit of going to the tailor's shop occasion- 

ally, and reading to the Ijovs at work there. He often 
read from 1 lished British states- 

men. Andrew, who was endowed with a mind of more 
than ordinary native ability, became much interested 
in these speeches ; his ambition was roused, and he 
was inspired with a strong desire to learn to read. 

He iplied himself to the alphabet, and 

with the a ■■( some of his fellow-workmen, 

learned In He then called u|*jn the gentle- 

man to boi look of The owner, 



pleased with his zeal, not only gare him the boots 
but assisted him in learning to combine the letters 
into words. Under such difficulties he pressed 1. 
ward laboriously, spending usually ten or twelve houi> 
at work in the shop, and then robbing himself of rest 
and recreation to devote such time as he could to 
reading. 

He went to Tennessee in 1826, and located a - 
Greenville, where he married a young lady who pus 
sessed some education. Under her instructions hr 
learned to write and cipher. He became prominent 
in the village debating society, and a favorite with 
the students of ( Ireenville College. In 1828, he or- 
ganized a working man's party, which elected him 
alderman, anil in 1830 elected him mayor, which 
position he held three years. 

He now began to take a lively interest in political 
affairs; identifying himself with the working-cla>scs, 
to which he belonged. In 1835, he was elected a 
member of the House of Representatives of Tennes- 
see. He was then just twenty-seven years o' 
He became a very active member of the legislature 
gave his adhesion to the Democratic party, and in 
1840 "stumped the State," advocating Martin A .mi 

Buren's claims to the President y,in opposition tothos^ 
of Gen. 1 [arrison. In this campaign he acquired much 

readiness as a speakeT, and extended and increased 
his reputation. 

In 1S.11, he wis elected State Senator; in 1S43.be 
was elected a member of Congress, and bj succesim 



elections, held that important [»st for ten u irs In 
1853, he was elected Governor of Tennessee, and' 

was re-elected in 1855. In all these responsible posi 
lions, he discharged his duties with distinguished abi". 



ANDREW JOHNSON. 



ity, and proved himself the warm friend of the work- 
ing classes. In 1857, Mr. Johnson was elected 
United States Senator. 

Years before, in 1S45, he had wannly advocated 
the annexation of Texas, stating however, as his 
reason, that he thought this annexation would prob- 
ably prove " to be the gateway out of which the sable 
50ns of Africa are to pass from bondage to freedom, 
and become merged in a population congenial to 
:hemselves. " In 1S50, he also supported the com- 
promise measures, the two essential features of which 
»vere, that the white people of the Territories should 
oe permitted to decide for themselves whether they 
would enslave the colored people or net, and that 
the *"ree States of the North should return to the 
Soiuh persons who attempted to escape from slavery. 

Mr. Johnson was never ashamed of his lowly origin: 
on the contrary, he often took pride in avowing that 
he owed his distinction to his own exertions. "Sir," 
said he on the floor of the Senate. " I do not forget 
that I am a mechanic ; neither do I forget that Adam 
was a tailor and sewed fig-leaves, and that our Sav- 
ior was the son of a carpenter." 

In the Charleston-Baltimore convention of 1800, ne 
was the choice of the Tennessee Democrats for the 
Presidency. In 1861, when the purpose of the South- 
ern Democracy became apparent, he took a decided 
stand in favor of the Union, and held that " slavery 
must be held subordinate to the Union at whatever 
cost." He returned to Tennessee, and repeatedly 
imperiled his own life to protect the Unionists of 
Tennesee. Tennessee having seceded from the 
Union, President Lincoln, on March 4th, r862, ap- 
pointed him Military Governor of the State, and he 
established the most stringent military rule. His 
numerous proclamations attracted wide attention. In 

1864, he was elected Vice-President of the United 
States, and upon the death of Mr. Lincoln, April 15, 

1865, became President. In a speech two days later 
he said, " The American people must be taught, if 
they do not already feel, that treason is a crime and 
must be nunished ; that the Government will not 
always beat with its enemies; that it is strong not 
only to protect, but to punish. * * The people 
must understand that it (treason) is the blackest of 
crimes, and will surely be punished." Yet his whole 
administration, the history of which is so well known, 
was in utter inconsistency with, and the most violent 



opposition to. the principles laid down in that speech. 

In his loose policy of reconstruction and general 
amnesty, he was opposed by Congress; and he char- 
acterized Congress as a new rebellion, and lawlessly 
defied it, in everything possible, to the utmost. In 
the beginning of 1868, on account of "high crimes 
and misdemeanors," the principal of which was the 
removal of Secretary Stanton, in violation of the Ten- 
ure of Office Act, articles of impeachment were pre- 
ferred against him, and the trial began March 23. 

It was very tedious, continuing for nearly three 
months. A test article of the impeachment was at 
length submitted to the court for its action. It was 
certain that as the court voted upon that article so 
would it vote upon all. Thirty-four voices pronounced 
the President guilty. As a two-thirds vote was neces- 
sary to his condemnation, he was pronounced ac- 
quitted, notwithstanding the great majority against 
him. The change of one vote from the twt guilty 
side would have sustained the impeachment. 

The President, for the remainder of his term, was 
but little regarded. He continued, though impotent!; - , 
his conflict with Congress. His own party did not 
think it expedient to renominate him for the Presi- 
dency. The Nation rallied, with enthusiasm unpar- 
alleled since the days of Washington, around the name 
of Gen. Grant. Andrew Johnson was forgotten 
The bullet of the assassin introduced him to the 
President's chair. Notwithstanding this, never was 
there presented to a man a better opportunity to im- 
mortalize his name, and to win the gratitude of a 
nation. He failed utterly. He retired to his home 
in Greenville, Tenn., taking no very active part in 
politics until 1875. On Jan. 26, after an exciting 
struggle, he was chosen by the Legislature of Ten- 
nessee, United States Senator in the forty-fourth Con- 
gress, and took his seat in that body, at the special 
session convened by President Grant, on the 5th of 
March. On the 27th of July, 1875, the ex-President 
made a visit to his daughter's home, near Carter 
Station, Tenn. When he started on his journey, he was 
apparently in his usual vigorous health out on reach- 
ing the residence of his child the following day, was 
stricken with paralysis, rendering him unconscious. 
He rallied occasionally, but finally passed away at 
2 a.m., July 31, aged sixty-seven years. His fun- 
eral was attended at Geenville, on the 3d of August, 
with every demonstration of resi« 







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I \ SSES 5. GRANT, the 
eighteenth President of the 
'United States, was bom on 
the 19th "i April, 1823, of 
Christian parents, in .1 humble 
W 1 home, at Point Pleasant, on the 
janks of the Ohio. Shortly alter 
his father moved to George- 
town, Brown Co., O. In this re- 
mote frontier hamlet, Ulysses 
received a common-school edu- 
cation. At the age of seven- 
teen, in the year 1839, he entered 
the Military Academy at West 
int. I fere he was regarded as a 
solid, sensible young man of fair abilities, and of 
sturdy, honest character. He took respectable rank 
as a scholar. In June, 1S43, he graduated, about the 
middle in his class, and was sent as lieutenant of in- 
fantry to one of the distant military posts in the Mis- 
souri Territory. Two years he past in these dreary 
solitudes, watching the vagabond and exasperating 
Indians. 

The war with Mexico came. Lieut. (Irani wis 
sent with his regiment to Corpus Christi. His first 

battle was at P There was no chance here 

fbi the exhibition of either skill or heroism, ni 

1 1 cle la Palma, his second battle. At the battle 
dI Monterey, his third engagement, it is said that 
he ]>crformed a signal service of daring and skillful 
horsemanship. His brigade had exhausted its am- 
munition. A tl must be sent fi >r more, along 

te exposed to the bullets of the foe. Lieut. 
(".rant, adopting an expedient learned of the Italians, 
grasped the mane >t his horse, ind hanging upon one 
side of the aniroal ran the gauntlet in entire 



1 'rom Monterey he was sent, with the fourth infantry, 

to aid Gen. Scott, at the siege of Vera Cruz. In 

preparation for the march to the city of Mexico, he 

ppointed quartermaster of his regiment. At the 

battle ol M .lino del Key, he was promoted to a 

first lieutenancy, and was brevetted captain at Cha- 
pultepec 

At the close of the Mexican War, Capt. Grant re- 
turned with his regiment to New York, and was again 
sent to one of the military posts on the frontier. The 
discovery of gold in California causing an immense 
tide of emigration to flow to the Pacific shores, (apt. 
Grant was sent with a battalion to Fort Dallas, in 
Oregon, for the protection of the interests of the im- 
migrants. Life was wearisome in those wilds, (apt. 
Grant resigned his commission and returned to the 
States; and having married, entered upon the cultiva- 
tion of a small farm near St. Ixmis, Mo. He had but 
little skill as a fanner. Finding his toil not re- 
munerative, he turned to mercantile life, entering into 
the leather business, with a younger brother, at Ga- 
lena, III. This was in the year [860. As the tidings 
of the rebels firing on Fort Sumpter reached the ears 
of Capt. Grant in his counting-room, lie said, — 
"Uncle Sam has educated me for the army: though 
I have served him through one war, I do not fc.-lthat 

Ihavi id the debt I am still ready to discharge 

my obi f shall therefore buckle on my tword 

and see Uncle Sam through this 

He went into the streets, raised a company of vol- 
unteers, and led them as their captain to Springfield, 
the capital of the State, where their services were 
offered to Gov. Van s. The < tovernor, impressi 
the zeal and straightforward cxe< utiveabilit] 
Grant, gave him a disk in his office, to assist in the. 
volunteer organization that was being formed in the 

State in behalf of the Government, On the \y^ o( 



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6, 1 86 j, Capt. Grant received a commissk 
Colonel of the Twenty-first Regiment of Illinois Vol- 
unteers. His merits as a West Point graduate, who 
had served for 15 years in the regular army, were such 
that he was soon promoted to the rank of Brigadier- 
•General 3nd was placed in command at Cairo. The 
rebels raised their banner at Paducah, near the mouth 
of the Tennessee River. Scarcely had its folds ap- 

.d in the breeze ere Gen. Grant was there. The 
rebels fled. Their banner fell, and the star and 
stripes were unfurled in its stead." 

He entered the service with great determination 
and immediately began active duty. This was the be- 
ginning, and until the surrender of Lee at Richmond 
e was ever pushing the enemy with g r and 

effectiveness. At Belmont, a few days later. K 
prised and routed the rebels, then at Fort Henry 
won another victory. Then came the brilliant fight 
at Fort Ponelson. The nation was electrified by the 

rv. a:id the brave leader of the boys in blue was 
immediately made a Major-General, and the military 
listrict of Tennessee was assigned to him. 

Like all great captains, Gen. Grant knew well how- 
to secure the results of victory. He immediately 
pushed on to the enemies' lines. Then came the 
terrible battles of Kttsbmg Landi \ :dthe 

siege 1 f Vicksborgi where Gen. Pemberton made an 
unconditional surrender of the city with over thirty 
thousand men and one-hundred and seventy-two can- 
non. The fall of Yicksburg was by far the most 
severe blow which the rebels had thus far encountered, 
and opened up the Mississippi fa->m Cairo to the Gulf. 
Gen. Gi next ordered to co-operate with 

Gen. Banks in a movement upon Tt i pro- 

ceeded to New Orleans, where he was thrown from 
his horse, and received severe injuries, from which he 
.rid up for months. He then rushed to the aid 
,<f Gens. Rosecrans and Thomas at Chattanoog.. 

derful ser.. - meas- 

ures put the Union Army in I ndition. Then 

*ed the bloody battles at Ch 
•.tain and Missionary R:dge. in which the rebels 
were routed with g n for him un- 

bounded praise in the North. On the 4th of Febru- 
ary, 1864, Congress revived the grade of lieutenant- 
gc eral, and the ra:.k ■ red on Gen. Grant. 

He repaired to Was 2 - redentials 

. nter upon th** duties of his new office 



Gen. Grant decided as soon as he took charge ot 
the army to concentrate the widely -dispersed National 
troops for an attack upon Richmond, the nominal 
|] of the Rebellion, and endeavor there to de- 
stroy the rebel armies which would be promptly as- 
sembled from all quurte:s for its defence. The whole 
continent seemed to tremble under the tramp of these 
majestic armies, rushing to the decisive battle field. 
Steamers were crowded with troops. Railway trains 
were burdened with clos: ;d thousands. His 

plans were comprehensive and involved a series of 
campaigns, which were executed with remarkable en- 
•.nd ability, and were consummated at the sur- 
render of Lee, April 9, 1S65. 

The war was ended. The L'nion was saved. The 
almost unanimous voice of the Nation declared Gen. 
Grant to be the most prominent instrument in its sal- 
vation. The eminent services he had thus rendered 
the country brought him conspicuously forward as the 
Republican candidate for the Presidential chair. 

A: the Republican Convention held at Chicago. 

May 31, 1S6S, he was unanimously nominated for the 

, and at the autumn election received a 

majority of the popular vote, and 2 14 out of .- . 

electoral votes. 

The National Convention of the Republican | 
Philadelphia on the 5 th of Tunc, 1 
1 Gen. Grant in nomination for a second term 
by a unanimous vote. The selection was emphati- 
indorsed by the people five months later, 29; 
electoral votes being cast for him. 

Soon after the - second term, Gen. Grant 

. i upon his famous trip around the world. He 
visited almost every country of the civilized world, 
and was everywhere received with such ovations 
and demonstrations of respect and honor, p: 
1 1 as public and official, as were never '. 
. u of the United States. 
He was the most prominent candidate before the 
\..:ional Convention in iSSo for a re- 
nomination for President. He went to New York 
embarked in the brokerage busin. 1 the firm 

nameof Grant & Ward. The latter proved a villain, 
wrecked Grant's fortune, anci • . ::t to 

the penitentiary. The General - kicked with 
. r in the throat, but suffered in his stoic-like 
manner, never complaining. He was re-instated as 
: ral of the Army and retired _ - The 

a soon finished its deadly 

went in mourning over the death of 
the illustrious General. 



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RUTHERFORD B. HAYES. 






I 1 HERFORD B. HAYES, 
the nineteenth President of 

the United States, was born in 
I ><_!. i ware, <_>., ( tat. 4, 1S22, al- 
most three months after the 
death of his father, Rutherford 
Haves. His ancestry on both 
the paternal and maternal sides, 
was of the most honorable char- 
acter. It can be traced, it is said, 
as far back as 1 280, when Hayes and 
Rutherford were two Scottish chief- 
tains, fighting side by side with 
Baliol, William Wallace and Robert 
Bruce. Both families belonged to the 
nobility, owned extensive estates, 
' and had a large following. Misfor- 
cne overtaking the family, George Hayes left Scot- 
and in 16S0, and settled in Windsor, ('nun His son 
George wai lnirn in Windsor, and remained there 
during his life. I >aniel II lyes, BOn of the latter, mar- 
ried Sarah Lee, and lived from the time of his mar- 
riage until his death in Simsbury, Conn. Ezektel, 
son of Daniel, was liorn in 1724, and was a manufac- 
turer of icy the. it Bradford, Conn. Rutherford II 
son of F.z.ekiel ai/d grandfather of President I! 
bom in New Haven, in August, 1756. II rrner, 

blacksmith and tavern-kee|>er. He emigrated to 
Vermont at an unknown date, settling in Kraltle!><>ro, 
where he established a hotel. Here his son Ruth- 
erford Haves the fltther of President Hayes, was 



born. He was married, in September, 1813, to Sophia 
Birchard, of Wilmington, Vt., whose ancestors emi- 

d thither from Connecticut, they having been 
among the wealthiest and best famlies of Norwich. 
Her ancestry on the male side are traced back to 
1635, to John Birchard, one of the principal founders 
.it Norwich. I loth of her grandfathers were soldiers 
in the Revolutionary War. 

The father of President Hayes was an industrious 

1 and opened-hearted man. He was of a me 
chanical turn, and could mend a plow, knit a stoi k- 
ing, or do almost anything else that he choose to 
undertake. He was a member of the Church, active 
in all the benevolent enterprises of the town, and con- 
ducted his business on Christian principles. After 

lose of the war of 1 Si 2, for reasons inexplicable 
to his neighbors, he resolved to emigrate to Ohio. 

The journey from Vermont to Ohio in that day 
when there were no canals, steamers, noi railways 
was a very serious affair. A tour of inspection w.i^ 
firsl made, occupying four months. Mr. Hayts deter 
mined to move to Delaware, where the family arrived 
in 1 S 1 7 . He died July 22, [822, a victim of malarial 

. less than three months before the birth of the 
son, of whom we now write. Mrs. Hayes, in her sore be- 
reavement, found the support she so much needed in 
her brother Sardis, who had been a member of the 
household from the day of its departure from Vei 
mont, and in an orphan girl whom she had adopted 
some time before as an act of charity. 

Mrs. Hayes at this period was vcr\ weak, and the 



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subject of this sketch was so feeble at birth that he 
was not expected to live beyond a month or two at 
most. As the months went by he grew weaker and 
weaker, so that the neighbors were in the habit of in- 
quiring from time to time " if Mrs. Hayes' baby died 
iast night.'' On one occasion a neighbor, who was on 
Tamiliar terms with the family, after alluding to the 
boy's big head, and the mother's assiduous care of 
him, said in a bantering way, " That's right! Stick to 
him. Vou have got him along so far, and I shouldn't 
wonder if he would really come to something yet." 

" Vou reed not laugh," said Mrs. Hayes. " Vou 
wait and see. Vou can't tell but I shall make him 
President of the United States yet." The boy lived, 
in spite of the universal predictions of his speedy 
death; and when, in 1S25, his older brother was 
drowned, he became, if possible, still dearer to his 
mother. 

The boy was seven years old before he went to 
school. His education, however, was not neglected. 
He probably learned as much from his mother and 
sister as he would have done at school. His sports 
were almost wholly within doors, his playmates being 
his sister and her associates. These circumstances 
tended, no doubt, to foster that gentleness of dispo- 
sition, and that delicate consideration for the feelings 
of others, which are marked traits of his character. 

His uncle Sardis Birchard took the deepest interest 
kn his education ; and as the boy's health had im- 
proved, and he was making good progress in his 
studies, he proposed to send him to college. His pre- 
paration commenced with a tutor at home; but he 
was afterwards sent for one year to a professor in the 
Weslevan University, in Middletown, Conn. He en- 
tered Kenyon College in 1838, at the age of sixteen, 
and was graduated at the head of his class in 1S42. 

Immediately after his graduation he began the 
study of law in the office of Thomas Sparrow, Esq., 
in Columbus. Finding his opportunities for study in 
Columbus somewhat limited, he determined to enter 
the Law School at Cambridge, Mass., where he re- 
mained two years. 

In 1845, after graduating at the Law School, he was 
admitted" to the bar at Marietta, Ohio, and shortly 
afterward went into practice as an attorney-at-law 
with Ralph P. Buckland, of Fremont. Here he re- 
mained three years, acquiring but a limited practice, 
and apparently unambitious of distinction in his pro- 
fession. 

^ji 1 S49 he moved to Cincinnati, where his ambi- 
tion found a new stimulus. For several years, how- 
ever, his progress was slow. Two events, occurring at 
this period, had a powerful influence tqon his subse- 
quent 'ife. One of these was his marrage with Miss 
Lucy Wire Webb, daughter of Dr. James Webb, of 
Chilicothe; the othev was his introduction to the Cin- 
cinnati Literary Club, a body embracing among its 
members such men asOiief Justice Salmon fi Cha se, 



Gen. John Pope, Gov. Edward F. Noyes, and many 
others hardly less distinguished in after life. The 
marriage was a fortunate one in ever)- respect, as 
even body knows. Not one of all the wives of our 
Presidents was more universally admired, reverenced 
and beloved than was Mrs. Hayes, and no one did 
more than she to reflect honor upon American woman- 
hood. The Literary Cluu brought Mr. Hayes into 
constant association with young men of high char- 
acter and noble aims, and lured him to display thf 
qualities so long hidden by his bashfulness and 
modesty. 

In 1S56 he was nominated to the office of Judge of 
the Court of Common Pleas ; but he declined to ac. 
cept the nomination. Two years later, the office oj 
city solicitor becoming vacant, the City Council 
elected him for the unexpired term. 

In 1S61, when the Rebellion broke out, he was at 
tne zenith of his professional li5.. His rank at the 
bar was among the the first. But the news of the 
attack on Fort Sumpter found him eager to take 10 
arms for the defense of his country. 

His military record was bright and illustrious. In 
October, 1S61, he was made Lieutenant-Colonel, and 
in August, 1862, promoted Colonel of the 79th Ohio 
regiment, but he refused to leave his old comrades 
and go among strangers. Subsequently, however, h* 
was made Colonel of his old regiment. At the battle 
of South Mountain he received a wound, and while 
faint and bleeding displayed courage and fortitude 
that won admiration from all. 

Col. Hayes was detached from his regiment, after 
his recovery, to act as Brigadier-General, and placed 
in command of the celebrated Kanawha division, 
and for gallant and meritorious services in the battles 
of Winchester, Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek, he was 
promoted Brigadier-General. He was also brevetted 
Maj.ir-General, "for gallant and distinguished services 
during the campaigns of 1S64, in West Virginia." In 
the course of his arduous services, four horses were 
shot from under him, and he was wounded four times 

In tS64, Gen. Hayes was elected to Congress, from 
the Second Ohio District, which had long been I >ein- 
ocratic. He was not present during the campaign, 
and after his election was importuned to resign his 
commission in the army ; but he finally declared. " I 
shall never come to Washington until I can come by 
the way of Richmond." He was re-elected in 1S66. 

In 1867, Gen Hayes was elected Governor of Ohio, 
over Hon. Allen G. Thurman, a populai Democrat. 
In 1869 was re-elected over George H. Pendleton. 
He was elected Governor for the third term in 1875. 

In 1876 he was the standard bearer of the Repub- 
lican Party in the Presidential contest, and after a 
hard long contest was chosen President, and was in 

_ -;ted Monday, March 5, 1875. He served his 
full term, not, however, with satisfaction to his party, 
but his administration was an average or>.~ 



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LUES A. GARFIELD, twen- 
tieth President of the United 
States, w.is l>orii V 
1831, in the woods of Orange, 
.11 I lis par- 
ents were Abram ami Eliza 
C (Ballou) Garfield, both of New 
;land ancestry and from fami- 
lies well known in the c.irly his- 
v lory of th.it section of our coun- 
try, l>ui had moved to the Western 
Reserve, in < >hio, early in its settle- 
ment. 

The house in which James A. was 
born was not unlike the houses of 
poor Ohio farmers of that day. It 
about 20x30 feet, built of logs, with the spaces be- 
iWeen the logs filled with clay. His father was 1 
:iard working farmer, and he soon had his fields 
d, an orchard planted, and a log barn built. 
("he household comprised the father ami mother and 
their four children — Mehetabel, Thomas, Mary and 
"ames. In M the father, from a cold con- 

tracted in helping to put out a forest fire, died. V 
this time James was about eighteen months old, and 
rhomas about ten years old. No one, perhaps, 
rell how much James -v. is indeLted to his brothers 
nil .mil self-sacrifice during the tw< 

ceeding his father's death, but undoubtedly 
much. He now lives in Michigan, and the two sis- 
ilis live in Solon, ( ) , near their birthpi 

The early educational advantages young Garfield 
enjoyed were very limited, yet he made the most of 
them. He labored at farm work for others, did car- 
penter work, chopped wood, or did anything that 
would bring in a few dollars to aid his widowed 
mother in he' ■tpigglei to keep the little family to- 



gether. Nor n \a Gen. Garfield ever asham dof his 
origin, and he never forgot the friends of his strug- 
gling childhood, youth and manhood, 1 either did the) 
ever forget him. When in the highest seats of honor 
the humblest friend of his boyhood was as kindly 
greeted as ever. The poorest laliorer was sure 
sympathy of one who had known all the bitterness 
of want and the sweetness of bread earned by the 
sweat of the brow. He was ever the simple, plain, 
modest gentleman. 

The highest ambition of young Garfield until hi 

was about sixteen \ears old was to be a captain of 
a vessel on Lake Erie, He was anxious to go aboard 
a vessel, which his mother opposed. She 

finally consented to his going to Cleveland, with th • 
understanding, however, that lie should try to obtaii 
some other kind of employment. He walked all the 
way to Cleveland. This was his first visit to the city 
\i 1 making many applications for work, and Irving 

to get aboard a lake vessel, aid not meeting with 

1 as a driver for hi 1 KtttOS 

I.eti her, on the ( >hio & Pennsylvania Canal. He re- 
mained at this work but a short time when he wen 
home, and attended th I 1 for 

about three years, when he entered Hiram and the 
Eclectic Institute, teaching a few terms of school in 
the meantime, and doing other work. This school 
was started by the Disciples of Christ in 1850, of 
which church he was then a member. He became 
janitor and bell-ringer in order to help pay his wa\ 
He then became both teacher and pupil. He soon 
" exhausted Hiram " ; hence, in the 

fall of [854, heentered Williams College, from whi !■ 
he graduated in 1 856, hesl ho .- 

1 1 ids let 11 1 1 ed '■> Hiram 

College as its President \ led. he e 

united with the Christian or Diciples Church at 
Hit. 1111. and was ever utter a devue.l, /e ilous mem- 

Ipil and places where 

he happened to be. Dr. Noah I' sident of 

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" President Garfield was more than a man of 
strong moral and religious convictions. His whole 
history, from boyhood to the last, shows that duty to 
man and to God, and devotion to Christ and life and 
faith and spiritual commission were controlling springs 
of his being, and to a more than usual degree. In 
my judgment there is no more interesting feature of 
his character than his loyal allegiance to the body of 
Christians in which he was trained, and the fervent 
sympathy which he ever showed in their Christian 
communion. Not many of the few 'wise and mighty 
and noble who are called ' show a similar loyalty to 
the less stately and cultured Christian communions 
in which they have been reared. Too often it is true 
that as they step upward in social and political sig- 
nificance they step upward from one degree to 
another in some of the many types of fashionable 
Christianity. President Garfield adhered to the 
church of his mother, the church in which he was 
trained, and in which he served as a pillar and an 
evangelist, and yet with the largest and most unsec- 
tarian charity for all 'who loveour Lord in sincerity.'" 

Mr. Garfield was united in marriage with Miss 
Lucretia Rudolph, Nov. 1 1, 1858, who proved herself 
worthy as the wife of one whom all the world loved and 
mourned. To them were born seven children, five of 
whom are still living, four boys and one girl. 

Mr. Garfield made his first political speeches in 1856, 
in Hiram and the neighboring villages, and three 
years later he began to speak at county mass-meet- 
ings, and became the favorite speaker wherever he 
was. During this year he was elected to the Ohio 
Senate. He also began to study law at Cleveland, 
and in 1861 was admitted to the bar. The great 
Rebellion broke out in the early part of this year, 
and Mr. Garfield at once resolved to fight as he had 
talked, and enlisted to defend the old flag. He re- 
ceived his commission as Lieut. -Colonel of the Forty- 
second Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Aug. 
14, 1861. He was immediately put into active ser- 
vice, and before he had ever seen a gun fired in action, 
was placed in command of four regiments of infantry 
and eight companies of cavalry, charged with the 
work of driving out of his native State the officer 
•Humphrey Marshall) reputed to be the ablest of 
those, not educated to war whom Kentucky had given 
to the Rebellion. This work was bravely and speed- 
ily accomplished, although against great odds. Pres- 
ident Lincoln, on his success commissioned him 
Brigadier-General, Jan. 10, 1862; and as "he had 
been the youngest man in the Ohio Senate two years 
before, so now he was the youngest General in the 
army." He was with Gen. Buell's army at Shiloh, 
in its operations around Corinth and its march through 
Alabama. He was then detailed as a member of the 
General Court-Martial for the trial of Gen. Fitz-John 
Porter. He was then ordered to report to Gen. Rose- 
crans, and was assigned to the "Chief of Staff." 

The military history of Gen. Garfield closed with 



his brilliant services at Chickamauga, where he wort 
the stars of the Major-General. 

Without an effort on his part Ge» Garfield was 
elected to Congress in the fall of 1862 from the 
Nineteenth District of Ohio. This section of Ohio 
had been represented in Congiess for sixty years 
mainly by two men — Elisha Whittlesey and Joshvu. 
R. Giddings. It was not without a struggle that he 
resigned his place in the army. At the time he en- 
tered Congress he was the youngest member in that 
body. There he remained by successive re- 
elections until he was elected President in 1880. 
Of his labors in Congress Senator Hoar says : " Since 
the year 1864 you cannot think of a question whici, 
has been debated in Congress, or discussed before a 
tribunel of the American people, in regard to whict 
you will not find, if you wish instruction, the argu- 
ment on one side stated, in almost every instance 
better than by anybody else, in some speech made in 
the House of Representatives or on the hustings by 
Mr. Garfield." 

Upon Jan. 14, 1880, Gen. Garfield was elected to 
the U. S. Senate, and on the eighth of June, of the 
same year, was nominated as the candidate of his 
party for President at the great Chicago Convention. 
He was elected in the following November, and on 
March 4, 18S1, was inaugurated. Probably 110 ad- 
ministration ever opened its existence under brighter 
auspices than that of President Garfield, and every 
day it grew in favor with the people, and by the first 
of July he had completed all the initiatory and pre- 
liminary work of his administration and was prepar- 
ing to leave the city to meet his friends at Williams 
College. While on his way and at the depot, in com- 
pany with Secretary Blaine, a man stepped behind 
him, drew a revolver, and fired directly at his back. 
The President tottered and fell, and as he did so the 
assassin fired a second shot, the bullet cutting the 
left coat sleeve of his victim, but inflicting nofurthei 
injury. It has been very truthfully said that this was 
" the shot that was heard round the world " Never 
before in the history of the Nation had anything oc- 
curred which so nearly froze the blood of the peop"° 
for the moment, as this awful deed. He was smit 
ten on the brightest, gladdest day of all his life, and 
was at the summit of his power and hope. Fur eighty 
days, all during the hot months of July and August, 
lie lingered and suffered. He, however, remained 
master of himself till the last, and by his magnificent 
bearing was teaching the country and the world the 
noblest of human lessons — how to live grandly in the 
very clutch of death. Great in life, «he was surpass- 
ingly great in death. He passed serenely away Sepl 
19, 1883, at Elberon, N. J , on the very bank of the 
ocean, where he had been taken shortly previous. The 
world wept at his death, as it never had done on the 
death of any other man who had ever lived upon it. 
The murderer was duly tried, found guilty and exe- 
cuted, in one year after he committed the foui deed. 





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HESTER A. ARTHUR, 

twenty-first PresKLm of the 

United States was born in 

Franklin Cour ty, Vermont, on 

the fifthofOdober, 1830, and is 

the oldest of a family of two 

sons and five daughters. His 

father was the Rev. 1 >r. William 

Arthur, a Baptist clergyman, who 

emigrated to tb.s country from 

the county Antrim, Ireland, in 

his 1 8th year, and died in 1875, in 

Newtonville, nea) Albany, after a 

long and successful ministry. 

Young Arthur was educated at 
Union College, S< henectady, where 
he excelled in all his studies. Af- 
ter his graduation he taught school 
in Vermont for two years, and at 
the expiration of that time came to 
New York, with §500 in his locket, 
and entered the office of ex-Judge 
E. I >. Culver as student. After 
being admitted to the bar he formed 
a partnership with his intimate friend and room-mate, 
Henry l>. Gardiner, with the intention of practicing 
in the West, and fur three months they roamed about 
lii the Western States in search of an eligible site, 
(>ut in the end returned to New York, where they 
hung out their shingle, and entered upon a success^ 
I nl career almost from the start. General Arthur 
•con afterward 'TMUT'd the daughter of lieutenant 



Hemdon, of the United States Navy, who was lost at 
sea Congress voted a gold medal to his widow in 
uition of the bravery he displayed on that occa- 
sion. Mrs. Arthur died shortly before Mr. Arthurs 
nomination to the Vice Presidency, leaving two 
children. 

Gen. Arthur obtained considerable legal celebrity 
in his first great case, the famous Lemmon suit, 
brought to recover possession of eight slaves who had 
been declared free by Judge Paine, of the Superior 
Court of New York City. It was in 1852 that Jon. 
athan Lemmon, of Virginia, went to New York with 
his slaves, intending to ship them to Texas, when 
they were discovered and freed. The Judge decided 
that they could not be held by the owner under the 
Fugitive Slave Law. A howl of rage went up from 
the South, and the Virginia Legislature authorized the 
Attorney General of that State to assist in an appeal 
Wm. M. Evarts and Chester A. Arthur were empi 
to represent the People) and they won theil • 
which then went to the Supreme Court of the United 
States. Charles < > "Conor here espoused the cause 
of the slave-holders, but he too was beaten b) M 
Evarts and Arthur, and a long step was taken toward 
the emancipation of the black race. 

Another great service was rendered by General 
Arthur in the same cause in 1856. Lizzie Jennings, 
a respectable colored woman, was put off .1 Fourth 
Avenue car with violence after she had paid her t.iti 
General Arthur sued on her behalf, and seen; 
verdict of $;oo damages. The next day the compa- 
ny issued an order to admit colored p< to ride 
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CHESTER A. ARTHUR. 



followed their example. Before that the Sixth Ave- 
nue Company ran a few special cars for colored per- 
sons and the other lines refused to let them ride at all. 

General Arthur was a delegate to the Convention 
at Saratoga that founded the Republican party. 
Previous to the war he was Judge-Advocate of the 
Second Brigade of the State of New York, and Gov- 
ernor Morgan, of that State, appointed him Engineer- 
in-Chief of his staff. In 1861, he was made Inspec- 
tor General, and soon afterward became Quartermas- 
ter-General. In each of these offices he rendered 
great service to the Government during the war. At 
the end of Governor Morgan's term he resumed the 
practice of the law, forming a partnership with Mr. 
Ransom, and then Mr. Phelps, the District Attorney 
of New York, was added to the firm. The legal prac- 
tice of this well-known firm was very large and lucra- 
tive, each of the gentlemen composing it were able 
lawyers, and possessed a splendid local reputation, if 
not indeed one of national extent. 

He always took a leading part in State and city 
politics. He was appointed Collector of the Port of 
New York by President Grant, Nov. 21 1872, to suc- 
ceed Thomas Murphy, and held the office until July, 
?o, 1878, when he was succeeded by Collector Merritt. 

Mr. Arthur was nominated on the Presidential 
ticket, with Gen. James A. Garfield, at the famous 
National Republican Convention held at Chicago in 
June, 1880. This was perhaps the greatest political 
convention that ever assembled on the continent. It 
was composed of the 'wading politicians of the Re- 
publican party, all able men, and each stood firm and 
fought vigorously and with signal tenacity for their 
respective candidates that were before the conven- 
tion for the nomination. Finally Gen. Garfield re- 
ctived the nomination for President and Gen. Arthur 
for Vice-President. The campaign which followed 
was one of the most animated known in the history of 
our country. Gen. Hancock, the standard-bearer of 
the Democratic party, was a popular man, and his 
party made a valiant fight for his election. 

Finally the election came and the country's choice 
.vas Garfield and Arthur. They were inaugurated 
.vlarch 4, 1881, as President and Vice-President. 
(V few months only had passed ere the newly chosen 
President was the victim of the assassin's bullet. Then 
came terrible weeks of suffering, — those moment* of 
anxious suspense, when the hearts of all civilized na- 



tions were throbbing in unison, longing for the re 
covery of the noble, the good President. The remark- 
able patience that he manifested during those hours 
and weeks, and even months, of the most terrible suf- 
fering man has often been called upon to endure, was 
seemingly more than human. It was certainly God- 
like. During all this period of deepest anxiety Mr. 
Arthur's every move was watched, and be it said to his 
credit that his every action displayed only an earnest 
desire that the suffering Garfield might recover, to 
serve the remainder of the term he had so auspi- 
ciously begun. Not a selfish feeling was manifested 
in deed or look of this man, even though the most 
honored position in the world was at any moment 
likely to fall to him. 

At last God in his mercy relieved President Gar- 
field from further suffering, and the world, as nevei 
before in its history over the death of any othei 
man, wept at his bier. Then it became the duty 0/ 
the Vice President to assume the responsibilities o) 
the high office, and he took the oath in New York, 
Sept. 20, i88r. The position was an embarrassing 
one to him, made doubly so from the facts that all 
eyes were on him, anxious to know what he would do, 
what policy he would pursue, and who he would se- 
lect as advisers. The duties of the office had been 
greatly neglected during the President's long illness, 
and many important measures were to be immediately 
decided by him ; and still farther to embarrass him he 
did not fail to realize under what circumstances he 
became President, and knew the feelings of many on 
this point. Under these trying circumstances President 
Arthur took the reins of the Government in Ms cm 
hands; and, as embarrassing as were the condition yl 
affair.= he happily surprised the nation, acting so 
wiseh hat but few criticised lis administration. 
He served the nation well and faithfully, until the 
close of his administration, March 4, 1885, and was 
a popular candidate before his party for a second 
term. His name was ably presented before the con 
vention at Chicago, and was received with great 
favor, and doubtless but for the personal popularity 
of one of the opposing candidates, he would have 
been selected as the standard-bearer of his party 
for another campaign. He retired to private life car- 
rying with him the best wishes of the American peo- 
ple, whom he had served in a manner satisfactory 
to them and with credit to himself. 




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TEPHEN GROVER CLEVE- 
LAND I, the twenty- second Pres- 
ident of the United States, was 

born in 1837, in the obscure 
town of Caldwell, Essex Co., 
N. J., and in a little two-and-a- 
half-story white house which is still 
standing, characteristically to mark 
the humble birth-place of one of 
America's great men in striking con 
trast with the Old World, where all 
men high in office must be high in 
origin and born in the cradle of 
wealth. When the subject of this 
sketch was three years of age, his 
father, who was a Presbyterian min- 
ister, with a large family and a small salary, moved, 
by way of the Hudson River and Erie Canal, to 
Fayetteville, in search of an increased income and a 
larger field of work. Fayetteville was then the most 
_;ling of country villages, about five miles from 
Pompey Hill, where Governor Seymour was born. 

At the last mentioned place young Graver com- 
menced going to school in the "good, old-fashioned 
w.iv." and presumably distinguished himself after the 
manner of all village boys, in doing the things he 
ought not to do. Such is the distinguishing trait of 
all geniuses and independent thinkers. When he 
arrived at the age of 14 years, he had outgrown the 
capacity of the village school and expressed a most 



emphatic desire to be sent to an academy. To thia 
his father decidedly objected. Academies in those 
days cost money; besides, his father wanted him to 
become self-supporting by the quickest possible 
means, and this at that time in Fayetteville seemed 
to be a position in a country store, where his father 
and the large family on his hands had considerable 
influence. Grover was to be paid §50 for his services 
l lie first year, and if he proved trustworthy he was to 
receive (too the second year. Here the lad com- 
menced his career as salesman, and in two years he 
had earned so good a reputation for trustworthiness 
that his employers desired to retain him for an in- 
definite length of time. Otherwise he did not ex- 
hibit as yet any particular "Hashes of genius" or 
eccentricities of talent. He was simply a good boy. 
1! it instead of remaining with this firm in Fayette- 
ville, he went with the family in their removal to 
Clinton, where he had an opportunity of attending a 
high school. Here he industriously pursued his 
studies until the family removed with him to a |>oint 
on Black River known as the " Holland Patei 
village of 500 or 600 people, 15 miles north of Utica, 
M. V. At this place his father died, after preaching 
but three Sundays. This event broke up the family, 
and Grover set out for New York City to accept, at 1 
small salary, the position of " under-teacher " in an 
asylum for the blind. He taughl faithfully lor two 
. and although he obtained a good reputation in 
this capacity, he concluded that teaching was not his 



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calling for life, and, reversing the traditional order, 
he left the city to seek his fortune, instead of going 
to a city. He first thought of Cleveland, Ohio, as 
thire was some charm in that name for him ; but 
before proceeding to that place he went to Buffalo to 
tsk the advice of his uncle, Lewis F. Allan, a noted 
stock-breeder of that place. The latter did not 
speak enthusiastically. "What is it you want to do, 
my boy?" he asked. "Well, sir, I want to study 
lav," was the reply. "Good gracious!" remarked 
t h« old gentleman ; " do you, indeed ? What ever put 
that into your head ? How much money have you 
got?" "Well, sir, to tell the truth, I haven't got 
any." 

After a long consultation, his uncle offered him a 
place temporarily as assistant herd-keeper, at $50 a 
year, while he could "look around." One day soon 
afterward he boldly walked into the office of Rogers, 
Bowen & Rogers, of Buffalo, and told Ihem what he 
wanted. A number of young men were already en- 
gaged in the office, but Grover's persistency won, and 
ne was finally permitted to come as an office boy and 
nave the use of the law library, for the nominal sum 
of $3 or $4 a week. Out of this he had to pay for 
his board and washing. The walk to and from his 
uncle's was a long and rugged one; and, although 
the first winter was a memorably severe one, his 
shoes were out of repair and his overcoat — he had 
none — yet he was nevertheless prompt and regular. 
On the first day of his service here, his senior em- 
ployer threw down a copy of Blackstone before him 
with a bang that made the dust fly, saying "That's 
where they all begin." A titter ran around the little 
circle of clerks and students, as they thought that 
was enough to scare young Grover out of his plans ; 
out in due time he mastered that cumbersome volume. 
Then, as ever afterward, however, Mr. Cleveland 
exhibited a talent for executiveness rather than for 
chasing principles through all their metaphysical 
l>ossibilities. " Let us quit talking and go and do 
t," was practically his motto. 

The first public office to which Mr. Cleveland was 
elected was that of Sheriff of Erie Co., N. Y., in 
which Buffalo is situated; and in such capacity it fell 
10 his duty to inflict capital punishment upon two 
criminals. In 1881 he was elected Mayor of the 
City of Buffalo, on the Democratic ticket, with es- 
pecial reference to the bringing about certain reforms 



in the administration of the municipal affairs of that 
city. In this office, as well as that of Sheriff, his 
performance of duty has generally been considered 
fair, with possibly a few exceptions which were fer- 
reted out and magnified during the last Presidential 
campaign. As a specimen of his plain language in 
a veto message, we quote from one vetoing an iniqui 
tous street-cleaning contract: "This is a time fo\ 
plain speech, and my objection to your action shall 
be plainly stated. I regard it as the culmination of 
a mos bare-faced, impudent and shameless scheme 
to betray the interests of the people and to worse 
than squander the people's money." The New York 
Sun afterward very highly commended Mr. Cleve- 
land's administration as Mayor of Buffalo, and there- 
upon recommended him for Governor of the Empire 
State. To the latter office he was elected in 1882, 
and his administration of the affairs of State was 
generally satisfactory. The mistakes he made, if 
any, were made very public throughout the nation 
after he was nominated for President of the United 
States. For this high office he was nominated July 
ir, 1884, by the National Democratic Convention at 
Chicago, when other competitors were Thomas F. 
Bayard, Roswell P. Flower, Thomas A. Hendricks, 
Benjamin F. Butler, Allen G. Thurman, etc.; and he 
was elected by the people, by a majority of about a 
thousand, over the brilliant and long-tried Repub- 
lican statesman, James G. Blaine. President Cleve- 
land resigned his office as Governor of New York in 
January, 1885, in order to prepare for his duties as 
the Chief Executive of ihe United States, in which 
capacity his term commenced at noon on the 4th ot 
March, 1885. 

The silver question precipitated a controversy 
between those who were in favor of the continu- 
ance of silver coinage and those who were opposed, 
Mr. Cleveland answering for the latter, even before 
his inauguration. 

On June 2, 1886, President Cleveland married 
Frances, daughter of his deceased friend and 
partner, Oscar Folsom, of the Buffalo Bar. Their 
union has been blessed by the birth of one daugh- 
ter, Ruth. In the campaign of 1888, President 
Cleveland was renominated by his party, but the 
Republican candidate, Gen. Benjamin Harrison, 
was victorious. In the nominations of 1892 these 
two candidates for the highest position in the gift 
of the people were again pitted against each other 
and President Cleveland was victorious by an 
overwhelming majority. 




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CNJAMIN HARRISON, the 
twenty-third President, is 
the descendant of one of the 
historical families of this 
country. The head of the 
family was a Major General 
Harrison, one of Oliver 
Cromwell's trusted follow- 
ers and fighters. In the zemUi ,'f ( i 

well's power it became the duty of this 
Harrison to participate in tne trial of 
Charles I, and afterward tc sign the 
leath warrant of the king. He subse- 
quently paid for this with his life, being 
hung Oct. 13, 1660. His descendants 
came to America, and the next of the 
family that ap|»-urs in history is Benja- 
min Harrison, of Virginia, great-grand- 
father of the subject of this sketch, and 
■ftn whom he was named. Benjamin Harrison 
was a member of the Continental Congress during 
the years 1774-5-6, and was one of the original 
signers of the Declaration of Independence. He 
wa thnc times elected Governor of Virginia. 
'•^en William Henry Harrison, the sou of the 



distinguished patriot of the Revolution, after a suc- 
cessful career as a soldier during the War of 1812, 
and with-a clean record as Governor of the North- 
western Territory, was elected President of the 
United States in 1 840. His career was cut short 
by death within one month »ftcr lis in uguratiou. 
President Harrison wa<- born at Nov ' Bond, 
Hamilton Co., Ohio, Aug. "0, 1833 His lite upto 
the time of his graduation by the Miami University, 
at Oxford, Ohio, was the uneventful one of a coun- 
try lad of a family of small means. His father was 
able to give him a good education, and nothing 
more. He became engaged while at college to th I 
daughter of Dr. Scott, Principal of a female schoo 
at Oxford. After graduating he determined to en- 
ter upon the study of the law. He went to Cin 
cinnati and then read law for two years. At the 
expiration of that time young Harrison received tt 
only inheritance of his life; bis mat dying left bin: 
a lot valued at $800. lb regarded this legacy nth 
fortune, and decided to get married <t once, lake 
this money and goto some Eastern town an", be- 
gin the practice of law He sold his lot, and with 
the money in hit pocket, he started out wit;-, hi* 
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decided to go to Indianapolis, which was even at 
that time a town of promise. He met with slight 
encouragement at first, making scarcely anything 
the first year. He worked diligently, applying him- 
self closely to his calling, built up an extensive 
practice and took a leading rank in the legal pro- 
fession. He is the father of two children. 

In 1860 Mr. Harrison was nominated for the 
position of Supreme Court Reporter, and then. be- 
gan his experience as a stump speakei He can- 
vassed the State thoroughly, and was elected by a 
handsome majority. In 1862 he raised the 17th 
Indiana Infantry, and was chosen its Colonel. His 
regiment was composed of the rawest of material, 
out Col. Harrison employed all his time at first 
mastering military tactics and drilling his men, 
when he therefore came to move toward the East 
with Sherman his regiment was one of the best 
'Jrilled and organized in the army. At Resaca he 
especially distinguished himself, and for his bravery 
(it Peachtree Creek he was made a Brigadier Gen- 
eral, Gen. Hooker speaking of him in the most 
complimentary terms. 

During the absence of Gen. Harrison in the field 

ho Supreme Court declared the office of the Su- 
premo Court Reporter vacant, and another person 
was elected to the position. From the time of leav- 
ing Indiana with his regiment until the fall of 1864 
he had taken no leave of absence, but having been 
nominated that year for the same office, he got a 
thirty-day leave of absence, and during that time 
made a brilliant canvass of the State, and was elected 
for another term. He then started to rejoin Sher- 
man, but on the way was stricken down with scarlet 
lever, and after a most trying siege made his way 
to the front in time to participate in the closing 
incidents of the war. 
In 1868 Gen. Harrison declined ?. re-election as 

eporter, and resumed the practice of law In 1876 
ae was a candidate for Governor. Although de- 

eated, the brilliant campaign he i&ade won lor him 
.a National reputation, and he was much sought, es- 
peciai.y in the East, to make speeches. In 1880, 
as usual, he took an active part in the campaign, 
und wv elected to the United States Senate. Here 
"uc set-ved six years, and ^as known as one o>. the 
tbiesl men, bast lawyer ~ud strongest debaters in 



that body. With the expiration of his Senatorial 
term he returned to the practice of his profession, 
becoming the head of one of the strongest firms in 
the State. 

The political campaign of 1888 was one of the 
most memorable in the history of our country. The 
convention which assembled in Chicago in June ana 
named Mr. Harrison as the chief standard bearer 
of the Republican party, was great in every partic- 
ular, and on this account, and the attitude it as- 
sumed upon the vital questions of the day, chief 
among which was the tariff, awoke a deep interest 
in the campaign throughout the Nation. Shortly 
after the nomination delegations began to visit Mr. 
Harrison at Indianapolis, his home. This move- 
ment became popular, and from all sections of the 
country societies, clubs and delegations journeyed 
thither to pay their respects to the distinguished 
statesman. The popularity of these was greatly 
increased on account of the remarkable speeches 
made by Mr. Harrison. He spoke daily all through 
the summer and autumn to these visiting delega- 
tions, and so varied, masterly and eloquent were 
his speeches that they at once placed him in the 
foremost rank of American orators and statesmen. 

On account of his eloquence as a speaker and hir 
power as a debater, he was called upon at an un- 
commonly early age to take part in the discussion 
of the great questions that then began to agitate 
the country. He was an uncompromising anti 
slavery man, and was matched against some of the 
most eminent Democratic speakers of his Stau, 
No man who felt the touch of his blade derred tc 
be pitted with him again. With all his e'oq-'ence 
as an orator he never spoke for oratorical effect, 
but his words always went like bullets to the mark 
He is purely American in his ideas and is a spier 
did type of the American statesman. Gifted with 
quick perception, a logical mind and a ready tongue, 
he is one of the most distinguished impromptu 
speakers in the Nation. Many of these speeches 
sparkled with the rarest of eloquence and contained 
arguments of greatest weight. Many of his terse 
statements have already become aphorisms. Origi 
nal in thought precise in logic, terse in statement, 
yet withal faultless in eloquence, he is recognized as 
the sound statesman and bnii lau orator c Uk aay 



Buchanan and Clinton Counties, 



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|HE time has arrived when it 

mea the duty of the 
people of this county to per- 
petuate the names of their 
pioneers, to furnish a record 
of their early settlement, 
and relate the story of their 
progress. The civilization of our 
day, the enlightenment of the age 
and the duty that men of the pres- 
ent time owe to their ancestors, to 
themselves and to their posterity, 
demand that a record of their lives 
and deeds should he made. In bio- 
graphical history is found a power 
to instruct man by precedent, to 
enliven the mental faculties, and 
to wafl down the river of time a 
safe vessel in which the names and actions of the 
people who contributed to raise- this country from it , 
primitive state may he preserved. Surely and rapidly 
the ureal and aged men, who in their prime entered 
the wilderness and claimed the virgin soil as their 
rep issing to their graves. The number re- 
maini m in relate the incidents of the first days 

I ttlement is becoming small indeed, so tl 
actual necessity exists for the collection and preser- 
vation of events without fore all the early 
settlers are cut down by the scythe of Time. 

To be forgotten has been the great dread of mankind 
from remotest ages. All will be forgotten soon enough, 
in spite of their best works and the most earnest 

efforts of their friends to perserve the memory of 
their lives. The means employed to prevent oblivion 

and to perpetuate their memory has been in pro|>or- 
tion 'o the amount of intelligence they |k>ss. 
I'll ! pyramids of Kgvpt were built to perpetuate the 
names and deed, of their great rulers. The cxhu- 

bv the archeolog ypi from 

buried Memphis indicate a desire of those people 



to |>erpetuate the memory of their achievements 
The ere* tion of the great obelisks were for tie same 
purpo ' l ng down to a later period, we find the 
Greeks and Romans erecting mausoleums and monu- 
ments, and carving out statues to chronicle their 
great achievements and carry them down the 
It is also evident that the Mound-builders, in piling 
up their great mounds of earth, had but this idea— 
to leave something to show that they had lived. All 
these works, though many of them costly in the ex 
treme, give but a faint idea of the lives and charai - 
ters of those whose memory they were intended to 
perpetuate, and scarcely anything of the masses of 
the people that then lived. The great pyramids and 
some of the obelisks remain objects only of curiosity ; 
the mausoleums, monuments and statues are crum- 
bling into dust 

It was left to modern ages to establish an intelli- 
gent, undecaying, immutable method of perpetuating 
a full history — immutable in that it is almost un- 
limited in extent and perpetual in its action; and 
this is through the art of printing. 

To the present generation, however, we are in- 
debted for the introduction of the admirable system 
of local biography. By this system every m in, th 
he has not achieved what the world calls gi 
has the means to perpetuate his life, his In 
through the < oining ages. 

The scythe of Time cuts down all ; nothing of the 
physical man is left. The monument which his < hil 
driii or friend-; m iv en < t to his memory in the Ceme 
tery will crumble into dust ami pass away; but his 
life, his achievements, the work he has accomplished, 
which otherwise would be forgotten, is perpetuated 
by a record of this kind. 

I erve the lineaments of our companion 

ve their portraits, for the same reason w< 
lei I the attainable facts of their history. N'onl 

think it necessary , as we s|>eak only truth of them, to 
waii iiinil ihej are dead, or until those who know 
them are gone: to do this we \ t.' 

publish to the world the history "i those » 
are unworthy of public re< ord. 



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J\MI.S ILFBED <)U EN was one of the 
group of suoceseful men who have grown 
■ >1 « i together in St. Joeeph, Bachanan County, 
and who, oven in the early days of t ln-i r pro 
feeeional career as members <>f the liar of the 
newly established county Beat, gave evidence of the 
impression which their lives were destined to make 
in the historv of northwestern Missouri. 

Our subject was the son of Nelson Ueed Owen, 
a prosperous farmer, and his birth occurred May 
20, 1822, on his father's estate in Benrj County, 
K\ Mis paternal grandfather, whose Christian 
name was Lawrence, was the founder of thefam 
ily in Kentucky. Prom conscientious motives, be 
freed bis slaves before leaving Maryland. After 
settling in the new state, be was obliged to pay 
twice for his large amount of property, owing to 
a defect in the title to the first purchase. There 
fore be could not leave to bis sons and daughters 
rast means, but their inheritance was a moderate 

■hare of this world's g Is, an untarnished repu 

tation, and tl umple of a man who placed con 

science before policy in ever] crisis of a long and 
eventful life. 

Nelson It I. the third -on of Lawr ■>• and 

a younger brother of < i<mi . [gnatius Owen, was a 
devout nnworldl) man, courageous, as his record 
of ensign in the Black Hawk r7ar, evinoed, hospil 
able, with a faith in the goodness of human nature 
greatly at variance with the doctrine of inherent 
depravity held by the austere primitive Methodist 



sect to which he belonged. <hi his farm, in the 
edge of the beech woods, he and his wife, Nancy, 
lived, training their children to fear God and be 
friend man. A wealthy relative finally persuaded 
biin to remove to Louisville. He departed thin 
life in that city in October, 1838, in the bit 

hope of spending eternity ill the "green pastures" 

and "beside the still waters" of the better land. 
At this time the struggle of life began in earn 

est for James A. Own, who was then a youth of 
seventeen. As he was the eldest of the children, 
he necessarily liecame the bead of the house, and 
though the experiences of the next few years were 
trying to one of his sensitive constitution, they 

were of such a nature as to strengthen those traits 

of self reliance and independence which marked 
his subsequent life. Be began to read law with 

Jud^e Do/ier, lint he s decided to seek his 

fortune farther west. In 1846 he came by steam 

hoat as far as St. Louis, where he had intended to 
locate, hut was advised not to do so on account of 

alleged malaria. He therefore pro* led to Platte 

City, where for a short time be taught school. <>n 

May 10, 1M7. he came to Kucha nan County and at 

once began his law studies with Judge Solomon L 
Leonard. The following fall he was admitted to 
the bar after passing ■> rigid examination, His 
preceptor beet te of his truest friends and 

often referred t" him ill terms ,.f the highest com 

mendat ion 

On the 8 I of August. 1888, Mr Owen was 



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united in marriage with Agnes Jeanette, the beauti 
ful daughter of James Gargill, a wealthy farmer and 
mill owner, who had formerly been a prominent 
merchant of Wheeling, W. Va. The succeeding 
years, up to the breaking out of the Civil War. 
were marked by steadily increasing financial bug 
i-. ~^; owing partly to his exertions in his profea 
sion and partly to the good judgment he displayed 
in the purchase and sale of real estate. The only 
shadow on his life at this time came from the bit- 
terness of political controversy. He hail then and 
always the courage of his convictions and spoke his 
opinions boldly. One of his strongest beliefs was 
concerning the sacred rights of sovereign states. 
Though not a Freesoiler. he many times lifted his 
voice in solemn protest against the determination 

- me of his state's most prominent citizens t.> 
dictate the policy of Kansas. He said "Remain 
forever pro slavery if you choose, but spare Mis 
BOUT] the disgrace of attempting to make Kansas 
her outlying province. If the anti-slavery major- 
ity of Kansas elect to have a free state their will 
in the matter is the right guaranteed them bj the 
Constitution of the United States." 

In 1855 Mr. Owen was even more vehement 
when his old friends, carried away by the perni- 
cious doctrine that the end justifies the means, 
went by hundreds into Kansas and voted against 
the Freesoil movement. In I860, still faithful to 
the principle of state rights, he was (he opponent 
of those whose cause he had championed live years 
previous. Though he deprecated secession, he 
maintained that states had the right to secede if 
they so desired, a position taken at that time bj the 
New York Trilmiu- and other publications after 
ward classified as loyal. In 1861 he was offered 
a Federal Brigadiership, which he at once declined. 
and from that time was the favorite target for the 
spite of certain petty officers. But through the 
more generous spirit of those higher in authority, 
who. like himself, respected honest difference of 
opinion, he escaped anything more serious than 
annoyance. 

Mr. Owen found his health so impaired in 1864 
that he was forced to retire from his professional 
practice, and henceforth devoted himself to the 
management of his private business and to the 



stud] of financial problems. In 187t*> he whs the 
Greenback nominee for Lieutenant Governor, an 
honor in name only, as the party had little strength 

in the state. If his election had been at all possi 
ble he would have declined the nomination on ae 
count of ill health, hut as it was, he resolved, as he 
said, to place himself "on record as one who lie 
Lieved that the greenback should be in circulation 
as long as its originator, the public debt, endured. " 

A- a student Mr. Owen was noted even in his 
youth. He always possessed sagacity, wit nud 
the faculty of brilliant repartee, and in his ad- 
vancing years developed profound reasoning 
powers. His reading was voluminous and exhaust- 
ive, and his writings on various questions of pub- 
lic interest were widely copied in the leading 
newspapers of the northwest. 

Though for years a sufferer from bronchitis and 
asthma, death came at last unexpectedly to Mr. 
Owen. After an acute attack of ten days' dura 
tion, he passed quietly away in his Bleep on the 
morning of May 13, 1890. His wife and live of 
his children survive him. The latter are as fol- 
lows: Herbert A.. Mary A.. LuellaA., Juliette A 
and Florence A., wife of William B. Orr of Pitts 
burs. 'Two sons Nelson Heed and James Arthur. 
preceded their father to the "undiscovered conn 
try." 

The character of Mr. Owen is best summed up 
in tbt* words of an intimate friend. "As a man. 
no one dared to assail his sterling qualities, for 
In- possessed remarkable probity, decision, method, 
energy and self reliance, and he was intensely 
practical. Toward his enemies, who were few, he 
was implacable, but toward the needy and die 
tressed he was always a generous and sympathizing 
friend. There is in all cases the affirmative, the 
negative and the middle ground. In his case the 
last was rarely large enough for him long to stand 
Upon. He was quick to perceive the logic of 
events held high in his standard of business mol- 
ality, and was the last man to make apologies from 
motives of fear or favor. His utterances were 
bold, which often caused misconception of 
his meaning and character, but he wore all his 
faults on his sleeve and of him it might be truly- 
said. 



POBI i;\l l \M' BIOGH \ I ' 1 1 1 « \l. KECOHD 



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••.In.) nil'-, 

i ii manm I i lolenl 

If, »lxii the publl <>. 

\l . imI Bowi mm and eager f r- >m m 

Bnt in nothing did the disposition of Mi Owen 
thou it — « - 1 r mora intensely than in Hi'- tendei 
,.f his love for his home and family. 



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»j-> l I I s |. MoDONALD ia one of Hi-- larg 
L-\ eel wholesale dry goods merchants in St. 
I \^ Joseph, find indeed <>f t !»• ■ went He - 
< also an I'xti'iiMvo mannfaotnrer "f gentle 

men's furnishing goods, operating ■■ large be 
tory. This bouse i- one of the oldest west of 
tli.- Mississippi, having been founded in 1846. In 
1853 Mr. McDonald became a member "f tin' firm, 

and three years later the business pa 1 entirely 

intu Lis hands. He is one of St. Joseph's most 
eminent merchants and public spirited citizens, 
and lii- business, which lias continued for thirty 
six years, is one of the great ami invaluable facton 
in this oity'B mercantile prosperity. Our subject 
is \ ,-.• president of the Schuster Hai Hank ami a 
Director in tie- Merchants' Bank. 

Mr. McDonald's birth occurred May 1'.'. 1832 

in Harrodsburg, Mercei I ranty, By. His father, 
Daniel, was born and reared in Washington Count] 
■ ■f that -tat<'. while hi- paternal grandfather, Alex 
audi i McDonald, was l>orn in Virginia He was 
one of tie- earliest settlers in tin- Blue tlra-s region, 
where he entered a tract of land ami engaged in 
ral farming. He was of Scotch descent and a 
member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Dan 
iel McDonald was also a fanner and for some years 
was a merchant in Harrodsburg. In 1866 he re- 
moved to Andrew County, locating on a farm eight 
mih^ northeast of St Joseph, where his death 
irred at the age of seventy three yean. 
The maiden oame of our subject's mother was 
Martha McMurtry; Bhe was born m Washington 
County, Ky., and was a daughter "f one of the 
pioneers of that count] I: 1. McDonald, whose 
came heads this -ketch, i- the oldest of his fa 
tiler's family, and was reared on a farm. In l s ~>l 
he struck out for himself and came to St Joseph, 



where for two < a ohai kship He 

then obtained an interest with tin- firm of Donnell 

t dr_\ goods merchants, and t 

was the foundation of his latei snoot 

In Si Joseph Mr MoD maid wedded Mi-- Marj 
Wilson, who was born in Randolph County, and i- 
a daughter of Qen. Robert Wi 
early settlers of Howard County, Mo., when- be 
located in 1818. He afterward removed to Ban 
dolph and later becami lent of St Joseph. 

II.- served f--r several termi oator and 

was also a United state- Senator Our subject and 
wife have six children: John L, a graduate of Yale 
College, and now manager of the factory; Robert 
W., who is in the wholesale department. M 
wife ..f H. I. i, rge, also connected with the 
firm; Mattie L., wife of John Dobnan, Jr. ; Annette 
and Maria, who are attending Bohool in Maesachu 
setts. The family are members of the First I 
byterian Church, of which Mr. McDonald is a 
Ruling Elder. In politic- he supports tie- I' 

cratic party. 



GOL \ N s. HI STEB. 
incut business men "f 
subject who i- at I he 1 



Among the prom 
if St. Joseph is nut 
I of tie- larg 
clothing house in the west and ha- been very 
successful in hi- various commercial enterpi 
Mi Schuster was born in Rhenish, Prussia, and 

educated in the BChools of hi- native land lb- 
came tn A me i ioa in 1857 when he was j u-t twenty 
one veais 'if age and proceeded at once to Savau 
nah, Mo., the county seat of Andrew County. 

There he entered the employ "f an uncle, August 
Schuster, a thrifty merchant, and applied himself 

earneatl] to the acquuiti f oui language. His 

diligence and perseverance were unremitting, 

these traits having I a apparent through his • □ 

tire career. lb- 1 aim- proficient in English be 

fore much time had elapsed aud 1 a -p.-aks it 

without the slightest foreigu acc< 

In those earl) days in Savannah then- were do 
amusements nor an) place of recreation to which 

a young man of exemplary habits oould ;,'". so a 

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which questions of the day were discussed, and as 
it was during the war and the members differed in 
politics, the questions were serious ones, which 
were argued with great warmth oftentimes. Young 
Schuster was called a black Republican on account 
of his pronounced Union sentiments and was known 
as the " Senator from St. Louis" that district 
being strongly Republican. The debates of this 
body assisted him very much in attaining a fluency 
in English. His business success also was imme- 
diate and he had advanced so far by May 1, 18C>2, 
that he felt sufficiently justified in sharing his joys 
with another. 

The lady of our subject's choice was Miss Lu- 
creti Price, the accomplished daughter of W. A. 
Price, a man of prominence in the state, and a rep- 
resentative merchant of Savannah. To this union 
were born three daughters — Luda, wife of Mr. 
Judson Cole Clay, of St. Joseph; Florence, and 
Edna, deceased. In 1865 the Colonel removed to 
St. Joseph and took charge of the United States 
Reveuue Collector's Office for the District, which 
now includes two Congressional Districts. He 
was made Deputy Collector, his father-in-law being 
the Collector. With great credit to himself he 
performed the duties of the office for about a year, 
when he began merchandising on his own account 
in St. Joseph, and for six years following was 
actively engaged in retail, mercantile pursuits. 
In addition to his St. Joseph business he had estab- 
lishments in three other towns, and at the end of 
a few years went into the wholesale trade. Not- 
withstanding his immense trade and exacting de- 
mand on his time he was appointed in 1869 as col- 
lector of Internal Revenue to succeed Gen. James 
Craig, and successfully and satisfactorily conducted 
business in that office for a district embracing 
twenty five counties, until 1871. 

In 1872 the Colonel was a member for his dis- 
trict of the famous Electoral College, which dis- 
oussed so strongly the question of enfranchising 
the ex Confederate element. He warmly and zeal 
ously advocated enfranchisement, although he was 
and always has been an intense Republican, 
politically. His views were antagonized by some 
of his colleagues whom he has since had the satis 
factiou of having fully endorse his views. Col. 



Schuster has always beeu a public-spirited man, 
ready and anxious to advance the interests of 
St. Joseph. He was one of eight men, who, from 
their private means built and equipped the St. 
Joseph & Des Moines Railroad, then a narrow 
gauge, but since changed to the standard width b/ 
the Chicago, Burlington & Qui ucy Company. Be- 
sides managing the establishment of A. N. Schuster 
& Co., he is the principal owner in that concern of 
wholesale clothing, and gives also some attention 
to the business of the Schuster & Hax National 
bank, of which he is President. In the past he 
has been president of several banks in Kansas. 

In church and philanthropic work the Colonel 
takes an earnest interest, and is exceedingly liberal 
with his means as well, in relieving the necessities 
of the poor and destitute. Many a struggling man 
and woman have been helped onward and upward 
by the kindly sympathy or timely assistance ren- 
dered by him, and those who know him well are 
his devoted friends. The Young Men's Christian 
Association building in St. Joseph is one of the 
handsomest structures of its kind in fhe country, 
beautiful in architecture and imposing in dimen- 
sions. It is furnished with libraries, school, gym- 
nasium, and all modern appliances, and has a 
lecture hall capable of seating one thousand per- 
sons. This superb building was erected with our 
subject as its master spirit, for he furnished many 
thousand dollars from his own fortune toward its 
construction, and succeeded in obtaining donations 
from his fellow-citizens toward the good work. 
He was the President of the Association for nine 
years. He is universally regarded as a model man 
in private life, and his example has been felt in 
society, particularly among the young people. A 
long history could be written of instances showing 
the goodness and kindness of the man, but space 
and his own modest v forbid. 



UDGE HENRY S. KELLEY, LL. D., ex 
Judge of the Circuit Court and attorney at 
iJj law, ranks among the very best in his pro- 
fession in this state, and has as much prac- 
tice before the Supreme Court as any other lawyer 



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in St Joeepb. He lias been n resident of Missouri 
-i August, 1866, at which time he located in 

Savannah 1 1 •- ha- I n prominent for thirty 

years in legal circles and lias also taken an active 
part in the polities of his county and stud' 
Moreover be is an author, having written im 
portent treatises on law ainoe 1868. Bis work on 
■■('i\il Law" baa pasaed through three editions; 
bis volume, "Kelley's Probate Guide," written in 
t — ■ T 1 . has bad two editions, as has also the one 
published in 1877, "Kelley's Criminal Law and 
Practice," which is considered one of the beal 
compilations on the BubjeoL In 1873, on tln> 
organization of tint Department of Law in the 
University of Missouri, Judge Kelley was ap 
pointed lecturer on Criminal Law hh«1 Practice, 
and on Pleading and Practice, and continued to 
lecture upon those subjects in that institution for 
sixteen \ cars. 

Our subject's birth occurred near Cincinnati, 
Ohio. His hither, Samuel, a native of Ohio, was 
a mechanic, having a cooper -hop and employing 
about fourteen workmen. After selling this he 
removed to Hamilton County, where he engaged 
in farm i ne;, ami about 1840 wenl to Wayne County, 
End., later to Henry, and -till later to Grant 
County, in the same state. During all of this 
time he engaged in agriculture. Our subject's 
paternal grandfather, William, emigrated when a 
young man from his native Kmerahl Isle, near 
Dublin, first Battling in Pennsylvania, and later 
going to Ohio ami being one of the earlj settlers 
near Cincinnati. In the War of 1812 he was iii 
active service with his U'iujiius, Jnlui hihI David, 
all of whom were in Hull's surrender. The wife 
of William Kei|e\ was before her marriage a Mie 

Wallace, an annl of Gen. Lew Wallace's father. 

Mr. Kelley, who was a well to-do man in this 

world's goods, was one of t] abactors for the 

Miami Canal, ami was prominently con ted with 

manj public entei prist 

Our subject'- father engaged in farming in In 
diana until his death in 1878. He was a membei 
of the Christian church, and a man of upright 
life and exemplary conduct. His wife, formerly 
Mi-- Marv Holder, was born in Cincinnati, her 

parent- having emigrated therefrom Pennsylvania 



Ib-r death -lined in Grant County, Inil., in tho 

same _\ear a- that of her hn-haml. Of ber eleven 

children ten grew to adult years, and five brothers 
of our subject were in the Civil War. two of these, 

Samuel and William, dying while in the service 
The others, Jonathan, Abraham and I laniel, servi i 

until the close of the < Hid and are -till living. 

of the si\ Burvivorsof the large family our Bub 

j.-c-i i- the fourth in order of birth, His boyl I 

was pa-sed in farm work and attending District 
school. He assisted hi- father in clearing his land 
after his removal to Grant County, and about that 

time attended the Marion select schools, working 
for his board and thus earning his tuition. The 
last winter he attended the school he became well 

acquainted with Mr. James Brownlee, the county 

auditor, and boarded at his house. That gentle 
man assisted him in his stud] of law, as bewasau 
attorney, while our subject helped him in the 
office. About this time be was assistant to the 
postmaster, all the time, however, keeping ap bis 
studies. He was admitted to the bar in 1854, 
having pract iced a little pre\ iously, and being then 
only twentj years of age He was elected District 
Atttorney for the county, serving one term, and in 
L856 was elected District Judge of Blackford, 
Delaware and Grant Counties, the youngest Judge 
in the United States. He served in that pof 
for four years, being only twenty three at the time 
of his election. 

In l^i'd Judge Kelley went to Dakota, locating 
at Vermillion, and being on the -talf of Gen. 
James Bouge. He engaged in the practice of his 
profession, located ami Burveyed a road from Lake 
Shetoc, Minn., to Sioux Falls, So. Dak . establish 

ing a mail route. He also, in 1862, located on a 

claim, but on account of Indian mas-acres and 

depredations, returned to Grant County, Ind.. his 
former home, after remaining the winter of 1868 in 

SioUX City, Iowa His particular object in return 

big was to assist in the prosecution of a oase Poi 
a line- he resided in Marion, Ind , engaged in the 

practice of law, ami in the fall of 1864 located in 

Wabash, where be built up a good practice and 
edited the Wabcuh Tribune. 

In August, 1866, the Judge removed to this 

-tate, practicing in Savannah, and in 1868 Was 



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elected Alderman oi the oity. Iu 1870 he was a 
candidate tor the Circuit Judge on the Republican 

ticket, but was then defeated. In the spring of 
1872, at a special election, he was nominated on 

the same ticket for the same i>rtiee. his opponent 
being Judge Thomas Collins, and was elected 
Judge of the Twenty ninth Judicial Circuit by a 
majority of over four hundred votes: was re elected 
in 1^74. and again sis years later. Iu 1SS4 he 
was nominated on the Republican ticket as a can 
didate for Congress, running' against James X. 
Burous. but was defeated. Since 1SS7 he has 
made this city his home and has Ikvu actively 
engaged in general law practice. The department 
of law in the University of Missouri conferred 
upon Judge Kelley the degree of LL. D. iu 1882 
He gave up his post as the lecturer iu that iusti 
tutiou iu 1889 on account of the pressing demands 
of his business. He owns a couple of farms iu 
Andrew County aud also owns city real estate. 

In Sturgis, Mich.. Judge Kelley was married iu 
1855 to Miss Adelia Harlan, who was boru iu 
Marion, Iud.. aud is the daughter of the Hou. 
Andrew Harlan, ex member of Congress and a 
prominent politician iu Indiana, having served two 
terms in Congress and for seven years in the State 
Legislature. For two terms Mr. Harlan was 
Speaker of the Missouri House, aud for one term 
Speaker of the House in the Dakota Legislature. 
Though now seventy-eight years of age he is tilliug 
the position of Postmaster at Wa Keeney, Kans. 
His wife, formerly Miss Delilah Hendricks, has 
reached the age of seventy one year- 
Mrs. Kelley was reared and educated in Marion, 
lud., and also attended the St. Augustine Convent 
at Fort Wayne. Ind. By her marriage she has 
become the mother of seven living children: David 
1!.. who was educated at the University of Mis 
souri. wa- born in Grant County, Iud.. aud is a 
practicing attorney iu this city. Under President 
Arthur he was Postmaster at Savannah, and was 
married to Miss Flora Boss. Samuel H., a gradu- 
ate of Columbian College of Washington. D. C 
from which he received the title of Bachelor of 
Laws, was Judicator of Claims in the United 
States Treasury Department from 1882 to l ss o. 
aud was then appointed Chief Clerk of the United 



States Land Office at Wa Keeney. November 1. 
1886. He resigned his position and removed iu 
l ss ',' to Scott City, Kans. .where he engaged iu 
practice aud is also editor of the Scott County 
.Whs, later practicing with his father in St. Joseph, 
Mo. In 1888 he was uoiuiuated for the Legis 
lature from Scott County, Kans., but was defeated. 
Two years later he was uomiuated on the Republi- 
can ticket in St. Jo-eph. Mo., for the Legislature, 
but was also defeated. Iu 1802 he was united iu 
marriage with Miss Julia Graham, who was boru 
iu Berrien Springs. Mich. Henry S. graduated 
from the Ensworth Medical College in the class of 
'93. John M. is carrying on a farm iu Andrew 
County. Mary is now Mrs. S. M. Marshall, of 
Loury City, Mo. Ralph aud Thalia, who are at 
home, complete the family. Mr?. Kelley is a 
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, aud 
is an active worker iu all its various departments. 
The Judge is a member of the Ancient Order of 
United Workmen and the Select Knights, aud is a 
stanch Republican. 



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THOMAS W. EVANS is one of the best 
known and most popular citizens of St. 
Joseph, being cashier iu the Merchants" 
Bauk of St. Joseph, and being Presi 
dent of the Citizens" State Bank of Conway 
Springs, Kans. From 1^>"J to l ss 4 he was City 
Treasurer of St Joseph and funded the city debit 
$919,000 in bonds, for which he was responsible. 
He is a veteran of the late war. having been in 
active service from September, 1861, till January 

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Mr. Evaus was born iu Guernsey County. Ohio, 
iu the village of Cambridge, April "21. IS Jo. aud 
is a son of the Hon. Nathan Evans, whose birth 
occurred ou June 24, 1804, in Belmont County, of 
the same state, and who was a member of Congress 
from 1>4 S to 1852, being a contemporary of Clay. 
Webster. Calhoun and the other famous statesmen, 
whose uames have gone down in history. Our 
subject's paternal grandfather. Ezra, was born iu 
the Old Dominion aud was a farmer iu Loudoun 



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Oouotj until the earl] part of 1804, when be re 
moved to 1 {• -1 1 1 1 • >t 1 1 county. Ohio Hie tree "f 
Welch descent, treeing his anoeetrj beck to old 
Christian Evana of colonial fame. Hie wife was 
of s Quaker family. The 1 1 < » 1 1 Nathan Evana 
dnoated in the old 1"^' ichoolhonae "f pio 
near daya, irhieh be attended not more than a 
month nil told. Thongfa he waa reared 
farmer he took np law, beginning preetiee aa an 
attorney in Oambridge, Ohio. He was political!) 
a Whig, and later a Republican, and waa eli 
ta Judge of the Common Pleaa Court. 1I«< wan 
almoel entirely aelf educated, being well read and. 
id on different points pertaining to law, and 
baying many a time, while a boy, studied at night 
for bonra. He was jusl aa a Jndge and was bou- 
nd respected. In his political belief he was 
an active Republican and religiously, a member of 
the Christian church, in the faith of which he died 
in 1ST'.' 
Our subject's mother who waa before her mar 
la ■ Elizabeth I Way, was born inBelmonl 
County, Ohio, where her father was an agrioull 
nrist This estimable lady was called from this 
life in 1850. She waa the mother of six children, 
only two of whom grew to maturity and are yet 
living, Alfred 11 . who enlisted for three mouths 
in the Sixteenth Ohio Infantry as Sergeant, was 

later made Captain of the One Hundred and Se\ 
entj Eighth Ohio, serving until he waa obliged 
to resign on account of the loss of his eyesight. 
II - now an attorney in aft. Vernon, Ky. Our 
subject's father was again married, having one son 
by hie second unit i Q rge E , who is Buperin 
tendenl of Transportation on the Louisville >v 
Nashville Kail road with beadquai ten at Louisville, 
Ky. 

Thomas W. Evana paaaed hi- boyhood in bis 
native town, which i- situated on the old National 

turnpike. Mis education waa derived from the 
common and high schools, and when the War ol 
the Rebellion came on he enlisted, on September 
6, 1881, In Company B, Fifteenth Ohio Infantry, 
being mustered in al kfanafield, and at one.' 
to Kentucky, joining Gens. Buell and Rosea 
The following year be took part in the battles of 
Sbiloh Siege of Corinth and Stone River, in the 



la-t mentioned engagement receiving a flesh wound 
in his Iff t lee;, and after remaining in the hospital 
for some time went home on a furlough and was 
detailed to the Proi -■ U bal's offioe In 
( iolumbua, < Ihio. 

After the battle of Chickamaug ■ Hi Evana waa 
ordered to join his regiment, and on bis waj 
detailed on the gunboat "' Rosh tot thirty 

daye, going hack and forth on the Cumberland be 
tween Nashville and Port Donelson. He joined 
his regiment at Chattanooga two day- after the 

battle of Mission Ridge thence marched to Straw 

berrj Plains, when he with the others veteranized, 
having a furlough to return borne for thirty days 
Returning to Chattanooga he joined Sherman on 
the Georgia Campaign, participating in the fol 
lowing named battles: Buzzard's Roost, Pumpkin 
Vine Ridge, Reeaca, Dallas, Kenneaaw .Mountain, 
Snake Creek, and Peach Tree Creek, being under 
are all the time to Atlanta and never off duty. In 

that city he was in the Fourth Army Corps and 
then returned to Nashville, taking part in the bat 
tie of Columbia, Spring Hill, Franklin and Na-h 
ville, following Hood through Jonesboro, Eastern 
Tennessee, then hack to Nashville, remaining in 
the service until the close of the war, being mua 
tered out at San Antonio, Tex., November, l s, '>~>. 
and recieviug an honorable discbarge on his re 
turn home at Columbus, < >hio, al t December 28i 

Mi Evans soon after this went to work as ■ 
clerk in a drug store in Cambridge, where be waa 

foi four! i months, and then in 1867 wenl on a 

trip to Minnesota. In December of thai year be 
made another western trip, going to Plattemoutb, 

Neb . where be took a position aa I kkeeper in the 

banking firm of Tootle. Hannah & Clark, remain 

ine; with them until 1S7I when the hank was 

changed to the Firal National and he was made 

its Lssistanl Cashier, which position he held until 

when be resigned. He waa for >i\ weeks 

Cashier of the State Bank of Nebraska, at Crete, 

when he left in order to take the plat \ 

ant Caahier in the Firal National Bank of SI ' 
seph, with whom be wa I until they sold 

out in l^TS The Merchant-' Bank sin dine; 

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made Assistant Gadder, was with them for two 
voars as such, and then became its Cashier. Iu 
the latter capacity heserved until the bank changed 
hands in l^ s 7. when he retired from acti\e busi 
ness for a time, traveling for three years iu Idaho, 
Oregon and Kansas. Iu 1888 he went to New 
York aud iu the following year came to this city. 
In July. 1890, he bought an interest here and was 
made Cashier of the Merchants" Rank which has 
li capital stock of $200,000. 

Iu Memphis, Tenn.. was celebrated the mar- 
riage of Mr. Evans an 1 Hiss Mary C. Tenable, in 
1869. Mis. Evans was born iu DeKalb County. 
Mo., and is the daughter of Joseph Veuable. who 
was well known iu that locality. Our subject is 
au elder iu the First Presbyterian Church, and is 
Commander of Custer Post. No. 7. Grand 
Army of the Republic. 
Officer on staff of Hiram Smith, Jr 
partment Commander in 1888 



He was Chief Mustering 
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I I ON. WILLIAM M. SHhTHEUP is the 
p - ! present mayor of St Joseph. Buchanan 
1 County, and is now serving his fourth year 
•r as such. One rather remarkable feature iu 

connection with this period is that the first year 
there was a tie in the city council, there being eight 
Democrats and eight Republicans, the second year 
a Democratic majority of one. and the last two 
\ears again a tie in the council. To the initiated 
this statement alone is sufficient to show how very 
discreet and cautious must be the line chosen by the 
chief executive. Notwithstanding this, he has 
proved entirely satisfactory and has made one of 
the best mayors this enterprising city has ever 
boasted. He is very popular as a mau ami by his 
pleasant and affable ways has won hosts of friends. 
Mr. Shepherd's birth-place was Medina. Lena 
wee County. Mich., and the date of his birth July 
3, 1 S4«>. His grandfather. Alexander Shepherd. 
S totch-Gennan descent, was Kirn in Pennsyl- 
vania and removed to Seneca County. N. Y.. where 
he was married and engaged in farming. Our sub- 
ject's father. Rev. Paul Shepherd, was boru in 



;_vette township. Seneca County. N. Y\. where 
red to manhood. He studied medicine 
with Dr. Bryaut. of Vtiea. N. Y".. and aftei a short 
time engaged in practice, weut to Oberliu, assisting 
in building the College, and was associated with 
President Mahau and President Finney. After 
the College was built he eutered the theological 
course and at the end of three years graduated and 
bewail the work of a Presbyterian miuister 
It was his idea to tit himself for missionary labors. 
He went to Michigan as au evaugelist to the Otto. 

- and Chippewas on Lake Michigan, being 
stationed at the mouth of the Kalamazoo River for 
several years. Thence going to eastern Michigan, 
he took charge of the church iu Mediua. of which 
he was pastor for teu years. Subsequently he went 
to Dover iu the sameeountv and there preached for 
riv,- years. 

In 1855 Rev. Mr. Shepherd took his family to 
Kansas and organized the first Presbyterian Church 
iu Topeka. At the end of two years he returned 
to Dover. Mich., and had charge of the church 
there until his death, in 1860, at the age of fifty 
eight years. He was a member and chaplain of 
the Old Free State Legislature at Topeka. and in 
ls."iii was one of the delegates to the convention at 
Osawatomie, Kans., where the Republican conten- 
tion was held. His wife. Asenath. daughter of 
Johnathan Mack, was born in Cauandaigua County, 
N Y. The father wis an early settler and enter- 
prising farmer of the Empire State. Mrs Shep 
herd died iu Dover, Mich., iu 1S77. Of her tive 
children, who attained to adult years, our subject 
is the fifth in order of birth. James H. is a farmer 
near Dover; Jane F. deceased, was the wife of 
Samuel Benharu of Topeka: Martha, widow of 
Re\ Robinson, is a resident of Nashville. Tenn. : 
Saunders R. is a real estate dealer in Leavenworth. 
Kans. He was Secretary of State under Got. 
Robinson of Kansas and for uiue year^ was editor 
of the Topeka Tribune. 

William Shepherd was reared and educated in 
Dover and Adrian. Mich. He attended the Adrian 
College. Afterward he accepted a position in a 
drag store of the place and held the same for five 
years. In 1ST0 he came to the west, opening a 
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nl i tl -v • • years. Next oomiog (•• St Joseph, be 

yielded to the wishes of Colonel Tracy and became 
business manager of the //• raid, and as such run 
tinned under the several different editon 

11 the 10th of June, 1880, our subject gave ap 

liis position on the newspaper and l ame aasiatanl 

postmaster under ('"I Traoj as the latter was 
nn invalid, tin' reepoDsibility of tin- postal service 
fell almost entire]] to Mr Shepherd. In 1884 In 1 
returned as business manager t" the //• ralii, which 
was then controlled bj Col. J. W. Strong, who wan 
the following year killed bj Doctor Richmond. A 

year later he assumed the mspagen t <>f that 

paper, whioh position he held for two years. In 
1890 he was nominated on the Republican ticket 
.-i- Mayor, being elected by a good majority, and 
two yean later was re-elected by :i still greater 
majority. The duties of tl»i- — position he lias ably 
discharged, and the people feel that in him the] 
bave one on whom thej may safely rely to advance 
their intei 

Mr Shepherd is tin' father of one son, Warren 
(a talented young man), who is a graduate of the 
Rasieu Academy of Michigan, and was a student at 
the St.-it<' Agricultural College, which is located in 
Lansing. He is now teaching in the village of 
Ousted, Mich. 

Fraternally Mr. Shepherd belongs to Charity 
Lodge, N". 831, Anoienl Free and Accepted Ma 
sons; st Joseph Chapter, No. II. Royal Arch 
Mas. .1 is. of which he is scribe; Council No. '•'. R. & 
s. M.j St Joseph Oommandery, No. I, Knight 
Templars, of which he is Past Eminent Commander; 
i Moila Temple Mystic Shrine, in which be holds 
the office ol Chief Rabban; and t" St Joseph 
Royal Arab Chapter, No 198, 0. E. 8. 



J/UD(iK SAMUEL l» COWAN Bince 1878 
lias been clerk of the Circuit and Criminal 
Courts of Buchanan Count] He is oi 

tl nrlv Bettlers, having resided in the 

Bounty sine- 1 - .". 3 His borne in in St. Joseph, 
where he is well known and highly esteemed His 
birth occurred in I'uln«Ui County, Ky . in 1825 



Sis father, Hon John W . who was born in \>i 
ginia, was re >r.-.l to agricultural pursuits sod earlj 
settled in Pulaski County, Ky. For two terms he 
was a member of the Kentuokj Legislature and 
also served as jnsti. f the peace and aherifl or 

Pulaski County. In the War of I s I _' he was 

actively engaged, as was also the father of his n if.-, 
whose maiden name was Fannie Dysart, a native 
Kentuckian. Her father, James Dysart, was one 
of the early settlers of Hoik Castle County, a 
he owned large tracts of land. Our subject i- one 
of eleven children, being one of the seven horn of 
his father's first marriage, Three of each familj 
are yet living. 

As have I d so many of onr great American 

statesmen and professional men, Judge Cowan was 

reared on a farm. He i ame deputy clerk oi the 

I'nlaski Count] Court, when still quite young, and 
in IM»'>. entered the service in the war with 

Mei He) ame Second Lieutenant in Com 

puny II, Fourth Kentucky Volunteers. He was 
in the city of Mexico when the news reached the 
armj that peace bad been declared. In 1848, after 
being mustered out at Louisville, Ky., be returned 
home, where be remained about two yean In 
1850 he started foi California, going by boat and 

other menus of i veyanoe to Arrow Rock, Saline 

County, M -. where be fitted up oi teams and 
Btarted on the overland route h_\ the old California 
frail, touching Fort Kearney, Fort Laramie, ate 
On landing at Hangtown be engaged in prospect 
ingand mining on the middle fork of the Ameri 
can River, remaining until 1858, when be staite.i 
for home bj way of the [sthmus. 

In the fall of 1 S.".:{ Judge Cowan came to liu 
ohanan County, locating in Washington Township, 
where he purchased and improved a farm Be 
was Dfputy sheriff under Morgan and Ainsworth, 
and as such was acting when the WBI came on 
During that time of business uncertainty he en 
gaged in freighting aoross the plains !■• Colorado 

and Montana. At this time the Indians proved 

very troublesome as thej took advantage of tie- 
fact that the soldiers were employed on southern 
battlefields and had little time to keep them in 

check The dusky foes were a constant aiuiowince 

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to cross the plains. Jmlge Cowan bad some very 
narrow and wonderful esCBj - 

Iu 1865 Judge Cowan returned to his farm in 
this county which he operated for nearly ten years. 
In November. 1^74, he was elected a member of 
the County Court and served for two terms of two 
vears each. In l^TS he was made clerk of the 
courts and has held that position continuously 
since. The Judge and his accomplished wife, who 

- formerly Miss Bettie Langford. have long 
moved iu the best social circles of the city and are 
highly esteemed. 






FRANK M. ATKINSON. Postmaster at St. 
Joseph, is numbered among the prominent 
and popular young business men of this 
enterprising city. He was boru in Lexing- 
ton. Mo., January 31, 1863, and is a member of a 
family whose representatives for years were promi 
neut iu the Old Dominion. His paternal grand 
father was one of the pioneer farmers of Ohio, 
where he passed the closing years of his life. 

Dr. Jesse Franklin Atkiuson, father of our sub 
ject, was boru uear Gallipolis, Ohio, and after com- 
pleting his literary education entered the Cincin- 
nati Medical College, from which institution he 
was graduated. He engaged in the practice of 
his profession at Warreusbnrg. Mo., until the out- 
break of the Civil War. at which time he received 
the appointment of Surgeon at Jefferson Barracks. 
Mo. Afterward he located at Lexington, this 
state, where he was successfully engaged as a 
general practitioner until his death, in 1SS2. He 
was prominent in various medical associations and 
also in the Republican party. His religions belief 
was iu sympathy with the doctrines of the Meth- 
odisl Episcopal Church, of which he was a faith- 
ful member. 

The mother of our subject, Harriett i Pie' - 
Atkinson, was born and reared in Lexington. Mb . 
where she died iu 1863. Her children were four 
in number, who attained to maturity, and of these 
our subject is the youngest. Hi- childhood days 
wrre passed iu Lexington, where he received a 



high school education and afterward clerked in a 
clothing store. For a time he was traveling sales 
man iu Missouri and Nebraska for a clothing 
house of St. Louis. In 1>ST, when St. Joseph 
was iu the midst of its real-estate "boom," h^ 
came to this city, and, in partnership with John 
Williams, embarked in the real estate business 
The firm of Williams & Atkinson occupied pleas 
ant quarters ou Frances Street, and conducted a 
general real-estate business with enterprise and 
efficiency. 

The organization of the Lincoln Club, in l vvs . 
was the direct result of Mr. Atkinson's exertions 
and he was honored with the office of first Presi 
dent. In 1 S9"2 he was elected Secretary of the 
Republican City Ceutral Committee. His efforts 
have been largely instrumental in promoting the 
progress of the Republican party iu St. Joseph, 
and perhaps no citizen of the place wields a more 
potent influence among the young men than he. 
In June. 1892, he was elected to represent the 
Third Ward on the School Board, of which he is 
member at the present time. Septeml>er 1, 1892, 
upon the death of the postmaster. C. F. Ernst, he 
was appointed to that office by President Harrison, 
and is now serving in that position. Several times 
he has been a delegate to the Republican Stat.- 
Convention. When we consider the fact that he 
has not yet attained to life's prime, the honorable 
positions to which he has l>een called prove the 
possession of abilities of no ordinary nature. 
What the future has in store for him, what honors 
will come to him with the passing years, we leave 
to the biographer of the next generation to reeonl 
Withont doubt, however, he will add lustre to the 
position already attained by St. Joseph as the 
home of ruanv of the eminent men of Missouri. 



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I ¥ [RAM CHRISTOPHER. M. A.. M. D.. 

r*^ Deau of the Eusworth Medical College and 

1^ Professor of Chemistry, has gained promi- 

< nence. not only in the scientific circles of 

St. Joseph, where he resides, but also is widely 

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*l mlist ,.f rare powers an. I wide range of infor 

tiiation concerning the subjects to whiofa he has 
devoted a life time of study. Aside from his pro 
anal <1 « it i r--i. he has become wall known in 

literary oiroles aa th litor of the Medical ll> raid 

a monthly publication devoted to the interests "f 
the aeiei f medicine, founded in June, 1891. 

At Louisville, Ky . Eliram Christopher was born 
August 22, 1819. His father, Ebenezer, was of 
eastern birth, and resided Bucoessively in New 
York. Maryland and Kentucky, being a pioneer 
farmer of the last-named state, where he died in 
1826. Mar> Sturgias, as the mother of onr sub 
joi-t was known in maidenhood, was born in 
Somerset County, Md.. and died in Kentucky, 
after having become the mother of eleven children. 
Hiram, the tenth in order of liirth, is the only one 
now living. He was reared in Louisville, where, 
at the age of eighteen, he was appointed Assistant 
Postmaster and occupied this position until he was 
twenty-two, 

The literary education of Dr. Christopher was 
gained in Bethany College, W. Va., which be 
entered at the age of twenty two and from which 

he was graduated in 1845, with the degr f 

Bachelor of Arts. Later he was honored with the 
degree of Master of Arts After graduating, he 
entered the Medical Department of the Univereit] 
of Louisville and was graduated from that institu 
tion in March, ls|7. with the degree of Doctor of 

Medicine. He opened an office for the praoti >f 

his profession at St. Louis, Mo., where he re 

mained until 1859, meanwhile establishing a g 1 

practice and becoming known as a conscientious 
and skillful physician. 

In the year above named Dr Christopher was 
called to the Chair of Chemistry and Natural 
History in Bethany College, and this responsible 

position I ncupied with distinguished ability 

until the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861. The 
strife between N'Tth and South resulted in the 

dosing of the college. The Doctor then came to 

Lexington, Mo., where he again commenced an 
active round of professional duties. In August, 
1864, he resumed the praoti f hi~ profession at 

St Louis, where for fourteen ensuing years he 
was continuously engaged as a physician and siir 



geon. In 1*7* he was honored bj aleotion to the 
Professorship of Chemistry, Philosophy aid I. an 
giiagi-s in Woodland College, located at [ndepend 
ence, Mo., and for three years he filled this p..s| 
tion. 

In 1882 l>r Christopher located in 81 
Joseph, where he soon acquired an enviable repu 

tation as a s| ialisl in diseases of the throat, nose 

and ear. In l*7'.i he I mi" Professor of Chemis 

try in the St. Joseph Medical College, and ten 
years later a pted a similar position in the Bins 

worth Medical College, which is one of tin. beat 

institutions of the kind in Missouri, and has an 

average of sixty five students in attendance. Of 

this college the 1 1. 1. 'tor was elected Dean in 1891 
and is still serving in that capacity. 

At Fayette, Mo . occurred the marriage of 

Dr. Christopher to Miss Nannie MoGarvey, who 
was horn in Kentucky. They are the parents 
of three children: Mary, the wife of Doctor West 
over, of St Joseph; Sallie, Mrs. J. A. Lea, of 
Independence, Mo.; and Fannie, who married Mr. 
George Bradford, and resides in Independence, 
Mo. The religions connections of the family are 
with the Christian church, and they are prominent 
in that denomination as active workers and gener 

ous ( tributors. The Doctor affiliates with the 

Democratic party politically. His office is located 
in the Ballinger Building at St. Joseph. He is a 
charter member of the Buohanan County Medical 
Society, and has always been influential in its 

moils. For two \cars. 1*77 78, he Idled the 

position of Associate Editor of the St Louis 
Medical and Surgical Journal, in 001 ction with 

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G-OL. ELIJAH GATES, ol St Joseph, who 
has held several important official positions. 
' is verj popular, and in the late war was a 

prominent colonel in the Southern Army. 

Ane.ng other positions he has tilled with gre.it 
credit to himself are those of State Treasurer and 
SheriJT, having held the former place from 1*77 to 
ISM and the |;,tt,. r from |s7:: !■■ 1877 Our BUD- 



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ject vras born in Garrard County, Ky . December IT. 

I > "J 7 , and passed bis boyhood in Lincoln County. 
His grandfather, Elijah Gates, was a prominent 
farmer in Kentucky and a native of Virginia. Our 
subject's father. John, was also l>oru in Garrard 
County, where he was engaged in farming until 
his death in 1829, Elijah Iving then only eighteen 
months old. The mother, whose maiden name was 
Mary Maupin. was horn in Madison County. Ky . 
and was a daughter of Thomas, an old Virginian 
and a Revolutionary soldier under Washington. 
He lived to be nearly one hundred years of age 
and was one of the early pioneers in Kentucky. 
Mrs tines after her tirst hnsbaud"s death was 
agaiu wedded, still making her home in Kentucky, 
until her death in Lexington, when she was about 
sixty tive years of age Bj her tirst marriage she 
had three children, and by her second union, one. 

I Qates was reared on a farm in Kentucky 

until his nineteenth rear, attending the district 
subscription schools of the old-fashioned log kind. 
His sister died in Kentucky in 1891, and his 
brother John, who was a private in our subject's 
regiment, was killed at the battle of Elk Horn. 
Ark. In 1S4S the Colonel came to Missouri by 
way of the rivers and for a few mouths worked on 
a farm in Platte County and then removed to Liv- 
ingBton County, purchasing a farm of one hundred 
and sixty acres for $4 an acre. This he greatly 
improved and during those early days experienced 
life on the frontier. He has often riddeu between 
his home and St. Joseph and thought the prairie 
would certainly never be settled. In l s ">7 he sold 
his former place, buying a farm of one hundred 
and seventy acres in Freemont Township, to the 
cultivation of which he gave his attention until the 
war. making a specialty of raising hemp. 

In May. of 1861, our subject entered the state 
militia as Captain of Company A. for three months' 
service, taking part in engagements at Can': 
Drj Wov\l. Lexington aud Spriugtield. He after- 
ward organized a regiment at Lexington, known 
■ •..'!'.'■; Regiment of the State Militia, and was 
commissioned Lieutenant colonel. Three months 
later he assisted in organising ■ regiment for the 
Confederate service at Springfield. Mo., and was 
commissioned Colonel of the same. b<?ing attached 



to Gen. Price's army. After camping some 
time at Springfield, he returned to Arkansas and 
after engaging in the battle of Elk Horn was or- 
dered to join Beauregard at Corinth. 

Paring the remainder of the war Mr. Gates was 
iu Mississippi. Alabama. Georgia and Tennessee, 
and was iu the battles of Iuka. the second battle 
of Corinth. Grand Gulf, Champion Hills and Big 
Black river, in the last of which he was captured 
by the Twenty Second Iowa troops and but two 
days later made his escape His command was 
then in Vieksburg and he made his way to Canton. 
M -s . to Johnston, with whom he remained until 
after the surrender of Vieksburg. when he joined 
his regiment, going to Demopolis, Ala.. l>eiug iu 
a parole camp until his regiment was exchanged. 

Mr Davis then went with Gen. Coekrell. tak 
ing part iu the siege of Atlanta, which continued 
for forty days and nights. 

After participating iu the battle of Jonesborohe 
proceeded toward Nashville in a roundabout way 
and was engaged in the battles of Spring Hill and 
Eranklin. On the way to Atlanta he was wounded 
iu the left shoulder, but it soon healed, and when 
iu command of his regiment, as Gen. Coekrell 
was in the hospital, when charging the breastworks 
at Franklin he was shot with a minie ball in the 
left arm aud was wounded iu the right arm below 
the elbow at the same time. He was sent to the 
field hospital where it was found necessary to am 
putate one of his arms. He was captured by the 
Eederals and at the end of thirty-five days when 
nearly well was ordered north to prison. Just be 
fore starting from Franklin he escaped from the cars, 
it being night, and made his way to Mobile where his 
regiment was stationed. He took charge of tliem 
and went to Ft Blakely. The command was eapt 
ured iu April. 1865, and sent to Ship Island as 
prisoners of war. remaining there for three weeks 
when they were sent by way of New Orleans to 
Vieksburg. The Colonel's war record is very 
thrilling, as he was wounded five times and three 
times captured, twice making his escape. During 
the war he had three horses shot from under him. 
Iu 1865 Mr. Gates located in St. Joseph start 
ing in the livery business on Fourth street, aud 
continued it until he was nominated and elected 



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Sheriff in I^T'J. on the Democratic ticket I »-i i >lt 
re-elected and serving until L877. In the full of 
1876 Mr dates waa Dominated and eleoted State 
tr e as urer, leading the tioket, and receiving the 
largest majority of anj man Bver eleoted in the 
state He was in office until January, ISM, when 
heboogbl an interest in 1 1 » ♦ - omnibus and transfer 
line, the firm having been since known as Piner A 
Qatee. Thej handle nil mails t" the trains and 
have an exclusive business. In December, l^ s ">. 
the Colonel was appointed United States Marshal 
i>f the Western District of Missouri, comprising 

eeventj tw unties, holding that place until 

March, 1800, and in the meanwhile traveling nil 
over bis territory. At one time he was interested 
in coal mini's, being President of the Iowa and 
Missouri Coal Mining Company for two years, when 
be -"lil .ml . 

In the spring of 1862 our Bubjeol was united in 
marriage in Livingston County, Mo., to Miss Ma 
ria Stamper, a uative of Monroe County, Mo. To 
them have been born twelve <-h i 1.1 rt>n nine of whom 
are living: Blmina, wife of H. K. Lyon, of Kansas 
City; John I... who is manager of the omnibus 
line; Joel E , County Recorder of Deeds; Luella, 
who became the wife of John 1). McCarthy, and 
liv.s in tin's city; Elijah, Jr., Charles <!., Maggie 
0. and Benjaim I), (the latter two twins), uml 
( teorgie < '. 

Ciil. Gates went to California in the spring 
i if 1852, crossing the plains with six yoke of cattle, 
and binding at Stockton where he engaged in dif- 
ferent pursuits, at the end of a year returning home 
byway of the fsthmus of Panama and New fork. 
For years past he has been a member of the Masonic 
Fraternity, and is one of the Vice presidents and 
Managers of the Confederate Soldiers' Hume at 
ll gginsvi lie from the Fourth Congressional l*is 

tll.t 



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ORRIS \ SEED is an Attorney at Law. 
and located at 111 Francis street, St 
Joseph. This noted gentleman waa born 
in Watertown, Jefferson County, N 5 . 
where he was reared and given what edn 

rational advantages the town afforded, and after 

a 



ward graduating from the Dnion Academy, 
Jefferaon County. Winn the late war broke out 

I utered companj A, of the Tenth Regiment of 

N'-w Fork Eeavj Artillery, in September, I 
and afterward received an appointment on the 
-tall' of Gen. Piper, who at (hut time was Divis 
ion Commander in the defenses of Washington, 
D. C. He aete.l as kssistant Inspector General 
and A ill ile cam 1 1 on Gen Piper's staff nntil the last 
year of the war, when bis command was sent to 

join (ten. Sheridan in the valley of the Shemm 
doah. After returning from this campaign be 
served at various times under the commands of 

( lens. Smith and Stewart. 

Our subject was detached fur special service at 
different times: oi , when the rebel rams ile 

Boended the Ja s river from near Richmond to 

clear the stream, he was on guard duty in com 

mandof a squad of sent across from Drewry's 

Blutf and was the first to report tl iming of 

the Confederates The ( 'mi federates tlonted down 
the river and fur beyond the forts and batteries 

of the Unionists, under the protection of a terrific 
cannonade carried on between the land batteries of 

the Opposing force, until they reached a bomn in 
the river which delayed them considerably. I'nder 
constant tire, the] cleared the river of its obetruc 

tion, but instead of passing on down and attacking 
the Federal gun boats, Hey turned buck and 
finally made good their retreat. Lieut Raid's 

duties were to watch every movement and report 
the same. After this be wns promoted to the 
rank of first lieutenant which position In- retained 
until his discharge and the close of the struggle. 
After peace was declared, our subject returned 

to Watertown and studied law with Brown uml 

Beach t F,\ governor), and was admitted to the bar 
in 1860, after a two yeara' preparation. In mal. 
ing his choice of a location where he might makea 

a I start in his profession. St. Joseph was 

Selected the favored place. Here he formed a 

partnership with Col. John Doriphan. In l^^ 

this lit in dissolved partnership and our subject 
started for himself in his chosen profession. In 

1882 he made a brilliant canvass for congress, and 

Col. James N. I'urnes, his successful opponent. 

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fairest campaign that he ever passed through. 
For ken years he practiced law in various courts. 

He was made a Register under the United States 
Bankrupt Law of 1867, which position he held 
until its repeal. In l ss '' he was made city conn 
oilor under Mayor F.nglehart, retaining the posi- 
tion for two years, at the end of which time he 
was appointed General Attorney for the St. Joseph 
and Grand Island Railway Company, and oper 
ated lines, to which he devoted the major part of 
his time, also engaging largely in corporation 
practice, acting as attorney for the State National 
Bank for twelve years. 

October loth, 1872, Mr. Reid was married to 
Miss Margie R. Kimball, of Hath, Me. Two chil- 
dren Messed this union: Clara A. and Morris H., 
who is a member of the Sophomore class of Yale 
College. Clara graduated from Mrs. Celte's 
school, of St. Joseph, and is at the present time a 
student in Mrs. Tucker's conservatory of music. 
Mr. Reed has a tine residence which he built in 
1876, and which is fitted with every convenience 
for a model home. This elegant family dwelling 
is rendered still more attractive because sur 
rounded with spacious and well kept grounds, and 
is the scene of many social gatherings. 

Our subject is connected with the Congrega- 
tional Church, his wife being a zealous worker ami 
an active member of the same, and president of its 
Ladies' Aid Society. Mr. Reid is an honored and 
self reliant gentleman, public spirited and enter 
prising, and has worthily won his way upward to 
the esteem and Confidence of his fellow citizens. 
In all business transactions he is even suave in 
manner, high minded and honorable, disdaining to 
stoop to the trickery now characterizing so many 
professions. He is on the contrary well and 
favorably known as one of the foremost members 
of the St. Joseph bar. 

JOHN ANGKL, with one exception, is the old 
est settler now left in St. Joseph. He 
landed in this city November 21, 1S43, com- 
ing in a stage from St. Louis, by way of 
Weston. That forerunner of the modem railroad 



with its well equipped service, after a slow and de- 
layed journey of several days, arrived here at one 
o'clock, and early in the day our subject went out 
to look over the city and determine what prospects 
would probably be in store for the place. So well 
was he impressed that on looking over a map in 

the office of Joseph Robidaux he picked out a lot 

near the square, for which he paid $100, and pro- 
ceeded to place a dwelling house upon it, getting 
the timber, which he hewed out himself, from the 
Upper bottom. As there were only a few small 
houses in the city when he came he found it very 
easy to secure a tenant, renting it in May. During 
the war Mr. Angel showed his loyalty to the Onion 
by serving on the United States Grand Jury for 
two terms at Jefferson City ami one term tit St. 
Louis. For many years after his settlement in St. 
Joseph, he engaged in building and contracting, 
but is now retired from active business cares, en- 
joying the rest and competence which he has well 
earned. 

Our subject was born in Pennsylvania County. 
Va. , January 24, 1813. His paternal grandfather 
was of British descent, and a farmer in Pcmisyl 
vania, where our subject's father, Nicholas, was 
born. The latter was reared by an uncle in Yir 
ginia, and being a natural mechanic, engaged in 
wagon making in addition to farming. His mar 
riage was celebrated in Virginia, in which state he 
worked at his trade until about the year 1814, 
when he went to Surrey County, N. O, when' he 
had a carriage shop on his farm. His death 00 
curred on the homestead December 24, 1859, at the 
age of sixty seven years. Our subject's mother, 
Anna Taylor, was born in Virginia, and was a 
daughter of Cornelius, an agriculturist in that 
state, and later in North Carolina. Mrs. Angel 
died when our subject was (piite small, and after 
ward his father married her sister, Rebecca. In 
a family of four children John Angel is the el. lest 
and the only surviving member of the family. He 
was reared in North Carolina, on the farm, receiv- 
ing but limited school advantages, and as regards 
education as well as from a financial point of view. 
he may truly be said to be a self made man. He 
remained with his parents until 1833, when he 
went to Fayetteville. Tenn., where he engaged in 



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(arming for several yeara, and also learned theoar 
r'~ trade, working for a time m Huntsville, 
A l.i 

In 1889 Mr Angel decided to go farther weal 

and try bit fortunes on the frontier. He u ril 

ingh started from Hunteville on horseback al •. 

going lir-i to Memphis, thenoe to Little Rook, 

landing in Austin, where be remained twn years. 

In Pebmar] "f isil be wen! bj stage to Galves 
ton, where he took a boat to St. Louia Prom thai 

eitj be or led to Van Boron Connty, Iowa, 

where he engaged al bia trade durmg ill" winter of 
1842 13, and was bead Messenger in the Iowa 
stature. His nexl important more was, as 
before mentioned, when became to St Joseph in 
the fill of 1848. Mr. Angel began working at bis 
trade in this city, contracting for buildings and 
running a large shop. For two and a half years 
In- was in partnership with William Rodgers, bul 
since thai time luis been alone. He dealt cousiil 
erably in real estate and took contracts for many 
of the 'rame and brick buildings, which art< still 
standing in this citj He -till owns a large 
amount of valuable property in the city. 

On July 18, 1848, Father J. T. Higgenbottom 
prononnoed the marriage ceremony whiefa joined 
thefortanea of John Angel and Miss ESugenia, 
daughter of Prancia Robidanx, so well known to 
tin' eitizena of St. Joseph. Francis Robidaux waa 
a merchant in St. Louis, and later leda retired life 
in St Joseph until his death. Mi Lngel was 
I'orn an. I iwaiod to womanhood in St. Louis, and 
waa sailed to hex tinal reward November 16, 1890. 
Three children blessed their union: one died in 
infancy; Bdmond and Pelii both died in child 
hood, Por three terms our subject was a member 
of the Oitj Council, and waa Oitj kaaeaaor f or one 
yeai Politically he is a Democrat, and lias been 
active in i ■ai t _\ politics. His residence is located 
at the corner of Jule and Fifth streets When the 
Hannibal .v St .los..|>l. Railroad was being sur 
veyed, Mr Angel was on the survey corps in 1849, 
and was the first surveyor of the railroad in the 
state b e t we en St Joseph and Hannibal, camping 
out fm two inoiitlis I '. amor Stewarl was 
al-.. in the party, and solicited as well as took Borne 
stiwk to gel it through 



r** BORGE I'.l BLL, Presideul ol the Buell 
- kfanufaoturing Company, of 81 Joaepb, was 
\X horn in Jefferson County, N ^ . and when 
ft* seven yeara of age removed to Illinois. 
where he was reared and educated, spending the 
greater pari of Ins time in the woolen mill be 

longing to liis father; bei bul little attention 

was given to his education. Al the age of eight 

sen yean Mr Bnell l ame the manager of i 

Factor] eighteen miles north of Quinoy, Ul., and 
in 1848 removed to St. Joaepb when, he engaged 

in the flouring business, at the same tin Derating 

two custom Boale cards In 1852 bia father bnill 
a small woolen null in this city, which was then 
the only one west of the Mississippi river, and 
four years after, erected a saw mill, which be 
operated verj sm aafnlly until I860 

In his choice of a companion and helpmate on 
life's journey, our subjeol chose Miss Juliette 
Bancroft*, a native of Missouri, who waa born in 
Clay County. Mo., and died in 1 S 7I, leaving 
children. In 1875, Mr. Buell married Miss Clara 

Mapstone, a native of Michigan, who I ame the 

mother of two children. 

Our subjeol has held verj important positions in 
hanks and other incorporations associated with 
such men as W N Buell, J. W. I'-aily ami .1 S 
Lemon. The Buell Manufacturing Company, 
which without doubl conducts one of the most im 
portanl factories in Bl Joseph, is the most 
extensive plant manufacturing woolen goods in the 
uest. In I860, iii connection with his father, be 
established a two set woolen mill, which was iii 

creased to a four set mill. This was located on 
North Third street. The father of ..in subject, 
Norman Buell, came from Jefferson County, N ■» 

to St. Joseph in 1848, and was II riginal pro 

prietor of this mill In I860 Norman and his s..n 
Qeorge built the second woolen mill on North Sec 
on. I street, with two sets of maohinerj and twelve 

looms On the death Of his father, which urre.l 

in 1871, George I ame sole proprietor of the 

mills, taking into his partnership his cousin. 
William N. for live years In connection with 

their possessions at that time the] purchased the 

woolen mill at Blue Rapids, Kans . ami the Buell 
Compau] was i rporated in theyeai 18 #7 The 



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present plant was built iu 1882 with mostly im- 
proved machinery, and the Buell Rapid Mill was 
discontinued in 18U0, the machinery being brought 
to this city, and used advantageously iu the mills 
here. 

The company of Buell & Co. has a capital stock 
of £200,000, the principal stockholders being John 
S. Lemon, William G. Fairleigh, Dr. J. S. Logan, 
Tootle Estate and George W. Buell. The prod- 
ucts of this mill comprise large numbers of 
blankets, robes and flannels, all first-class goods in 
every respect, and a large assortment of over fifty 
styles, which they design, of blankets. The 
thirty years' experience which this firm has had 
insures the best blankets made, the annual pro- 
ductions amounting to about $250,000. They trade 
extensively with both eastern and western terri- 
tories, and from Dnluth, Wis., to Galveston, Tex., 
and keep one hundred and seventy live employes, 
three-fourths of whom are skilled laborers, earn- 
ing from one dollar to five dollars per day, making 
the pay roll amount to about $5,500 per month. 
The wool used in this factory is nearly all grown 
in Missouri, of which about one million pounds 
are used annually, amounting in all to about 
$80,000. The plant is an immense one on a tract 
of about twenty acres of land, and cost not far 
from $250,000, including the machinery. Mr. 
Buell has been manager of the woolen mills since 
I860, and president of the company since the time 
of its organization. 



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(r*b EORGE WARREN SAMUEL is one of the 
w, oldest settlers of the "Platte Purchase" and 
t^I has been one of the most prominent mer- 
■^ chants in the state. He is one of the 
wealthy citizens of St. Joseph, with the prosperity 
of which he has been most intimately connected 
from the early days. He is a director in the Com- 
mercial Bank, of which he was one of the organ- 
izers, and is also a stockholder in the Nebraska 
National Bauk at Omaha. 

Mr. Samuel's birth occurred June 4, 1810, at 
Newcastle, Henry County, Ky. His father, Reuben 



Samuel, of Carolina County, Va., was a son of 
Judge William Samuel, an early settler of Caro- 
lina County, Va. The family is of Welsh descent, 
and numerous members have been promineut in 
different parts of the Union. Our subject's father 
is one of nine children: William, Jr., Reuben, 
John, Robert, Nancy, Elizabeth, Agnes, Fanny 
and Phoebe. These children all married well. 
The oldest son became a wealthy fanner; John 
was both prominent and rich, and often served his 
county in the Legislature; and the third son settled 
in Newcastle, Ky., where he owned a valuable 
farm. A son of the last-named was High Sheriff 
of Henry County, Ky., before his eighteenth year. 

Reuben Samuel and his four sons may be justly 
claimed as among the early settlers of Randolph 
County. The former was a carpenter, builder 
and contractor. He once was prevailed upon to 
ask of the Elective Magistrates, of which he was 
one, the office of Recording Clerk of the Circuit 
and County Court. His opponent's father had 
held the office for forty years. The result of the 
election was a tie, and Mr. Samuel himself held 
the deciding vote, and cast it for his opponent, 
Edmond P. Thomas. With his large family, Mr. 
Samuel sought a home in Missouri and seeing the 
prospective greatness of St. Louis, invested his 
limited means in lots. The value increased rapidly 
and after selling the properly he bought a cargo of 
Hour and chartered a boat, which was the second 
or third that had ever ascended the Missouri river, 
but the boat was sunk and his fortune with it. 
His life was saved only by swimming ashore. After 
these reverses he returned to Kentucky and was 
given a good official position. 

Our subject's mother, Martha Bartlett before 
her marriage, was born in Newcastle, Ky. Her 
father was a farmer and a colonel in the War of 
1812. Mrs. Samuel was the mother of eight 
children, two of whom died iu infancy. They were 
Thomas J., El. Madison, Sarah, our subject, 
Clinton (who died from the effect* of his service 
during the Mexican War), and William R. The 
eldest son, Thomas J., was a noble and most duti- 
ful son, and cared for his aged parents with filial 
care until their death. Sarah, the only sister, was 
noted for her energy and perseverance. She was 



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ili.iriial.li' to tli«' degree thai Bhe robbed benelf of 
t lie very comforts of life. Bdward Ifadieon, the 
,.| bod, was moal cloeelj oonneoted with the 
bistorj of Missouri; shaping itapolioj when the 
state was id its infancy. 1 1 • > waa an able writer 
ainl a good speaker. Be was "in- "f tin- mo.it 
wealthj and eztenaiTe merohantaof northwestern 
M ~ 'iiri. He ostahlished the Commercial Bans 
of St Louis of which he was president al the time 
of his death. Hon. William B., the youngest of 
the family, engaged in the merchandising business 
in Buntsville. Be afterward earned on a tobacco 
bnsineee and later turned his attention to real 
estate. In 1852 he was elected to i h<- State Legis- 
lature by the Whigs, and four years later was 
sleeted Circuit Clerk ami County Recorder, serving 
a- Bach for ten years. 

We will now take u]> more specially the history 
.if Qeorge Warren Samuel, of this sketch. At the 

Bge ..f seventeen, be left school, not being able for 

want of means to obtain a collegiate course. Though 

not in robust health be started out to seek his fort 
line in the west, ami in November, 1828, reached 
Howard County, Mo., with only fifty cent- in 
In- pocket. Be entered the mercantile bouse .>f 

Harrison, QlasgOW A Koss, then the largest dealers 
in the west ahovo St. Louis. After remaining 
with them for two years he gained the implicit 

oonfidenoeof hi- employers ami with their aid em 

barked in business for himself in Chariton, Mo. 

(»n acoounl of the nnhealthiness ..f the locality he 
removed t.. Buntsville, Randolph County, hut that 
sparsely Bottled region not affording suffioieni trade, 
he removed to Colombia in 1884, forming a part 
nershi|i with the Lammea, and ereoting a mill 
Which was the first paper mill wc-t ..f the Ohio. 
This was unfortunately consumed by tire. 

To add t.. the discouragement of Mr. Samuel at 
this time, his health wa- c. .n-tant ly declining and 

it seemed necessary for him to take a sea voyage. 
Be accordingly did so. hut the fate- still pursued 

him for the vessel wa- wrecked near IJemini Island 

ami though Mr. Samuel managed to get back to 

ouri, be waa a mere skeleton and penniless. 

!!.• erected the t'n-t bouse ever erected in the 

Platte Purchase by a i banio. This bouse 

was afterward occupied by David It Atchison, who 



wa- President pro tern ..f tie- United States f-r 
. .lie day. 

Thomas Smith, of Kentucky, assisted him to 
embark in the packing business, bu( the experiment 
waa unfavorable. Another venture Beeming i • 
s.iiv. and steamhoat ing promising to he remunei 
ative. he liuilt a steamhoat, hut this speculation 

proved disastrous. In 1888 oui Bubjeol removed 
to Platte City. Seeing tho place when. St Joseph 

now stands he at once believed a < • 1 1 y would he 
there founded. He was eager !•• p..--..-- th,- li tot 
and was one of a company formed to buy the pre 
.nipt ion right for J 1 ,l'.(li I. A. trivial thing, however, 
prevented the consummation of this plan. 

In Savannah, Mo., Mr. Samuel next embarked 
in the mercantile business, continuing until I860, 
when he found his fortune again restored lie 
was obliged to stop on account of the war, being 
crip|. led financially, and removed to St. Joseph, 
where in IM'iS he organized the St. Joseph Fire & 
Marine Insurance Company, of which he was for 
a time President. In the course of time he he 
came interested in stores in six or eight different 
(•..unties, and for over half a century success has 
crowned his ell 

In ls:iS Mr. Samuel married Rebecca T. Todd, 
daughter of the late .1 u,l_'e T, .. I< i . who was a cap 
tain under ( ion. Harrison in the War of 1812. 
He was a leading member of the bar in St. Joseph 
for fort _\ years. On .Inly 26, 1865, our subject 

was bereft "f hi- wife and ju-l ..ue month later his 
only s..n, Col |). Todd Samuel, wa- killed at the 

battle of Kenesaw Mountain, and buried with the 

honor- ..f war at Atlanta. <ia. Hi- father had his 

remains brought to St. Joseph and placed bj the 

side of his little l.rother and sister. 

The young colonel waa onlj a youth when he 
was captured at Camp Jackson and was a major 

iindei Col. Sanders He returned home hut could 

not -ta\ on account >.f tl xeilement of the hour. 

The last words spoken to hi- fat her were: •'Father, 
1 would lather fall in battle than forauke m\ com 

rades with whom I have enlisted." A- major, 
assisted bj Col, Jeff Patton, be raised a small regi 

in. lit, with winch he fought al Bind Mills, I.exing 

ton. Pea Ridge, Corinth, Viek burg, Kenesaw, 

luka, Atlanta nil I JonPRVille At the time of his 



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death be was colonel of the Third Confederate 
States Army and was the youngest officer in rank 
west of the line of the southern states. Our sub- 
ject's oldest daughter is Eliza B., Mrs. H. W. 
Yates, of Omaha, her husband being President of 
t lie Nebraska National Bank. His other children, 
Florence T. and Insley J., are residents of St. Jo- 
seph. The former is the wife of J. T. Johnson 
and the latter is Mrs. John S. Lemon, her bus- 
baud being a banker. His biography may be 
found in another part of this work. 

Mr. Samuel was interested in building the Han- 
nibal & St. Joseph Railway and also the Kansas 
City line. He is a stockholder and director in the 
Rock Island Road, and was a stockholder and 
helped to build the first railroad west of the Alle- 
ghany Mountains. This line was run by horse- 
power between Booneville and Franklin. Mr. 
Samuel was at one time a partner of ex-Gov. Clay 
Jackson. Peter Birney, who became Governor of 
California later, and ex-Gov. Conways and ex- 
Gov. Elias of Arkansas were all his employes. 
Mr. Samuel has had the pleasure of seeing all of 
the Presidents from John Qnincy Adams down to 
the present time, with the exception of five. He 
built the library building on the corner of Sixth 
and Charles streets, and has backed up the enter- 
prise with generous contributions. Our subject 
was trained in business under John T. Cleveland, 
an uncle of President Cleveland. It was during 
this period that our subject wrote a petition to 
Congress asking the protection of Santa Fe traders, 
and a company of soldiers was sent out and threw 
up mounds or hills by means of which the teams 
could follow one course and keep together. 






Ml Mi ON. OLIVER MARTIN SPENCER. There 
IpSl is a wide difference between biography and 
I eulogy. The biographer is in duty bound 
■wJ to himself, to the man about whom he 

writes, and to the general public not to overesti- 
mate or underestimate the character of a citizen. 
Fulsome flattery, in nine cases out of ten, over- 
reaches itself and is more injurious to those it 



attempts to elevate than to any one else. There is 
such a widespread practice at the present time, 
especially among those of the journalistic profes- 
sion, of indulging in indiscriminate and extrava- 
gant eulogy when the lives of public men are being 
considered, as to provoke caustic criticism and 
lessen the effects of honest and legitimate biog- 
raphy. Therefore, in dealing with the salient points 
in the life and character of Judge Oliver Martin 
Spencer, the author of this sketch (who has known 
him intimately for many years), will endeavor to 
adhere to these important truths. 

It is doubtless proper to inform the reader at the 
outset that amoug the most intimate friends. of 
Judge Spencer, those who have known him from 
his earliest boyhood, no story is told of his having 
ever, in the most remote degree, attempted to imi- 
tate the Father of his Country by cutting down a 
favorite cherry tree aud then frankly acknowledg- 
ing to his proud father that he did it, but could not 
tell a lie. Those who know both the Judge and 
his illustrious father are disposed to'rather com- 
pliment the sagacity of the boy for not endeavoring 
to play such a prank upon the practical old gen 
tleman, for he well knew his ulterior design would 
have been promptly penetrated and trouble would 
have immediately ensued. 

It is true, nevertheless, that the Judge was a 
pretty shrewd sort of boy and averaged well among 
his youthful acquaintances. At a very early age 
he developed the fact that his destiny, whatever it 
might prove to be, was not to begin and end upon 
a Buehanan County farm. It is true that he 
plowed many acres of ground, hoed corn year 
after year during the long summer days, and 
went home at night with a severe backache but a 
very aggressive appetite. He also chased the hogs 
out of the paternal cornfields, built "stake and 
ridered" fences, chopped wood, and was a good 
farm " hand," but he did not like the work, and was 
Dot backward in saying so. 

Judge Spencer comes from one of those promi- 
nent pioneer families of the west who have left 
such worthy examples and honorable names to 
their posterity. He was born on the old Spencer 
homestead in Crawford Township, Buchanan 
County, Mo., August '_!:), 1S49. Not being partial 



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to farm work, and having rather praotioal views 
ii] x hi the sale and handling of stock, his Father 
permitted him, el the age of twelve yearn, t" buy 
end Bell in thai line, at which he made some money. 
During the winter months li«' attended school at 
the old Spencer school house, and now and then 
had rather painful experiences with his teacher 
There is one story t « • I » 1 of him that all his friends 
religiously believe. His father had a mill and a still 
house "ii his place, and the present Judge was de 
puted to do the chores around both. Bomehow or 
other he managed to perform his deities at the mill 
in rerj short order, bul the choree around the still 
house appeared to !><• much more laborious. 

An incident occurred in 1865 thai determined 
the career of young spencer. The pedagogue who 
was teaching \n- "yonng ideas how to Bhoot" con 
oluded one . l;i\ thai his pupil would have to be die 
ciplined on account of a fight he had engaged in 
with /.eke Whittington. The youngster, however. 
differed with his instructor alxnit the necessity for 
such a proceeding, and while the teacher went after 

the Bwitoh With which to bestow the chastisement, 
" li'iii." as he was then nicknamed, took French 

leave, and when the teacher returned he had to be 
satisfied with whipping Zeke. The next morning 
Ins father sent him to the Baffington school at St. 

■I ph. where he remained for a year and made 

rapid progress in his studies Be has often said 

that he owes bis present vocation in life to Zeke 

Whittington, wl for maoj wars he has counted 

i- i me of hi~ best friends. 

In 1868 our subject attended the St Joseph 

Bigh School, and during the following \ ear entered 
the university at Columbia, Mo. In 1870 he he 
came a student in the Christian University at Can 

ton. Mo., from which he was graduated with the 

honors ..f the institution in 1^7'J. Until 1878 he 

read law at Leavenworth, residing with his parents, 

who in the meantime ha. I removed to Kickapoo. 
Kans . six miles north of Leavenworth. To reach 

tl Ilice, he was in the habit of riding to the city 

each morning on horseback and returning home in 

the evening, in 1878 he entered the law school at 

Harvard, where lie tirst met Ins present law partner, 

Hon I). |). Burnee. During the following year 



he opened an oilice for the practk f Ins profes 

aion at St Joseph. 

Judge Spencer was married in 1876 to Mi-. 

Lillian, daughter of Joseph Tootle and a niei 
the late Milton Tootle Her motbet wis a 
of James HcGord, Br. She was a ladj of , ire 
accomplishments, hut died in 1880 al the age of 
twenty four years, when her youngest child was 

only twelve nt hs. old. Two bright boys were 

born to Jndge ami Mis. Spencer: Harry Saddens, 

horn July 20, 1^77. an, I K.lwiii (). M . bom July 
I 1879. Their fat her has taken great pains with 
their rearing ami education, ami hoth give promise 

of developing into capable and useful men. 

The tirst office held by Judge Spencer was that 
of Deputy Prosecuting Attorney under Judge 
Henry M. Kamey, who was Proeeouting Attorney 

at that tune. His tirst important case was the 

defense of t ho Well- ktlOWU Hohert W . Black, who 

was indicted for the killing of James Bates. Judge 
Spencer, although a young attorney, was chief 
counsel for the defense, and in the conduct of the 

case he developed that ability as a lawyer which 
enabled him to take his place nt once in the front 
rank of the leading attorneys of St. Joseph The 
highest encomiums were passed upon him by hoth 
the city press and the general public for the adroit 
manner in which he tried and won this celebrated 
case. The jury, after being OUt thirty live minutes. 
returned a verdict of "not guilty," and the friends 
of Mr. Black greeted the young attornej with an 
ovation. 

In the fall of ]S7'.» our suhject was elected 

Prosecuting Attorney of Buchanan County and 

served from January. 1880, to 1882. In 1886 he 
was elected Judge of the Circuit Court on the 

I loeratic ticket, hut the Republican lawyers paid 

him tin' high compliment of joining in the call and 
refused to nominate a candidate against him. On 
the bench he served for four years and made a 
record as a most capable and impartial judge. 
S. \ei.il ,,f tin' most prominent lawyers in St I 

sepb, who were approached upon the subject, agi I 

in saying that tin' decisions of Judge Spei r 

stood as bigh as those of anj preceding judge 
of tin' Buchanan Count i Circuit Court. 1 1 • ■ had no 



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sympathy with the "technical" lawyer, but be- 
lieved iu the principles of humanity and justice. 
" Being as young as he was, I think he made a re- 
markable record on the bench," said one of the 
best-known lawyers iu St. Joseph, "and I think he 
was the fairest, most courteous and equitable 
judge the Circuit Court ever had." 

At the end of four years our subject resigned the 
judgeship to accept the position of General Solic- 
itor of the Burlington Railroad lines in Missouri, 
of which the young and capable W. C. Brown is 
the general manager. At the same time he organ- 
ized the law firm of Spencer, Burnes & Mosman, 
which is one of the strongest legal firms in the 
northwest. It was Judge Spencer's good fortune 
to see much of life and men when he was a boy. 
His father, who was one of the leading citizens of 
this section, resided near the line of Platte County, 
in the "hot-bed" of southeru sympathizers. Him- 
self and his four brothers were one day in the com- 
pany of the rebels, commonly called " bush- 
whackers,'' and the next with the Union troops. 
The boys inclined toward the cause of the Confed- 
erates, but their father determined that his sons 
should neither fight to destroy the Union nor oppose 
those with whom he sympathized, and accordingly 
sent the older boys across the plains to Denver 
with a wagon train of freight. Tom, being too 
young, remained at home to do active field duty — 
that is, in the cornfield. He was old enough to 
assist his parents iu their efforts to preserve their 
lives and property from the ravages of war. 

In his dealings with his fellow-men Judge 
Spencer does everything ex anim.0, and in his bus- 
iness affairs he adheres to the principles of experto 
iTt<le. Being possessed of a liberal mind and a 
charitable disposition, he exercises a broad human- 
ity in his quiet way. and believes in whatever is 
calculated to advance and elevate mankind. The 
fact that he was chosen as the General Solicitor of 
the Burlington lines in Missouri proves without 
question his high capacity as a lawyer, and the 
satisfactory manner in which he has fulfilled the 
duties of the responsible position demonstrates 
that he is what may be aptly termed a "man of 
affairs." 



JjOHN S. LEMON is one of the wealthy busi- 
ness men of St. Joseph and a member of the 
firm of Tootles, Lemon & Co., bankers. He 
was born in Bullitt County, Ky. , August 15, 
1833, and when only eleven years of age began 
clerking in a country store. In 1850, at which 
time he had reached the age of seventeen, he came 
to St. Joseph and started in as a clerk with the 
firm of Powell & Levy, who are both since de- 
ceased, and two years later became a partner with 
them, remaining as such for ten years. Iu 1802 
he entered into partnership with Isaac T. Hosea 
under the style of Lemon & Hosea, dealing in gen- 
eral dry goods. They continued until 1870, when 
his partner retiring, our subject continued alone 
until 1874, when he sold out to Brittaiu, Ovelman 
& Co., havingiu the meantime built up a large and 
paying business which he would not have disposed 
of except on account of failing health. 

Of later years Mr. Lemon has been connected 
with several banks; was the president of the Mer 
chants' Bank for four or five years, being one of 
its incorporators and remaining with the institu- 
tion until 1SS7, at which time he became one of 
the administrators of the Tootle estate, to which he 
has since gi\\>n considerable attention. Iu 1888 
he was appointed curator for the minor heirs. 
In 1889 the Tootle, Lemon & Co.'s bank was 
started, and of that concern our subject is the 
present President. Iu addition to home banks he 
is also interested iu a number outside the city. 
The first street railway, now known as the People's 
Line, was furthered by him, he being one of the in- 
corporators. He is a member of the Board of 
Trade and is ever found iu the front rank of those 
agitating reform and all measures for the improve- 
ment and prosperity of the city. 

On January 13, 1870, a marriage ceremony, pel 
formed in St. Joseph, united the destinies of Mr. 
Lemon and Miss Annie I., daughter of George \V. 
Samuel. The lady was born in Savannah, Andrew 
County, and is possessed of fine educational and 
literary attainments, being, moreover, active in 
church and society work. She is a member of the 
Episcopal denomination, our subject also attend- 
ing the church to which she belongs, though he is 



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nut himself a member. The anion "f Mr. and 
Mi- Lemon baa been blessed with a family of four 
children: Floriel., Mary IS.., Henry V and Let 
Lie B 

J\< OB GEIGER, If. I> . of St Joeepb, is 
one of the most Famous surgeons inthe \\ est, 
and is favorably known both here and in St. 
Louis. II.' is In-art and bou! in his work 
and is actively oonneoted with runny < if tin' most 
prominent medical associations. He ie President 
"f the Ensworth Medical College ami Hospital of 
tli is place and is professor "f surgery. In 1800 he 
belped to organize the Marion Sims College of 
Medicine Si Louis where he is professor of sur 
gery, delivering lectures once a week, during the 
College year from September to March. Thi 
now connected with the College the 1{«1>< 
pital where the doctor treats patients. 

The birthplace of Dr. Qeiger was Wurtemberg, 
Qermany, the date being July 25, 1848. Bis 

father. Anion, was also horn in the same city ami 
real estate dealer. Grandfather Qeiger was 

a manufacturer of the place in his .lay. Our BUb 

jeet's father died in 1851. His mother, who was 
formerly Maria G. Eberhart, was horn in IMiOand 
was the daughter of a miller. She was the mother 
of five children. '1'wo of the Bons emigrated to 
America about 1854, first locating in Pennsylvania 
and later in Champaign County, 111. 

<>nr subject and his mother came to America in 
the fall of 1856, leaving Havre in a sailing vessel 
which took forty -eu days on the voyage. They 
joined the brothers in Illinois, remaining there 
until the spring of 1858, when OUT subject came to 
1 oepb. The family almost immediately went 
to Brown County, Sans., Bottling on a faun where 
the death of the mother occurred the following 
November. A short time after this event the doc 
tor returned to Bl Joseph where he mad.' his own 
living by working for a milkman. In I860 be 
went to Illinois, Bpending the summer in farm 
w.ik and attending the district schools during the 
winter. He then entered Homer Seminary, where 
he remained until the war ■- !■ .-.-. i 



In 1865 Jacob Geiger returned to St Joseph, 

clerking in a grocery b! for his brother. In 

I860 be graduated from Bryant's Business College 
and in the winter of the following \f.ir was a clerk 
al a Pork House and weighmaster there. In this 
way he mad.- sufficient money to take up the study 
of medicine, ami in the fall of 1868 was in a druo 
Btore. Prom 1865 until 1868 he studied medicine 
with Or. Galen E. Bishop, and in the latter year 
h.' hung out hi- sign on Francis Street, between 
Second and Third Street- He practiced until the 
fall of 1ST' 1 when he entered tin- l'ni\er-it\ of 

Louisville, K\ . and was graduated from themedi 
oal department two years later. Returning, be 
opened his oldoffioe and carried on a general prac 
tice until 1800 when he became a surgeon, ei 

clusively. 

In IS7X the St. Joseph Hospital Medical Col 
lege was organize, I, onr subject being one of the 

prime movers. He filled the chair of Anal \ 

during the first year, and two war- later, in com 
pany with Dr. Heddens and other-, organized the 
St. Joseph College of Physioians and Surg 
being elected to the chair of Surgery, and Seer. 

tary of the Faculty. In 1888 the two colleges 

were consolidated, the new institution being know n 
as the Si. Joseph Medical College. The Doctor 
was again elected to the chair of Surgery and was 
also made Dean of the Faculty, which position he 

held until 1880, when the nan f the oollegl 

changed on account of the bequest of Samuel 

Bnswortb, Tbey put up g I buildings and in 

1880 the school w;is opened, our Bubjecl being 
Dean, and Dr. Heddens, President, The latter po 
-ition was assigned Dr. Geiger in 1801. He is a 
life Trustee of the College, which has a larger hoe 

pital connected with it than any western college 
Dr. Geiger started the Medical Herald in l ss l 
ami has been editor or associate editor of the same 
ever Binoe, He has dealt considerably in real 
e-tate, owning huge tract- both here and in St 
Louis, He owns the Geiger Block, including the 
Nicolett Hotel. He belongs to the following Medi 
oal Associations Dha Missouri Valley, 'The State 
M oal, The Western Association of Obstetrics, 
The Grand River, The Northern Kansas, The 
District Medical of Northwestern Missouri, 



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Buchanan Medical, The St. Louis Medical, anil 
American Medical Association. 

In 1887 Dr. Geiger married Louise Kollatz, who 
was born in Atchison, Kans. , and grew to woman- 
hood in this city. Our subject is an active politi- 
cian of the Republican party, having been for two 
terms Alderman of the Third Ward. He was also 
President of the Board of Health for two terms, 
and served for two years as President of the Coun- 
cil. He is a Master Mason, and in religion is a 
Presbyterian, belonging to the First Presbyterian 
Church of the city. 



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fli BNER COPELAND. The old saying that 
// \\ industry brings reward as surely as does 
jr\_ virtue, is proved in the life of the gentle 
•€/ man whose name opens this sketch. He 

began at the bottom of the ladder of fortune, but 
now is regarded as one of the financial pillars of 
St. Joseph. Besides being the proprietor of 
nine hundred and thirty six acres of valuable land, 
six hundred and forty of which is a rich Minnesota 
soil, he is a prominent stockholder and director in 
the Saxton National Bank, and holds the same 
position iu the Park Bank. 

The father of our subject, John Gopeland, was 
born in North Carolina, whither his father, the 
grandfather of Abner. located before the Revolu- 
tionary War, in which struggle he took part, 
together with four of his brothers. Our subject's 
mother, Zana (Lasater) Gopeland, was also born 
iu the above-named state, where she was married 
to John Gopeland in 1828. Soon after that event 
the young couple made their home iu Wilson and 
Rutherford counties, Tenn., respectively, until 
IS 10, when they came to Missouri, locating in 
Raj County. Remaining there but a few months, 
however, they moved to the claim near Sparta, Mo., 
owned by our subject, where they spent the closing 
years of their lives, the mother dying in lSl'.t and 
the father in 1S73. They were both consistent 
members of the Baptist Church, the latter being 
one hundred years old when submitting to the 
ordinance of baptism. 



Of the parental family of ten children two sons 
and two daughters are living, viz.: Mrs. Cynthia 
Jones, Mrs. Fannie Patterson, our subject and 
Lasater. The father of our subject was a strong 
Democrat in politics and believed that all who 
opposed that party were descendants of the 
Tories. He lived to the remarkable age of one 
hundred and five years, and at the time of his 
death possessed all his faculties unimpaired, hav- 
ing been confined to his bed but three days pre- 
vious to his decease. 

Abner Gopeland, of this sketch, was born August 
27, IS 18. iu Chatham County, N. G. There he 
was reared on a farm, being permitted to attend 
school only six or eight months. At the early age 
of eleven years his father bound him out and he 
was thus obliged to work for others until reaching 
his majority. Then coming on horseback to this 
state, he landed at Camden, Ray County, Decern 
ber 1, 1839, and locating a claim of one hundred 
and sixty acres of timber laud in Center Township, 
he began the work of its improvement, erecting a 
log shanty thereon and making it his home until 
IS 411. 

In 1849 Miss May, the daughter of Col. Thomas 
Wright, and our subject were united iu marriage. 
Mr. Wright was a native of Surry County, N. C.i 
which he served iu the capacity of Sheriff for 
many years, and where he was also a prominent 
merchant. Mrs. Gopeland was born in L828 in 
North Carolina, and received an excellent educa- 
tion at Salem, in her native state. Of her union 
with our subject one child was born, who is now- 
deceased. Mrs. Gopeland passed away November 
1. IS'.IO, greatly mourned by a large circle of 
friends. 

He of whom we write, soon after his marriage, 
located upon Section :'>,">, Washington Township, 
which had been the property of his father in law. 
and where he continued to reside until 1886. In 
the above year he moved to St. Joseph, where he 
has eight acres of beautiful land upon which he 
has erected a handsome brick resilience costing 
s:',.400. 

February 29, 1892, Jfr, Gopeland was married 
to Miss Bethinia, the daughter of Judge Henry M. 
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mm \ prominent in public affairs, baring I n 

Judge ol the Bnpreme Comi and at one time 
candidate For Oongresi Mi^ Copeland was born 
Uaj 13, 1846, al Sparta, Bnohanan County, this 
state, and was given an excellent edncation in St. 
Joseph, where Bhe attended a private nhooL Bhe 
is .i verj proficient performer on the piano, and 
for three years taught in the St Joseph public 
schools. 

Both Mr and Mrs. Copeland are members of 
the Wvetb Park Baptist Church. In 1^71 our 
subject aided in the organisation <>f the Missionary 
Baptist Church, in Center Township, "f which 
congregation be wa D( icon for many years. He 
In- always taken an active part in Sunday school 
work, and in many ways lias aided the religions 
development of this locality. Socially, Mr. Cope 
land is a demitted member of the Masonic fra- 
ternity and at oiu> time was a Granger. He 
takes great interest in politics and lias always 
i fur Democratic candidates. As before 
stated, he is the possessor of nearly a thousand 

acres of land, nil of which has 1 n accumulated 

by bis own thrift and g I management. It goes 

without saying that be possesses splendid business 
ability, which i- Bhown by Ins wis" investments 
and marked advancement, and as such we are 
-.-.1 to place hi- sketch among those of the 
prominent men of Buchanan and Clinton counties. 

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SI CABPEN l BR, M D . is a practicing 
physician and Burgeon of St. Joseph and 
i-. Professor of Anatomy in the Northwest 
era Medical College. He was born in Ln 
ray, Page County, Va . November 25, 1845, and 
n of Lewis P., who was a native of Loudoun 
Countj of the same state. Our subject's paternal 
grandfather, who also bore the Christian name of 
Lewis, was born in Maryland, and was an exten 
■ive farmer and stock raiser in Loudoun County, 
where Ins death occurred. He rose to the rank of 
captain in the War of |s|'_', and did valiant sen 
ice for the Colonies u his father 'li'l before him. 
The latter ua- a Colonel in the War of the B 



I mil ni ;mil w.is present al the surrender of Corn 
wallis in Vorktown. II.- wac of English descent, 
early settling in Mar] land. 

Our subject's rather was a manufacturer of wag 
one, plows and machines of all kinds, being one 
of the first to manufacture the useful threshing 
machine. He was interested in iron mini's ami 

Bmelting works at Lnray, where be waa isidered 

one of the leading business men. In 1854 be 

sold out his eastern interests and re ved with 

his family to St. Joseph, where, for a year, be en 
gaged in his former business of wagon and plow 
making, after which he located on a farm, four 
teen miles from the city in Marion Township, where 
be engaged in farming until he was called to his 
final rest March 21, 1889. He was prominent in 

Masonic fraternities having l n Master. <>ui 

subject's mother, who was born in Page County, 
Va.. was before her marriage Elizabeth, danghh i 
of Henry Varner. The latter was born in the 
Keystone state and waa of German descent, his 
father having emigrated from the Fatherland, In-- 

ning a farmer in Pennsylvania, Mrs. Carpen 

ti-r, though seventy years of age, is still li\ing on 
the ohl homestead. 

En a family of nine sons and one daughter, S 
P. Carpenter is the Becond. His oldest brother, 
t'a|it. William II . who was in the Confederate se r 
vice, is President of the Phoenix Loan .\. Building 
Association of St. Joseph. Beared in Virginia 
until 1854, our subject was then brought bj his 
parents to St. Joseph, making the journey l>.\ boat 
a large Khan- of tin' win The conntrj was quite 
wild and Indians often camped in the vicinity of 
the farm. He received such education as was 
afforded bj the pioneer school of the period, and 
remained on his father's farm until entering the 
army. He enlisted in September, 1868, in Com 
pan] B, Eighty first Missouri Infantry, whiohwaa 
raised bj General Baasett, of St. Joseph. The) 
were employed on campaigns in the state, protect 

mi,' th untr\ from maurauders, and bad oocas 

ionnl skirmishes until tl lose of l s, '>~', when 

then were mustered out. 

Doctor Carpentei then entered Mastin's Acad 

amy at Eaaton, Mo., where I ntinued until 

oommenoing the study of medicine in 1866 under 



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Dr. B. H. Cox, of DeKalb County. At the end of 
three years he entered the University of Louis- 
ville, Ky., in the Medical Department, pursuing 
one course and then engaging in practice for a 
year at Osborne, Mo. Returning to the University, 
he was graduated in the spring of 1871 with the 
degree of Doctor of Medicine, engaging again iu 
practice at Osborne until January 1, 1874, when 
he settled in St. Joseph, and has since then been 
engaged iu practice here. He has met with suc- 
cess and is justly counted among the best physi- 
cians of the city and county. His specialties are 
surgery and chronic diseases. 

In 1879 the Doctor was one of the organizers of 
and was made Professor of Chemistry in the old 
College of Physicians and Surgeons, which insti- 
tution continued to flourish for two years only, be- 
ing discontinued in 1881. He was also one of the 
founders of the justly famed Northwestern Medi- 
cal College, which is the oldest and largest institu- 
tion of thekindin thispartof thestate. TheDoctor 
is a member of the Board of Directors and is Profes- 
sor of Anatomy and Clinical Surgery. During 
the summer of 1873 he went to Philadelphia and 
New York for a few mouths of practical experi- 
ence in the celebrated hospital work of those cit- 
ies. Our subject is a member of the Buchanan 
County Medical Society, of the American 
Medical Association, aud of the District Medical 
Association of Northwestern Missouri, having been 
the Vice president. In the different medical 
journals the articles of Doctor Carpenter have 
been printed from time to time, and at present lie 
is associate editor of the Western Surgical and 
Medical Reporter. Politically he is a Democrat, 
having been active in the work of the party as a 
delegate to county and state conventions; was a 
member of the County and City Central Commit- 
tee and President of the City Council for two 
years from the Third Ward. Fraternally he is a 
member of St. Joseph Lodge No. 78, of the 
Ancient, Free aud Accepted Masons, of which he 
is now Master. The pleasant home of Doctor Car- 
penter is on Francis street, and is presided over 
by his amiable wife, who was formerly Miss Fan- 
nie Nash, to whom he was married September 1, 
IS74, in Parkville, Platte County, Mo. Mrs. Car- 



penter was born in that village and is a daughter 
of John H. Nash, an early settler and well known 
business man of that locality. Our subject aud 
wife have one child, a daughter Annie, who is now 
attending the Putnam Seminary at Zanesville, Ohio. 



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AMUEL A. GANN, a retired agriculturist 
k and real estate owner of St. Joseph, is a 
veteran of the Mexican War, in which he 
did valiant service, and is one of the very 
oldest settlers of the Platte Purchase. Our sub- 
ject was born in eastern Tennessee, in Washing- 
ton County, twelve miles from Jonesboro, January 
12, 1819. His father, Isaac, was also born in that 
locality, where his father, Nathan, a native of 
Scotland, was an early settler and a large planta- 
tion-owner. The latter was a captain in the Revo- 
lutionary War and died in Tennessee. Our sub- 
ject's father, who took part iu the war of 1812, 
was a farmer by occupation, and in 1832 removed 
with his family from Tennessee to Missouri. In 
the spring of 1833 he made the distance on horse- 
back of over one thousand miles, locating iu the 
southern part of La Fayette County on a good 
farm of one hundred aud sixty acres. After rais- 
ing one crop there he settled on a larger farm in 
Johnson County, and in 1838 bought a claim of 
one hundred and sixty acres in Buchanan County. 
where his death occurred some eight years later, 
he then having reached his sixty second year. 
Politically he was a Democrat, and in his native 
state was united in marriage with Ann Clark, 
whose father was a silversmith and a Lieutenant 
in the Revolutionary War. Mrs. Gann did not 
long survive her husband, passing away some seven 
weeks after his death. 

In a family of thirteen children, twelve grew to 
mature years ami only three are living, our sub- 
ject being the ninth in order of birth. He was 
reared on the old Tennessee homestead until his 
fourth year, when his father located in Newport, 
Teun. He had no school advantages, and iu 1833 
made the journey to Missouri on horseback. Five 
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County, where wild game aod Indiana were Mill 
numerous. II. ■ had frequent visit- from the 
Sioux, Foi and Kiekapoo Indiana, and learned t" 
speak some of their languages. In 1830 he went 
on n prospecting tour to Texas, going throngh 
Arkansas <>n horseback. II- was made overseer 
mi a large plantation near Jefferson, where he was 
for eight mont hs. 

In 1846 Mr ( liin n, after hia return home, volun 
l and enlisted in the Mexican War. ander 
Capt Jesse Moran, of Platte Oonnty. 1 1 • - was 
mastered in ami drilled nt Leavenworth, and on 
August 9 Btarted on a Bii weeks' march to Santa 
We, joining Price, Be took pari in man; import 
ant battles nf the campaign, often fighting with 
the bayonet hand to hand. In the battle of July 
B, lMi. they Inst abont one-eighth of their men, 
as tln> 1'niti'il stati 's troops fought under great 
disadvantages. Our Bobjeot was made Corporal, 
and was mustered ont in the fall of I s I ^ 

Previous to the war Mr. Qann had owned an 
eight] acre farm, which he sold before hia return 
and then purchased one of about the Bame size in 
Crawford Township, where he built a log house 
ami engaged in farming until 1840, when he Btarted 
fur California, with oxen and wagons, going by 
way nf Port Kearney and the North Platte. Later 
be traded his outfit for mules, When crossing the 
Hiimliulilt Range he nearly Btarved to death, and 
on the Smith Platte was obliged to li^ht t )■«> 
Indians. On 1» i — ; arrival at his destination ln> 
obtained employment at teaming for $16 per day, 
which business he left after a while, engaging in 
trading in Btook. Qoing to the Bouthern part "f 
the stati- he bought and drove Btook and engaged 
in freighting. In 1850 Mr Qann opened a stun. 
on Deer Creek, at Nevada City, which, after run 
ii ini,' it nine days, be -old fur more then be had in 
vested, and bad moreover sold $000 worth of 

j Is. II.' then opened a Btore on Yuba river, 

where I ntinued - essfully, and next invested 

in cattle, selling them to g I advantage, lie 

returned to Missouri in steamers by waj of tint 
Isthmus and New Orleans to St. Louis, In 1853 
he went tn Texas in a wagon, locating within 

twenty One miles .,f Austin, where he purchased 

three hundred scree "f land, and for the following 



three years engaged in raising cotton. In I860 be 
returned to this county, buying land in Crawford 

Township, where be baa sinoe I n engaged in 

agricultural pursuits, Be waa an extensive dealer 
in land during all these years, owning at one time 
eiijht hundred acres, three hundred of which waa 

within five miles of tl itj ami well improved 

Iii l s ^s he retired from business cares, and has 
since made his home at No. 2010 Bdmond -tie. t 
In Texas, on Ma) 20, ls.">l, Mr. Qann and .\li--s 

Martha BrOOKB were married. The lad] was born 

in Johnson County, Mo., where Bhe waa reared, 

and remove. I t.. Texas with her father. John 
Brooks, who was a far r. <>f the eleven chil 

dren born to our worth] Bubjeol and wife, only -i\ 
survived to reach mature years, and onl] three are 
now living. Breckenridge, Robert I'. Lee. and 

Prances (the wife of J. \Y Mitchell) are all de 
cea.sed. Victoria, the wife of Samuel Crumpley, 
lives in St. Joseph; Julia is the wife of John a 
Plournoy, a lawyer of this city, who was born in 
lia\ County, where he studied law under ('..I John 
Doniphan, being admitted to the bar in 1800 
Josephine, who lives at home, completes the 
family. 

In 1SS7 our subject was waylaid on the night of 

August IS when he had g s,, m ,- -i X |\ yards 

from his door to ^et a bucket of water. When 

under the shadow of the trees be waa ai Bted by 

two men armed with re vol vera Though he was 

shot twice through the lungS he belabored them 

witli the bucket and succeeded in gaining tl taa 

tery. Mr Qann formerly raised bi led horses, 

ami for some time was engaged in packing and 

shipping pork. Por nine years be waa Scl I 

Trustee and was ,-,t one time Supervisor of Roads 

In politics he is a Democrat, having I n a del.. 

gate to several conventions, and fraternal 1] 
Royal Arch Mas. m. 

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JOSI I'll II SN1 Ml;. M It \t the head 
of the medical fraternity of Cameron -lands 
the n ai 1 1>' otor Snyder, v\ hose devotion to 

hi- profession and talents of an linu-ually 

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broad knowledge ami widely recognized skill. He 
is a whole-souled genius, quick iu speech and 
movement, and ever ready at repartee, which 
characteristics have contributed to his popularity. 

Born in Schoharie County, N. Y., July 17, 
1833, our subject is the son of Juhn W . Snyder, a 
successful farmer of German parentage, although 
born in New York state. He spent the years of 
his boyhood until seventeen on the home farm, 
after which he entered the office of Doctor Chase, 
at Gardnersville, Schoharie County, N. Y., and 
continued his medical studies with that gentle- 
man until be entered the Syracuse Eclectic Med i 
cal College, graduating from that institution in 
18JU, at the age of twenty-one. He opened an 
office for the practice of his profession at East 
Springfield, N. Y. , where he remained for fifteen 
years, meanwhile conducting a lucrative practice. 

On account of ill health, Doctor Snyder decided 
to remove west, and accordingly, after a thorough 
investigation of western cities with a view to loca- 
tion, settled in Cameron, and has never had occa- 
sion to regret his decision. Upon coming here he 
purchased a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, 
and upon that place he resided for sixteen months, 
removing thence to the oity in 1871. He is one 
of the most successful representatives of the Ec- 
lectic system of medicine in this country and is a 
member of the National Eclectic Medical Associa- 
tion, also of the State Medical Society. His suc- 
cess as a surgeon entitles him to the foremost 
position among the surgeons of the county, and 
his articles on surgery in the various medical jour- 
nals are of the greatest value. 

The Doctor finds a pleasant relaxation from his 
duties as a physician iu the occupation of a breeder 
of lino horses. His stallion, Whifcefoot, by Alcyone, 
has a record of 2:22| on a half mile track and has 
shown a speed of '2:14, being probably the fastest 
stallion on earth. In the season of 1891, when 
four years old, lie was entered at thelndependence 
races, hut was injured in a tendon and has not 
since been trained. Doctor Snyder has refused 
$40,000 for this horse. He has also several fine 
colts and brood mares. He has a most extensive 
acquaintance with all leading horsemen and is 
thoroughly posted in regard to horseflesh. 



In his political connections Doctor Snyder is a 
firm Democrat and has always been a stanch sup 
porter of the party, but never an office-seeker. 
He is a Thirty- second Degree Mason, Past Mas 
ter of Evergreen Lodge, Springfield Centre, N. 
Y. ; Eminent Commander of Kadosh Command 
ery, No. 21 ; and a member of Moila Temple, A. 
A. D. N. M. S. at St. Joseph, Mo. He has taken 
all the Scottish rite degrees to the Thirty-second, 
taking all from the Fourteenth at the Third Con 
vocation at Kansas City, in November, 1892. He 
1 attended the three National Conclaves of the 
Knights Templar at St. Louis, Chicago and Wash- 
ington. For four years he was Patron of Adah 
Chapter, No. 17, Order of the Eastern Star. Mrs. 
Snyder is quite prominent in the last-named Or- 
der and is Past Grand Matron of the state, and 
their daughter, Kittie M., has served as Ruth in 
the Grand Chapter of the state. 

In 18< r >4, when twenty-one years old, Doctor 
Snyder married Miss Sarah M. Mereness, a native 
of Schoharie County, N. Y. , and they are the par 
ents of one daughter, Kittie M. Mrs. Snyder is a 
lady of culture and combines a rare executive abil- 
ity with sweetness of disposition. As above stated. 
her work iu the Order of the Eastern Star lias 
brought her into prominence throughout (he state 
and her influence has been felt for good in the 
various Chapters. For years she has served ac- 
ceptably as Matron of the Eastern Star Chapter 
and for one year has tilled the responsible posi 
tiou of Grand Matron of the Grand Chapter, her 
duties in the latter office requiring her to visit 
Chapters already organized and to institute new 
ones. 

ALVIN FLETCHER BURNES was born 
in Morgan County, Ind., February 18, 1830, 
and when eight years of age accompanied 
his parents to Platte County, Mo. He was 
graduated from the University of Missouri in 1850, 
and immediately afterward entered upon the stndy 
of the law, receiving the degree of Bachelor of 
Laws at Harvard College in 1853, For one year 
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familiar a it h the practice of the courts "f thai city. 
Upon lii- return t<> Platte Count} in 1854, he en 

tend upon the active practice of law in il ouris 

of Platte, Clay ami Bnohanan counties in partner 
ship with bis brother, Boa lames N Barnes, who 
at n later day serve I Missouri with distinction in 
the Congress "f the United Btates 

In the 'year 1855 oar subject moved to St. Louis 
and almosl immedistely found himself growing 
into a viT_v large practice in the Federal and State 
eonrta of that city. Be became counsel for the 
Hank of the State of Missouri, and sunn afterward 
i the struggle between that hank and the 
numerous Baring institutions of thai city, which 
culminated in the celebrated suit of the Boatmen's 
Savings Institution against the Hank "f the State 
.if Missouri, the plaintiff acting on the advice of 
several of tin- ablest lawyers of Missouri. This 
suit enlisted the best efforts of James 11 Lackland, 
John C. Richardson, Henry S. Qeyer, Samuel T. 
Qlover and John ft. Sbepley. After many years 
the Supreme Court of Missouri sustained every 
position aasnmed by Mr. Barnes in his original 
advice to his client, as well as in his brief filed in 
that court Several unsettled questions of law 
concerning garnishments and maritime jurisdiction 

wer ade clear and final in cases submitted b) 

him wherein the rule before that time was unoer 
tain. 

Upon the division of the state into two l'uil»>il 
States Court Districts, Calvin 1'. Barnes was ap 
pointed United States Attorney for the Eastern 
District of Missouri. Until this time the new 
United States Attorney had oevei appeared in the 
trial of any criminal case, Among the earl] cases 
of importance, it became his duty to prepare in 
dictments for manslaughter against the officers of 
the Bteamet "Ocean Spray,'' for negligence under 
the judiciary Btatote of 1789. Nearlj a hundred 
oases had been tried under this law without a 
Bingle conviction in the United Btates, 
was the unwillingness of juries to punish as a 
felonj an act whioh was admitted to be onlj negli 
genoe, 

Trial Wright and Luther M Spreve, two of the 
ablest criminal lawyers of their day, defended 
these enses. Justice Catron and Judges Wells 



and Treat presided in the trial Aftei a con test 
of four days the United States Attornej Becured ■ 
verdiol of guilt} as oharged in the indictment 
The court fixed the punishment at the minimum 
allowed by the law, one year in the penitentiary 
Baring thus secured conviction and judgment, Mi 
Barnes immediate!} addressed an earnest appeal 
to the Attornej General of the United States foi 

the pardon of tl ndemned. This request was 

joi 1 by a Bimilar petition signed by the jm 

of the court, members of the bar and man) lead 
ing citizens of Missouri, on receipt of which a full 
pardon of the condemned was granted by President 
Bnohanan. 

< >n retirement from this, the only public office 
ever held by Mr. Barnes, he continued his prai 
in the courts of St. Louis. His services were in 
special request by corporations and large mercan 
tile bouses, hut his most profitable practice was in 
the final adjudication of imperfect land title-, 
which final 1} led him oul of the active practice of 
law in St. Louis, where his real estate investments 
very materially interfered with his professional 

duties. Convince. I that In' must al.an.1 06 01 

the other of these interests, he retired from the 
law and joined his brother, -lames, at St Joseph, 
Mo., in 1ST:', where thej together organized the 

present National Hank of St. Joseph, o f the 

mosl successful and enterprising hanks of the 
West. 

In 1S77 the National Hank of the State of Mis 
Bouri, in St. Louis, closed its doors and passed in 

to the hands of a r liver with more than a half 

million dollars therein to the ere, lit of the National 
Hank of St Joseph. This destroyed the credit 

and seemed to threaten tl \ist.nce ,.f the St 

Joseph Hank. The two brothers, James and Cal 
vin, thenceforth acted as one man with the Bole 
purpose of protecting their own honor and the in 
tegritj of their hank This the] did ao suci 
fully that no creditor was ever delayed for a single 
hour in the payment of his demand. The seem 

ingly overwhelming disaster produ I such action 

on the part of the brothers thai the result was not 

only a protection from loss, hut in fact, produ I 

an ultimate profit to them of nearlj $1,000,000 
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Congress from the St. Joseph district, and died 
before entering upon his last term. The immense 
business then devolved upon Calvin, who promptly 
organized a corporation called " Burnes Estate," 
to which all of the property of both brothers was 
transferred. It is now controlled by Calvin Burnes, 
President; Calvin C. Burnes, Vice-President; 
James N. Burnes, Jr., Secretary; Lewis C. Burnes, 
and Daniel D. Burnes, Directors. The last- 
named, D. D. Burnes, is now Congressman from 
the district so long represented by his father. 

The National Bank of St. Joseph continues 
prosperous as heretofore, with Calvin F. Burnes 
its tirst and only President, but the management 
of the bank is almost entirely in the hands of Cal- 
vin C. Burnes, the Vice President, as the real es- 
tate interests of the Burnes Estate have grown to 
such magnitude in St. Louis as to require very 
much of the time of the elder Calvin. He also 
has large interests in Southwestern Missouri, in- 
cluding a controlling interest in the Granby Min- 
ing & Smelting Company, one of the largest lead 
and spelter- producing companies in the United 
States. 

ffOHN MONTGOMERY. The career of this 
w. I gentleman has been one of perseverance and 
\J integrity, and has been crowned with 
the success which those meet who steadily 
pursue their way, doing always that which their 
hand tindeth to do. Mr. Montgomery is an expo 
nent of the fact so frequently stated and which 
so many young men seem to doubt, " that in act- 
ing well one's part, there all the honor lies." 

Thomas D. Montgomery, the father of our sub- 
ject, was a native of Virginia, whore he followed 
the occupation of a farmer. He was a prominent 
man in his locality. His mother, who was known 
in her maidenhood as Sarah Morris, was a native 
of the Blue Grass state and the daughter of 
Thomas Morris, who also served as a soldier in the 
Revolutionary War. Thomas Montgomery and 
his wife were married in Madison County, Ky., 
and made their home in Greene County, Ky., until 
1839, in the spring of which year they came to this 



state, making their journey overland with teams, 
the trip consuming forty-eight days. They were 
among the first to locate on Contrary Creek and 
remained there until their death. It was heavy 
timber land, upon which only one acre had been 
broken. The family passed through many hard- 
ships and privations during those early times and 
were often visited by the Indians, who, however, 
were friendly, but would often carry off all they 
possessed in the way of eatables. At his death, 
which occurred in 1873, the father of our subject 
had seventy five acres of his quarter-section placed 
under the plow and nicely improved in the way of 
buildings and implements. Together with his 
wife, who followed him to the better land two 
years later, he was a member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church. 

The parental family of our subject included 
fourteen children, six of whom are living. John, 
of this sketch, was born December 3, 1823, in 
Greene County, Ky. , where he remained until 
reaching his sixteenth year, when he accompanied 
the family in their removal to this state. He had 
but limited advantages for obtaining an education, 
but by systematic reading has gained a fair knowl 
edge of men and things. Young Montgomery re- 
mained home, aiding his father in placing their 
new home under cultivation until reaching his 
majority when he started out in life on his own 
account. 

Jaley Ann White, the daughter of Silas and 
Melinda (Bartley) White, became the wife of our 
subject in 1846. Mrs. Montgomery's parents were 
natives of Kentucky, in which state they were 
married in Madison County, and in the fall of 1845 
came to Missouri and made their home near that 
of our subject's father. Mr. White departed this 
life in August, 1804, his wife having preceded 
him to the better land in 1850. They were the 
parents of seven children, only two of whom are 
living at the present time. Two sons served as 
soldiers in the Civil War, while another boy, Jef 
ferson, died in 18l>4 in a military prison in Alton, 
111. The parents of Mrs. Montgomery were mem- 
bers of the Hard Shell Baptist Church, and in 
politics the father was a stanch Democrat. 

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in Madison County, Kana sin- has proTed a most 
valuable assistant to her busband when starting 
out in life, as after their marriage t h<>ir worldly 
effects were represented bj 16. They obtained 
lodging witb a neighbor, free of obarge, and our 

snbjeei pr ded to operate his father's farm on 

shares. In the fall of 1840 he was enabled t.> pnr 
abase one hundred and sixty aeres <if land apon 
Section |0, Center Township, Buchanan County, 
upon winch tlnv moved, making it their home for 
Fbrtj yearn Be increased his purchase from time 
to time and is :it present 1 1 • . - possessor of two bun 
dred and forty aorea comprised in that (arm ami 
eighty acres in his borne place. He Iihs made a 
Buooass of lift> in ever] Bense of the word, and l>> 
judicious investments and oareful management he 
has acquired a goodly amount "f property, and his 
record in all the relatione of lif,. unci in the duties 
devolving apon him as an honorable man and 
faithful citizen is of the highest April 11, 1887, 
Mr. Montgomery moved u|m>h Imb present farm of 
eighty acres and that same spring erected a beauti 
fnl reeidense at the cost of $8,500. It is built of 
brick and contains eleven rooms, all tastefully 
Furnished. 

The only child of our subject, Maitha Jane, wna 

born September 28, 1847, and is now the wife of 

Hiiir\ ('. Register of Los Angeles, Cal., where 

Mr. Register is engaged in the real estate busi- 

they have one son, William Lee, who hail 

his birth August 28, 1868. II" married Sarah 
B h oady and makes his home in Center Township, 
Buchanan County. They have one child, Pear] 

I Begiater, born January '2.1, is'.ci Mr. ami 

Mrs Montgomery am meinliers in good standing 
of the Missionary Baptist Church. In politics our 
subject is a stanch Democrat. Together with his 
wife, he is enjoying the fruits of his early toil and 
industry in his beautiful home near the Hannibal 
a St. Joseph Bailrosd. His career through life has 
remained untarnished and he rejoices in the respect 
and esteem of a large circle of friends, whose good 
will In- has won by his straightforward course, gen 
erosit] and natural kindness of heart He assisted 
in building the tirst court house ever erected in 
Buchanan County, which is now standing at 
Sparta. 

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JOSEPH PI I II I I l; a retired capitalist 
of St. Joseph, lias been For about twelve 
yean largely interested in, ami is rice 
president of the PfeifFei Stone Company, 
which owns quarries at Warrensbnrgb and I; 
well, Ma, and in It Scott, Kane., and controls 
a large business in the surrounding States of Iowa. 

Kansas and Nebraska. As a business man our 
subject was remarkablj successful and is a moon 
in. ii t to what qualities of industrj and strict 
attention to business can do for a man determined 
to succeed. He is a native of Bingen, Hohencol 
lem, Sigmaringen, Germany, Ins birth havini 
curred March 'J:'.. |s|7. He learned stone catting 
and carving in the Fatherland and wa- successfully 
engaged in business there For man] years 

After serving an apprenticeship at lus trade, our 
subject spent two years in a practical schooloFdrau 
ing and was engaged in business in his native town 
from 1842 until 1848. The latter year being that 
of the Revolution he concluded to leave Germany 
and try to make his way in the New World. Dpon 
landing in New York City be engaged in DUE 
there for about a year and a half, thence going to 
Philadelphia, where he worked for three Mars. 
subsequently making his home for live years in 

Chicago. In I860 he landed in this city, his first 
work being for DonnellA Saxton, on the State Na 
tional Bank, which was finished that fall. Little 
building being done dining the troublous and un 
settled conditions of war times, be was not verj 
s essful in those years and turned his hand prin 

oipally to marble cutting. It is now. however, 

main years ail the successful climax of his busj 

aesa career was at all doubtful, for besteadilj ad 

vii I both financially and in tl stimuli f Ins 

fell, iw business men 

In Germany occurred tbe marriage oFonr subject 
ami Mias Lucy Waldscbutz, their wedding being 
celebrated February 18, 1 — -II To them have been 
born the following obildren: Pauline, who is the 
wife of Frederick William Gensen; Charles \ 
who is now President of the Pfeiffei Stone Company, 
and John J., wlnr \h also a member of the same 
concern. The] have lost two obildren, who died in 
infancy The hoi >f Mr Pfeiffer is at the cor 

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and picturesque portion of the southeast portion 
of the city. The house, which was erected at a 
cost of about $10,000, is made of cut stone and is 
situated on an eminence, commanding an extensive 
view of the Missouri river and overlooking much 
of the city. Both house and grounds are well 
kept and the place is considered one of the finest 
in this city of beautiful homes. 

Mr. Pfeiffer who is not a politician, however, 
in an earnest Republican and for many years has 
been a member of the Catholic Church. He has a 
fine and well chosen library where can be found the 
choicest classics in both the German and the En- 
glish languages, as well as books on scientific, his 
torical and miscellaneous subjects. After a brief 
conversation with Mr. Pfeiffer, who still possesses 
much of the enthusiasm of youth, one readily per- 
ceives that his library is his special pride and 
delight, and the effects of his many years of close 
study are made manifest in his speech, which be- 
speaks him a gentleman of intellectual attainments 
thoroughly posted on all the important questions 
of the day, as well as a student of the history of 
past times. 

GAPT. JARYIS S. ROGERS, one of the 
prominent and wealthy citizens of Cameron, 
Clinton County, has been a very extensive 
traveler and is one of the foremost men of 
this county. His parents, Asa and Rebecca Rogers, 
emigrated to Ohio from New Jersey in 1810 and 
made a settlement in Miami County of that state. 
Our subject was born in that county and was the 
fifth son in a family of eleven children. He was 
reared on a farm until fifteen years of age and at 
tended the district school at such seasons as he 
could be spared from the duties of the farm. 
When in his sixteenth year he commenced teaching 
school, receiving for his services the munificent 
sum of $15 per month. From this date, by his 
parents' consent, he became master of his own time 
ami then commenced to carve his fortune. For the 
succeeding five years he taught school a portion of 
the time, in the intervals between terms attending 
such schools as he could with profit. For some 



time he was a student at Wittenberg College in 
Springfield, Ohio, and before three years had 
passed, commanded a salary of $50 per month as a 
teacher. He selected his studies with reference to 
the medical profession and read under the direction 
of I. S. Meeks, M. D., attending a course of lec- 
tures in the Starling Medical College at Columbus, 
Ohio, during the winter of 1849-50. 

Stimulated by a love of adventure and the gold 
mining excitement of that period, Mr. Rogers, in 
company with a few acquaintances, left his father's 
home in Miami County in March, 1850. They 
proceeded to Cincinnati, thence by steamer to 
St. Joseph, Mo., where they arrived on April 1, 
and went into camp. His companions were all 
young men with limited means and without knowl- 
edge of frontier life. They purchased four yoke 
of cattle and a wagon, which they loaded with sup 
plies, and proceeded on their trip across the plains. 
They crossed the Missouri river, April 20th, and 
just three days later left the banks of the I Jig 
Muddy for California. They arrived 'at their des- 
tination, Placerville, Cal., on the '23d of August, 
having spent four months in the trip. Young 
Rogers walked the entire distance of about two 
thousand miles, gained twelve pounds in weight. 
and on the whole much enjoyed the adventures 
and novelty of the trip. 

Until December of that year Mr. Rogers worked 
in the gold mines and then went to San Francisco, 
from which city he went by steamer to Oregon, 
visiting Astoria, Portland, Oregon City, Salem, 
and many other important points in that state and 
what is now the state of Washington. Returning 
to San Francisco in February, 1851, by way of the 
Columbia river and the Pacific Ocean, he went to 
Sacramento City where he found himself without 
money but with good health and an abundant 
resolution to succeed nevertheless. He found em 
ployineut in unloading freight from a vessel at S I 
per hour, and by that means obtained enough 
money to pay his expenses to the mines on Yuba 
river. He mined from the Yuba river to Sonora 
in the south until February, 1853, and was fairly 
successful. 

In February. 1S5:{, Mr. Rogers' spirit of advent 
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reuse] ai Sun Francisco, bound for Australia. On 
the voyage li" visited Honolulu in the Sandwich 
[alands, which, at the present < i,-«t •■ of writing 
(1803), are demanding annexation to the United 
States and are likely to plaj i verj important pari 
in our country's history. The vessel also Btopped 
at Porl Apia (Samoa) on the [aland of Dpola, one 
of the Navigator Islands, since well known t<> the 
world at large and people of the United States 
from the great Btorm and wreckage <>f various 
men of-war and the consequent diplomatic con 
troversy. After passing ill" Fwjee Islands they 
arrived at their destination, Sidney, New Smith 
Wales, Australia, on the 1st of May. thence going 

bj stea r directl] to Melbourne, the oapitol and 

Beaporl of Victoria, Australia 

Prom that oitj Mi Rogers went to 1 1 1 « - gold 
mini's where be Bought the precious metal until 
April, 1S.M. On llili day of May following, he 
took passage for Panama on the American 
Bteamer "Golden Age," which Btopped for -i\ 
days on the trip at Tahiti, Society Islands, arriving 
in Panama in June, where, after remaining for two 
weeks, our subject crossed the [sthmua and, on 
•Inly 1-t. left AspinwaU for New Fork by wa) of 
Havana, Cuba. He lauded in New fork Citj at 

Hi id <>f ten days and at oi took his Australian 

gold to the Qovernment mint at Philadelphia t" 
be assayed. He arrived at the home of his child 
bood in the mi. nth of .Inly, IS54, after an absence 
■ if four years, fmir months and three days. 

In the Bpring of 1855 Mr. Rogers traveled 
through Indiana, [Hindis and [owa, where he in 
rested in land-. In March, 1856, he left Cincin 
niiti for southwest Texas, going by wa} of the Ohio 
and Mississippi rivers i" New Orleans, From the 
lent Citj across the Gulf of Mexico to Galves 
ton, then t.i Port Lavaca, Tax. Between the 
Gua leloupe and San Antonio rivers he purchased 
large numbers of native cattle which he drove t" 
Illinois ami -old during that fall. This occupation 
he pursued for three years, ln-in^ one of the 
pioneers in the business, In the Bpring of 1859, 
going to Leavenworth, Kans., he contracted to take 
a company of Ohio young men across the plains lo 
Denver, and accordingly fitted out a train. In 
June he camped on the bank of Clear Greek, the 



it Bite of Golden City, where he opened a 
trading post and located a ranch. In October our 

subject rctnr 1 to Ohio bj waj of St Joseph In 

ill, spring o( I860 he retnr 1 to that city, where 

on April : '"l of that scar he witnessed the depart 
me of the "Pioneer Pony" of the oelebrated 
pom express then being established between St. 
ih ami California. In this year he disposed 

of his landed interest- in Colorado and returned to 

Ohio with a view of resuming his trade in I- 

cattle. 

On the breaking out "f the Civil War in 1861 
Mr Rogers was one of the first to come to the de 
fense of the -tar- and Btripes, and enlisted on 
April is at Troy, Ohio, for three months, in answei 
to the President's call for seventy live thousand 
men. He became a member of Company D, 
Eleventh Ohio Voluoteei Infantry I pon receiving 
his discharge in August 28, 1861, he again enlisted 
a week later in Company E, Forty fourth Ohio 
Volunteer fnfantry, and wa- elected h_\ the <'"m 
panj First Lieutenant He was afterward pro 
moied to a Captaincy ami participated in various 
battles in Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and West 
Virginia. II' was in Gen. Burnside's arm] in 
the siege of Knoxville, east Tennessee. 

On May 25, 1864, occurred the marriage of Mr 
Rogers and Miss Louisa M. Paxton, of Clermont 
County. Ohio. Thej have two daughters and one 
son. In hi- religious view- our subject is a Pro! 
estanl but not sectarian. being liberal and tolerant. 
I n politics he i- a Republican, and thongh often 
solicited to be a candidate for office he has always 
resolutely declined. 

So.m after his marriage Mr Rogers in company 
with other- established a d achine shop and foun 
drj in Baton, Ohio, which two yearn later he sold, 
ami in October of 1867, removing to Missouri, he 

located in Cameron. For -eveiai years I gsged 

in agricultural pursuits which be -till carries ou to 
some extent March I. 1871, h« established the 
Park Bank, which is a solid institution and of 
which he i- chief manager, since I860 he has 
been a member of the Masonic Order. In his ai 
tensive travels he has visited nearlj everj state in 
the Union, the British possessions in this continent 
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the Islands in the Pacific. He has been very suc- 
cessful in his dealings in stock, agriculture and 
hanking. He possesses an ample fortune and is in 
the enjoyment of robust health. He is a man of 
uniformly temperate habits and has a fine physique, 
being five feet, eleven and a half inches high and 
weighing one hundred and eighty pounds. His 
thrilling personal adventures, verified by the diary 
he has kept since March, LS50, have given him 
an extensive fund of knowledge and he is a most 
instructive and entertaining conversationalist. 



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f | CAVAN WYATT is Secretary and Treasurer 
w. I of the Townsend & Wyatt Dry Goods Com- 
\J) pany, the largest and finest retail business 
house in St. Joseph. He is the son of an 
old pioneer and prominent man and is a native 
son of St. Joseph, having been born here August 
11, 1845. His life history and work has been 
closely connected with the history and progress of 
this city, and few have taken such great interest 
in this western metropolis as he. 

Among the most worthy citizens of St. Joseph 
was for many years Elder J. J. Wyatt, who was 
born in Sinclair County, III., July 13, 1819. When 
only two years old his mother and father removed 
to Fleming County. Ky., where his youth was 
spent. He was an apt student and early formed a 
taste for law. He entered the office of John Ca- 
van, an able attorney, and after thorough prepara- 
tion was admitted to tho bar. March 2S, 1844, he 
married Miss Emily M. Gooding, who, now over 
sixty-nine years of age, resides with our subject. 
Twelve children were born to them, only three of 
whom are now living. 

In June, 1845, Elder Wyatt came to St. Joseph, 
engaging in the practice of law. He filled the 
position "f Probate Judge ami Judge of the ('Mint 
of Common Pleas, and during the years of 1850 
and 1857 was Postmaster of St. Joseph. In what- 
ever capacity he served the public he was always 
found conscientious and faithful to an eminent de- 
gree. In November, 1850, he became identified 
with the Christian church, and at once began 



preaching the word of God. He was called to take 
pastoral charge of the Christian church of which 
he was the founder. Their first meetings were held 
in a little log church on the hill where the present 
stately court-house now stands. For a number of 
years he was shepherd of the little flock, and saw 
the congregation increase from a mere handful to 
a large number, rich in material wealth and in in- 
fluence and exercising a power for good in St. Jo- 
seph. 

During the past twenty-one years of his life 
Elder Wyatt has hail charge of Union Church, 
near Taos, in Buchanan County, and for fifteen 
years preached steadily at Bethel. At the time of 
his death he also had charge of congregations at 
Camden Point and Antioch. The best part of his 
life was passed as a Christian worker, and he took 
earnest and great delight in the task. He was one 
of the founders of the college at Camden Point, 
of which he was a Trustee. His public and pri- 
vate life were above reproach, and all who knew 
him were warmly attached to him. The pastors 
of the city, after his demise, passed most compli- 
mentary and touching resolutions in regard to the 
sad event. Death came to him suddenly April 9, 
18S1, but he was entirely prepared for the silent 
messenger. 

J. Cavan Wyatt is the oldest of the three living 
children of his father's large family. His brother, 
William, lives in Kansas City and George is a res 
ident of St. Joseph. Our subject was given a pub- 
lic school education ami in 1800 began his busi- 
ness career as clerk with A. G. Mansfield. After 
two years he entered the employ of Nave & Row- 
ley, dry goods merchants. He was successively 
with the following firms: Rauth & Oppenheimer, 
John Townsend. and Wyatt & Wyatt. When with 
the latter firm he was located at Centralia, Boone 
County. Remaining there until 1873, he returned, 
and for two years was with the dry goods firm of 
I'alles & 4'rice. In company with Mr. Townsend 
and .1. D. Richardson, Jr., he bought the last men- 
tioned firm out and continued to do business at 
No. 319 Felix street. They were later located at 
the corner of Fourth and Felix streets. In 1890 
our subject bought out his partners ami COnsoli 
dated with Mr. Emery, under the name of Town 



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Bend, Wyatl \ Emery Dry (i la Company, with 

a oapital stock of $200,000, [a Jane, 1891, the 
ti mi l> iught oal Mr Emery aud became Townasnd 
a Wyatt I »r_\ Qoods Company. <>f tbis J. Town 
-end ia President and C I'. Townsend Vice presi 
denl 

The dry g I- firm to which our Bubjecl belongs 

controls thebeatoity trade. The fine store block 

waa built in 1800, at il ler of sixth and Ed 

mond ~t rt-. -t -, It i- L20 by 120 feet, five stories 
and basement in height. On the first floor may be 

fonnd retail dress g Is, notions and olotbing; on 

the second, millinery, cloaks and shoe-; mi the 
third, orookerj, wall paper, carpets and draperies; 
while the fourth and fifth are duplicate store 
room- lip basement is need for shipping rooms, 
kitchen mid house furnishing supplies Entrance 
to the Btore is effected from l> ith streets cm which 
it front-, and the m.>-t modern appliances Bteam 
heat, gas, and electric lights, elevators, etc —are 
here found. 

In the year 1875, near Gentralia, Mo., Mr. 
Wyatl and Bliss K ite Garrard were married. She 
was born in Lexington, Ky . and her father, James 
I 1 Garrard, who died February I. 1893, was a 
farmer and owner of the ground where the battle 
of Centralia was fought Mrs. Wyattdiedin l^ s '-». 
leaving three children : Cavan, Aubrey and Jennie. 
The pleasant familj residence, which was built by 
our subject, i- located at \o. 1309 Felix Btreet. 

Mr. Wyatl i- a member of the Ancient Free and 
Lccepted Masons, of the Royal Arch Masons (of 
which he is past Bigfa Priest), of the Council and 

Knights Templar. Be oasts his ballot in favor of 
ih.< Democratic party, and iii religious belief is a 
member of the Christian church, iii which he ia 
an elder. 

GBBI8T1 W \ III BACKER hasl prom 
inently identified with many of St. Joseph's 
business interests and i- a respected and 
highly esteemed gentleman, both in busi- 
ness and other circles. Mr. Bnbacher waa born in 

Fraubrenen, Can Berne, Switzerland, January 

27, 1848, and came to the United States with his 



parents, Christian and Catherine Bubaoher, when 
only four years of age. They landed in New Or 

leans in IMS and Boon aftei pnx led np the 

Mississippi river to SI Louis In 1849 they came 
to St. Joseph, where our subject received bis edn 
oat ion. 

When only thirteen years ol age Mi Bubaoher 
started to make hia own living, working for some 
years as a clerk with the grocery firm of Bell ,v 
Qoodlive, and later was for seven \ear- in the em- 
ploy of II. R. \\ Bartwig. For three years he 
lived in Montana, going to Virginia City in com 
pany with James Wilson, with whom be kept a 
Btore for about a year. During this time, though 
he was not a member of the committee he acted 
with the Vigilanta and witnessed the hanging of 
Slade as well as fiv i who were hung at one 

time. He -pent a few weeks in Sail Lake City, 
and then returned to Montana where he engaged 
iu business, re entering this State in 1865. After 
leaving the employ of Bartwig \ Company he was 
manager of the Eagle Mills for eight years for the 
stale'- Saving Hank. Afterward, in company 
with E. M. Kay. our subject purchased a lumber 
yard, attending oloaely to tin- business for three 
\ ears and then retiring. 

In company with R. II Fancetl Mr. Bubaoher 
purchased the Eagle Mill ami was a junior member 
of the firm of the R. II Faucet! Milling Company 

for two years, during Which time they remodeled 

and rebuilt the mill. At tl lot that time our 

subject retired from the business, this being May 
15, 1890, when he became manager of Buttig 
Bros Manufacturing Company, Saab, Doors and 
Blinds. This company has it- headquarters at 

Muscatine, Iowa, with warer is and distributing 

points for Kansas Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri 

With this concern fa mtinued until February 1, 

1893, when he retired from themanag nt 

In Holt County. Mo. , ooourred the marriage of 
Mr Bubaoher and Miss Bannah L. Schmidt on 
May ■'!. 1869. Mrs. Bnbacber.who ia a native of 
si I. mis, has become the mother of nine children, 
of whom -even are living, namely: Theodore B 
Barry, Charles I', who ia with the firm of Hnttig 
. Albert, who is engaged with Richardson, 
Roberta, Byrne & Company; Edith, Clara. Bertha, 



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Edna and Edward. The family are members of 
the German Presbyterian church. Our subject is 
a director in the Saxton National Bank; is politi 
cally a Republican, and was formerly active in local 
affairs. He was made a Mason in the St. Joseph 
Lodge, No. 7S, which was the first lodge organized 
west of St. Louis, this being in 1800. He is Past 
Master and attended Grand Lodge. In charitable 
work he has been much interested and is President 
of the Board of Relief of St. Joseph. He holds 
membership with St. Joseph Chapter, No. 14, and 
St. Joseph Council, No. 'J, being also a charter 
member of the Pride of the West Lodge, No. 12, 
Ancient Order United Workmen, one of the first 
to obtain prominence in this locality. 









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d| H. FULLERTON is manager of the Fuller- 
ton Lumber Company of St. Joseph, which 
' succeeded the Chicago Lumber Company in 
January, 1891. Our subject has attended 
to all the particulars of the business, superintend- 
ing the laborers in the yards, the bookkeepers and 
clerks, and keeping track of the purchases and 
sales. This concern has built up an extensive 
trade in this part of the West, making sales in all 
of the surrounding country. Robert Fullerton, of 
Des Moines, Iowa, and S. H. Fullerton, of Atchi 
sou, Kans., were proprietors of the Chicago 
Lumber Company and had yards at St. Joseph 
for about ten years, or until it passed into the 
hands of the Fullerton Lumber Company. The 
Chicago Lumber Company owns about seventy 
yards in Kansas and Nebraska with headquarters 
at Atchison. 

The lumber company of which our subject is 
manager is composed of the following: James ( r. 
Fullerton, of Sioux City, Iowa; Thomas Fullerton, 
of Mitchell, S. Dak., and George Fullerton, of 
St. Paul. The central point of the company is at 
Sioux City, Iowa. They have from twelve to fif- 
teen lumber yards in Iowa and Dakota, and the 
one at St. Joseph is the only yard belonging to 
t he firm in Missouri. 



The Fullerton family are natives of Ireland. 
having been engaged in the lumber trade since 
1800, starting in La Cygne, 111., and for nine 
years have conducted their business at Atchison, 
though they have carried on a Kansas trade since 
lsTl. They have considerable money invested in 
stock at St. Joseph, and carry everything usually 
kept by first class lumber firms. 

J. H. Fullerton was born in Lame, County An- 
trim, Ireland. August 8. 1864, and passed his boy 
hood and early youth in the Emerald Isle. When 
seventeen years of age he crossed the broad At- 
lantic, and soon after his arrival in the United 
States went to Des Moines, Iowa, where he ob- 
tained employment with the Chicago Lumber 
Company. After a time he entered Simpson Col- 
lege at Indianola, Iowa, taking a classical course, 
but left college when in the senior class. Going 
to Mitchell, Dak., where a brother was engaged in 
the lumber trade, he remained there for a while 
and then became manager of a similar concern at 
Woonsoeket, Dak., for two years. Next goiQg to 
Sioux Falls he was in the employ of the same 
company for a year ami then joined the Chicago 
Lumber Company at Atchisou, Kaus., where he 
held a position for three years and later was made 
genera] purchasing agent. 

Mr. Fullerton is considered one of the enter- 
prising and pushing young business men of St. 
Joseph, and judging from what he has accom- 
plished in the past few years, it is safe to predict 
that he has a future of great promise before him. 
He evinces unusual ability and good practical 
judgment as applied to all departments and 
branches of the work coming under his control. 
The company surely made no mistake when they 
assigned him this important position, for he has 
more than justified the confidence bestowed on 
him. 

In politics Mr. Fullerton is a stanch supporter 
of the Independent party. He has become quite 
interested ami a believer in the great future which 
is Mill in store for this rapidly advancing western 
city, ami as long as he is a resident of the place 
will use his best endeavors In the furtherance of her 
plans for development. 



POB I l; \l I \\h UIUUR \riltc\i. UKCOKD 






I II < ill I BOWEN, one of the mil known 
r— i l)Ubiiii>xs uii'ii "f 81 Joseph, Buohanan 

1 County, i- general manager of theGonlej 
■f \ Wolfe Improved Kiln Company This 

important position be baa on!) held unoe tbe bra) 
.if January, 1893, bnl baa beoome thorough I] fa 
miliar with the details of the bnainesa and is 
alreadv branching oal in newdireatiooa to inoi 
the trade. .Mr Bowen waa born in the small town 
of Bowen, Granger County, Tenn., in 1859, and 

■ d bis boy hi od days on the (arm of his father. 
The latter, John P. Bowen, waa a native .if Ten 
■ and a wealthy farmer, and he is quite influ- 
ential in his oounty, and it was owing to liim that 
the postoffioe, named in his honor, was established. 
I!.' baa acceptably filled the position of poetmastei 

si ■ Grant's lirsi term, being left undisturbed 

during tbe changed of administration. His wife, 
formerly Virginia Jones, was also born in Tennea 
see ami is .i sister of W. I' Jones, who is well 
know n in St Joseph. 

The gentleman of whom wi> write i- the oldest 
.'f aeven children, all of whom are living. He 
attended the "old Field School " until 1879, when 
with the ambitions -pint which i- a part of his 
character, be undertook the severe competitive ex 
animation for a oadetship al the West Point afili 
tarj Academy, and ranked very high, defeating 
thirty seven applicants. Unfortunately, however, 

• hi ai mil of illness, he failed tn complete the 

course, and afterward attended the Eastman Musi 
in--. College at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., from which 

In- graduated in 1881. At once c ing to St. 

Joseph, be a< pted a position as I kkeeper for 

the lirninf Jones, Townaend .^ Sherman, During 
President Cleveland's lir-t term he was appointed 
assistant Postmaster, under John 0. Evans, which 
post he In-Ill for three years, and then resigned to 

ge in business for himself. 
Mi Bowen has always been active in Democratic 
circles and greatly interested in the success of the 
party. 1 1 •■ is a charter member of the Jefferson 
Club. In September, 1892, he was elected Secre 
tary of the Commercial Club, which position be 
held until New Fear's daj of 1893, when an op 
portunitj offered of bettering his financial and 
future prospects, and he therefore resigned. Be 



is a member of the nfasonic fraternitj ami of th«« 
Knights nf Pythias 

On the LOth of October, 1888, Ifi Bowen waa 
married to Mi-s Millie Wakefield, who is a daugh 
ti'i ..f tin. late Dr. M. !•' Wakefield, a leading pbj 
sii-ian uf Savannah, Mo. A little son and daugh 
ter grace the union of mir subject and wife, their 
names being Hugh Wakefield and Luella Virginia 
Mr Bowen is a worth] citizen, and numbers many 
frii'inls in this locality who hold him in high ea 
teem fur his integrity and uprightni 

JAMES DRAIS. Lmongthe moat noted agri 
ciiltui ists of Buchanan Count] Btands James 
Drais, whose high reputation and material 
proaperit] came as the rewards of onuaual 
natural abilities industriously applied. He is one 

of the ulil settlers of this locality, having as t.. 

this oounty when a 1ml of seventeen yeare. Prom 
that time to the present he has so identified him- 
self with tin. affairs of the plaoe that their history 
cannot !><• recorded without according him a con 
Bpiouous and honorable part . He baa assisted verj 
materially in the development and progreas of his 
county and lb entitled, with others, to feel a just 
pride over the result of efforts which have brought 
forth such wonderful changes 

Jacob Drais, the father of our subject, waa born 
in Hardy Connty, W. Va., and was in turn the s..n 
of David l>rai- After hi- marriage tolfiaa Ignea 
Maxwell, a native of Rappahannock County, Va . 

In' i tinned to reside in tin- <>l.l Dominion foi 

many yeara. Id. »as a blacksmith l>y trade ami 
died in Tennessee in 1886, one year after migral 
ing thither. The mother, who departed this lift- 
in I s 'ii I, reared a family of nine children, only four 
of whom are living al the preaent time. The eld 
eat i* eight] eight years and the youngest - • "v • - 1 1 « _\ 
\ ears of age. 

Be whose name beads I hie sketch was born in 
Hardy Comity. W Va , Sept.-inl.er 12, 1821 He 
received a thorough training in all the duties per 
taining to farm life and during tln> .lull 
w Inn permitted to attend school, bad to walk tbn e 



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miles to the Louse of learning. He was very am- 
bitious to learn, however, and making the best of 
his limited opportunities, gained a good insight 
into the common branches of study. 

Young Drais was seventeen years of age when 
he accompanied his parents to Platte County, the 
trip being made overland with four yoke of oxen 
and wagons. The journey consumed four weeks 
and on arriving there April 30, 1838, they located 
on Section 9, Greene Township. Their neighbors 
were few aud far between, and as there had been 
but little corn raised in that vicinity the previous 
year, the family of Mr. Drais were compelled to go 
to Sniithiield, Clay County, for their breadstuff's. 
After locating here the family found they had but 
fifty cents in money, and our subject immediately 
hired out at $10 per month, driving ox teams and 
breaking prairie. In 1839 he went to Fort 
Leavenworth where he was variously employed for 
a twelvemonth. At the expiration of that time, 
returning to Platte County, he entered into part- 
nership with his brother Jackson and purchased 
property on Section 4, Greene Township, which they 
placed under good improvement. The fertility of 
the soil is shown in the fact that one day his 
brother picked up a small potato and white bean 
from the ground, and after carrying them in his 
pocket for some time, planted them, only to reap 
a peck of potatoes and a hatful of beans. 

Young Drais remained on the above claim until 
1850, when the brothers sold out and purchased 
another farm adjoining. In 1849 he was married 
to Miss China, the daughter of William and Mary 
(Bentley) Richardson, natives of West Virginia. 
.Mr. and Mrs. Richardson emigrated in an early 
day to Kentucky, where they resided in Madison 
County until 1843, the date of their advent into 
this state. Being impressed with the farm lands 
of Platte County they made their permanent home 
in that section, the father dying in 1858 and the 
mother in 1S72. Of their family of eight children, 
four are now living. 

Mrs. Drais was born March 12, 1N28, in Madi- 
son County, Ky. ; she was married to our subject 
January 19, 1849. They made their home for 
fifty years, to a day, on one farm. In 1888, how- 
ever, Mr. and Mrs. Drais took up their abode on 



their present farm, which, prior to dividing it 
among his children, amounted to fourteen hundred 
acres. 

Our subject and his wife have been blest by the 
birth of nine children, viz. : Mary E., Eliza A., 
William T., Hattie A., John F. aud Rose (twins), 
Anna Lee, Aloiizo and James Harvey, the last- 
named dying in infancy. The entire household 
are members of the Christian Church and are 
numbered among the most honored residents of 
Buchanan County. 

Mr. Drais has always been actively interested 
in education, which fact led him to be placed on 
the School Board, where he has done very efficient 
work. He has also served his fellow townsmen in 
the capacity of Road Overseer, and in whatever 
position he has fulfilled every duty imposed upon 
him in a faithful and praiseworthy manner. Mr. 
Drais settled in Platte County prior to its organ- 
ization aud is one of the few settlers who are still 
living. 



It fjARRY D. FOSTER, of St. Joseph, is the 
l?H popular and efficient ticket auditor for the 
1 Missouri lines of the Chicago, Burlington 
T/ & Quincy Railroad, an office for which his 

natural ability peculiarly adapts him. His life 
affords another illustration of the power of self- 
help and an example of what may be accomplished 
by industry, perseverance and energy. From the 
humble position of an office boy he has risen to 
a post of honor and trust, and as he is a young 
man it is safe to predict that coming years will 
bring him added honors. 

Mr. Foster is a native of Downer's Grove, 111., 
and was born October 24, 18<»<3. He conducted 
his studies in the common and high schools of 
that city, being graduated from the latter at the 
age of sixteen. In Chicago, April 4, 1888, he 
married Miss Lizzie M., daughter of DeWitt C. 
and Isadora (Freeman) Wheeler, aud they are the 
parents of two children (twins), Lawrence Judson 
aud DeWitt Clinton, who were born June 22, 
1890. The family is well known in the social cir- 



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olee o( 81 Joseph, and is highly regarded by the 

I |'1<' "f thai eitj 

At tin- age "f sixt i Mr. Foster Beoured a 

position as office boy In tin' departs I of the 

ticket auditor "f the Chicago, Burlington a 
Qninoj Railroad, and after working in Unit way 
fcr u few months lie was promoted t" a clerkship, 
in which oapaoitj In' was employed f"> nine 
Afterward he was chosen chief clerk and held thai 
responsible positii n for one year, having fort) men 
in hia employ. July 1, 1892, he became tiokel 
auditor al St. Joseph, and now has under his 
supervision twenty clerks and assistants. Hi- is a 
young mun of abilitj aud genial manners, which 
win for him a liost of warm personal friends 
wherever he goes. 

JOHN 8DBLETTE LOGAN Probably no 
citizen of St. Joseph has taken a more promi 
nent part m farthering her besl interests, "i 

has 1 n more active!) identified with her 

rariona enterprises for the past twenty \ears than 

hi- the gentleman whose name heads this sketch. 
His birth occurred in Shelbyville, Shelby County, 
Ky., June 25, 1838. His father. Thomas Logan, 
\ \ .- 1 - . > r Scotch frisfa parentage and was a success 
fnl dry goods merchant. He married Prances 
Sublette "f Woodford County, Ky., March 18, 
1834, and died April l\ 1840. Our subject's pa 
ternal grandparents were natives of Count} Done 
gal. Ireland. 

John Logan, the great grandfather "f John s. 
Log, in. "in- aubjeot, desoended from that Logan "I 
i; tstalrig, in So itland, whose estates were confia 
oated foi connection with the Qowrie conspiracy 
against King James VI. In the seventeenth cent 

nry the name was quit imon in Scotland. It 

had an honorable antiquity, first appearing about 
tin- year 1 I s " with one John ds Logan, who mar 
ried a daughter of Tankard, a Flemish settler on 
Lanark, the charter from Tankard's son for land 

in frank marriage with his sister being mentioned 

1 Ionia. Sir Robert Logan 
oompanied "good Sir lame- I glas" in his 



journej with the heart of Bruoe, and with him 
was killed bj the Saracens in Spain, after which 
the family -bore as a Coat of Arms three passion 
nails piercing a man's heart. Sir Robert Logan, 
of Restalrig, married a daughter of King Robert 

II, and beoa Admiral "f Scotland, ami Ins son, 

Sir Robert, married Oeillea, daughter of Lord 
Sommerville. The baron) "f Restalrig, "i Les 
terrick. was obtained b) a Logan in the reign of 

King Robert Bruce. 

Our subject's father, Thomas Logan, was also 
born in Donegal County, Ireland, August 7. 1801, 

and after removing to the Dnited State- occupied 

a leading place an ^ the merchants of Shelly 

ville, Ky. Our subject's mother, Prances, wasthe 
daughter of Lewis, Jr., ami Susan (Coleman) Sub 
lette, the latter being the daughter of Thomas 
ami Susan (Strother) Coleman. The aistei "f the 

last mentioned lady. Sarah, married ( '..I Richard 

Taylor, and became the mother .,f den. Zaohary 

Taylor, the twelfth President of the United States 
Our subject's maternal grandfather, Lewis Snb 
lette. Jr., with his three brothers William. James 
and John were soldiers in the Warof 1812, John 
being killed in the battle "f Dudley's Defeat. 
Their father. Lewis. Sr., and his five brothers 
Arthur, William, .lames. Miraham and Little Berr) 
participated in the Revolutionary War. were al 

the siege of Yolkt"W'll. and al llie surrender "f 

Lord Cornwallis. 

Our subject's great grandfather, Lewia Sublette, 
Sr., married Mi-- Mary, daughter of John Trabue 
and Olympia (Dupuj i Trabue, The latter wasthe 
daughter «>f John James Dnpuy, whose father, Bai 
tholomew Dupuj and his wife. Susan (LaVillan) 
Dupiiv, aided by then relatives, the Fontaines, made 
their escape from religious persecution in Prance 
and emigrated to Virginia in 1700. John James 
Dnpuy and Susan LaVillan were the children of 
Bartholomew and Susan (LaVillan) Dupu) Susan 
LaVillan was a countess of much inflnenoe and 
distinction and sprung from a race who were 
Eugnenots in faith. 

John Sublette Logan was educated in Shelby 
College and the Kentuokj Military Institute in 

Franklin County. luding to become a pbysi 

oian he studied with that end in view and gradu 



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ated in the class of 1859 from the Kentucky School 
of Medicine, and during tbe late war served 
surgeon in the United States Army at tbe different 
hospitals of Louisville, St. Louis. Jeffersonville, 
I Intl.), Camp Joe Holt (near New Albany, Ind.), 
and Gamp Gamble (near St. Louis), being actively 
engaged for about three years. He tirst located 
in this state in November. 1857, at St. Joseph, 
having come here with his mother and step-father, 
James L. O'Neill, and his sister, Mrs. Mary Lykens, 
and step-sisters, Mrs. Milton Tootles, Mrs. W. G. 
Farleigh and Mrs. Virginia Weakley, all at that 
time single. 

At Madison. Wis.. Mr. Logan read medicine 
with Dr. Alexander Seliue. formerly of Kentucky, 
who was a pupil of the famous German chemist. 
Leiliig, with whom he read until entering college. 
After attending Jefferson Medical College, at 
Philadelphia, our subject enlisted in the United 
States service as a surgeon, but on tirst coming to 
St. Joseph, entered the Buchanan Insurance Co. 
Bank as its teller, his step father being cashier. 

Previous to his army career Mr. Logan was in 
partnership with Major T. J. Shew in the iusur- 
ance business for a short time, and while with him 
saw Gen. Jef. Thompson, then a dealer in real es- 
tate, cut down the United States rlag from the 
postoffice, which has been placed there by John 
L. Bittenger, the postmaster, now editor of the 
Herald. While an army surgeon. Dr. Logan 
made a valuable discovery in the treatment of hos- 
pital gangrene, tin 1 bromine treatment, which was 
afterward used extensively in both armies in the 
treatment of hospital gangrene, and was consid- 
ered a valuable discovery. 

After the war Dr. Logan engaged in farming 
for about six years in this county, and then re 
moving to Andrew County in 1S7H. He purchased 
the largest apple orchard in northwestern Missouri 
and made a large income selling fruit to people of 
the four neighboring states. He was appointed 
fish commissioner of the state by Gov. Crit- 
tenden, with whose family his own had remained 
on intimate terms for many years. He was also 
appointed by Gov. Mannaduke, serving for three 
years with headquarters at St. Joseph. 

Mr. Logan is one of the administrators of the 



Milton Tootle estate, his associates being John S. 
Lemon and Isaac T. Hosea. The estate is valued 
at about $4,000,000, its proper administration be- 
ing necessarily a large responsibility. In addition 
to his various other enterprises, Mr. Logan owns 
large interests in agricultural and mineral lands 
in Missouri and Texas, and commenced dealing 
extensively in cattle in ISTi*. and is now in- 
terested in cattle in Wyoming and Texas. He 
is one of the Board of Directors in the Buell 
Woolen Mill Manufacturing Company, and has 
handled a large amount of real estate in this city, 
buying in this vicinity laud at $100 per acre, 
which he afterward sold at from SliOO to $1,000. 
He owns about fourteen thousand acres of land in 
southern Missouri in the mineral and fruit belt in 
the southern slope of the Ozark, and has largely 
speculated elsewhere. In Texas he has an interest 
in one hundred and thirty six thousand acres of 
laud, fifty-two thousand of which is underlaid with 
six foot veins of coal. A Pittsburg Company have 
recently leased fifty two thousand acres of it and 
are now engaged in developing the coal, and build- 
ing thirty miles of railroad to same, to connect 
with the Southern Pacific and Texas Pacitic rail 
roads. 

On November 20, 1S6'J. was celebrated the mar- 
riage of John S. Logan and Miss Emma P. Cot 
ton. who was born February 'Jt>, 1841, being the 
daughter of Charles Cotton, of Woodford County, 
Ky., who was of English descent, and was born 
October 3, L781, in Loudoun County, Va. He re 
moved with his pareuts, William and Frances, to 
Fayette County, Ky.. in the year 1787, where 
their deaths occurred in 1^'-V>. 

Mrs. Logan's mother was before her marriage 
Miss Sarah Blackburn Pnryear. born May 1, 1804, 
and married in 1S37. She was called from this 
life September 17. 1843. She was a daughter of 
William and Mildred (Bohannon) Pnryear, the 
latter being a daughter of Richard and Sarah 
(Blackburn) Bohannon. both of Virginia, who were 
early settlers of Shelby County. Ky. William 
Pnryear was of old French Huguenot ancestry, 
which numbered many able men and women in the 
line of descent, the family being noted for its pub- 
lic men. including such famous nanus as the Ne 



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villes, Fountainee, etc. The Logan famil] have in 
their possession a genealogical table dating bach 
to the lini" of Franeia 1 and aa early aa 1500. 

One of Mra Logan's noted ancestors waa Jamee 
de la Fountaine, who served in the household of 
Pranoia 1 and in the aame capacity in the reigna of 
1 1 • •■ i r \ II. Pranoia II and until the aecond year of 
Charlea IV when, in the year 1585, he and bia 
Father became converts to Proteetantiam. On ae 
count of his belief he resigned bia position in the 
court, retiring with his famil) to the paternal 
eatatea in Maine, near the borders of Normandy. 

Be bad long I watched and hated "n aooonnl 

.•i In- pietj and his aeal fur the pure worship "f 
Qod, and one night in 1568 li>'. In- wife, oldesl 
son, and a faithful valet, were dragged oul and 

murdered bj a number of ruffians who had I n 

dispatched from the citj of Le Mans. His two 
twelve and fourteen years of age, made their 
escape, and it is through the elder James thai Mrs. 
Logan i s descended. Among her ancestors waa 
the K'-\ -l ■ > 1 1 1 1 Cotton, who came to America in 
1032 and Bettled in Sbowmut, tdajss., now the city 
of Boston, the name changed in bia honor. He 
bad been th>' minister at St. Botolph's ( >ld Boston, 
the most stately parish in England. 

The ii ii mil of Mr and Mrs. Logan has been 
ied with a family of six liri^'lit ami enterpria 
ing -nils. Charlea Cotton, Thomas Trabue, John 
Snblette, Jr., Frank Puryear, Lewis Bnblette and 
Milt. mi Tootle, all residents of and educated in tln< 
St. Joseph public schools. For over thirty years 
.air Biibjeof and hia estimable wife lia \ • ■ been con 
nected with the Firsl Presbyterian ohurcb, and 
both arc active in many benevolent and oharitable 
enterprises, Ura Logan is a member of the 
Board of Directors of the Borne for the Friend 

and is prominent in the Young \\ au'a 

Christian Association work and in the Miasionar) 
Band, a well organized Booiety and charity of the 
First Church. 

Politically Mr. Logan is a Democrat and -••i\ -d 
as a delegate to 1 1 « » - Stat'- conventioua which nomi 

naked Qov. Crittenden and Gov. \\ Ison Mr 

Logan has a line collection of Indian relics ami 

geological -| imena Bia career through his 

long life in st Joseph has done him greal credit 



since he baa been a friend to over) worth] entei 
prise and has greatl) a a man] prom 

industries. 



JtMIN BRODER occupies the important posi 
tii I Chief of Police in the beautiful and 
prosperous city of St. Joseph. In I^M be 

was appointed Depot) Sheriff ler John 

Carey and two yeara later was appointed t" the 
position be now holds, in which be has been 
tinned by Mayor Doyle and later bj the Board "f 
Commissioners. The police foroe in tin- citj con 
sisls ..f fort] four men. with two Bergeants and a 
captain, and tl spenses of the department arc 

about $56,000 per annum. F<>r the past BU yeara 

the metropolitan system haa been in and for 

their convenience they have fort) independent 
telephi nee. 

In the beautiful Green Mountain Btate Mr 
Broder was horn, in the village of Middleburg, on 
July II. 1830. His lather. William, wa- a native 
of Ireland. His mother's maiden name wa- M ir) 
McGee, and when a child with her parents re 
moved to New fork state. On leaving borne out 
subject went to Canada, where he remained until 
seventeen yeara of age, when, going to Massaohuf 
ett-. he worked For about three years aa a farm 

hand, and later on the Bost ^ Worcester Rail 

road. At the age of twent) be went to Ohio 
where, for three and a half years, be was em 
ployed on the construction in Stark and Wayne 
counties. In Is.M he wa- engaged in railway 
const met ion in Illinois on the Ohio & Mississippi 
Railway. At the end of one Beaaon in the em 

plo) of the latter company, b ved to Si 

Louis, where be engaged in the yards of the Ohio 

g Mississippi Railroad for a few i tha in oh 

of the wrecking tram Later he wis foremai 

on the Alt ttenaion from Si Louie to Alton. 

the first road betw i those citii ll next move 

to Tennessee where from 1855 to l s,;u he waa 
engaged as foreman of railroad construction, aud 
in the spring of the last mentioned year landed in 

St. Joseph. 

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helping to lay four and a half miles of track on the 

St. Joseph & Grand Island Railroad, this being 
the rirst track laid west of the Missouri river. 
Jefferson Thompson was then president of this 
important system. In the spring of 1860 the rirst 
spike was driven into this railroad which has since 
opened up a large territory, adding greatly to the 
wealth of the country and its development. In 
the fall of that year Mr. Binder was employed on 
the old Valley Road, working south of Atchison, 
where he remained until 1866. In the meantime 
he had the houor of running the first construction 
traiu on the Kansas Pacific, going from Wyandotte 
to Lawrence. Then returning to St. Joseph, for 
about a year and a half he ran the construction 
train ou the Valley Road. 

In 1866, going to Atchison, Mr. Broder super- 
intended the laying of one hundred miles of track 
OB the Central Branch of the Union Pacific, the 
first track laid out of Atchison, and remained in 
the employ of the compaTiy uutil October, 1868, 
when he took the place of roadmaster on the Val- 
ley Road with headquarters in St. Joseph, remain- 
ing in that position for some eight mouths. 
Branching out in a little different direction Mr. 
Broder then took the contract for laying track 
south of Leavenworth to Kansas City, and from 
Savannah to Marvsville. In the fall of 1S70 he 
laid the track of the St. Joseph & Grand Island 
Road, superintending the work. For thirteen 
mouths he was roadmaster on the St. Louis & St. 
Joseph Railway, now the branch of the Santa Fe 
to Lexington. Returning to the employ of the St. 
■Joseph & Grand Island Road, he was with them 
for a year, and in the fall of 187'J laid the track 
for the Hannibal & St. Joseph from this city to 
Atchison. After two years of well earned leisure 
Mr. Broder went to Marshall in 1ST), and then 
for two years engaged in lead mining in Jasper 
County. Mo. Failing in this to any marked de- 
cree, he took a contract for laying track on the 
narrow gauge from New Stark to Albany, which 
was the last of his railroad business, as in l^M.a~ 
stated in the beginning of this sketch, he com 
menced tilling public positions, in which he has 
served up to the present time. 

The pleasant and substantial home of Mr. 



Broder, which is situated at No. 1014 South 
Eleventh street in this city, is presided over by 
his amiable wife, who makes a charming hostess. 
Iu her girlhood days she was Miss Florence C. 
Cole, and her marriage with our subject was tele 
brated September 15, 1S6 1 J. For sixteen years 
Mr. Broder has been a member of the School 
Coard, and for many years has been greatly inter 
ested in civic societies, having been active in all 
the Masonic bodies and belonging to the follow- 
ing: Charity Lodge, No. 331. of which he is Past 
Master; Grand Lodge, No. 14, St. Joseph Chapter; 
Council. No. 9,and St. Joseph Commandery, No. 4. 
He is a member of the Moila Temple. A. A. O. N. 
M S.. and the St. Joseph Chapter, O. E. S. 



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JAMES H. 0. ROBINSON. M.D., is Presi- 
dent of the St. Joseph Milling. Co. , which is 
located at the corner of Tenth and Jackson 
streets. St. Joseph. This company has a 
capital of $32,000 and its business is over 
$60,000 per annum. The Doctor had previously 
been connected with the milling business for some 
fifteen years, with R. H. Fancett of this city, and 
was also one of the incorporators of the B. T. 
Davis Milling Company, being one of its principal 
stock holders. 

Dr. Robinson was born in Boyle County, Ky., 
January 15, 1832, and when seventeen years of 
age came to Missouri with his parents, .lames and 
Elizabeth (Crow l Robinson, natives of Kentucky. 
They located on a farm iu Jackson Township, in 
Buchanan County, fifteen miles south of St. Jo- 
seph. The father died ou a farm in Crawford 
Township about 1882, in his eighty-fifth year, his 
wife dying four years later, ao;ed seventy seven 
years. He had been actively engaged in farming 
for many years, owning a place of three hundred 
aud twenty acres. Joining an overland company, he 
went to California in 1850 with his two brothers. 
Harvey N. and Joseph \\\. both now deceased. 

After remaining in the Golden State for about 
one year, mining at Plaeerville, our subject 
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money over ami above In- expenses For two 
In- remained mi the home farm and then 
began to read medicine with Dr. Oharles L.Crow, 
hi- uncle, who was practicing in thai vicinity. In 
1850 l>r. Bobinson began practice, having pre 
riously taken a medical course at the Transylvania 
Dniveraity al Lexington, Ky. The Doctor began 
hi- praotice at Bloomington in this oonnty, al 
which In- was actively engaged (or twenty-eighl 
years. In 1858 In' wenl to Wbitesville, Andrew 
Oonnty, for a year, then returning to this county, 
I in Halleck, where he remained until retir 
tog mi coming i<> this city. II'' was very success 
ful a- a physician and bnill up a very extensive 
genera] practice. 

In tlii> fall of 1890 I'r Bobinson came t" 
si Joseph, but i- still called in consultation with 
other physician-, especially when the patients are 
his old Friends of former years. Boon after i 

ing here I cored an interest in the St. Joseph 

Milling Company and was at once elected it- Presi 
dent. In 1856 was celebrated the union "f th<» 
Doctor and Mi-- J ispphinc Finney of this county, 
who was called to her final rest in IsT'J. A year 
later the I' otor married Mi-- Sarah EL, daughter 
of Elijah Meadows, al-" of this county. Hv his 
tir-t union Mr Bobinson has tin- following chil 
dren: Margaret s . . widow of W. !•'. Baker; Eliza 
lii'th S. now Mr-. James A. Campbell of this 
oonnty; Mars I . Urs l K Graham, whose bus 
band i- a physician; I I>, a physician and sue 

i to tl |,1 practi. f our subject, ami .Ian I'- 
ll (' . .1 r A -on and daughter have been born of 
thf Beoond marriage: Plato W ., who i- a student 
in a business college, ami I tella •! 

I)r. Bobinson i- active in politic-, being anil 
iated with the Democratic party. Since L856 he 

ha- I n a member of tin' Masonic Fraternity and 

now belongs to Halleck Lodge ami Chapter and 
the St Joseph Commandery. He has been an 
active member of tin. Blue Lodge and Chapter, 
Moiia Temple, \ \ M s. and also identified 
with other fraternities, among which are Truth 
Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, at Hal 
leek, having served for fifteen years a- its Treasurer 
and having taken all tin- degrees, and is also a 
member of tl noampment, Patriarchs Militant. 



In this county ih.' Doctor own- four hundred 
of land, which is in two farm-. He holds 

membership with the Christian Church al Wyat| 
Park, and numbers many friends on account of his 
genuine worth ami hi- genial ami Bocial qualities 
During tic many years of his residence in this 
county he ha- made a wide acquaintance, and bi 
all who know him hi' i- justly held in tin- greatest 
respect 

IiOSEPH BARNES RILEY, M D, who- of 
v I Gee is located at No. 1810 South Sixth sti 
{J St Joseph, i- considered one of the ablest 
men the Northwestern Medical College has 
produced. He ha- been remarkably successful in 
building up a large and paying practice and is a 
specialist in certain lines. In I888he was elected 
t" t In- ( 'hair of Chemistry and Toxicology in the 
Northwestern Medical College, in which position 
h>' remained for two years ami was then elected t" 
tin' ( 'hair of Physiology and Hygiene in tin- same 
institution ami i- -till holding that plnc<». This 
requires daily lectures during tin- school term, and 
in addition to his lar^,. general practice it keeps 
him vi'iv busy. 

Doctor Biley i- a member of tin- st Joseph 
Medical Society, of tin- Northwestern Missouri 
Medical Society, and also of tin- Missouri Valley 
Association, taking an active part in each one of 
these organizations, though In- has probablj taken 
greatest interest in the Northwestern Missouri So 
ciety. 'I'h.' Doctor has unit. mi oonsiderabl) on 
various medical subjects and was al onetime pro 
prietor ami one of the editors of the "Western 
Medical ami Surgical Reporter," hi- writings foi 
that magazine being largely on obstetrical sub 
i'ii-, a- hi- praotice tends much in that direction. 

Doctor Biley iaone of tl nterpriaing physicians 

of Ih.- .lay, who makes it on.' of lii- greatest objects 
to keep thoroughly abreast of all discoveries or 
treatmentsof disease, and to that end careful!] •■% 
amines the latest medical reviews and works of 
able physicians ami surgeons, In addition to mak 

ing Constant reference to and careful study of Ins 

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The gentleman whose name heads this sketch 
was bora in Valparaiso, Ind., July 26, 1850, anil 
resided there until ten years of age, when he re 
moved to Kansas with his father, H. W. Riley, 
who located in Paola, where he became a large 
stock-grower and shipper. Our subject passed his 
youth in Kansas and received his education in the 
county schools and the Kansas State Normal at 
Leavenworth. When only seventeen years of age 
he commenced teaching school and taught for 
about five years. His tastes tending in the di- 
rection of the profession, he concluded to become 
a physician and to that end began reading and 
studying with S. L. Brooking. M. D., who is now 
a banker, but- was then engaged in medical prac- 
tice at Paola. Mr. Riley after this preparatory 
work entered Rush Medical College, and later at- 
tended the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 
Chicago. He did not, however, complete his 
coarse in that institution, but, coming to Missouri, 
entered the Northwestern Medical College, gradu- 
ating in the class of 1887. In the meantime he 
had engaged somewhat in practice at Paola, and 
on the completion of his course in this city, en- 
gaged in practice, this making his fifth year. 
Politically, as his father before him, he is a Dem 
ocrat. He holds membership with the following 
fraternities: Priscilla Lodge, Independent Order 
of Odd Fellows, of Springfield, Kans. ; Juaniata 
Lodge, No. 171, K. of P., in this city, and St. Joseph 
Lodge, No. 249, Ancient Order United Workmen. 

At Paola, Kans., was celebrated the marriage 
of Dr. Riley and Miss Charlsie W. Eaton, who 
was born in Indiana. The wedding ceremony was 
performed March 9, 1883, and there have been 
born two bright little ones: Patti, aged seven 
years, and Joseph H., aged eighteen months. 
Tin- Doctor ami his wife move in the best social 
circles in St. Joseph, and are well worthy the high 
esteem in which they are held by all. 



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GEORGE DIXON BERRY is Purchasing 
, Agent and Secretary to the General Man- 
ager of the St. Joseph & Grand Island 
Railroad, which responsible position he has 



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held for the past year. He began railroading in 



1880, when only fourteen years of age, in the 
office of the freight auditor of the Burlington 
Route and remained there for five years. He then 
became stenographer of the general agent of the 
same system at Atchison, but that same year 
returned to St. Joseph as Secretary to the Gen- 
eral Manager, D. McCool, of the St. Joseph & 
Grand Island Railroad, and has continued in that 
position up to the present time, though five gen- 
eral managers have come and gone as his supe- 
riors. 

Mr. Berry was born in Texas January 28, 186f>, 
and is a son of George Dixon Berry, M. D. , a 
native of Kentucky, who emigrated to Missouri in 
the early thirties, locating near Savannah. At the 
outbreak of the war he went to Texas, where he 
engaged in practice, and soon after the close of 
the Rebellion returned to this state. Our subject's 
mother, who was before her marriage Miss Eliza- 
beth Dysart, was also born in Kentucky. The 
father, for many years, was a very successful phy- 
sician, and built up a large and remunerative 
practice. Our subject was educated in the com- 
mon schools and was for six months a messenger 
boy. about that time learning telegraphy. From 
lsTti to 1885 he was engaged as carrier for the Oa- 
-.litr and Herald, and was much interested in news 
paper work generally. 

On April 16, 1890, Mr. Berry was united in 
marriage with Miss Annie M. Roberts, whose birth 
place was in this city. Mrs. Berry is a daughter 
of Thomas C. Roberts, a prominent business man 
and real estate dealer, who for many years has 
been a respected citizen of St. Joseph. Though 
still quite young our subject has already attained 
a good position and one which is of great respon- 
sibility. Progress in railroad circles is proverbially 
slow, and it usually means the work of years to 
rise to any position of great trust, and when a man 
is thus honored more than others it must be on 
account of unusual alertness, energy and capability. 
Thus it has been with Mr. Berry, who lias not 
neglected any opportunity to post himself in the 
details of railroad work, and has brought to bear 
on tin- subject every quality of his mind. It is 
safe to prophesy that he has a successful and 
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be has done in 11m put, be will ultimately rank 
among the best railroad men of the country. 

Jo BTBPHENS is n. w President and the 
principal stock bolder in the Btephena Ice & 
Fuel Company, which 1ms a oapital stock of 

1100,000, and is Vioe pcasidenl of the Con 
Bolidated toe Company. For Borne yean past he 

1 1 .- 1 ~ 1 a the largest dealer in ici in St. Joseph, 

nix I baa made a great saocesa of his bnainess The 

last mentioned cop] pan] which he helped t gan 

ise li.is a capital Btock of $45,000. He was tin- 
first president of the company, the plant being 
located on the corner of Fourth and Frances 
ntreetc M Stephens located in this citj in 1875, 
and for about one year engaged in keeping a meat 
Bhop, afterward carrying on a wholesale fish and 
oyster business on Edwards street. Having made 
,i good Buoceas of his ander takings thus far, he 

winded t ■ > embark in the ioe business and there 

f.ir.' Imilt seven ice-house?, a portion <>f them 
being in the city. On a tract of sixteen acres 
adjoining the city on the north he lias several ice- 

1 -'- and each year stores an immense quantity 

of the commodity, the Btorage houses having a oa 
pacity of ii ft » -• * 1 1 thousand tons. 

Mr. Btephena owns one-half block of land on 
Levie street where he has three ioe-houses. The 
companj waa incorporated in 1800 as the Stephens 
! & I'n.-l Company, M r. Stephens being the 
principal Btock holder and President since that 

time. In 1880 he also embarked in tl oal and 

w 1 bosineas, the offit f that branch being 

located at No, 324 North Main street The loe 
Company does a wholesale business exclusively, 
while the Consolidated fee Company, In which be 
baa also largely invested, retails the same, 
The rabjecl of this sketch waa born near Bloom 

n. Monroe County, Ind., November 20, 1844, 
and I-. a s.m of the Rev David II. Stephens, who 
wis a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church. 

Fbe latter was born in Ohio, r ived hi~ ednca 

lion, nnd wen! to Indiana while still a young 
man in addition to his ministerial duties he 



engaged in farming in Monroe Oountj and at the 
time of hia death, in 1847, was presiding elder of 

the Indiana Conferem f the Methodist Ep 

pal Church. Our subject's paternal grandfal 
the Rev. John Stephens, waa a descendant of one 
of three brothers who emigrated from Wales at a 

earl] day, settling in the east He was born 

In Kentucky and was one of the early pioi rs 

and ministers both in Kentucky and Ohio. n,,. 
mother of our subject, who was born in Indiana, 

was in her girlfa 1 Miss Sitha, daughter of John 

Burton. Her father wns from Kentucky and was 

f the pioneers of Monroe County, Ind . where 
he owned a large farm and gave propertj to each 
of his children, of whom he had nine. He waa a' 
Boldier in the War of [812 and was a leading and 
prominent man in his community 

Mrs. Stephens, after hei first husband's death. 
wedded P. B McCoy and with him removed to 
Missouri in 1855, Bottling in Holt County, and in 
the following year went to Salem, Neb. , thence i" 
Kulo in the same state in 1857. Returning to 

Missouri the) resided here for a time I tl 

went to Kansas Foi Borne years Mr. McCoy was 
engaged in merchandising at Iowa Point and then 
went into business at Watheua. During the war 
he was a sutler in the service and received a Be 
vere sunstroke at Nashville, Tenn., from tl fleets 

of which he never fully I wred. it being the 

cause of his death some years later. After that 
event Mrs. McCoy made her home with our 
subject, 

.1 O. Stephens, the Bubject of this sketch, is one 
of three children and with bia parents came west 
In L855. Three years later he returned to Indi 
ana by way of St. Joseph, taking up his residence 
with an uncle on a farm and attending school for 
three months In I860 he went to Iowa Point in 
Kansas and was employed on n farm near that 
place in December, 1862, when he donned the 
blue, becoming b member of Companj E, Tweut) 
fifth Missouri Infantry, in the regiment command 
ad by Col. Peabody, He was mustered in at St 

Joseph and was at once sent to the front, wheie 

he took part in the battle of Shiloh and sieg 
Corinth, being then returned to St Louis Hi 
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under Gen. Davidson, after which he returned to 
this city for recruits. 

Mrs. Stephens was then sent to New Madrid, Mo. , 
campaigning in this state and in Arkansas and 
Kentucky. Under Sherman he took the march to 
the sea and was in the battle of Jonesboro. After 
Lee's surrender lie went to Washington, taking 
part in the grand military review, which was one 
of the most inspiriting and wonderful marches of 
triumph the world has ever witnessed. He was 
mustered out at Louisville, Ky., and at once re- 
turned to Missouri. In June, 1865, he went to 
Wathena, Kans. , where he engaged in keeping a 
meat shop and later entered the hotel business. As 
lief ore mentioned lie became a resident of St. Jo- 
seph in 1875, since which time he lias been actively 
engaged in business in this place. 

In Wathena, Kans., in the year 186(5, Mr. 
Stephens was united in wedlock with Miss S. J. 
Dinkle, who was born in the Old Dominion and 
is a lady possessed of many amiable and womanly 
qualities. Our subject is a member of the Associ- 
ated Free & Accepted Masons, Royal Arch Masons, 
and the Knights Templar of St. Joseph, and is 
also a member of Meola Shrine and of Custer 
Post, Grand Army of the Republic In politics 
Mr. Stephens is a supporter of the Republican 
party and has for many years been prominently 
counected with all measures tending to promote 
the welfare and development of this city. 



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\ILLIAM R. WOMACH, Constable for 
Washington Township, Buchanan Coun- 
1/ ty, with hiH office at the Court House at 
St. Joseph, is an enterprising and public- 
spirited citizen and a son of one of the honored 
Mini early pioneers of this county. For several 
years past our subject has held various important 
positions within the gift of the people, and has at 
all times discharged the duties of the same with 
great zeal and fidelity. He is a native of Bloom- 
ington Township, Buchanan County, his birth hav- 
ing occurred New Year's Day, 1853. His father, 
who bore the name William, was a native of Vir- 




ginia, in which state his grandfather, Abrani Wo- 
mach, was also born. The latter afterward went 
to North Carolina and then came to Missouri, 
being called from this life in La Fayette County. 

Our subject's father, William Womach, settled 
in Missouri in 1837, entering land in Bloomington 
Township, which property he afterward sold, buy- 
ing the fine farm belonging to ex-Governor Stew- 
art, one mile north of DeKalb, on which place our 
subject was born. Tbe father was a large farmer 
and a thoroughly progressive one. In 1866 he 
located in Omaha, engaging in freighting between 
that city and Denver until 1870, when he returned 
to his farm, where his death occurred two years 
later in August. He was a devoted member of the 
Christian Cliurch and politically was a Democrat. 
Our subject's mother was, before her marriage, 
Miss Martha Rector, being a daughter of Alfred 
Rector, one of the early settlers of this locality, 
who pre-empted' a farm of one hundred and sixty 
acres, which is now located within the limits of St. 
George. During the Mexican War he volunteered 
as a Government Wagon Master and went to Mex- 
ico, in which country his death occurred. Mrs. 
Womach, who is a native of Indiana, is still living, 
residing in St. Joseph at No. 207 South Fourteenth 
street. Of her five children, three, one son and 
two daughters, are now living. 

William R. Womach is the oldest of his father's 
family and passed his boyhood and youth on his 
father's farm until the year 1876, when he went 
west. He engaged in freighting in the employ of 
his father, traveling back and forth with the latter 
to Missouri about twice a year and having many 
thrilling experiences. At Bovies Ranch, on the 
Platte river, he was once driving a Government 
wagon with the supplies and command of ('apt. 
Gilmore, when those composing the party were at- 
tacked by savages. They at once formed a barri- 
cade with over one hundred wagons drawn up in a 
circle, but in spite of all precautions many of their 
animals were stampeded and were driven away by 
the enemy, and at another time, when in cam]) 
near Fort Julesburg, the Indians molested them, 
lint were driven away. 

Mr. Womach made trips as far west as Black 
Hawk and Central City, Nev. , but ultimately re- 





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turned to tin' farm where his Father died, tab 
ing tin' entire charge of the homestead, running 
it fur a year, and in 1874 renting tin' Bame 
Looating in DeKalh, be obtained employment in » 

drugstore for tin' succeeding four years, the] 

ooming to Si Joseph. Se s...m Btarted in tin- mer 
eantile busineas at this point on the corner of Boutfa 
Sixth and Hiokorj Btreete In (880 he erected a 
large brick store, carrying on l>n^ i 1 1.---, until 1882, 
when be ranted it and moved his stock of goods to 
King City, Ma Returning to St Joseph in 1884, 
be entered the employ of the J. W. Bailey Mercan 
tih< Drj Qoods Company* being with them until 
1886 In l^s^ln- became Deputy Sli >• ri IT under 
EL II. Spratt. remaining with him until 1800, 
when hi- himself was nominated ami elected Con 
stable from Washington Township, being re elected 
two years later. His term of office will not expire 
until November, 1804, ami be has nnder his direc 
tion two deputies. 1 1 «» owns considerable real 
estate in different parts of the city, ami a pleasant 
residence at N'o. 111'.' Felix street 
On Hay '-'.">. 1882, Mr. Womach led to the mar 

riage altar Miss Man E. Worst, who was horn in 

Bremen, Ohio, ami whose father, a largo mann 
facturer, is now retired from business, making his 
borne in this city. The union of our subject ami 

wifo has I i blessed with a daughter, Fannie. 

Mr. Womach is much interested in various civic 
societies, being a niemlx-r of the Ancient Free <v 
Accepted Masons, the Royal Arch Masons, the 
Knights Templar, Moils Shrine, and Woodmen of 
the World In his political faith he is n Demo 
orat and for five years has been a member of the 
Count) Democratic Committee from the fifth ward. 
As a oitisen ho is highly esteemed, a- In- is much 
interested in all matters pertaining to tho welfare 
of this vicinity, and personally has a host of friends, 
who recognize in him thoroughly worthy qualities 
ami honorable trait* of character. 



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I OM JOHN H STRINGFELLOW, M. I>., 
f ~1 was a member of tho Brat Legislature of 
I Kansas and was obosen Speaker of the 
v Bouse. Ho ia a learned physician and pro 

fossor of Hygi«ne in tho Northwestern Medical 



College, and an oarm-t believer in tin. old maxim 

tliat "an on f prevention is worth a pound of 

cure." 

Our subject wa-- horn in Onlpeper County, Va . 
November I. 1819, and is a son of Robert String 
fellow, a native of Fauquier Count] of the -am.' 
stale. Tho Doctor's paternal grandfather, who 
was a native of England, emigrated from that land 
at an earl) day, settling in Virginia. Tin' fathei 
of our subject participated in the War "f 1812 ami 

was a merchant at Ra< mi Ford on tie- Rapidan 

river, when, he continued in business until 1884 

He then purchased on.- thousand acres of land to 

which In- gave hi- attention, making one of the 

sons a partner in Hie store, and when our Bubject 
reached his twentj first year be received a hall 

interest in the same. The father farmed COntinO 
OUsly until h.- was called from this life in lS.'iT at 

the age of eighty-five years Political!] he wasa 
Whig, ami religiously belonged to Hi.- Episcopal 
Church. His wife, former]] Marj Plunkett, was 
born in Orange County, near AjQardsville. II- i 
father, Jesse, was born in Ireland, of Scotch ai 
tors, who were ri-lativ.-s ,,i Lord Plunkett of the 
famous old Norman Protestant family. Our Bub 
ject's maternal grandfather settled in Virginia 
where he owmd a large plantation and was a man 
ufacturer of tin- arms ami farm implements. The 

Stringfollow family are of German descent, their 

ancestors having located iii England. Grand 
father Plunkett was remarkable physically, and 
during the War of ISTJ when he was in the army, 
had a reputation which extended for strength far 
and wide. 

The mother of ..nr BUbjeol died in IM I She 
had ten children who grew to maturity. Of these 
our BUbjeot is now tl ily one living. bTis 

brother, Gen B, !■'.. tin- youngest ol the family. 

Was \tt ornej general of Missouri, and made a trip 
around the world. 

In his native stale on the Rapidan river our 

Bubject was reared, attending the academy and the 
Columbian ('..liege at Washington, I' C On 

reaching his majority he was made half partner 

with his brother in the mercantile business Some 

time after this he went BOUth with his brother and 

then returning remained at hone- until his twentj 



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fourth year when he began the study of medicine. 
From 1ST.! until 1845 he read under preceptors, 
next entering the University of Pennsylvania at 
Philadelphia in the Medical Department gradual 
ing therefrom in ISJii. Coming west he located 
in Jefferson City. Mo., where he engaged iu prac 
tioe for one winter, when he went to Brunswick, 
continuing there until 1848. We next find him in 
Carrollton, where he practiced until 1852, next 
locating at Platte City, for the following two years. 
In company with about a dozen citizens he started 
the town of Atchison, selecting the site and mak- 
ing the first improvements there. 

After the death of his father Mr. Stringfellow 
went hack and purchased the old farm, which he 
carried ou during the war. Again coming to 
Missouri he took up a homestead which he traded 
for another afterward, finally owning over one half 
the sight of Atchison. He was one of the men who 
built the Missouri Pacific Railroad from Atchison 
to St. Joseph, having secured the endowment at 
the National Capital and having the road well 
under way when the war interfered with the plan*. 
He was also interested with Mr. Pomeroy in secur- 
ing the Pony Express. When the State Legisla- 
ture was organized Mr. Strintrfellow was the first 
member of the Territorial Legislature and was 
elected Speaker of the tirst House, meeting at Ft. 
Riley. In Atchison, which place he had the honor 
of naming, he started the tirst newspaper, which 
was called the Squatter's So v ere i gn. He was ten 
dered the nomination as a candidate for member of 
Congress but refused it. When in Virginia both 
armies foraged on his farm, and at the battle of 
Rapidan he served as surgeon. 

In 1STT our subject located in St. Joseph, where 
he has been engaged since in the practice of his 
profession. Two years later he was made Pro'' -- 
of Materia Medica in the College of Physicians 
and Surgeons and in 1 S M was made Professor of 
Hygiene in the same institution. A year later he 
took the Chair of Professor of Materia Medica in 
the Northwestern Medical College, which place he 
held for eight years, in 1890 becoming Prof 
of Hygiene. Fraternally, the Doctor is an Ancient 
Odd Fellow and is a Master Mason, being a Royal 
and Select Master of the Roval Arch M BE 



During Cleveland' s first administration he was 

Secretary of the Board of Examining Surgeons in 
the Pension Department, being a strong Democrat. 
The Doctor belongs to the Buchanan County Med 
ical, the Missouri Valley Medical, and the District 
of Northwestern Missouri Medical Societies. Re- 
ligiously he is a member of the Episcopal Church. 

In the year 1846, in Jefferson City. Dr. String- 
fellow wedded Miss Ophelia J. Simmons, who was 
born in New Franklin, Mo. Her father, also a 
physician, was an old settler of that locality, and 
her uncle is Gov. John C. Edwards, of this state 

Six children blessed the union of the Doctor and 
his wife: Benjamin F. and J. T.. railroad men, l>oth 
now deceased; Robert E„ a bookkeeper in Omaha; 
Horace and John H., Jr.. the former being a mem 
ber of the firm and the latter an employe of Gra- 
ham. Stringfellow A Lake, dealers in agricultural 
implements in St. Joseph; and W. F... who is a 
practicing attorney in this city. 



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KN.1AM1N FRANKLIN LOAN was born 
in Hardinsburg. Breckinridge County. K\ . 
October I. 1819, was educated in the best 
s sho >ls of his native state, and after a resi 
deuce of two years in Illinois, removed with his 
father and family in 1838 to Missouri, tirst set- 
tliug in Jackson County and afterward in Platte 
County. For two years he applied himself to the 
study of law under the instruction of Isaac N 
Jones, and after obtaining his license he located in 
St Joseph, where, in October, 1843, he opened a 
law office. From the beginning his practice 
yielded him a fair support and numbered among 
his clients were many of the citizens whose name- 
are prominent in the records of this city. Prior 
to the war he took but little interest in politics, 
the Whig party to which he belonged being in a 
hopeless minority in this part of the state. 

After the tiring on Fort Sumter. Mr. Loan 

promptly took a stand for the Union and from that 

time until the surrender of Lee at Appomattox 

etive in the cause. During the summer and 

fall of 1861 he engaged actively in raising and 



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orgnnizine tro..ps. proooriag arms iin.l ammunition 
from l',.rt Leaven worth and privately distribnting 
them among the loyal citizens lor Belt-defense 
While the Journal newspaper >>( St. Joseph was 
under the management "f the patriotic Governor 
Stewart, daring 1861, Mr. Loan oontribnted arti 
el. ■- in snppori of the Qnion and advanced eon 
siderable sams to keep the paper in existence In 
December, 1861, he was appointed Brigadier Gen 
era! "f tin' Missouri State Militia, anil was assigned 

t" tin' < niRinl <if tin' northwestern district "f 

the state, his headquarters being at St. Joseph. 
II' maintained peace and order in the territory 
under his authority, and kepi the rebels in 
check. 

In August, l^vj. General Loan was assigned t" 
the command of the Central District of Missouri, 
with headquarters at Jefferson City His position 

ben «ns yitv difficult, as tl untry was over 

run by rebel marauders. However, here he also 
managed to bring order out of chaos. He was 

commissi d during this year to a seal on the 

Supreme Bench "f tin' state, which honor hede 
dined, Imt while at tin' head of his troops In' was 
elected by the Republicans of his District to the 
Thirty-eighth Congress bj abonl 2,200 majority. 

Se was nnanii isly nominated ami elected Id the 

Thirty ninth Congress, and also t" tin- Fortieth. 
At each of these elections bis majorities were about 

00. 

Mi- term in Congress embraced the most 
interesting period in our country's history tin- 
close of the war, the anti slavery amendments t" 
the Constitution, and the reconstruction measures. 
From tin- beginning "f his congressional career ho 

given a r ignition not often accorded to a 

new ami untried member. Hi- attitude in hi- own 
-tati- had been observed and approved by tin- Re 
publican leaden in both branches of Congress 
and he was at once given their fullest oonfi 
denes 

In the Thirty-eighth Congress <i<'ii"ral Loan 
was pr o mot e d from the Oommitb n Military Af 

fait- to that of tin. Joint Commit! i tin- Con 

diici of tl,. . War. with Wade, Chandler and Julien. 
In the next Congress Senator Trumbull, of Illinois, 



offered in the Senate a j t resolution modifying 

the Test Oath, in order that Patterson, President 
Johnson's son in law, who was a member of the 
Senate from Tennessee, might lake tin' oath with 
out committing perjury. Tin- resolution passed 
tin- Senate with l>nt two dissenting votes, the 
Senaton Wade and Chandler. The radical Re 
publicans of tin- Bouse believed it would be nse 
• try to defeat it and proposed to let it pass 
without opposition, but General Loan would not 

consent, and a- tlm result of hi- work, bu< led 

in preventing tlm passage of tin- resolution. 

In the Thirty-eighth Congress Mr Blow, of 
this state, had charge "f tlm hill granting $5,000, 
000 to indemnify Missouri for tlm war debt, but 
tin' measure was lost. In the next Congress Gen 
fral Loan presented the bill in tlm House, tlm sum 
having been inoreased t" $7,500,000 ami it was 
passed He failed to accomplish all that he de 
sired for tlm benefit of hi- district on account of 
tin- want "f co-operation in tlm Senate After tin' 
war In' w.i- offered by the President tin- mission 
to Venezuela and Ura/il, the governorship of New 
Mexico and judgeships in the territories, all of 
which he declined, preferring In- home life and 
chosen profession. 

In 1869 the General was appointed by President 

Grant as "i f the Hoard of \ i-ilor- to West 

Point. In 1876 as Republican delegate-at large 
from Missouri, he attended the presidential conven 
tion at Columbus, Ohio. After bis retirement 
from public life be resumed the practice "f the 
law. his old clients and friends returned t" him 
regardless of politics, ami at the time of bis death. 
March 30, I S M . few men had happier surround 
ings or more thorough 1 j enjoyed life. In Ins 
honor has been named the Grand Arm] of the Re 

public Postal Kingston Mo., and tl amp of the 

Son- ..f Veterans at Savannah, Mi 

i in December 5, 1M\ General Loan married 
ESmeline Eleanor, daughter of William Fowler. 
Mr- Loan comes of a family who were among tin- 
old ami highly respected citizens "f Buchanan 

i nty. Sim lives in a pleasant home in o f 

the pretties! parts of SI Joseph, and while -he is 
wealthy, she is entirelj unostentatious 



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AMUKL M, CLE1.LVN ADSIT. General 
Freight and Passenger Agent of the St. 
Joseph \ Grand Island Railroad, whose 
headquarters are in St. Joseph, is a well- 
known railroad man in this and adjoining states. 
This railroad comprises four hundred and fifty two 
miles and is a part of the Union Pacific system. 
It passes through the most fertile parts of the 
states of Kansas and Nebraska and does an exten- 
sive amount of freight as well as passenger busi- 
ness. 

Onr subject is a son of the late Silas P. Adsit, a 
native of Otsego County. X. Y. He was born 
May 1. 1863, at Springfield. Otsego County. X. Y. 
on the hanks of the beautiful Lake Otsego. With 
his parents he removed to St. Joseph. Begiuning 
with 1876 he has been a clerk in local depart 
ments of the Hannibal & St. Joseph, the St. Jo- 
seph & Western and the St Joseph A Grand 
Island Railroads. In 1SST he left the local de 
partment of the last named Hue and became con 
tractiug agent at St. Joseph for the same com 
pany, and a year later was made Chief Clerk to 
General Freight and Passenger Agent W. P. 
Robinson. Jr. Mr. Adsit was promoted to his 
present position on January 1. 1892. He was 
married in this city on May 31, l s ^»>. to Mary L. 
Groscup. 



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*f~ \ ODEBTCE MONROE ARERCROMBIE 
Y\ ' 9 Secretary and Manager of the Aber- 
1^ crombie Stone Company, which is incorpo- 
▼ rated. He has been a resident of St. Jo- 

seph for a number of years and is numbered among 
the prominent business men of this city. He was 
born in New York City, January 14. 1856, and is 
a son of James Abererombie, whose birth occurred 
in Aberdeen. Scotland. The grandfather of our 
subject was a fancy weaver of tine cloth in Aber- 
deen. 

Our subject's father was from early years a 
-•tone cutter, and in 1852, while still young, emi- 
grated to Xew York, where he worked at his trade 
in different part- of the state. He has had work 
in the principal large cities of the United States as 
Foreman of Construction and occupied such a 



position when the Quincy bridge was built. When 
the Rebellion broke out he went as a member of 
the Seventy ninth Xew York Highlanders, of which 
he had been a member for eight years, dnrine 

which time the company succeeded in quelling 
several riots. He rose lotheiank of first sergeant 
and was taken prisoner three days before the battle 
of Fredericksburg, being sent to Libby Prison. 
and at the end of three months was paroled and 
exchanged. He next entered the One Hundred 
and Sixty-ninth Xew York Fanthinsham Rifles. 

In 1866 Mr. Abererombie, Sr., came to St. Jo- 
seph and engaged in the stone business with John- 
stone A Brothers on Tenth street for one year 
and one half, after which, for a short time, he en 
gaged in farming near Rreckenridge. where he 
later was employed in the marble business. In 
1878 he returned to St. Joseph and entered into 
partnership with our subject and Max Erath and 
A. Johnstone. Eighteen months later the father 
and son bought out Mr. Johnstone's and Max 
Erath's interests, and in February. 1893, the 
Abererombie Stone Company was incorporated with 
a capital stock of (7,500, our subject's father 
being President and William Hamilton Vice-presi- 
dent and foreman. Onr subject's mother, who 
was born in Aberdeen. Scotland, was Agnes. 
daughter of Roderick Monroe, who was a shoe 
maker. He emigrated to Xew York and later to 
Rreckenridge. Ma, where he died at the age of 
eighty two years. Mrs. Abererombie, who was 
the mother of two children, departed this life in 
April. 1892 

He whose name heads this sketch attended school 
in Holbrook, Long Island, Xew York City, Mon- 
treal, St. Joseph, and the high school at Breekeii 
ridge. He engaged in business with his father 
until 1873 when he became Deputy Postmaster at 
Rreckenridge and Assistant Express Agent of the 
American Express Company, continuing with them 
until 1878, when he came to this city and has since 
been engaged in business. Ho does the road work 
and has the general management. The company has 
one fourth of the block at the corner of Fourth and 
Angeliqne streets. The factory is well equipped 
with necessary machinery, among these being 
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obi nee The stone is obtained from Warrensbarg, 
\l . Bedford, tad., Ashland and Portage, Wia, 
Mini various other places, and tli" products arc 
shipped t . eastern Kansas, southeastern Nebraska, 
- >uthej ii lows and Missouri. The stone in ths 
Commercial Hank and in the residence "f N P 
Ogden and other buildings numbered among the 
ii the citj was fnrnished b_\ this company, 
doing a business which ranks among 1 1 1 « - leading 
industries of the city. 

\i the home of Bamael P. Bailey, in Brecken 
ilebrated the marriage of Mr. Aber 
orombie and Miss Rosaline M. Bailey, who was 
born in Clearmont, N. II. Mr. Bailej is still li v 
in^ near Breckenridge. Five children have been 
born to Mr. and Mrs. Abercrombie, namely: James 
K. Roderick M. Jr., Rose M. Bonibel, and 
Julius \ 

Mi Abercrombie is an enthusiastic member of 
the Independi r of Odd Fellows. He be- 

- to Enterprise I. Ige, So. 232, has filled every 
focal office, and is dow Deputy Grand Master ol 
the Grand Lodge of Missouri. He was Grand 
Marshal and Grand Warden From May to Decern 
ber, 1892, being then elected Deputy Grand Mas 
for In |sM be was elected a representative to 
the (irand Lodge from St. Joseph, and served as 
such until 1892. He had the great honor of being 
elected t" the office In- now tills on the tiist ballot, 
such a thing not having occurred f'>r twenty two 
years before. In politics our subject in an active 
Republican and is now Secretary of the City <'.>m 
mittee and also Secretary of the CongressiooaJ 
Committee. While a president of Breckenridge, he 
was there also a member of the Citj and County 

Republican Committees and was for the s|ia f 

two Mar- <'in Clerk of Breckenridge. !!'• was 
als.. elected April, 1893, member of the City Coun- 
cil of St. Joseph, Mi 



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JOSEPH U BTOl nil; i~ a member of the 
firm of Stouffer A Wyatt, wholesale dealers 
in grain, feed, hay, etc. Thej also do ■ gen 
••ml commission business in their fine store 
at Nos 706 and 708 Met mie street Our subject 



is also interested in the drug business of W ebb a 
Company, at the corner of Tenth and Pacific 

street- He is prominent in local politics, and in 
the spring of 1892 was nominated and elected 

i iii-il ni.in from the Seventh Waul of St. Joseph, 

on the Republican ticket His majority of two 
hundred and fortj eight votes bespeaks the pei 
al worth and popularity of the man, as the Seventh 
Ward invariably goes Democratic 

The birth of Mr. Stouffer occurred in the bean 
tifnl Shenandoah Valley, February 27, I s "'"'. II - 
paternal grandfather was a fanner in Pennsylva 
nia. Our subject's rather, whose Christian name 
\lir.im, was Imrn in York County, l'a. In Ids 
native state he was married, and after farming for 
some years went to Carlisle, where he started oat 
in the foundry business. His health failing, he re- 
lieved to the South ami engaged in farming and 
milling in the Shenandoah Valley, where he died 
at the beginning of the war. He was a life-long 
member of the Lutheran church. Our subject's 
mother, a native of Carlisle, was, before her mar 
riage, .Julia Dinkle. She married in Virginia a 
Mr. Conrad Conrad, whose death occurred only a 
short time afterward. She then moved to Penn- 
sylvania and there became the wife of her first 
husband's brother. After she had lost her third 
husband she removed to Adams County, where she 
died, of her five Bona and one daughter who are 
living, the subject of this sketch is next to the 

youngest. One brother, A I' was sevent wars 

old when he was pressed into the rebel service. 
He made his escape, swam the Potomac, and was 

wounded In tl nemy, but managed to join the 

Union Army, serving until the close of the war in 
the Eighty-seventh Pennsylvania Regiment Ib- 
is now a resident of St Joseph and i- employed 

in the terminal shops |'| th,.,- brother-. < ' 0., 

i \ and s. i... also live in this < • i t \ . Their only 
sister, Addie. is the wife of Edward LeRew, of 
Adams Count] . Pa 

In the spring of 1865, as the mother had lost 

everything sin- possessed during the war. our sab 
jeel was obliged to start frmn home to make his 
own livelihood. Me worked for farmers during 
the summer, attending Bohool in the winters until 
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trade. The year of the Centennial Mr. Stouffer 
determined to seek his fortune in the West, aud 
going to Abilene, Kans., bought a farm of 160 
acres of unimproved school laud, for which he paid 
*N per acre. He entered into partnership with 
Andrew Kaffensburger and engaged in breaking 
prairie. They made <]uite a financial success of 
this business, running some ten plows and having 
one hundred head of cattle. In 1878 he disposed 
of his property aud came to St. Joseph. For the 
following five years he was foreman of bridge car- 
pentry on the Kansas City Road, after which he 
turned his attention for a year to the ice business 
of J. O. Stephens & Company. 

In 1884 Mr. Stouffer engaged in general mer- 
chandising on the site of his present store aud 
continued at that business successfully until 1892, 
when he sold his stock and rebuilt the store which 
he reuts. In 18'Jl he purchased an interest in the 
drug business now run by Webb & Company, aud 
in January, 1893, embarked in the wholesale grain, 
feed and commission business, to which he gives 
his principal attention. The present firm succeed- 
ed that of Brady iV Wyatt. 

The first marriage of Mr. Stouffer occurred in 
Parkville, Mo., in 1882, when Miss Mattie Sum- 
mers, a native of that place, became his wife. She 
was called from this life in Minneapolis, leaving 
two children, Ethel G. and Clyde S. The lady 
who so graciously presided over the pleasant home 
of our subject, at No. 2018 South Tenth street. 
was, prior lo 1892, Miss Mary C. LeRew. She 
was born in Adams County, Pa., and was married 
in Plattsburg, Mo. As formerly stated, Mr. Stouff- 
er is an active Republican and has served on a num- 
ber of leading committees. He is a charter mem- 
ber of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, 
belonging to St. Joseph Lodge, No. 432, and is 
also a member of the Woodmen of the World. 



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GLAUS J. SIEMENS, M.D. This gentle- 
man needs no introduction to our readers, 
for his name is a household word in St. Jo- 
seph and the surrounding country, where 
his skill a^ a physician and surgeon is universally 



recognized. He was born in the island of Heligo- 
land, at the mouth of the Elbe river, in Germany, 
which was ceded to that country from England in 
1891. The date of his birth was December 14, 
1828. His father, Jacob, was lx>rn and passed his 
entire life on Heligoland, where he followed the 
occupation of a sail maker. He w r as one of the 
family to which the people of his name in Berlin 
belonged. In his religious belief he was a Luth- 
eran, as was also his wife, Tuedtje (Franz) 
Siemens. 

At the present time (1S93) five of the parental 
family survive, aud of these Claus J. is the oldest. 
On the island of his birth he remained until he 
was twelve years old, when he entered the Gym- 
nasium at Ausfresland and there carried on his 
studies until 1850. Having resolved to follow a 
medical career, he became a student in the medi- 
cal department of Goettingen University, from 
which institution he was graduated in 1853 with 
the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He commenced 
the practice of medicine on the island of Heligo- 
land, which was then a recruiting station for the 
English. He was appointed on the staff to assist 
the surgeons in charge of the hospital and to ex- 
amine the recruits for the Crimean War. 

Three years later, in 1858, Dr. Siemens be- 
came surgeon on the steamer "Bavaria," Ham 
burg Line, running between Hamburg and New 
York. While filling this position, he made thir- 
teen trips across the ocean. In 1859 cholera broke 
out on the ship, three cases developing on the first 
day, but the Doctor, through the use of chloride 
of lime, was able to prevent an epidemic, and for 
his prompt and effective measures received high 
praise. In February, I860, the Doctor resigned 
his position as ship physician and located at 
EDaston, Pa., where he entered upon a round of 
professional duties. 

At the first tap of the drum, in ISfil, the Doc- 
tor was appointed Assistant Surgeon of the Ninth 
Pennsylvania Regiment, the appointment being 
made by the Governor of the state. After three 
months in that regiment, he became Assistant 
Surgeon of the Seventy-Sixth Pennsylvania In- 
fantry, and three months afterward was commis- 
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fantry, with the rank of Major. In 1864 hie regi 
mi-ill veteranized, and he resigned and returned 
I l rtoD kmong the engagements in wbieh he 
participated maj be mentioned 1 1 » » - following: 
Eiltou Bead, N C . Porl Royal bland, Port Hon 
Bull's Run, Frederiokabnrg, Kentucky, Mis 
I'i. Jackson and the siege of Knoxville. 

Dp 'ii c iming wes( in 1864, Doctor Siemens I" 
rat.'. I in Jefferson City. Mo . where In- practiced 
until 1865 and then came to St, Joseph. Bare he 
has since been engaged in tin- practice of Lis pro 
ii. making a specialty of chronic catarrh and 

diseases "f tin' throat. For year In- occupied 

a ohair in the St Joseph Medical College, where 
In- lectured on tin- diseases <'f children. Hi- is 
prominently identified with tin- Missouri Valley 
Medical Society and is also a member <>f tin- State 
Medical Society. As a physician he is careful in 
tin- diagnosis of diseases and sucosesful in their 
treatment, while as a surgeon he ranks second to 
Done in this part of the state. His executive 
ability and rank in the profession led to hi- elec 
tion to tin- Presidency of the Northern Missouri 
Medical Society, and he has also lieen a potent fac- 
to]- in the upbuilding of the Buchanan County 
Medical Society. 

In Ottenaon, Germany, in 1860, occurred the 
marriage "f 1 >r. Siemens to Miss Helen Mellen, who 
was born on the island of Heligoland, They sure 
the parents of six children, as follows: Clan-- J., 
Jr., who is in the employ of the Bannibal .\ St 
Joseph Railroad Company; George M.. an arohi 
ti-ct residing at home; Benry, a machinist in 
Topeka, Kans .; Frank, who is al present in the 
(i ivernmenl emplo] at Osage River, Mo.; Louis, 
ring teller in the German American Hank, 
and Mellina, who is with her parents. The !'• otor 
was a Director in the German-American Bank and 
fox ten years Berved as President of the German 
School Association of St. .hi-. -ph. While occupy 
i i > _c the last named position In- was instrumental in 

securing tl notion of the German American 

School, which has since been transferred to the 
city. Politically he is a stanoh adherent t" Re- 
publican principles, If'' has Berved as President 

-if the Turner Society and as post Surg lof the 

Dnion Veteran Legion at Si Joseph Socially he 



is identified with the Knights --I Bonor and the 
Chester Barding Post, Grand Army of the Be 
public. 



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JACOB WIOKENHOEFER is proprietor of 
the Queen City Carriage Works in St. Jo 
si-ph, Buchanan County, Mo. This manu 

factory turns out all kinds of vehicles — oar- 
riages, spring wagons, etc .and i- tin- Largest busi 
neBs of the kind in this part of the state. Our Bnbjecl 
is ,-i s.-lf ma le man. having amassed his own fortune 
entirely through his well directed efforts, working 
his way upward steadily year bj year. 

The birth of Mr. Wickenhoefer ooourred March 
25, 1855, in Kur Hessem, Germany. Bis father. 
whose Christian n nine was Michael, was a native 
of the same province and was a farmer by occupa- 
tion. He was a soldier in the German Army, a 
members "f tin- Second llussm-s in the war of 
1848. Hi- died in German] in IsnT in tin- faith 
of tin- Lutheran Church. His wife, formerly Eliz- 
abeth Miller, died about 1 s 7 : '» . Of her five chil- 
dren, four are living: -Jacob, Herman, who is in 
the employ of his older brother; Marie, who lives 
it Farmington, Iowa; and Gertrude, still a resident 
of Prussia. 

Our subject was reared on a faun and attended 
school. When of a suitable age he worked for neigh- 
boring farmers and was for a while employed in a 
dairy at Klderfeldt on the Rhine. When only 
teen la- determined to come to America, and leav 
ing Bremen on the steamer " Main," after a pleas 
ant voyage of thirteen days he landed in Nevt York. 
lb- at once proceeded to Iowa, where his ancle, 
Jacob Miller, resided. The latter was a merchant 

in Parmington and for ,-i year I mployed his 

nephew The young lad next Berved an appren 
tioeship to a wagonmaker, learning the trade at the 
end of three j ears 

About the year 1876 Mr. Wickenhoefer went to 
Quincy, 111. , where ha was in the employ of various 
carriage companies for some bi'x j I < few 

months thereafter he worked at his trade in Kings- 
ton, Mo., and in l s 77 came to this city, for four 
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carriage manufacturers. In 1881 he started 
out for himself in business on Charles, between 
Third ami Fourth streets. He took in as a partner 
Mr. Hesse, whose interest he bought out at the 
end of three years. 

In 1887 Mr. Wickenhoefer located in his present 
large building, at the corner of Charles and Fourth 
streets, where he has a first-class manufactory. He 
occupies a four-story building, 40 by 140 feet in 
dimensions, and here may be found the different 
departments — the blacksmith shop, woodwork, 
paint shop, trimming room and sales rooms. He 
makes a specialty of two grades of carriages, those 
ranging in [nice from $185 to $300 and those sell- 
ing at from $300 to $400. About twenty- five men 
are employed in the factory, which is run by elec- 
tric power. 

In addition to a pleasant residence at No. 018 
Bon Ton street, Mr. Wickenhoefer owns other real 
estate of value. On March 28, 1882, at the home 
of the bride's father, J. J. Mas, was celebrated the 
marriage of our subject and Miss Carrie Max. 
They have two children: Arthur and Carrie. Mr. 
Max was for some years engaged in business in St. 
Joseph, but is now living a retired life. Our sub- 
ject is a member of Humboldt Lodge, No. 130, 
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and was an offi 
cer of Minnehaha Tribe, No. 18, Order of Red Men. 
He is now Great Guard of the Forest of the Great 
Canal of Missouri, and occupies a prominent posi- 
tion in this order. He belongs to the German 
Evangelical Church and in politics is a Republican. 



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HC ARRY CURTIS is General Secretary of the 
Young Men's Christian Association of St. 
\ Joseph and has been largely interested in 
making the work prosperous. He is thor- 
oughly imbued with the spirit of the work and is 
Secretary of the Buchanan County Bible Society, 
which has its otlice in the building. Our subject 
was born in Canaan, Wayne County, Pa., August 
22, 1858. He is a son of Spencer and Mary 
(Emery) Curtis. The father was a merchant tailor 
in Canaan, Pa., until, believing his health would 
be improved, he located on a farm where he still 



resides. He is a member of the Methodist Episco- 
pal church, and fraternally is a member of the 
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, having been 
sent as a representative to the Grand Lodge at 
Pennsylvania. Our subject's paternal grand- 
father, Thomas, was born in New York City and 
was a merchant tailor. Grandfather Emery for- 
merly lived in New Jersey, where he owned a 
number of mills and farms. Later he removed to 
Pennsylvania and became the possessor of large 
tracts of timber and farm lands. 

Harry Curtis is the oldest in a family of seven 
living brothers and sisters. His boyhood was 
passed on a farm and his education was acquired 
in the common schools and Normal School of 
Canaan and Way mart. When seventeen years of age 
he commenced teaching. In 1879 he went to 
Manchester, N. H., and took a full course in Gas- 
kell's Commercial School. For the two succeeding 
years he taught school in Luzerne Couuty, at the 
end of which time he became agent for six mouths 
for one of the National Temperance Societies 
traveling in different parts of Pennsylvania. He 
was made assistant manager of the society in New 
York City, and finally, in 1882, became connected 
with the Young Men's Christian Association work. 
He was Assistant Secretary of the Harlem branch 
in New York City for two years. 

In 1884 Mr. Curtis came westward, locating as 
Secretary of the association at Council Bluffs, 
Iowa, for three years, during which time a large 
society sprung up. In December, 1S87, our sub- 
ject came to take charge of the St. Joseph's Asso- 
ciation, in the new building, which had been 
completed only four months. At that time the 
membership was less than five hundred. At the 
present time there are seven hundred and fifteen 
enrolled. 

This Young Men's Christian Association build 
ing is one of the institutions of the city, ami the 
good that is being done is incalculable. The 
building is one of four stories, 50 by 120 feet in 
dimensions, and is provided with gymnasium, 
reading room and all other accessories, including 
educational classes in the evening, and amuse- 
ments, lectures, concerts, etc. The auditorium 
has a capacity of five hundred and fifty persons. 





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In Brooklyn, N. Y . in Jane, l s v",, Mr. Curtis 
and Mi-s Sadie 11. White were united in marriage. 
She was bora in Hen York and is a member of the 
UethodiBt Episcopal Church. One child, Harold, 
has oome to bless this anion. In politics M>" 
t'ari i- rapports the Republican party. He in 
pleasanl and affable in manner, and baa bostsof 

warm Friends among the business □ of St. 

Joseph as well as with the young men c leoted 

with the Young Men's Christian Association. 



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WILLIAM BALLEE. among the earliest 
pioneers of Buchanan Count] is this gen 
tleman, who is very well known, and who 
Las lived since L839 '>n a good farm, lo 
oated "ii section 15, Washington Township. This 
property, consisting of two hundred and seventy 
acres, is well improved, and is very valuable, as it 
adjoins the city limits of St. Joseph. In addition 
bo this, Mr. Sallee owns two hundred ami fort] 
nine acres in Dauphin County, Kans. , and four 
hundred and forty acres in Platte County, M o 
II. wits here at tin- organization of the township 

and also at the tirst meeting, at which time the 

county Beat was changed from Sparta to St. Joseph. 

Mr Bailee, who was born in Green County, Kj . 

Ma] 6, 1823, is the grandson of John Bailee, a 

native "f the < >l<l Dominion, and a pi r oft hreen 

County, K\ In the early days, he lived in a fort, 
and often had occasion for spirited contests with 
the Indian--. He became a successful farmer, 
though at first he was obliged to plow with his gun 
readj at hand. He came to Missouri at a very 
early day, and took up a farm in t rasoonade Count] 
about 1830. He was blessed with a Btrongconsti 

tution, and rarely could he persuaded to ride any 

distance, as lie was a great pedestrian. He was 
of French descent, while his wife was of English 
origin. 

John Bailee, Jr., father of our subject, was also 
a native of Green County, Ky., and was a patriot 
of 1812, in which war he served for three years 
After the cessation of hostilities, hs married Mar 
gery Ldams, then of G inty, In time be 



became the owner of bu hundred acres of fine farm 
laud on Casey Creek, which he cultivated until 
is:'.:!. At that time he removed to Illinois, going 
l.v boat up the Mississippi and Illinois rivers to 
Naples, from whence he went by railroad to .lack 
sonville, settling ten miles east on Indian Crt 
Morgan County. However, when a few months 
had passed, be concluded to goto Lee County, 
L.wa. He bought and improved three hundred 
twentv acres of land on Bugar Creek, and there 

resided until his death. 

The maternal grandfather of our Bubjeot, Elijah 

\d.im-. was a farmer in Kentucky, and early in 
the twenties removed to Illinois, taking up land 

on Indian Greek, Morgan County. There he be 

came quite an extensive land owner, and made that 
place his home until he was called from tins life. 

John and Margerj Sallee were the parents of 
twelve children, our subject being the tirst born, 

and of this large family circle onlj four are now 
living. William Salle., lived in his birthplace 
until his eleventh year, after which, be went with 
the other members of the family to Illinois ami 
later to Iowa. 

In the year 1889 William Sallee came to Bu 

ohanan Count] with his sister, Me Madden, now 

d. ceased. The journey was made with WSgOOB, 
to which four yoke of oxen were attached. In the 
spring the] stopped in Clinton County, and Mr. 
Bailee pn ded them, and took np two claims. the 

one for the Madden family, where the Cninn depot 
now is, and the other for himself on the same 

ground where his present borne is located, [n 

the fall the remainder of the fitinilv came to St 

Joseph, and our Bubjeot boarded with his sister. 
In 1845 oooarred the marriage of William 

Sallee and Miss Josephine Hunter, who was 

born in Cumberland County, Ky., and whose 
father was one of tl arly Bottlers of Clin 

ton and Andrew Counties. S after their mar 

riage the young oonple ael np housekeeping in a 
log cabin, erected bj Mr. Sallee. He improved 
his faun ami th.-n bought adjoining property, 
until he had three hundred and ten acres m one 
body. I'oitv acres of this be afterward sold f..i 

$20,000 In 1 1 arlj daya be raised hemp on 

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war, turned his attention to wheat raising, at which 
he was quite successful. He succeeded equally 
well in raising hogs, having from one hundred and 
thirty to one hundred and fifty head. Subse- 
quent to 1865 our subject set out an orchard of 
about thirty-five acres. He has now about twelve 
hundred peach trees, and raised the first varieties 
of that fruit in this region. The product of this 
orchard has sold for as high as $4,000 per year. 

In 1849 our subject went to California, being 
one in a company of fourteen, of which little band 
he was appointed captain. They crossed the plains 
overland with oxen and wagons, going by way of 
Kearney, Laramie, Salt Lake and South Pass to 
Sacramento City, thence up the mountains pros- 
pecting. After eleven months spent in the mines, 
Mr. Sallee returned home by the way of Panama, 
New Orleans and St. Louis with nearly §6,000 as 
the result of his toil. The Iowa and Sauk Indians 
were numerous in this county when Mr. Sallee 
came here, and he became conversant with their 
language. Black Hawk, the famous fighter, had 
many a meal at his father's house in Iowa. 

Twelve children were born to our subject and 
wife, of whom seven are living. Joseph is a 
farmer in Dauphin county, Kans. ; William pursues 
the same vocation in Platte County, Mo. ; George is 
a merchant in Wallace, Buchanan County ; Mollie, 
wife of C. C. Aikin, is a resident of Cedar County! 
Mo.; Josephine, now Mrs. Frank Drace, lives in 
Platte County; Mat tie, who lives in Platte County, 
became the wife of B. F. Reed; Quant rell is Mrs. 
O. B. Stigers of St. Joseph. 

For years Mr. Sallee was Township School 
Trustee and one of the first in the district. He 
helped build the first schoolbouse and has since 

I ii active in the erection of others. In politics 

he is a Democrat. 



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GHAELES M. CARTER is auditor of the 
Hannibal <V St. Joseph, the St. Louis, Keo- 
kuk & Northwestern, the Kansas City, St. 
Joseph & Council Bluffs, and the Chicago, 
Burlington & Kansas City Railway Companies, his 



home being in St. Joseph. His father, Robert 
Carter, was born in Albauy, N. Y. , February 5, 
1819, and died in Cambridge, Mass. , February 15, 
1879. He received a common school education 
and passed one term in the Jesuit College at 
Chambey, Canada. In his fifte_euth year he was 
appointed assistant librarian in the state library at 
Albany, where he remained until 1838. At this 
time he began to publish poems and sketches in 
the daily papers. His first contribution, a long 
poem, he dropped stealthily into the letter-box, 
and when it appeared in print the next day, with 
flattering comments, he found it so frightfully mu- 
tilated and misprinted that he hardly knew it. 
This experience led him to acquire proof-reading 
as an accomplishment. In 1841 he went to Bos- 
ton, where he formed a lifelong friendship with 
James Russell Lowell, and together they began 
the "Pioneer," a monthly magazine. This was a 
literary success but so mismanaged by the pub- 
lishers that the editors were obliged to give it up. 
Among the famous contributors were Poe, Haw- 
thorne, Whittier, and the lady who afterward be- 
came Mrs. Browning. 

Robert Carter next spent two years in editing 
statistical and geographical works and in writing 
for periodicals. In 1845 he became a clerk in the 
postoffice at Cambridge, and two years later was 
the private secretary to the famous historian, Pres- 
cott. In 1848 he joined the Free Soil party, and 
in 18r>0 wrote a series of brilliant articles for the 
Boston Atlas in reply to Francis Bowen's attack 
on the Hungarian Revolutionists. He was active 
in the Free Soil party and with the consent of the 
State Committee, of which he was Secretary, called 
a convention in the summer of 1S54. A short 
platform drawn up by him was adopted, together 
with the name "Republican," and on his motion 
a committee of six was appointed to organize a new 
party. In 1855 Mr. Carter was an associate editor 
of the Boston Telegraph, the following year edited 
the Atlas, and from 1857 59 was the Washington 
correspondent of the New York Tribune. His 
next, work was with Messrs. Ripley & Dana on the 
first edition of the American Encyclopedia, in 
which were many important articles from his pen. 

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Private Secretary of the Treasurj Agent, whose 
headquarters were at Beaufort, S 0., and from 
Joij of thai year until October, 1869, he edited 
the Rochester, N X ,DemoeraL When news came 
of id" assassination of President Lincoln be wrote 

an article, without consulting any book or m 

oranda, of ever] celebrated case of regicide in his 
tory. From 1870 73 he was editor of Appleton's 

•I mhI, ami then became associate editor for the 

revision of the American Encyclopedia In 1^71 
impaired health compelled bim to discontinue lit 
erary work, and in the next three years lio made 
three tour- to Europe. II" was 1 1 j • - authoi of "A 
Summer Cruise on the Coast of New England," 
published in Boston in 1864. This passed through 
several editions. 

The first wife of Robert Carter, Ann Augusta 
Gray I »• fore her marriage, was l>oni in Newport, 
H I., and died in New Jersey in 1863. She was a 
successful writer of poems and tales for the young. 
Susan Nichols became the Beoond wife of Mr. Car 
ter Fdr over twenty years she was principal of 
the Woman's Art School of the Cooper Institute. 
Charles M. Carter is the second child of his fatli 

er's firal marriage. James L., tl Ider son, is 

transfer agent of the Burlington Road in Boston. 
Alice, the only sister, is a resident of Cambridge, 
M 98 Our subject was eduoated in the Cain 
bridge, Haas., and Rochester, N. 7., schools. On 
completing his studies he was for one year in the 
wholesale grocerj bnsiness in Rochester, N 1 
Be worked up to the position of head clerk in a 
oonnting room in a wholesale mercantile establish 
inent in Boston. In 1876, coming west, he was 
for a time in Omaha, and (Inn first took up rail 
roading, being a clerk in the Assistant Treasurer's 

offi f the Burlington >v Mis.. i Road in Ne 

braska. In IS77 he was made Assistant Ti 
nrer of the Chicago, Clinton, Dubuque £ Minne- 
sota Road, at Dubuque, Iowa, continuing in thai 
capacity until 1880, Be was then appointed to a 
similar position with the Kansas City, St Joseph 
& Council Bluffs, and iii |sM became acting audi 
tor of the Hannibal A St Joseph Road. On the 
lir-t of January, 1885, he was made assistant audi 
tor of the Causa; City, St. Joseph A Counoil 
Bluffs Road and the Hannibal & Bl Joseph Road, 



and on the Ural of July, 1801, assumed the duties 
of the position which he now occupies. Be has 
eighty men under his supervision in the office, and 
!-. unquestionably, one of the most valuable men 
in the employ of the railroads mentioned. 

[n Dubuque, in the year 1870, Mr. Carter and 
M -- Ada P. Hunter were united in matrimony 
Mrs Carter is the daughter of John Hunter, who 
is engaged in the insurance business in Dubuque 
The lady was born in Oshkosh, and brought up in 
Dubuque She has three children; Majorie, 
Dorothy and Barbara, The familj are members 
of the Congregational Church, this city, and ooou 
py an enviable position in social circles. 

Mr. Carter is a linn Republican and Booiall) be 
longd to the Commercial and Benton Clube, "f 
which he has been Vice president and Secretary. 
He i-i a member of the American Association of 
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JOHN BAKER CORBITT, Among the hon 
v I or.Ml earl> settlers of Buchanan Count) and 
\J numbered with the leading I democrats of this 
region is Mr Corbilt, who has been called 
upon several times to till important public positions 
of trust and honor. lie is now discharging the 
duties I f Treasurer of Buchanan County, making 
bis home in St Joseph, September 1. l ss 'i. he 

was appointed Superintendent of the Count) I' 

Farm by the County Court and engaged in oarrj 
in"; that on for six years, retiring in March, 1892. 
He endeavored faitbfullj to perform tie- duties de 
rolving upon him, and ^a\e general satisfaction 
to his constituents and the oitizens of the county. 
In the fall of 1892 he was nominated and elected 
r\,. a- County Treasurer, and assumed the 
duties of that office January 1. 1898, his term to 
continue for two years. His office and genera] 
headquarters are in the Saxton National Bunk. 

He has always been greatly interested in eduoa 

lional mailers, and BBTVed as a member of the 

school board while a resident ol I township, 

lieine; also .Justice of the Peace for some time. 
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County, ou the small Kanawha river, January 
15, 1839, and he is a sou of James and Sarah 
(Baker) Corbitt. Our subject's paternal grand- 
father, James, was a native of the Emerald Isle, 
emigrating with his parents to Virginia and be- 
coming a small farmer in Wood County. James 
T. Corbitt was an agriculturist in the Old Dominion 
until 1852, when he emigrated westward, believing 
that his opportunities would be greater in the 
newer country. Going to Iowa he located in War- 
ren County, where he was one of the early settlers, 
entered land near Indianola and there engaged in 
fanning until nearly eighty two years of age, his 
death occurring July 7, 1892. He was throughout 
life an active member of the Democratic party. 
His wife was born in Virginia, near Morgan town, 
on the Monongahela river, her father, John Baker, 
being of German descent. His ancestors emi- 
grated to America previous to the Revolutionary 
War, in which they took an active part, and were 
early settlers in the Old Dominion. Her father 
participated in the War of IS 12, and was a witness 
of Hull's surrender in Detroit. He was a farmer 
and cooper in his native state, where his death 
occurred. The mother, who is still living, resides 
on the old homestead with a son. 

In a family of nine children who grew to man- 
hood and womanhood our subject is the third in 
order of birth, and passed his boyhood, until 
reaching the age of thirteen years, in Virginia, re- 
ceiving a common school education. His birth- 
place was near Burning Springs, now the oil 
region of the state. In 1852 he went by boat to 
Keokuk, then by team to Indianola, where he 
helped improve a farm and remained with his 
parents until reaching his majority. 

Mr. Corbitt had had but little schooling up to 
the age of eighteen years, and is almost entirely a 
self-educated as well as a self made man, having 
winked his own way to the top through many 
difficulties. On leaving home he obtained work as 
a farm hand, receiving only $12 per month, and 
going to school each winter season. After some 
time lie engaged in teaching school, receiving at 
first $18 per month, and continued as a teacher 
during the winter time until the close of the war. 
His last term of school closed daring the winter 



of 1805-66 in Adair County, Mo. In the spring 
of the latter year he first located in Buchanan 
County, obtaining work at contracts and furnishing 
railroad supplies, at which business he was very 
successful. Until 1N72 he engaged in farming to 
some extent, and in that year purchased a farm in 
Agency Township, starting in a small way and 
gradually adding to his farm, machinery and stock. 
He is still the owner of one hundred and sixty 
acres, which is well cultivated and very fertile. 

In 1872 Mr. Corbitt and Mrs. Emma Womach 
were joined in wedlock. Mrs. Corbitt is a native 
of this couuty and is a daughter of Alfred Coates. 
At the time of her marriage she was a widow with 
one child, F. M. , who is now engaged in carrying 
on our subject's farm in Agency Township. Since 
her union with our subject she has become the 
mother of six children: J. R. , who is a student 
in the Christian Brothers' College; Lenore, Calla, 
William B., John B. and Benjamin H. Mr. Cor- 
bitt is a member of the Ancient Order of United 
Workmen, the Ancient Independent Order of Odd 
Fellows, and in politics is a stanch Democrat, 
having served as a member of the County Commit- 
tee until receiving his appointment as Superintend- 
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SMON B. CAMPBELL is a leading phy- 
sician and surgeon of St. Joseph, having 
acquired considerable reputation, particu- 
larly as a surgeon, and having one of the 
largest practices in this city. He is Professor of 
Materia Medica in the Northwestern Medical Col- 
lege, of which institution he is himself a graduate, 
as well as of the Jefferson Medical College at 
Philadelphia, Pa. The Doctor was born in Al- 
liance, Stark County, Ohio, March S, I860. His 
father, the Rev. D. B. Campbell, was born in 
Pittsburg, Pa., in 1815, while his paternal grand- 
father, a native of Argyleehire, Scotland, was 
one of the early settlers in Pennsylvania, entering 
land in Weston, near Pittsburg, where he lived 
until called to his linal rest. 

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pal Oniversitj in 1886 and was ■ circuit rider over 
the < iumberland Mountains, establishing and build 
in<,' numbers i'f churches in the Pittsburg Circuit, 
which embraced a part of Ohio. ll<' made his 
headquarters a! Alliance Ohio, for many years, 
and returned to Pennsylvania in 1869. About thai 
time he removed to Donophan County, neai High 
land, Sana,, buying land and passing I j i — l.-i-t 

years in Robinson, where bis deatl curred in 

June, l^ s \ at the age "f sevent] three years. 
Our subject's mother, whose maiden name was 
Martha Dodson, was born in 1820 at <*il City, 
l'oim . and was married in 1835. Her father was 
Ixirn in Germany, settling early in the oil regions 

"f Pennsylvania, where 1 ngaged in farming. 

Be was a member of the Lutheran Church, and a 

much respected citizen in the neighbor! I .>f 1 1 1 • - 

b Mrs Campbell is now living in Robinson, 

Kuns. 

Our subject is one of seven living children, two 
having deceased. A brother, Philip D., was in a 

Pennsylvania reei at in the cavalry service, and 

at the battle of Winchester was wounded with a 
Baber thrust on liis head, from the effects of which 
he died after the war. Dr. Campbell, of this 
-ketch, »a- the youngest member of the family, 
and was reared in his native Btate until 1869, 
when he came west, acquiring his education in 
a Presbyterian Bohool at Highland University. 
When only nineteen he began the study of medi 
oine under the tutelage of the late Dr. D. J. Hol- 
land, of A-htoii, after which he entered the North 
western Medical College of this city, graduating 

in the first olaes in 1 S M. He at on mgaged in 

practice in Rising < * i t _\ , Neb., staying there only 
nntil the fall of 1881, when be located at FSaston, 
Buchanan County, and there Buooeeded in gaining 
a large and Buocessful clientage; but preferring a 
larger field of labor, he removed to St. Joseph in 

the fall of 1887, and it is now said on good author 

itj that he has the largest practice of any one fn 

the Bit J 

l>i Campbell's success has been assured from 

the first, for hi' ha- spared no pain-, hard work or 

• application to his studies to beoome thor- 
oughly conversant with everything pertaining to 
medicine. For the year ending December, l^'.t'J. 



be finds bj In- rd that bis whole business has 

amounted to 115,000, tl ash receipts footing np 

to about $9,000. Hi- office i- located in the Pape 
Building on Frederik avenue While at FSaston, 
in 1888, the Doctor entered and graduated from 
the Jefferson Medical College, taking a Bpecial 
course in surgery ami diagnosis. In l^^7 he be 
came a professor in the Northwestern Medical Col 
lege, ami is a member of the Board of Directors, 
being one of seven who advocated ami secured a 
three-year term Hi- reputation i- more than 
local as a Burgeon, for he i- frequently called t.. 
perform difficult operation- and treat chronic rlis 
ea-e- indifferent part- of the adjoining counties 
His success is owing to his pluck and energ 
well a- to his thorough familiarity with the 
branches in which he is a specialist. 

In September, 1881, Dr Campbell wedded Miss 
I'aralie, daughter of Dr. J. P. Cbesney, of St. 
Joseph. The latter i- Professor of Obstetrics in 

the Northwestern Medical College, Mi- Camp 
hell was reared and educated in St. Joseph, 
though Platte County was the place of her birth. 
Two children have blessed this union: Osmon B., 
.Ir., and Forrest 0. The Doctor own- a beautiful 
residence, containing fourteen rooms, at the corner 
of Twentieth and Faraon street-, which is -nr 
rounded by one of the finest lawns in the city. 
Our subject is a member of the Ancient Order of 
United Workmen and i- examining Burgeon for 
the Lodge " Pride of the West" and of the Knights 
of the Maooal - He belongs to the Missouri 

Valley Medical Society, the District Medical So 
piety of Northwestern Missouri, of which he was 
at one time Secretary, but now President; the 
Buchanan Count] Medical Society ami the State 
Medical Society. In regard to politics Dr. Camp 
bell is a loyal supporter of the I »et tratic party. 



JAMES \v. AMBROSE, who was for man] 
years ot f the enterprising business men of 
St Joseph, Buchanan County, and President 
of the Ambrose Manufacl uring Company, «as 

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father was a miller. This business James W. be- 
came master of in his youth, and when about 
eighteen years old came to America, learning the 
trade of a mechanic. He worked at various places 
and was employed in the Chicago ft Alton Railway 
shops in Bloomington for some time. He afterward 
ran a machine shop for himself in Lincoln. 111., and 
about twenty years ago became identified with the 
welfare of St. Joseph. In 1 ST 1 Mr. Ambrose came 
t" this city and started a small machine shop and 
foundry for manufacturing purposes. The busi- 
ness gradually grew and was extended until, in 
L883, the present company was incorporated with 
a capital stock of $50,000. Of this Mr. Ambrose 
was made President, and had the controlling in- 
terest and the charge of the same until his death. 
which occurred December 26, 1891, at which time 
he was about sixty two years old. 

The maiden name of Mrs. James W. Ambrose 
was Hannah S. Rowley. She was born in Eng 
land and came to America with her parents. Her 
father, William Rowley, was formerly a resident 
of Bloomington, now deceased. Mr-. Ambrose is 
still living in St. Joseph. Of her six children, one 
son and four daughters are living. Her eldest 
horn. James R., died in his eighteenth year. The 
daughters are as follows: Jessie, wife of J. H. 
Johnson, lives in this city: Mary E. is Secretary 
aud Treasurer of the Ambrose Manufacturing Com- 
pany: Grace and Jeanette are at home. 

- F. Ambrose, the only surviving son of Mr. 
and Mrs. James W. Ambrose, was born in Bloom- 

_ a, 111., September 9, 1866, and received the 
benefits of a good common-school edncation. aJ-o 
attending the high school for several years. He 
then became a machinist, working under his fath- 
er's direction, and s.> thoroughly did he make him- 
self familiar with the details and various branches 
of the trade that, when, upon his father's death, 
Deceiul>er, 1S91, the management fell upon his 
shoulders, he was able to assume the duties with 
out fear of failure. Though only two years have 

--•■•1, he has shown that he has naturally admir- 
able business qualifications and that he will make 
an even greater success of the enterprise than ever, 
there being a constant demand for such good work 
as is turned out from this establishment. 



The Ambrose Manufacturing Company's shop 
is located on Montery aud Eighth streets and is 
one block long. There are large moulding rooms, 
machinists' shops, store-rooms, and a pattern shop 
where they make all their own patterns. In the 
plant is a forty-horse power engine and boiler and 
a seven ton moulding cupola. In addition to mak- 
ing railway castings and bridgework. they do all 
sorts of large castings for various purposes. Work 
is done in all kinds of metals— iron, brass, copper, 
etc. — and employment is given to thirty five hands. 
The company is jnstly regarded as one of the lis 
ing industries of St. Joseph, and if its business 
iticreases during the next few yt-ars in the same 
ratio as during the years preceding, as there seems 
every prospect of its doing, a largely increased 
force of men will be necessitated. Mr. S. F. Am- 
brose is a member of the Builders' and Trades' 
Association and in politics is a Republican. 



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WILLIAM H CARPENTER, a very promi- 
nent and popular business man of St. 
- ph, is now President of the Phoenix 
Loan Association and President of Dil- 
lon Cement Plaster Co., the plant of the latter 
l>eiug at Dillon. Kans.. but having its headquar- 
ters in this city. This is a large and promising 
concern having a capital stock of $ 100,<XK). The 
company was organized in January. I s '.t3. with 
onr snbject as its first President. For a number 
of vear- Mr. Carpenter traveled extensively, some- 
times covering from twelve to fifteen thousand 
miles a year, his territory being from the Missis- 
sippi to the Pacific Coast and from the northern to 
the southern boundary of the United States. He 
has benefited greatly by his travels, lx>th in this 
and foreign countries, as in l^VIl he wasa member 
of the Knight Templar excursion which visited 
important places in Germany. Austria. Italy. 
Switzerland. France. England and Wales. 

Mr. Carpenter was born in Luray, Page County, 
Va.. July l't, 1S44, and is a son of Lewis F.. who 
was l>orn in Loudoun County, in the same state. 
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same county, the father being an extensive stock 
h and farmer in thai region. He and his 
brothers participated in the War of 1812 and 
prominent in the earlj bistorj of the Btate. 
Lewis V was married in Page County I" Miss 
Elizabeth Varner, who was born in that Bounty, 
ami whose father, Daniel, of Qerman descent, was 
a farmer bj occupation. Mr. Carpenter n 
wagon maker and mannfaotnrer of threshing ms 
chines, doing all tin 1 forging and detail work him 
self In 1854 he came to Missouri, coming on the 
Ohio from Wheeling to St. Louis bj boat, and 
thence np the Missouri river to tliis city, where he 
located and engaged al his trade. In the follow 
ing spring he located on a farm in Marion Town 
ship, which h<' improved and on which he resided 
fur nearly forty years, bis death there occurring in 
April. 1880, at tin n^'r nf seventy nni> years. His 
wife is -till living on the old homestead, now hav 

ing reached the g 1 old age of seventy years. 

Mi- Carpenter has been fur many years past a 
member of the old school Baptist Chnrch. 

Our subject is nt f ten children, nine of whom 

were sons and six of whpm are now living. The other 
members of the family are: 8. I' . who is a promi 
nent physician of St. Joseph, anil whose Bketcb 
may be found on another page of this work; Dan 
iel I'. who is engaged in farming in Andrew 
County; Thomas J., an extensive agriculturist 
near Hutchinson, Kans. ; Robert 8., manager of 
the clothing department with the firm of Town 

send A Wjratl Drj Q 1- Company; Bedford I'.. 

who owns a farm in Andrew County, and Mary 
lv , now Mrs. \\\ c Hamilton, who makes her 

lion n ti Id place in Marion Township. Our 

subject's boyhood was spent in hia native state and 
he was abonl ten years of age when be came with 

bis parents by waj of the rivers to tin- nt_\ 

He resided on his father's farm, receiving a com 
moil school education. 

\' the first tap of the dram Mr Carpentei en 
listed in the < Ion federate Army, he then being only 
seventeen years of age He became a member of 
Company II. First Missouri Calvary, under Col. 
Call's, and participated in the battle of Pea Ridgi 
at which he was taken prisoner; was paroled l>ut 
held until the nexi summer Returning, be took 



part in the battles ol B Creek, Champion 

Mill and Black River, and was nexl engaged in 
the important siege of Vioksburg, after which he was 
paroled until November, and wenl to Meridian, Miss . 
thence to Lauderdale Springs, thence to Mobile, 
where, after a short time be was ordered to 
reinforce Johnson, and was in the battle of Kene 
saw Mountain, where Gen. Polk was killed Prom 
that place he wenl to Atlanta, taking part in the 
sirjM. of that rit_\. his next battle being that ■ . r 

Jonesboro. After the battle of Alt ta Mount 

aina be was in the skirmish of Reeeca, being 
ordered from there to Decatur, then to Tuscnmbia, 
thence north to Columbia. In the battle "f Frank- 
lin, which sun led, he was wounded with grape 

shot, which shattered his ri^ht hip, and for nix 
weeks he was obliged to remain in the hospital; 
then going to Mobile be remained until spring, 
when with his regiment he surrendered in April. 
1865. At Atlanta he was shot In a spent hall but 
from tin- effects of this he soon recovered. 

Returning from the service Mr. Carpenter wenl 

to Groene ('utility. Ark., where he taught bcI I 

much oT the time for the sue ling two rears. 

He also purchased a farm in that locality of two 

hundred and forty acres, where be bdi ssfnlly 

engaged in raising cotton. In 1868, returning to 

si. Joseph, I ntered the employ of B l> Bu 

fonl A, Co., of Rook Island, 111 , as their repre 
sentative in Missouri ami Kansas, and remained 
with them for seven years. He was next employed 
by l> M Osborne & Co., manufacturers "f reap 
ing machines, their factory being located al An 
burn, N. V Our Bubjecl traveled for that firm 
for nine years as general agent in Missouri ami 
is. being located at Kansas Cit_\. In l v v", 
be was engaged with the Milwaukee Harvester Co 
as general Bgenl in Missouri, Kansas and N< 
braska, with headquarters ;ii 81 Joseph, and was 
with that li r tn for four years when he .put travel 

ing, 

In 1880 Mr. Carpenter helped to organize the 
Pboanix Loan Association, with a capital of 14,000, 

, of which be was made President, tl tVn f 

the i i"»u\ being located in the Qerman Lmeri 

can Hank, and also, as previously stated, has quite 

i ntl\ become interested in the Dillon Cement 



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Plaster Co. Our subject built a fine brick build- 
ing on a lot of 80 feet front in a good location, No. 
2223 Felix street, and also owns other property 
and real estate in this city. Mr. Carpenter is a 
member of the Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons, 
of the Royal Arch Masons, Knights Templar, be- 
ing a member of the Grand Council of the Stale, 
and is the High Priest of St. Joseph Chapter, No. 
14. 

In Arkansas Mr. Carpenter was married in 1866 
to Miss Elizabeth Clark, who was born in Tennes- 
see and who died two years later, leaving one son, 
Aubrey, whose death occurred in Texas at the age 
of twenty years. Our subject was again married 
in Forest City, Holt County, in 1869, at which time 
Miss Martha E. Sedgwick became his wife. She 
was born in Virginia, her father being an early 
settler of Holt County. Mr. Carpenter is an act- 
ive worker and an elder in the Christian Church, 
and both he and his estimable wife well deserve, the 
high esteem in which they are held by all who 
have had the pleasure of making their acquaint- 
ance. 



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1/ If ON. ABRAHAM DAVIS is a member of 
r^l the legislature from the First District of 
1 Buchanan County, his associates being 
{/ Granville Atkins, of St. Joseph, and B. F. 

Stewart, of a place near Rushville. Our subject 
was first elected in 1888 on the Democratic ticket, 
his opponent being Maj. J. L. Bittinger, a Repub- 
lican nominee, who had served before. After a 
closely contested campaign Mr. Davis was elected 
by a majority of three in his district. Mr. Bittinger 
entered a protest on the grounds of illegal voting 
but after a hearing before a justice abandoned the 
case. During his first term Mr. Davis was on 
the Committees of Roads and Highways and In- 
terior Improvement, taking an active part in both. 
He also assisted in securing the new charter for 
St. Joseph and in other ways proved the wisdom 
of his being sent as a representative of the people 
to the legislature. 

In the election of 1890 Mr. Davis' opponent was 
John Adams, a candidate of the Alliance Republi- 



cans. Mr. Davis was again elected by a majority 
of over six hundred. While a member of the 
Thirty-seventh Assembly he served on the Interior 
Improvement Committee and on Roads and High- 
ways. He attended the special sessions in the 
winter of 1 891— 1)'2 when he was placed on the im- 
portant Committee for Redisricting the State and 
was Chairman of the Committee on Retrenchment 
and Reform. At the special sessions the matter of 
rebuilding the State University at Columbia, which 
had been recently burned, was passed upon by the 
Committee of Interior Improvement, Mr. Davis 
taking an active part in the matter. Various cities 
had petitioned for the University, but he clung to 
Columbia as the more suitable place. In the present 
Thirty-seventh Assembly he is on the Committee 
of Internal Improvement, Chairman of the Com 
mittee on Militia and acting on two Union Com- 
mittees. In this last election the Republican can- 
didate who ran against him was David Marshall, 
but our subject was elected by a majority of one 
hundred and seventy- four. He was a strong advo- 
cate for making Mr. Stewart, of Buchanan County, 
Speaker pro tem. 

The subject of this sketch is a native of St. 
Joseph, where his birth occurred July 5, 1M4. 
His parents were Joseph and Sarah (Sheckell) 
Davis, natives of Kentucky and Indiana respect- 
ively. Their marriage was celebrated in Indiana, 
and soon afterward, in 1840, they emigrated to 
Missouri, settling near this city. The mother died 
at the age of seventy-one years in 1892, her hus- 
band having died three years previously, aged 
eighty-six. On their arrival in this county they 
located on a farm where the early years of our 
subject were spent. The farm comprised one 
hundred and ninety acres, a portion of which still 
belongs to Mr. Davis. When a youth he ran on a 
steamboat to New Orleans. As he was one of a 
family of eleven children he early commenced 
making his own living, though given a good educa- 
tion. Five of the family circle are yet living: 
John Prescott, who is a farmer in Arizona; our 
subject; Joseph, who resides on the old homestead 
as does his younger brother Richard; and Eliza, 
who is the wife of Alexander Miller of Andrew 
County. George died at the age of twenty-two 



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in St. Joseph; William and Rebecca both died al 
the age of twenty four yeara; Mary, who was the 
•rife of A. IV Ditto, died when twentj Biz years of 
■ge, and Martha when twentj two departed tlii- 
lifi- in Kansas. Bhe \\a^ the wife of Thomas A 
Mill, i 

A pari "f Mr. l>a\is' father's farm 1ms been 
platted .hi. I added to the oitj One mile north of 
the oitj ball onr Bnbjeei bos platted a traol of 
twelre acres oo St. Joseph avenue, whioh is rapidlj 
increasing in ralne. Boon after leaving school, in 
the winter of 1864 65, Mr. Davis wenl to Colorado 
and Montana, spending abort seven years in the 
mines with moderate success. Since Ins return to 

this I'iiy he baa l d engaged in wholesale ice 

packing. Tliis winter (1892 93) he has Btored 
three thouaand tons ,.f this commodity for the 
summer's use. In St. Joseph on the 16th of Sep 
tember, 1879, was celebrated the marriage of Mi 
and Miss Jennie Bobbins, who was born in 
the Empire State, but who lias been a resident of 
tin- citj for several yeara The estimable oonple 
are members of the Baptist Churoh and active in 
all good works. Mr, Davis is a member of the In 

surance Order, the W Imen of the World. He 

baa dealt considerably in real estate in this oitj 
atnl baa erected about twenty houses in the Davis 
Addition. Be lias also loaned monej and lias been 
interested in various enterprises in tliis localit) 

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J\MI s WEIR BEDDENS, M D In the 
front ranks of the medical profession of St. 
Joseph, Buchanan County, stands oni sub- 
ject, who has a large and successful practice, 
a skillful Burgeon and a faithful, unti 
physician So stndj oi research is too arduous 

for his ambitions tl ^ r lit. and liis medical work 

i- imili upon a firm f tdation of scientific and 

general knowledge. Be was born in Barb 
villi', Claj County, Kj . in 1857 to the late Dr. 
William I Beddens, who was one of the leading 
physicians of St Joseph for many yeara When 
onlj two yeara old, our Bnbjeei was brought to this 
oitj bj lii> par. nis ami here bia education was ac 
quired 



While st ill a \ • ► 1 1 1 b, ' in liis n 

cal studies and in 1878 graduated from the J< 
s.m Medical College, of Philadelphia, taking the 
in anatomy. Be continued bia Btudies un 

der the directi f the world-renowned 

l>i- Panoost, and served for a term in the hospital 
after his graduation. As soon as be bad com 

pleted bis college and hospital o -.■ be began 

teaching anatomj in the Medical College of St. 
Joseph and continued in tins position until 1891, 
when be was prevailed upon to accept the chair i f 
Operative Surgerj and Gynecologj in the Bus 

worth Medical College, of which be is also oi f 

tin- trustees and secretary of the board 

Dr. Beddens lias held the position ..f oommis 

si r of the State Lunatic Asylum, No. '-'. undei 

three administrations, being first appointed bj 
Marmaduke, then bj Gov, Francis, and re 
cently by Gov. Stone. The Doctor is always 
presidenl of the board ..f managers ol the Asylum. 
As ii surgeon, be is especial I j noted, and In- sue 
oess in performing difficult operations has given 
him wide oelebritj in the medical world Be ie 
an able and forcible writei and bis Btrong articles 
on various matters pertaining to lii- profi 

have 1 n favorablj received and commended bj 

the members of t be fraternitj . 

Although on 1 j thirty four years of age, Dr Bed 
dens has alreadj attained an enviable place, and 
one which manj able practitioners have labored .i 
lifetime to achieve. Though bis success might 
verj naturallj make him an egotist, the grave and 
responsible duties of b on and liis natural 

freedom from ostentation have saved bim from iIihI 
mistake. Be is possessed of every facility f"i ..l. 

taining i lern ideas advanced in medicine and 

Brj and for den si rat ing i beii il ap 

plication and usefulness His mail... I skill in the 
past compels the belief that he will bave manj 
professional triumphs. 

In the year I ss 7 I >i I [eddens and M 
Barret, of Henderson, Ky., were united in mai 
riage Their happj home baa been blesssed with 
a beautiful babj boy, Barrett S|>encer, the -• ■ 
name being in honor ol I'r Beddens' 
friend, -I udge M Speni 

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of our subject was bora in Preble County, Ohio, 
February 14, 1828, his parents being of Pennsyl- 
vania and South Carolina birth. He was a gradu- 
ate of the Jefferson Medical College and began 
his practice in Kentucky. When three years had 
expired, he came to St. Joseph, where he engaged 
in practice until his death. His record as an en- 
terprising citizen and prominent professional man 
is one which sheds lustre upon his life and charac- 
ter. He was a member of the International Medi- 
cal Congress, the American Medical Association, 
served as Vice-president and President of the 
Northwestern Missouri Association, and was also 
President of the St. Joseph Medical Society. He 
secured a large practice and amassed a handsome 
fortune. 

The senior Dr. Heddens was the editor and 
owner of the first medical journal published west 
of St. Louis. In 1879 he organized the faculty of 
the College of Physicians and Surgeons in this 
city, of which, during its entire existence, he was 
President and Dean. After its consolidation with 
the St. Joseph Hospital Medical College, he was 
still the President. Two years later, when the 
college was reorganized, becoming Eusworth Med- 
ical College and Hospital, he was made President 
of the Board of Trustees and Dean of the Faculty, 
continuing as such until his death July 8, 1891. 
It is well known to many of our citizens that it 
was due almost entirely to the influence of Dr. 
Heddens that the late Samuel Eusworth donated 
the principal of his large estate to the erection and 
endowment of the Eusworth Hospital, at the cor- 
ner of Seventh and Jule streets, which is recog- 
nized as one of the most important institutions of 
the kind in the northwest. For thirty or more 
years, the father of our subject was a conspicuous 
figure in the social and professional life of St. Jo- 
seph, and no citizen ever passed away more deeply 
honored and regretted. Fraternally, he was ;i 
Royal Arch Mason and a member of the Independ 
ent Order of Odd Follows. 

In Barboursville, Ky., Dr. William Heddens 
wedded his first wife, Miss Catherine Adams, who 
died in June, 1874, leaving six children. He 
afterward married Miss Mattie D. Offutt, of She] 
hyville, Ky., who is still living. 



'fp'jDMOND J. ECKEL is the first and leading 
I^-J architect in St. Joseph, having made this 
' city his home since 18(59. He has won a 

well-deserved reputation in his line of bus- 
iness and under his supervision the finest speci- 
mens of architecture in St. Joseph and neighbor- 
ing cities have been erected, and together with 
Mr. Maun, his partner, he has been extremely suc- 
cessful, and outside of this city was the architect 
of the Council Bluffs Court-house and of the court- 
houses at Marysville, Maysville, Brockport and 
Albany in this state. The firm have also super 
intended the erection of school buildings in various 
cities, store-houses in Fort Worth, Tex., and a 
large wholesale grocery house at Pueblo, Col. In 
1890 they drew up plans that were accepted for 
the new City Hall at St. Louis, winning the pre- 
ference over some thirty-seven competitors. In 
addition to this they were architects of the Union 
Depot of St. Joseph and the Union Depot of Han 
nibal, Mo. Many of the finest church edifices and 
public buildings, as well as the beautiful mansions 
and homes of many western capitalists and other 
prominent citizens, bear the marks of their genius. 
Mr. Eckel was born in Sfrasburg, Alsace, Ger- 
many, June 22, 1845. His father P. J. Eckel, 
was also born in that city and was a large manu- 
facturer there until his death in 1852. The grand 
father of our subject on the maternal side, M. J. 
Schweighaeuser, was a native of the same town, 
where lie afterward became a manufacturer also. 
Our subject's mother, who bore the Christian 
name of Caroline, reared her little family, surviv 
ing her husband many years. In 1870 she came 
to America, making her home with our subject 
until her death in 1886. The family were in re- 
ligious belief Lutherans, and Mr. Eckel's ances 
tors emigrated from Saxony to Alsace about 1630, 
but the Schweighaeusers were an old and promi 
nent German family from Strasburg. 

Of six children only two sisters of Kdmond J. 
Eckel are yet living. He received a good educa- 
tion in his mother tongue and when fourteen years 
of ago began the study of architecture with a rela- 
tive, preparatory to entering a school of line arts 
in Paris. Later going to that famous center of 
art, he was a student at the Ecole des Beaux Ails, 



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whicli is ili.- I tost institution of its kind in the 
world, iiinl there he panned hie studies diligently 
fin four and one half wars. Soon after liis gradua 
tion be oonolnded to try liis fortunes in America 
and accordingly, in September, 1868, left Bavre 
on the steamer "Ville de Parie," landing in New 
York City and coming west bj way of Cleveland, 
t Ihio, where he obtained work us a draftsman, re 
maining there for about eight months. 

On Jul] 8, 1869, Mr. Bekel landed in St. Joseph, 
having oome bj waj of Omaha and being on bis 
waj to Kansas Oity. It was by Ike mereel chance 
that be oonolnded to cast in his lot with the inhab 
i t ant ^ of this favored place, and on account of an 
accident on the railroad be was obliged to Bpend 
Sun. lav here and was so favorably' impressed that 
he with wise jadgment decided to remain here, if 
be could obtain employment. With liis past ex 
perienee this «a~ more easily obtained than he 
feared, for be was at once made a draftsman in 
the tirm of Stickers \ Boettnor, with whom he 
continued for nearly three years, until in 1872 he 
was iuii.lt> n partner in the firm. The senior mem 
ber retiring, the tirm then became Boettner & 
Eckel, and remained as such until 1880, when Mi. 
Mann was ma le a partner in the linn. 

In the spring of 1891 the members of the firm 

diss, lived pai t nership and Mr. Eckel is now in bus 

alone. Since 1880 he lias drafted and been 

architect of the principal wholesale houses and 

reeidei a in St. Joseph, and many of a truly 

creditable construction bavebeenpul up. A g 

the numerous ones in which his handiwork is 
plainly shown are the following: The handsome 
Commercial Bank building, the Irish American 
building, Saxton National Bank, Central Block, 
Tootle & Ho-ea store building, Smith Drug Com 
jiany and Nave, Mc( 'old stores, I'msworth Medical 
College, Steele <& Walker's building and those of 
Richardson, Roberts, Byrne i Company, \i. L. 
McDonald, hoard of Trade, (ierman American 

Bank, Hughes Blookand the fonng Men's Christ 
iau Association Building The large wings on the 

SIM.- Asylum were pla I bj bim and of the 

following residences be was the architect: N P 
Ogden, a N Schuster, A. I. Smith, .lames M.- 

Cord. Samuel Nave, George l> Perry, Charles 



Saunders. ,l. \\ McAllister, C. C Burns, John B 
Lemon, I'.. Lindsey, •! I'. Moss, l> I Bartletts 
and II. Bartletts snd Jndgi II M Barney. 

In 1875 Mr. Eckel was united in the bond 
matrimony with Mi-s M I, , daughter of (i,.,,r^e 
1 1. Schroera, a retail mannfaclnrer of tins city 
Mis. Eckel is a native of St. Joseph, and b] her 
marriage has become the mother of font children 
Edmond G., Minnie A., Elvie E. and Qeorge I: 
Socially Mr. Eckel is a Km-lii Templar ami a 

member of MoilaShrii f St. Joseph, also of the 

Independent Order of odd Fellows, has passed 
all the Chairs in the Encampment, and i~ a mem 
ber of the Knights of Honor, fie belongs to the 
American Institute of Lrchiteoture and to the 
Benton and C meroial Clubs of this oity. 






OSWALD M GILMER. Few citizens of 
St. Joseph are held iii higher esteem and 
are m, .re popular than he whose name 
heads tin- sketch He was elected in the 
Bpring of L890 on the Republican ticket as Citj 
Auditor, and after a two year term in that re 
sponsible position his career was considered in 

so favorable a light that he was again elect.. I 
Mr. Gilmer is an old newspaper man, having .1.' 
voted the most of his life to printing ami editorial 
work. In political circles he is prominent, i- 
chairman ol the Republican Count] Central Com 
untiee, in 1886 was Secretary of the Count} 
Republican Executive Central Committee, ami 
two years previous to that was Secretary of the 
Count] Central Committee. He has stumped the 
Congressional District for Warner and Crowther, 
and in I ss I was candidate from the Second I 1 
tricl for the Legislature, though he was not 

elected. In his business as a newspaper man he 
has made a wide acquaintance in various parts ,.f 
the -tale, and is considered local!] a thoroughl] 
enterprising and business man. 

Mr. Gilmer was born in Red Oak, Brown 

County, Ohio, Februarj 2, 1850, and ia the s >f 

the Rev, Daniel Gilmer, a native of Alleghen] 
County, Pa Daniel Gilmer was of Scotch de 



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scent and learned the printer's trade in the state 
printing office at Columbus. He graduated in the 
Miami University of Oxford, Ohio, with the degree 
of Bachelor of Arts, and then entered the theo- 
logical school in the same place. In 1851 he be- 
came a minister in the Presbyterian Church, lo- 
cating then in Granville, 111. Then, for a time, 
he was in Indiana, thence removing to Iowa, and 
later returning to Illinois, making his homo in 
Sandoval until he was called from this life in 
I860. He was an Abolitionist, and later a Re- 
publican. When the Presbyterian Church divided 
on account of the feeling on the slavery question 
he joined the newschool.of which he was a founder, 
anil afterward was a member of the Free Presbj 
terian denomination. He was fifty two years of 
age at the time of his death. 

The wife of Daniel Gilmer, who bore the maiden 
name of Margaret Strain, was born in Ripley, 
Ohio. Her father, John Strain, was born in South 
Carolina, where his parents were planters and 
slave-owners, but on account of opposition to 
slavery he removed north. Mr. Strain was en- 
gaged in farming and milling near Ripley. In 
1851 he located in Granville, 111., where his death 
occurred. He was of English descent and served 
as a soldier in the War of 1812. Mrs. Gilmer, 
who is now nearly eighty years of age, makes her 
home with our subject, who is the fifth in a family 
of six children, all of whom are living. Dr. John 
G., a brothei, was in the Thirty second Illinois In- 
fantry, being Assistant Surgeon, and now is a resi- 
dent of Clearwater Harbor, Fla. Nellie (}.. now 
the wife of S. E. Mannon, lives at Los Angeles, 
Cal., in which city Mary C, wife of William H. 
Carpenter, also resides. Rebecca F. is a teacher 
in the public schools of St. Joseph; Rev. U. Z. is 
a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church of 
Denver; Agnes, the youngest in the family, died 
at the age of fourteen. 

Mr. Gilmer was reared principally in Illinois, 
attending the common schools of Sandoval until 
his fifteenth year, and in lSfiTi attended the High 
School at Monmouth, 111. In ISfi'.t he was appren- 
ticed as a printer in the office of the Galesburg 
Free Prea8, and later was in the employ of the 
Galesburg Republican. When he had learned his 



trade he went to Springfield, working on the State 
Journal. In 1873 he removed to Concordia, 
Kans. , on account cf his health, near which place 
he resided, remaining a year, then going to Leav- 
enworth, Kans., working in the 'limes office of that 
city for three years. 

In the year 1876 he came to this city, working 
for a few months as printer on the Gazette, and was 
then made the city editor of the paper. For two 
years he was connected with the News, and in the 
fall of 1889 was made city editor of the Herald. 
A few months later he was nominated and elected 
to the position of City Auditor, as before men 
tinned, in which capacity he is still serving. 

At Carlisle, 111., Mr. Gilmer was married in 
I s7 I to Miss Emma D. Hill, who was a native of 
Macoupin County, 111., and reared in Jerseyville, 
Jersey County, 111. Four children grace the 
union: Frederick E., Grace A., Ernest H. and 
Margaret. Our subject is a worthy member and 
trustee of the St. Paul Methodist Episcopal 
Church. 



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ILLIAM DONIPHAN HOOKADAY. the 



i energetic and prosperous proprietor of 



the Plattsburg Flouring Mill, known as 
the Merchant and Exchange Mills, is a 
native of Plattsburg, and is quoted as a man of 
extended business experience and an excellent 
financier. He was born August 5, 1855, and is the 
son of Isaac N. and Fannie Lincoln Hockaday, His 
father was a merchant in Plattsburg in the days 
of 1856, and was also a merchant in Atchison. He 
was a native of Greenup County. Ky.but came 
to Clay County, Mo., settling in Liberty in 1842. 
In L845 he located in Clinton County, and there 
engaged in farming. He started the first lumber 
yard, the first hardware store and the first bank 
ever located in Plattsburg. He organized the 
( Minion County Savings Association before the war, 
i lie same 1 being at present the bank of (Jay & Funk 
houser. A citizen of worth and broad intelligence, 
he was universally lamented when lie passed away 
in A ] nil. 1N73. His widow, who is still living, is a 



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oative Mi~--.nn i. in. and was united i" her husband 
in Libert) , 

Mi Hockaday was reared in Plattsburg ami 
attended the home — *-1j« *« >t— -. afterward receiving a 
bnaineas coaree at Spaulding's College in Kansas 
Citj Engaging in business, li«' firs! clerked in a 
hardware store four years. He then became a 
bookkeeper in Claj A Funkhouser's bank, remain 
ing witli tin- financial institution three) ears, at the 

expiration of which time he op< I a hardware 

store, which be oonduoted successful!) until he 
bought the mill. He was burned out in January, 
1890, and the mills which he oow controls have a 
capacity of one hundred barrels a day, their spe 
cial brand being High Patent No LI, although the) 
also furnish choice oornmeal and various kinds of 
feed, l'.ivi.l Walker, the proprietor I >»>f< »r>* the 
mills pasaed into the hands of their present owner, 
had Ed. 1'. Alii-- put in the roller system, in Sep 
tember, 1890. rhe capacity of the mills lias -inc.- 
been increased and warehouses erected. Aside 
from the excellent local trade which these mill- 
enjoy, their manufactured produce is shipped t.i 
Memphis, Tenn. 

Mr Hdbkada) was united in marriage July 29, 
1886, to Mi-- Louise Canby, a native of Missouri, 
who was fur four or five years a teacher in the '"I 
lege. She was educated in a SL Louis academy, 
from which Bhe graduated uiili honor. Her father 
i brother of Gen. Richard Canby, who was 
killed by the Indians during the Modoc war and 
is well remembered as a brave Federal officer of 
Mol le Mi- Hockaday's father was a man of 
abilit) and fine education. Graduating from Wa 
bash College, he at udied law with Alexander Thorn 
ton, "f Crawfordsville, fnd., and was an intimate 
friend of ex <l"\. McDonald, Henr) S. •! > ■im- 
aiul Lew Wallace. Mr-. Canby came from the 
famous Kentucky Breckenridge familj and is an 
accomplished lady and a most interesting oonver 
dial The Hockaday family claim- man) 
illustrious names, among whioh is that of 1 1 1 • • re 

rered Col I iphan, who was a brother of the 

maternal grandfather of Mr. Hockaday. 

Mi Hockaday and his wife are the parents ol 

obildren, a son, William Doniphan, Jr., and 

Fannie, the little daughter of 1 1 » » - household He 



and all his family fur a generation li.is <■ been 
nected with the Christian Church, '>f which hi 
prominent member, liberal in aiding the . 
norks of the denomination Mr and Mrs Hooka 
da) an- intimatel) associated with the social and 
benevolent enterprises of the cit) and enjo) the 
confidence and esteem ol a large circle of frienda 
Our subjeol takes an abiding interest in local ad 
■ ii in nt, a m I has ver) material!) aided, as did his 
father before him, in extending the improvements 
of his home locality. He is widely known as a 
public spirited citizen, progressive, energetic and 
enterprising. 






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JOHN GEORGE <iKI\\ 11/ is manager and 
half owner with his father in the large 
pharmac) of the firm of Geiwitz & Company, 
at the Dorthwesl coiner of Olive and Tenth 
streets, St. Joseph, Buchanan Co. The) carry a 

well assorted -tuck "f drugs, -tati. r\ and ever) 

thin^ usually found in a first class drug -i re 
The) are doing a ver) successful bui d the 

firm i- one of the best known in the center of the 
city. Among their best customers and local trade 
are the railroad emplo) ea. 

Our subject is a native of this city. He was 

born July 14, 1862, to Qottlob and Barbara 
(Weymueller) Geiwitz, both natives ,.f Wurtem 
berg, Germany. The formor was born in Bntels 
bach and the latter in ESbersbach. The father was 
a miller and mechanic b) trade and came to Amei 
ica about 1851. He located in Jefferaonville, ln.1 . 
where h igaged in ship building. He was mar- 
ried at thai place to the daughter of Frederick 
Weymueller, who was a carpenter. In 1 S "'T Mr. 
Geiwitz came to St. Joseph and engaged in rail 
road work in the employ of the Platte County 
Railroad, until 1869, in contracting for build 

Hi erected b >f the principal Bohool-ho 

Kirchinan'ti Hall and the German English school. 

In |s7l h mmencrd railroading for the SI 

Ji sepfa .\ Den vet Road He was placed in ol 

of the cabinet work and held that position till 

l^ s '_\ With ih mpan) he was transferred to 

Grand Island at that time to superintend the 



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placing of machines and getting the shops in order 
for business. He was injured by the fall of a 
piece of timber and after a few weeks had elapsed 
recovered enough to attend to the supervision of 
affairs but has not since been so actively engaged. 
He is a member of the firm to which our subject 
also belongs. He is a member of the Lutheran 
Church, as is also his wife. 

In a family of twelve children, eight of whom 
are living, our subject is the eldest living, being 
the fifth born. He was educated in the public 
schools and when twelve years old was appren- 
ticed as a cigarmaker to Theodore Textor. After 
learning his trade he became a clerk for the same 
man and was with him for four and a half years. 
He then entered Bryant's Business College, from 
which he graduated in 1879. He then became an 
employe of John Demon I and studied pharmacy 
with him for three and a half years. He regis- 
tered as a pharmacist on August 1, 1881. In No- 
vember, 1882, the present partnership was formed 
of Geiwit/. & Company, and the business location 
was purchased of Edward Sleepy, who was a mem- 
ber of the firm for three years. His interest was 
then purchased by our subject and his father, and 
in 1889 they built a tine brick block three stories 
in height and 40 by 175 feet in dimension. The 
pharmacy is situated in the corner store, while the 
basement is used for storage and barber shop. 
The second floor is divided into ten rooms and 
closet, being rented for offices: top floor is used as 
a ball by different societies and is one of the finest 
in the city. 

In Conway. Iowa, Mr. Geiwitz wedded Miss Ida 
N. Hagan in May, 1885. She was born in Mu-ca 
tine, Iowa, and by her marriage has become the 
mother of two children, Edna P. and Elmer E. 
For two years Mr. (ieiwitz had a contract with 
the city for dispensary supplies. He is a member 
and Treasurer of the St. Joseph Pharmaceutical 
Association. He is much interested in civic soci 
elies, being a member of the following: St. Joseph 
Lodge, No. 'Jilt, Ancient Order of United Work 
men, of which he is Past Master and for about 
seven years has been receiver; was the first char- 
ter member of Eureka Council, National Union, 
and their first ex President, and charter member 



of the Juauita Lodge, No. 171, Knights of Pyth- 
ias. He also belongs to St. Joseph Council, No. 
36, Mystic Circle, and is a charter member of the 
following: D. of H. , No. ■i. Ancient Order of 
United Workmen; F. A. A. No. 56, W. of W. No. 
1. He claims to be one of the pushers for Patee- 
town and South St. Joseph, being a firm believer 
in the future of that part of the city of St, Joseph, 
as shown by his actions. 






JOSEPH R. GOOD is President of the St. 
Joseph Show Case Works, which is the 
largest and most extensive of the kind in 
the city. He is doing a paying business and 
is very successful in his investments. The birth 
of Mr. Good occurred in Berks County, Pa., near 
the city of Reading, October 19, 1832. He is a 
son of Edward and Elizabeth (Auspach) Good. 
The former was a native of Pennsylvania and fol- 
lowed the occupation of a miller in Berks County. 
In later years he turned his attention exclusively 
to farming. He participated in the War of 1812, 
and was Captain of a company of cavalry. He 
was of German descent, and was a Lutheran in re- 
ligious belief. His wife was a daughter of a well 
to do farmer and prominent man, and during the 
Revolutionary War her grandfather had taken a 
leading part. Of her eight children only six are 
now living, of whom our subject is the youngest 
son. He was reared in his native state on a farm, 
and for three years attended the Strasburg Acad 
emy. 

On completing his studies Mr. Good went to 
Philadelphia, when' he obtained employment in a 
retail drug store, and in 1852 entered the College 
of Pharmacy in the Quaker City, graduating there- 
from with the degree of Graduate of Pharmacy in 
the year ISot. He continued clerking until 1857, 
when he came west, and after traveling three 
months in Kansas, located in St, Joseph in the 
fall. He was employed as a clerk in a retail drug 
business about two years, and then going to Adair 
County, in this state, he located near Kirksville, 
where he engaged in farming until 1863. He then 



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enlisted as a member of t ' ■ • i • 1 j ■ 1 1 1 1 \ B, Thirtj ninth 
Missouri Inf. miry, and was mustered in at Hanni 

l>al as First Lieutenant, bnl bef leaving Macon 

was commissioned Captain bj <!"\ Fletcher. 

Mr. Good went to the various points of Macon 
City, 81 Louis, St. Genevieve and Nashville, 
Tenn., and back to Missouri, where he engaged o 

skirmishes and guard duty, and remai I in sen 

ioe until the oloee of the war, being mustered out 
and disobarged at St. Louis in September, 1865. 
In 1850 Mr, Good led to the marriage altar Miss 
Hannah Beltser, who was Imrn in Berks County, 
Pa. The] have five ohildren Ed B . \% 1 1 < • is ln\ 
eling salesman fur Nave, MoCord .v Co.; < 1 ••< 'r«<>* 
M, who is engaged in the drug business in this 
city; Kate, now Mrs, [Tidier (residing near Read 
ing, Pa.), who was a graduate "f the Dr. Martin 
Institute; Nellie, now Mrs Wald, a graduate of 
the high school of St. Joseph and making her 
I !>• in St. Louis; and Ella, who resides at home. 

In the fall of I s '' 1 "' Mr. Good brought his family 
to Si. Joseph, at iir-t clerking for Penniok .V Lov 
in<;. and Boon after becoming a partner in tin- linn. 
In 1875 he sold oul his interest and bought out 
Samuel Hay.-, on Market Square, running that 
business for si\ months and then returning to his 
former employers fur n short time. Again be 
tart. .1 oul for himself under the name of M. Good, 
Smith & Co . carrying on a wholesale drug Imsi 
in the corner of Third an. 1 ESdmond streets, 

and there built np a large trade. \i tl ml of 

the year In- sold .ml to Samuel I!. Smith & < !o . 

clerking fur them for six years or bo. Tl oncern 

was then merged into the Van Nulla & Linda 
Drug Company, and for them h« made special 

trips, as salesman, and in 1 sst I ame a Block 

holder in the St. Joseph Show Case Company, 
Inning a one-eighth interest in the works, He 
was elected President, but took no active part 
until April, 1801, when he beoa general man 

11J.'.T 

In the following spring, in partnership with his 
son, Mr. (i.ui I purchased the remaining stockhold 
Ms son, Edward S., being Treasurer 
and -I \. Aukerman, Secretary. The businesshsa 
gradually I milt up and has doubled in the last two 
years An addition of 20 by I" feel was added t" 



the building whiol \>-rs a spa f thn 

10 by II". The company was incorporated and is 
.hi a lirm financial basis. The plant, which is 
located al No 718 Fifth street, is furnished with 

eleotric power and all lern improvements Em 

ploymenl is given to twentj men, who are kepi 
verj busy in order t>. till the orders The] also 
make genera] office ti\i ui 

Mr. (l I is a member .>f the St. Joseph Lodge, 

No. B6, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; of 
Humboldt Lodge, [ndependent Order of Odd Fel 
lows, and of the Knights of Honor, II" is a 
member of Cheater Harding Post, (Iran. I Army 
of the Republic, and of the Westminster Presbyte 
rian Church. Politically he is a Republican, and 

is justly eateemed on.' ..f tin bI honorable gen 

tlemen engaged in business in this city. Both he 
and his family arc held in the highest respect iii 
social circles and have many friends. 

■ 

VjILLIAM It. HOFFMANN has served as 
[/ Judge Advocate of Sons of Veterans for 
„ ■, District of Missouri, is now the Citj \t 
torney of St. Joseph, and for many years 
baa been prominently before the public. He was 

elected on the Kepll I ll ica II ticket. April 1802, for 

a two years' term to sue 1 Peter Carolua, llis 

office being at Central Station, comer of Seventh 
and Messunia street- Mr Hoffmann was horn in 
New Albany, End., I> mber II. 1857. and was 

reared to mature years in this state Hi- father, 

John Hoffmann, was a veteran "f the late war in the 
command of (Sen Sherman. He met his death 
by drowning in the Neuse river, N 0., after Sher 
mail's raid to the sea, while engaged in construct 
ing a pontoon bridge. Our subject's mother died 
when he was only five years of age He is the 

youngest of the family and on the death of liin 

mother was Bent lo relatives in Holt County, Mo 
the brothers and sisters being widelj -epar.ii.-d 
When twelve or thirteen years "f age Mr. Hofl 
maim became self- supporting and has since made 
hi- own way without assistance. 

Mi II iffmann attended tl onntj Bchools and 

was for one w inter in the Not 1 S.I 1 at Oregon, 



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Holt County, where he had Professor Hill, a noted 
educator, for an instructor. Though his advan- 
tages in the educational line were not very great, 
lie made the most of what he had, and when only 
twenty-three began teaching school, continuing 
for five terms in Holt County. He had to work 
harder than his pupils in order to keep ahead of 
his class, but nevertheless he succeeded aud man- 
aged the school remarkably well. At the end of 
a few years he concluded to study law and began 
to read with the assistance of Judge Thomas I'ar- 
rish, who was an able lawyer and one well worthy 
and capable or imparting instruction aud of being 
of great assistance to our subject. 

Mr. Hoffmann was admitted to practice at the 
bar before Judge Kelly, in Savannah, Mo., in 
L883. He commenced practice at Oregon and was 
soon elected Mayor and Justice of the Peace, the 
former of which he remained for two terms. 
Though he succeeded in building up a large prac- 
tice he desired a wider lield for his energies, and 
consequently came to St. Joseph, arriving here in 
1 888, since which time he has been engaged in prac 
tice before all the courts. He is particularly well 
lilted for the profession to which lie has devoted 
himself, as lie possesses good judgment, a quick 
and retentive memory, and is able to cite good au- 
thority and precedent for each separate step he 
takes in the disposal of a case. He has already 
seen the wisdom of his choice in selecting this 
rapidly-growing metropolis as his place of work, 
for though he has resided here for only about live 
years he has already achieved a good standing 
among his legal brethren aud in the estimation 
of his fellow citizens. 

On .March 3, 1885, at Oregon, Mo., a marriage 
ceremony united the fortunes of Mr. Hoffmann and 
.Miss Philophena Spoerle. To them has been born 
i son, Harold, who is a bright little boy of six 
years. The mother is a member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, is a well-educated lady and a line 
vocalist, having given much attention to the study of 
that branch of music. Our subject is Past Master 
of the Ancient, Order of United Workmen and Past 
Chancellor C immander of the Juanita Knights of 
Pythias of this city and also holds membership 
with the Modern W'oodi 



ff\ EOKGE M. HOHL, who is now occupying 
- the very important position of superintend- 
^wl! ent of the Kansas City, St. Joseph & Coun- 
^ cil Bluffs Railway, is stationed with his 
headquarters at St. Joseph, Mo. This place he 
tills with great credit to himself aud to the entire 
satisfaction of his superior officers. He is very 
gentlemanly in manner, and being so courteous, 
wins the respect of all who have business dealings 
with him. 

The birth of our subject occurred in Nuremberg, 
Bavaria, June 11, 1S49, and when only two years 
old he removed with his parents to the United 
States. Locating in Buffalo, the father entered 
upon the practice of his trade of boot and shoe 
maker, and after awhile removed to the west. 
The boyhood of our subject was mainly passed in 
Milwaukee and La Crosse, Wis. In the latter 
city he acquired his education in the private and 
public schools. He sold newspapers for some time 
in the streets and on the wharf at La Crosse, aud 
about the year 1859 engaged as a messenger boy 
in a railroad office, remaining in the employ of the 
company for two years in that position. His next 
situation was that of clerk in the freight depart- 
ment of the railroad at La Crosse, and there in 
1864 he learned telegraphy. 

In April, 1865, Mr. Hold was stationed as tele- 
graph operator at Hannibal, in the employ of the 
Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad. For the next 
few years he was in charge of stations at various 
points on that road, being at Macon City and Pal- 
myra among others. From 187") to 1877 he was 
located iu St. Joseph, and then entered the service 
of the Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs 
Railroad as operator in the shops aud general 
offices of the company. In the course of time he 
became train dispatcher, aud afterward the chief 
train dispatcher, the date of his appointment being 
in Juue, 1880, aud as such he served most ably for 
seven years. 

In the year 1883 the duties of superintendent 
of the telegraph system of the Hannibal A; St. Jo- 
seph Railroad were added to Mr. Hold's work, but 
he managed to carry it on until June. 1S87, when 
he was promoted to his present position. It is 
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superiors and the painstaking care be exercises in 
even the minutes! details pertaining t" his branoh 

■ » f the system that he has won the favorable a 

uiendation >>f the oompanj and all others »ln> 
know him. 

At Palmyra, Ho., on Beptember 22, I860, Mr. 
Sohl waa united in wedlock with Mies Mildred 
Glover Bosley. Four children, a daughter and 

il -on-, all of whom lived to maturity, were 

born t" their anion. Martha Augusts is the wife 
of E. 11 Nash, a "••II known citizen "f St. Joseph; 
John I., is ohief clerk of the Chicago, Rook Island 
Railroad, being stationed at St. Joseph; George 
and Leonard, who are at borne, are -till panning 
their b todies 

In regard to the question "f politics Mr. H"U 

1-. and always ln^ l a a Bturdj Democrat, and 

usee his influenoe in Bupport of tin mil a and 

measures advocated bj that party. Though born 
in another land, be is a trulj patriotic citizen of t Ii «» 
United State-, and is ever t<> l>e found on the side 
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1 I ENR1 II u HARTWIG is a retired mer 
r~*| chant "f St. Joseph and during the bite 
1 war in the summer of 1861, enlisted in the 
■f first company of enrolled Missouri Militia 

at St. Joseph. Gov, Gamble promoted bim 
i" the rank of First Lieutenant, August 21st, 
1862. In 1868 he was commissioned by <■"* \\ . 
r Hall to organise an Artillery Company, ol 
which he was made Captain. This Company was 
known as Hartwig's [ndependent Artillerj < '"in 
panj i: M. M On June 29, 1865, Gov. Fletohei 
promoted him i" the rank of Major of the First 
Regiment ol Buchanan Count] Militia 

In April, 1870, our subject was elected Cit] 
Collector "f St. Joseph, and baa Bioce held various 
public positions "f responsibility and trust In 

1867 <i ■-. Fletcher appointed him oi 1 the 

Commissioners to the Paris Exposition, l>ut ln> 
was unable t" accept the honor owing t" the Bick 
•c — and subsequent death of his eldeel son. He 
baa been prominently identified with man] "f the 
noteworthy industries and enterprises of the oity, 



and is accounted one "f her representative and 
honored citizens 

In l^M Mr Hartwig was elected Mayor, being 

the regular Republican nomi and won the vie 

tory after a Bpirited contest. The Democratic 
candidate, Joseph A. Piner, was ?erj popular and 
had a large following, bo that the majorit] bj 
which our subjecl won was a marked testimonial 
nf the esteem of his fellow-citizens During his 
two j ears' terra St. Joseph changed its charter and 
became one of the cities of the second class, Mr 

I lartu ig taking the initiative in this movei it. and 

Blrongly advocated the important change. Indeed, 
prior to this, the oity had labored under financial 

embarrassment because tl 1>1 charter gave 

man] opportunities f"i the squandering "f public 
moneys. The Buooess of St Joseph has been 
marked Binoe that time and the wisdom "f the 

move baa I □ proven beyond a doubt. All "f its 

floating . 1 • •) > t has Bince been cai lied, and it- 

bonded indebtedness reduced one half, and great 
improvements have been made in other important 
direct i"tis. 

The subjecl of this sketch was born in Nieder 
Moell rich, near Hessen-CasBel, Prussia, April 11. 
I viT. .in. I received instruction in his mother tongue 
in the public schools of that country. At the age 
■ if seventeen years he emigrated t" the I nited 
States Landing in New York Cit] In the Bpring 
ol 1854, Mr Sartwig remained there a few days, 
until, moving as far west as Cleveland, Ohio, he 
«;h employed in that city, where be remained 
three vears as clerk in a retail drj goods boUBe. He 
had been reared t<> farm life, bul concluded t" 
devote bis attention t" mercantile pursuits. In 
Iv"i7 he went west, locating near Council Bluffs at 
cent City, where he remained about one year. 

The panic of 1857 ooming on at that ti he had 

injudiciously invested bis mone] in real estate, at 
that point, and being abort <>f means In' worked 

during the latter part <<\ the bud r in a brick 

and that winter in a saw mill in order t<> ({el 

mone] to leave the pit In the Bpring <>f 1858 

our subjeol first landed in St, Joseph and found 
himself In possession of some seven or eight dol 
i- his sole capital, Entering a clothing bouse 
as olerk al $35 a month he remained there foi a 



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sbort time, when on account of stringent times be 
lost his position and had to seek employment else- 
where. He procured a situation as second clerk 
on the steamer "D. A. January," plying on the 
Missouri between St. Louis and Omaha. He re- 
mained on the river until that unfortunate vessel 
ran aground one time at midnight, soon sinking to 
the bottom, having tirst, however, lauded all her 
passengers safely. The steamer was afterward 
raised and during the war was in service as a 
hospital boat. 

Returning to St. Joseph Mr. Hartwig embarked 
in the wine and liquor trade on the corner of 
Market and Felix streets, where he continued in 
business until 18fi3. Then selling out, for eight 
months he was in the grain and commission busi- 
ness on Second street. This, however, was neither 
very profitable, nor attractive to him. Accordingly, 
in the spring of 1SG4, he embarked in the whole- 
sale and retail grocery and liquor trade on Fourth 
street, where he continued for live years. His next 
venture was on Third street where he became an 
exclusive wholesale liquor dealer, importing wines 
and cigars. His brother, Ernest F., afterward 
became a partner in the firm of H. R. W. Hartwig 
& Co., which continued in existence until July, 
1S87. At that time our subject retired from active 
business and the firm became E. F. Hartwig, 
which is still doing business at the old stand. 

Among the many positions held at various times 
by Mr. Hartwig were those of President of the 
P>oard of Trade, and President of the St. Joe 
Exposition Association, with which he was con- 
nected for many years. At the present time he is 
President of the Chamber of Commerce, the build- 
ing where the Board of Trade holds its sessions. 
In 1888 he was a nominee of the Republican party 
of the 4th Missouri District Congress against 
James N.Burnes, Democrat, and after a hot canvass, 
with the Democratic majority largely reduced, his 
opppnent was elected. Mr. Hartwig is a Director 
of the Benton Club, the finest social club in the 
city, and is a member of the Lakeshore Company, 
a line suburban resort four miles south of St. 
Joseph on the banks of LakeContrary. The com- 
pany owns one hundred and fifty acres of wood 
land and lawns along the banks of the beautiful 



little lake, which is a mile in breadth by three in 
length. There are three well conducted hotels 
near the lake on which one hundred pleasure boats 
ply back and forth. There is a large driving park 
and race track adjacent, of which our subject is 
the President, being also Vice president of the 
Lake Shore Company. He is a Director and one 
of the original stockholders in the Central Sav- 
ings Bank and has been much interested in the 
bankiug business since 1868, when he was Vice- 
president of the German Saving Bank. He is 
largely interested iu city real estate, and has 
erected a number of houses in St. Joseph, Wichita, 
Denver and other western cities. In these cities he 
is the owner of considerable real estate and is 
stockholder iu a gold mine at Central City, Col. 

On the 1st of March. 1860, Mr. Hartwig was 
married in St. Joseph to Miss Caroline Kuechler, 
by whom he had two sons, George Henry and 
Ernst C. , the latter being First Assistant Cashier 
in Sinister, Hax National Bank. Mrs. Hartwig 
was called to her final rest December 2, 1885, after 
a severe illness of five months, the immediate 
cause of her death being heart trouble. Mr. Hart 
wig lias made four trips to his Fatherland, the last 
one having been made in the spring of 1892 when 
he was in Europe for four months. Since 1861 he 
has been identified with the Republican party, be- 
fore which time he had voted the Democratic 
ticket. As before mentioned he was actively en- 
gaged during the late war in the State Militia, act- 
ing in the various capacities of Sergeant of In- 
fantry, First Lieutenant of Artillery, Captain of 
Artillery, and later, Major of Infantry. He is a 
wide-awake and public spirited citizen and has al- 
ways taken an active interest in all things calculated 
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fjOSIAH B. MOSS is Vice president andTreas- 
w. I urer of the Dougherty & Moss Lumber Com 
\^/ pany, is Vice president of the Commercial 
Bank, of which he was one of the organizers, 
and is a leading citizen of St. Joseph. He is pub- 
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to tin- c-it \ "- interest and baring larov investments 
;n real estate there. 

.Mr. Moss mi born and reared in St Joseph, his 
birthplace being where the Pacific Hotel i- now 
located at the corner of Third ami Felix streets, 
and tin' date of the event was Jnlj '-"••. 1849. 
His paternal grandfather, James I . was a farmer 
In Kentucky ami removed to this state with his 
family at an early day, locating near Columbia, 
a ( ' ■ • 1 1 1 1 1 \ , where he improved a large farm 
ami passed tin- remainder >>f his life. Our bud 

ject'B father, PrestOD T . was also a native of the 

Blue Grass region, his birth having occurred near 
Shelbyville and he being only an infant when he 

.■mi.' to Missouri. At tho aov of t.'ii years h" be 
came a resident of Buchanan County, living at tin' 

h i" of Robert I Boyd, on his farm at Kin", Hill. 

later being a olerk in that gentleman's Btore in 
Sparta until 1MI. when In' removed to Si. Joseph 
ami entered into partnership with Mr. Boyd in his 
-ion' at til-- corner of Jule ami Main Btreets, then 
the commercial part of tin- city. They engaged 
in general merchandising under the firm nam.' of 
Boyd a. Moss ami had considerable trade withthe 
Indians. The] continued in business until 1858, 
when Mr (loss retired from the firm on account of 
ill health, his death occurring some two years 
later. II.' was a member of th.' Christian Church 
ami a citizen held in th.- greatest respect. 

Our subject's mother, formerly Mi-- Susan 
Beattie, was a native of Abingdon, Ya.. anddaugh 
ter of Col. Joaiafa Beattie, who was an agricultur 
i-t in that state and an earl] Bettler in Missouri, 
being engaged in running the Cit] Hotel at 8a 
vaiuiah, which hi' built ami which is still standing. 
While making the journe] on a steamboat from 
Si. Louis he was taken ill and died of obolera. 
Mrs. Moss departed this life in l^ s .">. After her 
tii-t husband's death Bbe became th.' wife of Capl 
I, V Fleming. She was the mother of nine ohi! 

lin-ii. of who ir subject is th.' second horn an. I 

tl nly on" living. Her father platted the Boyd 

a M .-- \ 1 litiou to St. Joseph, winch has since 
been replatted Mr Boyd died in 1866 or 1867, 
and his wife. Mr- Edwards, -'ill makes her home 
w itfa our subject 

Mr Moss was reared ami educated in the high 



schools of St. Joseph ami is ;i graduate ..f Bryant 
a Stratton's Business College He ha-- for many 
years been inleresieil in the real estate business, 
ami in L871 I ame a member of the linn of 

Dougherty, Baj A Company, lumber dealers, at 

the corner of Eighth and l'..lm I streets Later 

they removed their plant to tl rner of Seventh 

and Patee Btreets, and in l^ sv . Mi Ray having 
withdrawn, the company was incorporated as the 
Doughert] a Moss Lumber Company, with a cap 
ital stock of $38,000. In 1891 they again re 
moved their quarters, locating at Tenth ami Mitch 
i>ll streets, where they I up] the whole I. lock an. I 

have the largest business and yards in the city. 
Our subject is interested in the cattle investments 

In Texas and was one of th ganizers of the Com 

mercial Bank ami of the COmpanj which built the 

fine buildings occupied by the same. 

In St. Joseph. 111 the year 1891, a marriage 
ceremony was performed which united tin- fort 
unes of Mr Moss and Miss Mary Leach, whose 
father was a wholesale dealer in Kaneaa City, Mo 

Mr. Moss own-- a pleasant residen i the corner 

of Ninth and SyU.inic Btreets and also own- other 
residence property in si. Joseph. He baa traveled 
extensively, having made i wo t rips to Europe and 
having visited Egypt and the Holj Land, his last 

journey being made in 1889. In his political faith 
our subject is a stanch ally of the Democratic 
party. 

ROP. CHARLES EMMETT Mill I 

the popular and efficient principal of the 
high school of St. Joseph, Buchanan 

Counts. His interest in education is not 
confined to the school room alone. For many 
yean he has been a member of the State Teachers 1 
lasociation of Missouri and in l ss 'l was sleeted 
on.- of its Vice president-. Hi- elforts before that 
association have been marked bj profound seholai 
-hip. One of hi- contribution'- to the work of that 

bodj was a paper In roplj t" Prof. Fisher's " Three 
Pronunciations of Latin." His answer was pub 
lulled in pamphlet form at th.' request ami expense 
of the association and baa I d highly praised in 




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all tbe educational journals of this country. The 
professors of Harvard and Yale and other colleges 
have recognized his success as a teacher of Latin 
and Greek, with which studies he is thoroughly 
familiar and as an instructor in which he has few 
equals. 

The Professor was born at B;ith, N. Y., April 
12, 1853, and came to St. Joseph with his parents 
when only twelve years old. He received his early 
education here and, eutering the high school in 
1868, completed the course in 1871. After pur- 
suing a post-graduate course he entered the 
Phillips Exeter Academy at Exeter, N. H. , grad- 
uating in that institution in 1873. Returning to 
St. Joseph he was then appointed assistant teacher 
in ancient and modern languages in the high 
school. 

About this time Mr. Miller married Miss Luella 
Robbius, who is the daughter of Hon. William 
Bobbins, a prominent Ohio statesman nearly re- 
lated to the family of Daniel Webster. He was 
Secretary of State in Ohio at the time of his death 
and had occupied the position of Attorney-General. 
His father was one of the early settlers of the 
Buckeye state and his wife, whose maiden name 
was Camelia Salmon, was a descendant of Gen. 
Salmon, a hero of the Revolution. Her father was 
a captain in the War of IS 12 and helped lay out 
the city of Monon, Ohio. Mrs. Bobbins was a lit- 
erary lady and wrote editorials and articles for 
various journals. 

To the Professor and his wife have been born 
two children, Maud and Hattie, who are now stu 
dents in the high school. 

In 1887 the Chair of Ancient Lauguages was 
left vacant on account of the incumbent's depart 
ure for Europe to recruit his health, and Prof. 
Miller was promoted to that position, which he 
held up to the fall of 1892, wheu he was made 
principal of tin- bigh school. His brauches nov? 
an- psychology, civil government. United States 
history and political economy. He is responsible 
for all the Literature that goes into the library of 
the school, as he purchases all of its books and 
equipments. The graduates of the St. Joseph 
high school are known to be so well trained that 



they are admitted to Harvard, Yale, Yassar and 
Widlesley unconditionally. 

Prof. Miller is an Elder in the First Presbyte- 
rian Church and has been Sunday-school Superin- 
tendent and active in the work. Edwin Miller, 
our subject's father, was born in Connecticut, as 
was also his father, Henry Giles Miller, who was 
of English descent. He was a farmer by occupa- 
tion and died at the age of eighty years. Edwin 
Miller was engaged in the jewelry business for 
some years at Bath. He removed to Doniphan 
County, Kans., in 1857, and farmed during the time 
of the border troubles. In 1861 he enlisted in the 
Seventh Kansas Cavalry and was captured at Lex- 
ington. He re-enlisted in a Kansas regiment and 
was First Lieutenant until, on account of failing 
health, he was obliged to resign in the fall of 1863. 
John Brown stayed at his house the' night before 
he went to Harper's Ferry. In 1864 Mr. Miller 
removed to Colorado, where he engaged in stock- 
raising near Boulder City. In 18f)5 he located in 
St. Joseph and engaged as traveling salesman for 
the firm of Pinger & Brown for several years. He 
was an anti-slavery man and a Republican. His 
death occurred in 1881 in St. Joseph. He was a 
Deacon in the First Presbyterian Church. 

The mother of our subject who, before her mar 
riage, was known as Miss Fanny Graham, was 
born in Plattsburg, N. Y. One of her brothers. 
Hon. George Graham, a prominent Kansas poli- 
tician, was State Treasurer and a member of the 
Legislature in Kansas. Mrs Miller, who is a 
member of the Baptist Church, still makes her 
home in St. Joseph. Her son, Ernest, is in the 
employ of Brittain, Smith & Company, with which 
firm George, the youngest of her family, is also 
connected. 

IiOHN MUEHLEISEN, senior member of the 
w. I firm of Muehleisen & Company. Wholesale 
\J) and Retail Dealers in Lumber at St. Joseph, 
was born in Oberwaelden, Wurtemberg, Ger- 
many. January '1, 1839. He is a son of Fred and 
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1854. Some time daring the following year the 
father settled in Racine, Wis., where ha resided 
for tea years, and in 1865 became t<> Si. Joseph 
ami made liis borne with oarsabjeel until Iti^ •l*-ntli 
at the age of seventj two years. 

The parental family oonaisted <>f seven children, 
II- and one daughter, of whom onr subject i- 
tlit- third in order of birth. Be remained in hi- 
native country until 1854, and meanwhile Berved 
an apprenticeship of eight years to tli" trade of a 
blacksmith with his ancle. Leaving tin' Father 
land he took passage al Havre on the Bailing vea 
-••I "Havre," and after an nneventful voyage "f 
thirty four days arrived in New Fork City. Thence 

he pr ided westward i<> Racine, Wis., where be 

secured employment at his trade-, ami for one year 
was thus employed, receiving a salary of 11,000. 

A severe sickness following, he was dined to his 

room for several months, but npon r rvering at 

look charge of tin- li^'ht house al Racine and 
was keeper fur one war Later he engaged as 
clerk in a grocer) store He realized that hie edu 
rati' mi was insufficient for the demands of the active 
commercial 1 i f** - npon which he desired to enter, 

and therefore attended a night sol 1 whenever 

opport nnii \ offered. 

The Pike's Peak fever having seized Mr. Muehl 
sisen in the spring of I860, be started to tin- far 
west On reaching St. Joseph he fitted out b 
mule team and proceeded to Colorado via Fort 

Kearney. He was not pleased with the intry, 

however, and 1"-) no time in returning to St. Jo- 
seph, where be engaged as a clerk in the grocer) 
business. In December, 1861, be returned t" 

Racine, where I dieted in January, 1862, for 

Bervioe in the Onion Arms, becoming a member of 
Company F, Nineteenth Wisconsin Infantry, under 
Col Saunders. He participated with his rc^i 

men! in manj of the engag nts of the arm] ><f 

the Potomac and was veteranized at Newberne, 
\ 0., in the fall of 1864 

Mi Muehleisi n re enlisted as a member of tln< 

sai »mpany, and was wounded al the battle of 

Fair Oaks, before Richmond, October 27, 1864, 
being sh..t In a piece >>f shell through the right 

hip. HewBHconfi I in a hospital at Portsmouth 

fur five months, and apon his n rerj rejoined his 



regiment jnsl prior t>> the Biege of Riobm I. 

Hi' witnessed the surrender of Gen. I- m the 

9th of April, ami in May following marched eight} 
miles in Fredericksburg, thence to Warrington, 
where he remained a ahorl time He was i i 
from that place t" Riohmond, where be was mus 
tered out of si rvioe in August, 1865. He was 'lis 
charged al Madison, Wis., as Firal Sergeant, and 
returned t" Raoine, where he received bis s,.| 
dier's pa} on the s th "I September. < hi the next 
• lav be rami- to St. Joseph, where be accepted a 
olerkship in a grocery, and was there engaged until 
I^i'iT At that date h<» embarked in the lumber 
business with the linn uf Lowell & Bell, which 
was afterward changed to Waterman .^ Lowell, 
then tu Waterman & Bernard. Mr. Muehleisen 
remained in their employ for eleven years, until 
tin- partnership was dissolved. 

Afirr severing his connection with the firm 
above named, Mr. Muehleisen went to Racine and 
northern Wisconsin, where be t<>"k orders for lum 
ber and made shipments to Missouri, One yeai 
afterward he embarked in the lumber husine 

Fourth street, under the lir aim' uf Muehleisen 

& Company, which has Binoe become known as one 
nf the reliable and enterprising organizations of 
St. Joseph. In I^M Mr. Muehleisen located on 
the corner of Eighth and Patee streets, where he 
purchased about one half of the block and built 
shells for lumber. Hi' also enlarged his bus 
including both wholesale and retail, and it is -an I 
of him al present that he has madesomeof the 
largest Bales of lumber ever consummated in Si 
Joseph. His partner, J. L. Unangst, is a man uf 
progressive spirit, and one of the leaders in tlu> 
lumber business "f St. Joseph 

\t Racine, while on a furlough in 1864, Mi 
Muehleisen married Miss Christie Cress, who was 
born in Germany and emigrated to America when 

v i^. Three daughters and one son have blessed 

this anion, viz.: Flora, Mrs w \ I nans, of SI 
Joseph; Minnie, Mrs John Francisco, residing in 
Si Louis; Stella, Mrs Herman Libbe, Marcel i tie, 
M . and Winfield Soott, who is at home The 

family residei is pleasant 1) located at N 

Si ii it I. Ninth -i t, and is oi f tl osiestof Si. 

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connections Mr. Muehleisen is a Republican, but 
has never actively participated in political affairs. 
He affiliates with Custer Post, Grant! Army of the 
Republic. 









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THOMAS M. ELLIS, an early pioneer agri- 
culturist of Clinton County, Mo., settled 
upon a farm near Plattsburg a full half 
century ago, and for many years was num- 
bered among the leading farmers of the state, but 
removing to the city in 1S7G, has since profitably 
engaged in haudling valuable real estate, and is 
widly known as a successful and energetic business 
man. He has also been an important factor in the 
progress of local improvements and in the general 
advancement of the best interests of the county. 

Mr. Ellis is a native of Kentucky, and was born 
in Mason County, April 3, 1823. He came to 
Missouri in the fall of 1 S40 with his mother, who 
soon returned to Kentucky, but later in the same 
year both made their home in Fredericktown, 
Madison County, Mo., where their stay was brief, 
Mr. Ellis with a brother aud two sisters removing 
in the spring of 1841 to Clay County. In 1st:! 
our subject settled in Clinton County, locating 
eleven miles west of Plattsburg, where a widowed 
sister had a half section of land. Mr. Ellis im- 
proved the place aud resided with this sister until 
her death, in IS 17. He then remained in charge 
until the estate was settled and the farm Bold. 

In 184S Mr. Ellis was united in marriage to 
Miss Susan Harris, a daughter of John Harris, the 
first Sheriff of Clay County. From this event until 
1850 Mr. Ellis aud his wife remained upon a farm, 
four and one half miles east of Plattsburg, and 
for the next few years he was successively occupied 
in Cultivating four different farms, bringing them 
up from raw prairie land to a high state of im- 
provement. These farms were all iu the immediate 
vicinity of Plattsburg, and Mr. Ellis and his 
family resided constantly within easy access of the 
town. 

In 1867, after selling his fine homestead of two 
hundred acres, Mr. Ellis removed to the city ami 
baying land of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Bail- 



road, improved another place. This latter farm is 
highly cultivated and contains four hundred and 
forty acres of excellent land. Since 1876 Mr. Ellis 
has confined his business mostly to handling town 
property and valuable inside real estate. In 1890 
he erected the Ellis Opera House, at a cost of 
$8,000. The building contains upon the ground 
floor a commodious store, occupied by the hard- 
ware company of Gordon Brothers. The upper 
floors are all devoted to the purposes of the Opera 
House, which is the only structure of this kind 
ever built in the city. 

Mr. Ellis was early taught the full value of 
American citizenship, and, reared a Whig, cast his 
first vote for Henry Clay. He was a Know Nothing, 
afterward assisting in the election of a representa- 
tive from this county. He has since stood firm 
with the Democrats, but is not an active politician 
nor did he ever desire political preferment. His 
wife has been an invalid aud confined to her home 
for nearly thirty years. Of the children who have 
blessed the parents with their presence, but one 
survived to maturity, Elizabeth, now Mrs. Stephen 
Collins, of Plattsburg, with whom the father and 
mother have made their home for many years. 
Mr. Collins is a carpenter aud builder and an excel 
lent business man of upright character. He is 
widely known aud highly respected. Mrs. Ellis 
has been a member of the Christian Church from 
early girlhood, and Mr. Ellis has been connected 
with the same denomination for forty years. 

Mr. Ellis was in an early day a breeder of tine 
saddle horses, which he occasionally sent to 
market, but he raised them principally for his own 
use as a sportsman, and has a varied store of remi- 
niscences about the times when he hunted elk, deer 
and wolves near his present home. He also en- 
joyed other exciting experiences as the first Mar 
shal of Plattsburg. Yet, although adventure had 
charms for him, he never desired to engage in war 
or join the throng who crossed the plains to Cali 
fornia. 

During the Civil War Mr. Ellis lived upon a 
farm and remained at home, but was arrested at 
one time by the county militia, iu company with 
seven or eight men from the same neighborhood. 
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ett'a Company, while <>n the road li to his 

father's boose and mounted upon a fine bone, was 
>h"t r r. .in unlui-.il and instantlj killed bj a brutal 
man named Qibsont Qibaon was ooooealed In the 
brush witli 11 oompanion, McCorkle, to whom he 
remarked a~ Duunigan passed, thai be intended to 
li a.' thai horse, (iili^.m then fired and Dunnigan 
fell dead. < > i 1 >-■ >i ■ escaped bul was pursued to 
Missouri by the militia. 

Tin' neighbors arrested with Mr. Ellis were 

taken to Camp Calherw I. three milee from Ml. 

Carmen, and oarefnllj guarded fur a month, when 

of the party was killed, Boon after the arrest 

two men were hung to make them confess Am 

br Davis and Dudley UcWilliams. The son of 

Davis, who had some home from Harris County 
just at tliis time, m- killed as be was making Ins 

escape near Cameron. I>a\i~. wl (pressed a 

desire t.> see bis ~"u buried, v\as escorted by a man 
who said he woflld take him lo his Bon, bul a~ they 
were joornej ing to Cameron, the prisoner was shot 
fr..m amliiisli and killed. It was the intention to 
kill all the party, l>ut the officer of the day, learn 
ing of tliis. -i.nt the r.'st of the party to St. Joseph, 
onder a guard ..f Bixtj men. Bere the entire partj 
w.-is k.'jit for nearlj a month, when the] were ilis 
charged without further molestation or injury, ami 
no further inquiries were made, it having been 
ascertained in the meantime who tin- true murder- 
era were. 

Once afterward Mr. Ellis was arrested in town. 
A detail had been Benl to tell him to bring h load 
of woo, | f.H the use of the militia, and otm of the 
detail being drunk lost bis |.isto| and accused Mr. 
Ellis of having taken it The provost marshal 
therefore arrested the accused and placed him 
under guard until the next morning. Be waa also 
arrested bj the quartermaster for destroying the 
voucher for Borne corn, the sai.l voucher bearing 
apon one oorner the word "disloyal." Mr. Klhs 
was released the next morning. His house was 
also Frequent]] searched for a fine gun a neighbor 
coveted, and another scoundrel tried hia beet to 

secure b fine man' belonging t ir subject bul 

railed in the attempt. 

It was learned thai Mr Ellis was an uncle of a 
young m. in named Bartpeck, who was in ivici'- 



army, an, I who .•am.- int., the neighborh I with a 

couple of other young men. The three were iusl 
starting back to Claj County, where there was a 
rendezvous, ami on Christmas ••\>- came to the 
house of Mr Ellis intending to staj there all night 
Bul ho knew thai Bartpeck ha, I been recognized 
bj a man named Bnow, who was passing with a 
drove of hogs, ami immediately apprised bin 
nephew of this fact The young men knowing 
that the militia would he after them before morn 

ing, as soon as it was dark anted their hoi es 

ami rode for their lives toward their own camp. 
Jusl before daybreak a sijuad of militia came from 
Cameron, a part of ('apt. Plum's Company, ami 

made a thorough examinati f the premises, an, I 

not finding the men thej Bought, demanded break 
fast 

Many years have passed since these exciting 
scones were ,,f almost dail) occurrence 111 this pari 
of Missouri, hut years of continued prosperity have 
aided in atoning for tin- Bufferings ami financial 
l,,~ses of those troublous time-. Mr. Ellis has been 
verj prosperous, ami now, a- one ,,f the leading 
•■ill/., mis of Plattsburg, recalls tins.- memories of 
the past only t,, contrast them With the peaceful 
ami harmonious national existence of to daj . which 
insures to each dweller within the cou fines of our 
great republic the widest possibilities for useful 
ness ami honor, 



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rK cities are bo fortunate a- St Joseph in 

1^ their educational institutione \ i rule 

T/ they are of the highest oriler. ami ai ig 

the best is the Young Ladies' [nstitute, conducted 
b) the gentleman whose name heads this sketch 

For over thirty years he has i n heart and soul 

in e, In, ■at i, ,n.-ii work, an, I founded thiB institution 

in 1869. lie purchased the aite on tl rner of 

Fifth ami Antonio BtreetB, erected a substantial 

building at a cost "f $3,1 , an, I opened the scl I 

in Beptember with seventeen pupils He has 

l n verj Bucoessful ami always baa enroll* 

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in St. Joseph and vicinity. The pupils pursue a 
regular collegiate four year course of study, 
classical and musical, with the various branches 
of art, elocution, etc., as optional studies. In 
1882 Dr. Martin erected the elegant structure 
which now serves as the college at a cost of some 
$35,000. The situation is exceptionally pleasant 
and everything essential is provided for the com- 
fort of the inmates. 

The Rev. Dr. Martin was born in Montgomery 
County, Pa., January 11, 1812, his father, George, 
being also a native of that state. But his pater- 
nal grandfather, Frederick A., was a native of 
Berlin, Germany. The latter was a well edu- 
cated man and graduated from the University of 
Berlin with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. 
In 1742 he came to America as traveling com- 
panion of Dr. Henry M. Muhlenburge, who lo- 
cated in Montgomery County, Pa. The Doctor, 
who was a member of the Lutheran Church, also 
settled in Montgomery County, Pa., where he 
engaged in the practice of his profession until 
his death. His father was a physician, as were 
also three of his brothers. Our subject's father 
was a graduate of the University Medical Col- 
lege, and engaged in practice near Norristown, 
Pa., until 1S14, when he located in White Marsh, 
now a suburb of Philadelphia, until reaching four 
score years of age. He was called from this life 
in 1802, being then eighty-four years of age. 

The mother of our subject, who was born in Le- 
high County, Pa., was before her marriage Miss 
Hannah Steinberger. Her father having enii 
grated from Hanover, Germany, was a farmer in 
the Keystone state. Her death occurred in 1866> 
she then being seventy eight years of age. Of 
her seven children only two are now living, our 
subject being the third in order of birth, and two 
of his brothers graduated from the University of 
Pennsylvania, in the Medical Department. It is a 
fact worthy of note that so many members of his 
family were worthy representatives of the healing 
art. Dr. Martin was reared within sight of the 
Independence Hall of Philadelphia and attended 
private schools and academies. In 1S27 he en- 
tered the academy at Allentown, completing the 
classical course, and when only eighteen began 



reading medicine, entering the University of Penn- 
sylvania and graduating from the Medical De- 
partment in 1833. He at once commenced prac- 
tice at White Marsh, Pa., removing to Mechanics 
burg, in the same state, where he remained until 
1834, at that time retiring from the profession. 
That year he entered the Theological Seminary at 
Gettysburg, and in September of 1836 was or- 
dained to preach, still remaining at the institution 
and continuing his studies until the following 
spring. He received an appointment at Martins 
burg, now in West Virginia, and continued there 
as pastor of the English Lutheran Church until 
1842. 

In the fall of 1842 Dr. Martin was called to the 
English Lutheran Church in New York city, 
where he served faithfully for ten years, during 
which time he was influential in building a church. 
and in 1852, going to York, Pa., also built a 
church there, where he remained for four years. 
For the following two years he represented the 
American Tract Society in Pennsylvania and New 
Jersey, presenting its claims to the different 
churches. He was uext placed in charge of the 
Lutherville Female Seminary, near Baltimore, and 
there continued to labor in connection with the 
home missionary work until 1858, when he came 
to Chicago. His continued studies ami anxiety 
broke down his health and nervous system, and 
he was obliged to retire for a time. 

In Warren, Jo Daviess County, 111., Dr. Martin 
began his educational work, starting a female 
seminary, which he carried on until I860, then 
returning to his original pastorate at Martinsbuig. 
Va., where he preached until the breaking out of 
the war. The very week after the riot at Balti- 
more he removed to Philadelphia, where lie spent 
a year, and then returning to Warren, 111., he en- 
gaged in the practice of medicine with Dr. B. (r. 
Pierce, as he was anxious to become ;i Burgeon in 
the army. In September, 1862, he was coinniis 
sioned by Gov. Dick Yates as Surgeon of the Ninety 
sixth Illinois, with the rank of Major, and was 
with them in the field until they arrived at I>an 
ville, Ivy., when, on account of a nearly fatal sick- 
aess, lie was obliged to resign. 

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tin resigned from Bervioe, he exchanged pli r 

with l'i l if Warren, 111 , and oontinned in 

praotioe there forayear, when he went to Halt i 
more and became pastor o I bd Eoglish Lutheran 

Choroh, continuing ther itil 1806. Going tc. 

rstovt n. Md. , he took charge of a female b i 

r i : 1 1 \ . which he carried on until 1869 One ban 
dred and filly pupila were enrolled, and it was a 

wi_\ sin ---fill andertaking, but in Jul). I860, 

our subject same to thia citj and eatabliahed tli«' 
Bohool, aa before mentioned. Bis Bpeoial branches 
of teaching arc mental and moral science Mis-. 

Pal i teaobea English and Mrs. Brown teaches 

the ClaaaioB, while Mrs Martin Bnperintenda the 
social duties and acts the part of a kind and sym 
pathel i"- mother. 

hi Martin was first married in Maryland to 
Miss Eliza Carlcton, a oative of Frederick, Md., 
who was called from this life in New fork oitj 

in 1846, leaving tlir ihildren: George T., now 

a resident of Arizona, engaged in mining; Eliza 
both, now Mis II II Ring, of Chicago, mid 
Gbarltt E , engaged in bnaineaa in thai city with 
the firm of Felix, Mat-ton, A Go. The present 
wife of Mr. Martin was formerly Mi-s I, I' Rob 
iii-oii. who was born in Talbol County, Md., and 
educated io College Hill College, in fork, I'm. 
They have three children: Maggie R. , "Io is ,i 
graduate of this institution ami i- a teacher of 
music and physical culture; Mortina W., prinoipaJ 
of the Primary Department, and Eudora L., a 

member of the elaaa of '93 For lift years l>i 

Martin waa pastor of the English Lutheran 
Church at F.a-t Norway, Doniphan County, Kan- , 
and -me- I v. 1 has been a member of the Sons of 
Temperance He is a strong Republican, ami in 
1MI met with the original Waabingtonian Society 
in Baltimore, Md 



OBER I 9TEVt AJtT, M D among the 

leading physicians of St Joaeph, Im.iIi as 

regards professional standing and ezten 

sive praotioe, is our subject, who. with one 

exoeption, is tl Ideal phyaioian in the oity, bav 




ui^ located herein 1856 Re waa born in Bio 
bury, N l . Lugual I, 1885, Ins father, Thomas 
( i. . being of Scotch ana Btry, and having emigrated 
from the laud of Burns and Wallace to New .l.i 
BB) at an earl] da\ He was a fanner and miller 
m the East and removed to Bl Louis in 1854, en 
gaging in general merchandising al the cornei oi 
Pine and Main streets for a Dumber of years, but 
failed in the financial crash of 1857, after which 
he retired from business life, ami the following 

year came to Si Joseph, residing here until his 
death in 1872. The mother of OUr Bubject, who 
I lore the maiden name of ( 'In isl lanna Bobbins, was 
likewise a native of New Jersey and daughtei of 
John Robbins, a farmer, of Irish Scotch il. -cent. 
who lived to the extreme old age of one hundred 
and eight years. The mothei waa called from tin- 
life in 1858. <>f her famih of thirteen ohildren, 
twelve grew to mature years 

The Doctor is the youngeet bod and the third in 
order of hirth iii hi* father's family, and pas-. .1 
Ins early years in New Jersey. In l v ll became 
weal to Si Louis and afterward attended the ChriB 
tian Brothers College in St. Louis, having located 
there in 1858. When onlj Bixteen he began Btudj 
ing medicine nndei Dr. Joseph M MoDowell, aud 
then entering the MoDowell Medical College gradn 

ate. 1 1 herefrom in 1 856, with the degn f I toot f 

Medicine, being then not yet twentj one yeara of 

age He began the practii f his profession in 

St. Joaeph, ami of the numerous physicians here 
at that time l>r. Knight and our subject are the 
onlj ones remaining. In 1859 Mr Stewart went 
to Texas, making the journej bj team and prac 
tioed in Webberville, fifteen miles from Austin, 
until the opening of the war Be then volnn 

teered as a aurg i in Col Donell's Texas Regn 

lar-. Hi- regiment being capture, I at \il 

Post, he went to San Antonio and was placed in 

charge of the southwest district of Texas, extepd 
ing from the Rio Grande to Brownsville. Though 
bearing the rank of major and serving until the 
dose of the war, he. however, reoeived no more than 
one month's pa) daring his entire term o( service 
Returning to St Joeeph, I'r Stewart again re 

sinned his practice ami continued -ucce-sftilh in 

inisiiie-s until 1881, w) he removed t.. Stewarts 



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ville, DeKalb County. After practicing in thai 
Tillage for m\ years he returned to St. Joseph ami 

up to the present time has conducted a large and 
lucrative practice. His office is at No. L619 !'>u 
chanan avenue. He lias been particularly success 
ful in surgery, as while in the army, especially, he 
received practical experience in that line. Polit 
ioally his sentiments are in aCCOld with the Demo- 
cratic platform, ami his ballot is always deposited 
in fav.>r of the nominees of that party. He i- a 
member of the First Presbyterian Church and act 
ively concerned in its welfare. 

The Doctor has been twice married, his first 
union being with Miss Mar\ Radford, who was 
born in St. Genevieve, Mo., and was a niece of old 
Gen. Kearney. She died in San Franci-co. Cal.. 
where she hail gone, hoping to recover her health. 
Or. Stewart afterward wedded Miss Jennie Tolin. 
who was horn in St Joseph, her father being an 
old settler in this locality. The family of Dr. 
Stewart comprises t'ne living children , namely : 
Thomas, Addie, Jesse, August and George F 



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ORACE W. WOOD is a member of the City 
Council from the First Ward of St. Joseph, 
Buchanan County, and is one of her prom 
Uient business men. For a number of 
years he has been engaged in buying stock for 
packing companies and at the present time is sen 
iii£ in that capacity for the Henry Krug ami the 
North Packing Companies. The former concern 
is one of the largest of the kind in the West, and 
is located in this city. The other company has its 
offices in Boston. Mr. Wood is a practical buyer 
of large experience and good judgment, and is eon 
sidered one of the best men in the employ of the 
Companies with which he is connected. 

Mr. Wood was born in Chautauqua County, N. 
V.. in tho village of Dunkirk. September 7. 1854. 
His grandfather. John Wood, tir~t saw the light in 
Rhode Island, where he engaged in farming, and 
passed his entire life. The great-grandfather of 
our aubject was a Captain of a Rhode Island Com 
pany during the Revolutionary War. He was of 



English descent and came from an old New Eng 
laud family. John W.. who became the father of 
our subject, was born on the Rhode Island coast, 
lb' was Mill in his youth when he removed to New 
York, and was there united in marriage with Sarah 
Lake, a native of the Empire State. Her father. 
Salomon Lake, was tin' son of a Baptist minister, 
and was himself a great Bible student. He was 
a weaver by trade, and while working at the loom. 
Concluded he wished to study the Scriptures in the 
Original tongues He therefore studied the class 
ios with seal and became a tine scholar. He was 
of Scotch Irish descent and lived until his death 
in Chautauqua County. 

John and Sarah Wood became the parents of 
eight children, who are all living. In IStjS the 
family removed to Missouri, tir-t locating in Savan- 
nah. Andrew County, and soon after settling on a 
farm near that place. Mr. Wood is still living on 
the old homestead and is a man of prominence in 
that region. He has been for a great many years 
a supporter of the Democratic party. 

Horace W. Wood was brought up on a farm on 
the shore of the beautiful Lake Erie. He received 
a good education, and in 1868 came to the West 
with his parents. He worked on the home farm 
until l^To, in which year the grasshoppers played 
havoc with the crops. This took away his enthu 
siasm for agricultural pursuits, and he concluded 
to branch out in some other direction. Going to 
Utah, he engaged in mining and prospecting at 
Cottonwood and Bingham. In the fall of ISTti he 
returned to the old farm and there remained until 
1878. Since that time lie has been eugaged in 
Commercial ventures and in the employ of the 
Henry Krug Packing Company. Until the mar 
kets were established here he was traveling buyer 
for the firm, after which he accepted a position in 
the office, having charge of the freight department 
In 1889 lie was made a buyer at the St Joseph 
stockyards. He is thoroughly posted concerning 
his work, and is valuable to his linn. 

In the spring of 1898 Mr. Wood was nominated 
on the Democratic ticket for Alderman from the 
First Ward, and was elected by a majority of forty. 
His success was rather remarkable as this ward 

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band red lb W 1 is on several of 1 1 » « - leading 

committees, is chairman "f the Auditing and "ii«' 
• if the Finance Committees. Socially be belongs 

deof tli-- Weal Lodge, No 12, Ancient ' i 
■ if United Workmen. Religiously he is connected 
w nli ( !hi iat's Episcopal ( Ihuroh. 

In tin' war 1882 Mr W I and Kiss Marj 

\ iiin-f were united in wedlock She was born in 
Mi Morris, Genesee County, N V. and i- a 
daughter of William Vance, an early settler an. I 
well known citizen "f Bl Joseph, where In- has 
been engaged in the sand business for a number 

of years Mr* \\ I graduated from the St. Jo 

seph Bigb School, and was fur Beveral years a 

teacher in tin- public scl Is of thai city. Two 

children grace the uni f our subject and wife, 

namely, Lettie V and Mary Helen, 

OI.IN I \ AN M.\ ENTER, a prominenl 
and successful young business man of Si. 
Joseph, Buchanan County, runs a plumb 
ing establishment ami carries a line of k'as 
and electric light fixtures He also puts in pipes 
ami equipments for steam and hot water heating. 
lie i- on., drill'' "l.l residents of Bt Joseph, liav 
ing lived here since 1 

Ki'\ i I Van Deventer, onr subject's father, 
was born in Loudoun County, Va Be is of 1 1« »1 
land descent, was a minister in the Metbodisl 
Episcopal Cliuroh, and when that denomination 
divided be became identified with the southern 
branch. About IM<> he located in Qlasgow, M 

ami became a traveling circuit preacher, oi f 

the | leers of the "Platte Purchase." Be was 

a minister for nearly one half n century. In 1852 
be removed i" St. Joseph, and after remaining 
three years went to Louisiana, Ho., where be re 

sided until after the war. In 1805 lie mire more 

reiur I in St Joseph, ami i* now livings retired 

life at bis home, No. 1816 Francis street II 
now nearly seventj years "f age, and ha- i !■<• 
honor of having been the first Methodist Episcopal 

minister in tbiscity, then a re trading post Be 

the most c plete history ol his denomination 

in Nortbwp lorn Missouri. 



Elizabeth A I • was the nam ir snh 

mother bore in her girlhood Bei birtl 
in Bfillersburg, Bourbon County, K\ 1 1 • ■ i father, 
John J. Grimes, ;, native of the blu< 
followed the trade of a saddler. In the earl) 
daj she came to this state, locating in Pike < Sountj . 
where he was in business until I s, 'i7. after which 
he became a resident of 81 Joseph. Of the three 
children born to the Rei I I and Elizabeth Van 
Deventer, mir Bubjeol is the see. iii, I ami only one 
living. 11,' v. Lugual ii, 1852, in Glasgow, 

Mo .ami was brought to BL Joseph while in infancy 
In IM'iT he attended Pardee College, in Louisiana, 
M In IsT' 1 he graduated from the Si Joseph 
hi^h school ami then went into business as i 
shipping olerb in the wholesale boose "f I! L Mc 
I kmald & Co 

After clerking for two years Mr. Van Deventet 
assumed the management of the wholesale gi 
business in Maoon City, Mo I f i — next pa 
was as a teller in the I i i National Hank < to 

act nt of ill health he was forced to resign and 

in 1^7"i went to Denver, <',.|o., and spent the next 

si\ years as traveling -ale-man f"i a wholesale 
grocery business in Kansas with his headquarters 
in Denver. During this time he was mainlj in 
Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming. The change 
of scene and pure mountain air restored his 
health prettj thoroughly, and in l ss l be returned 
I,, St. Joseph Be engaged in the fire insurance 
business with 'lames Mull for ~i\ years, being 
then appointed steward of the State Lunatic As} 
1 1 1 1 1 1 l,_\ the Board ,,f Managers Aftei serving in 
that official capacity for four year- be resigned 

In 1800 Mi Van Deventer formed a partnei 
Bhip with M B. Berber), and started a plumbing 
business at No, 610 Pelii Btreel \t the end of 

ayeai he bought out his partner I has since 

carried on bis trade a] ■ Since 1802 be hu- 
ll located at his present place, N rancis 

street Bere he ha- two floors, 22x80 feet in 
dimei Phe workshop is in the basement, 

while the fixtures and -lew rooms are ,,n the mam 

floor. Employment is given to from twelve to 
twenty men 

In Greenleaf, Kans., a oeremonj perfon I 

Decembei 29, 1870, united the fortunes of Mi 



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Van Deveuter and Miss Carrie B. Truesdell, who 
was born in Belvidere, 111., and educated at the 
Rock ford Female Seminary. Two children a son 
and daughter, have come to bless this marriage. 
They are called Olin H. and Mary B. 

While an employe of the bank Mr. Van Deven- 
ter was Deputy City Treasurer for two years. He 
belongs to the National Association of Master 
Plumbers and also to the State Association. Fra- 
ternally he is Past Secretary of Charity Lodge, 
No. 331, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; of 
Mitchell Chapter. No. 89, Royal Arch Masons, and 
Hugh De Payen Commandery, No. 51, Knights 
Templar. He is a charter member of Hugh De 
Payen Commandery, No. 51, of which he is the 
Prelate. In Moila Temple Shrine he is a charter 
member and Assistant Rabban. He is a member 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. In 
politics he is a Democrat and has served his party 
as a delegate to county and state conventions. 



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1/ N. MILLER, M. D., is a member of the St. 
Joseph Medical and Surgical Institute, has an 
extensive practice, and is a thoroughly intelli 
gent gentleman. He makes a specialty of the 
diseases of women and the rectum. He was bom 
Dear Greenfield, Hancock County, Ind., Septem- 
ber 18, L857, and is a son of Benjamin Miller, a 
native of Michigan and one of the early settlers in 
Hancock County, where he became the possessor 
of a large and valuable farm. During the Mexi- 
can War he enlisted from Indiana and in 1861 came 
to the defense of the old Red, White and Blue. 
He was a fine cook and was detailed to serve in 
that capacity entirely through the war. On his 
retain he located in Nodaway County, Mo., retir- 
ing from active work, and died in 18fiU while on a 
visit, aged about seventy years. He was a Repub 
lican and Abolitionist, and a member of the Metli 
odisl Episcopal Church. Our subject's mother, 
whose maiden name was Angeline Taylor, was 
born in Ohio and died in 1S7I> at the good old age 
of seventy three years. Her paternal grandfather 
was a cousin of Zachary Taylor. 



The Doctor was an only child of this union and 
was reared in Indiana until reaching the age of 
nine years when, with his parents, he removed to 
Missouri and received such school privileges as 
wire afforded in Nodaway County at that day. 
He lived at home until his mother's death and 
then engaged as clerk in a drug store in Mound 
City, Mo. . until reaching his majority. During 
this time he commenced the study of medicine 
under Dr. Ross, and had to work his own way 
through by the greatest self-denial. In 1869 he 
entered the Keokuk Medical College, where be 
took three courses, and during the Bummers 
worked as a clerk in Mound City in order to gain 
sufficient money to pay his tuition for the coming 
term. With the same object in view and with the 
desire of obtaining practical knowledge, he as 
sisted the professors in the college from which he 
graduated in 1SS2 with the degree of Doctor of 
Medicine. 

For the following eight years Dr. Miller was a 
practicing physician in Mound City.' and for two 
years of that time he was a member and Secretary 
of the Examining Board of Pensions, as the United 
States Surgeon of Holt County, having to resign 
when lie removed to St. Joseph. In 1890 he es 
tablished an office at No. 518 Frances street, in 
this city, and was engaged in practice for two 
years alone, but in April, of 1892, formed a part 
nership with Dr. Boyd and in March, 1893, in 
company with Drs. J. H. Walker and •). K. Egbert, 
organized the St. Joseph Medical and Surgical In 
stitute, which is incorporated. 

In Mound City Dr. Miller and Miss Ella Hyatt 
were joined in marriage, the ceremony being per 
formed in 1877. Mrs. Miller, who was born in 
Illinois, is the daughter of W. T. Hyatt, who runs 
an hotel at Mound City. The Doctor and his 
amiable wife are the parents of two living chil 
dien: Ralph M. and Carrie A. They are members 
of the Presbyterian Church and the Doctor be 
longs to the Ancient Order of American Mechanics. 
He was a member of the American Medical As80 
ciation and in 1 SS7 was a delegate from this state 
to the convention in Chicago. In political faith 
he is a Republican and earnestly supports the 
principles and nominees of that party. He has 



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made for bimsell a I • • -?—t .if Friends in this city and 
among bis professional brethren, who .1" bim no 
more bouoi than is his just desert 



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J I |x, I rAMESlD FCHELL has been Justice 
of the Peace ,>f Washington Township, 
Baohanan County, the district including St 

Joseph, Binoe l s 7\ and baa I □ a resident 

of tbia looalit) sinoe 1868. Be is now the oldest 
justice of the peace serving in the township and 
county, his office being located ;it the corner ol 
Bdmond and Fourth atreete. Judge Mitchell was 
born in Ireland, County Leitrim, where his rather, 
Patrick, was a well known merchant, and also was 
for some time a resident of Count] Roscommon. 
In 1N4H he left his native isle and, crossing the 
Atlantic, soon after his arrival located in Pitts 
burs;, where be was shortly called from this life. 
Our subject's mother, who whs in her girlhood 
days \Ii-~ Rose Gannon, whs born in the same 

i ii t _> as our subject and was a daughter of Darby 

Qannon, ;i farmer in Ireland Mrs Mitchell died 
in Pittsburg when over ninet] years of age. 

Our subject is the sixth in order of birth in a 
family of eleven children, only four of whom are 
now 1 » x iii {_T- He was reared in the Emerald 1-1. • 
until attaining the a^i' >,f twelve years, when he 

a opanied hi- parents to Liverpool, taking 

passage in a sailing vessel, the "Huntress." 
\tt.T a voyage of seven weeks be landed in New 
Y"il> city, where he remained with a brother who 
bad previously crossed the ocean and who was 
engaged in the grocery business there. Latei Mr 
Mitchell went to Brooklyn where he secured 
employment aa a clerk. In 1858 he became a 
partner in the publishing firm of Thomas D. 
McGee, editing the American Celt for about four 

-. when, on a< ant "f ill health, Mr Mitchell 

ibliged I,. Bell "in bia interest In 1858 he 
came t,, St Louis, Mo., there engaging in publish 
iti «_c the Western Banner with B, l» Killian. 

This waa a weekly journal and was bu< sfully 

carried on until they were • >1 >I iu'< •• ' to discontinue 
i>n ai mt i » f the war in May, 1 ' — * "• 1 

In December of thai year Mr Mitchell obtained 



aa clerk in a booh store, where be 
engaged in business until 1 v, '>\ when he tii-t 
found himself in the beautiful and enterprising 
citj "f St Joseph, whioh was then, however, a 
town of onlj nineteen thousand For three yeara 
he waa engaged in th" book business with Mr M 
Crawford and then served aa clerk for the Citj 
Recorder, M Thompson, for three yeara In 
be was elected i" the position ol Justice of 

the Peace and was re-elected to the res] Bible 

place three consecutive times He is a membei of 
Branch No. 208, Catholic Knights of America, and 
is a member of the Catholic Cathedral, In 
political sentiments he is affiliated with the 
Democratic party 






1 I ON JAMES c ROBERTS, deceased. 

r-H There is in the development of ever) sue 
I[ oessful life a principle which is a lesson to 
< ever] man following in its footsteps — a 

lesson which leada to higher and more honorable 
positions than the ordinary. Let a man be indue 
triously ambitious, and honorable in his ambitions, 
and In' will rise, whether having the prestige of 
family or the obscuritj ,,f poverty, rhese reflec- 
tions are oalled forth by a Btud] of the life of the 

Hon, Ja s ('. Roberts, who was not only a promi 

unit pioneer farmer of Buchanan County, but one 
of her most active and public-spirited citizens, 
promoting ber best interests in ever] waj He 

was a man of uiiiisiialh good jndg nt, and had 

any amount of push and energj 

Mi Roberts was born January 19, 1881, in 
Davidson County. Tenn., and was the son of Will 
lam and Sarah (Chowning) Roberts, natives, re 

spectively, ,,f Com ticut and Tennessee The 

eldei Mr and Mrs. Roberts were farmers bj occu 
pation, and became residents "f Tenness* 
early aa IMS. where fhej were classed Bmong the 
in,, t honored and respected citizens of Davidson 
County. 

TI riginal of this sketch was reared on bia 

father's farm in the above named state, and when 

old enough entered Franklin College in Da^ 
County, from wh'cb institution be was erad 



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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 



with the class of 1850. Later taking up the study 
of law, he read Blackstone diligently in the office 
of .J i dm A. M. Ewen, of Nashville, and was ad 
milted to the bar in that city in 1853. When 
ready to open an office of his own young Roberts 
moved to Dover, now known as Fort Donelson, 
and there engaged in the practice of his profession 
nutil 1855, the date of his advent into this county. 

Locating upon a beautiful farm on Section 1, 
Washington Township, our subject was engaged 
in its cultivation for a few years, or until he saw 
an excellent opening for him to take up again his 
law practice in the city of St. Joseph. Removing 
thither he was very successfully employed until 
18(30, when he was elected to represent Buchanan 
County in the Missouri Legislature. That- body 
was broken up the following year by Gov. Jack- 
son, and our subject, being a southern sympathizer, 
was disfranchised. Going to Tennessee he re- 
mained for three mouths, and then receiving a 
from Gen. Schofield, returned home. The 
following July, however, he again went to Tennes- 
see, and after a residence there of another three 
months came north and permanently established 
himself on his estate in Section 1, this township. 

Mr. Roberts during his life figured very promi- 
nently in public affairs, and in L875 was elected a 
member of the Constitutional Convention, which 
met at Jefferson City, with which body he sat un- 
til their work was finished. He was prominently 
mentioned as candidate for Congress in 187f), but 
did not secure the nomination. Mr. Roberts was 
a proficient linguist, being a complete master of 
Greek and Latin. He also possessed fine literary 
tastes, wielded a vigorous pen and was an orator 
of marked ability. 

At his death our subject left a valuable estate 
comprising five hundred and eighty broad acres. 
He was one of the county's most prominent citi- 
zens and occupied a high station among his fellow 
agriculturists as well as being a shining light in 
the legal profession. 

October 28, 1855, Mr. Roberts, of this sketch. 
and .Miss Margaret Cornelia, daughter of Jesse ('. 
and Margaret (Kay) Ingram, were united in mar- 
riage. The mother w;is born in Virginia in lNl 1, 
and the father in South Carolina, November 11, 



180G. They resided for many years in Tenn< 
where the mother departed this life in 1835. Mr. 
Ingram in iv'il removed to this state and made 
his home with his daughter, Mrs. Roberts, until 
his decease, which occurred January 21, l s 7'_' 
He was a consistent member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church South, while his good wife held 
membership with the Baptist denomination. 

William Roberts, the father of our subject, wa- 
a very influential and prominent man in his locality 
and at one time was Presiding Judge of this county. 
He enjoyed the respect and esteem of every one 
who knew him, and, as he was in a position to 
become acquainted with all people, his circle of 
friends was extremely large. The parental fain 
ily of our subject included nine children, only five 
of whom are living. 

Mr. and Mrs. Roberts have been blessed by the 
birth of five children, one of whom is deceased. 
The mother was born July 16, 1833. at Dover, 
Tenn., and completed her studies in the Clarkes- 
ville Female Seminary and the Nashville Female 
Academy. Her eldest son, Jesse L, married Eva 
M. Donovan, and makes his home in St. Joseph. 
They have three children. James C. married Anna 
L. Van; they also reside in St. Joseph and have 
one child. Frank K. married Melissa Hayward 
and resides on the home farm and has one child. 
Charles W., the youngest, assists his brother in 
carrying on the home place. 

The Hon. James C. Roberts departed this 
life at his home April 4, 1885. His death was 
very unexpected, for, although he had been ailing 
for a week prior to his decease, his health was 
generally good. Socially he was a Royal Arch 
Mason and in politics was a stanch Democrat. He 
was also President of the Board of Managers of 
Asylum No. 2, and was active in the organization 
of the State Grange. As before stated he was a 
man of high attainments, and while a member of 
the Legislature in January, 1861, made a telling 
speech on a bill for calling a state convention. He 
discharged his public duties with a promptness 
and fidelity which won him the commendation of 
all, and as a friend lie was true as steel. 

The two younger sons of Mr. Roberts conduct 
the home place for their mother, while Jesse I. is 



POR I'l: Ml \M» BIOGH M lilt M. KM' >KD 



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..i f the prominent grocers of Si Joseph, being 

ii Vice preeideol of the tirm of Qeorge A Ken 
nard ( Irooer Co Jami - • ' b< ilda a p 

ini and Collection Teller in Ihe Schuster 
Box National Bank in Bl Joseph 



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II M Al WILLI \M I' STRING! l.l.l.oW ia 
1^/1 Mh i of the Second Battalion of the 
1 Fourth Regiment, National Guards o( 
■€/ Missouri, and is a practicing attorney at 

law. Be is one oi the youngest members of 1 1 1 • » 
legal profession in St. Joseph, but possesses Buch 
poized ability and qualities of mind thai he 
takes rank with the best Be comes of a well 
known and respected family of this city, his father 
being the Bon. J. EL Stringfellow, M I' . whose 
Bketch appears on another page of this work. The 
latter, a native of the Old Dominion, is a graduate 
of the University of Pennsylvania, and practiced 
in tlii— Btate • I ii ri ii <_j tlit> early days. Be went to 
Atchison and was Speaker in the first Legislature 
of Kansas :nnl Colonel in command of the forces 
..l thai Btate In 1859 be returned to Virginia, 
there making hi* home until 1873, when be re 
turned to the west, living for ti\>' years in Atchi 
son, and then removing to Si. .lose]>h. 

The Major was born in Richmond, Va., Septem 
ber I. 1868, but retains little memory of his lif«' 
there, as he was only four years old when liis 
father brought him west. Be is the yoangesl of 
i be family and was educated in the St. Joseph com 

in "ii ami high srl Is, continuing in the bitter until 

the senior year, when li«' returned to Virginia ami 
entered the Military Aoadem] al Bethel. This 
was in l s ^7, and during his two years' stay he was 
commissioned Captain 1 > % ( ; . >\ 1'itzlln^h Lee. 
In 1889 Major Stringfellow entered the University 
of Virginia, where.he pursued a year's course of 
atndy, and then, under the tutorage of Stanber & 
Cranball, commenced law. Be waa admitted t" 

the bar in 1892 and al on< pened an office in the 

German American Bank Building, where he al 

read] numbera among I « i -> clients the best] pie 

of tl ity. 

Maj Stringfellow ia a member of Ihe Greek 



Letter Society, the BetaTheta Pi of the Univei 
.■f Virginia, the third largest fraternity in the 
United States. The Maji ir is a straight Democrat 
Ho was a member of Compan] a Cadets about 
1 ^^ I and while in the Bethel Militar] School was 
promoted from the ranks l>_\ regular grades to a 
oaptainc] . When the Wickham Rifles were i irgan 
i ..I in August, 1891, he was elected First Lieu 
tenant, holding that rank until June, 1892, when 

he was elected Major ol the 1 th Regiment, in 

command of the S ind Battalion. In i In* fall of 

1892 be laid out 1 1 1 • » oamp at Brookfield and al 
tended the dedication of the World's Fair at Chi 
cago in October of thai year, being the Major in 

command of the S I Battalion. In religious 

belief our subject is an Episcopalian. 



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Jo STARES, of St. Joseph, Buchanan 
County, is the Secretary and Treasurer of the 
St. Joseph Gas and manufacturing Company. 
This company, which has a capital Btook of 
$5130,000, is our of the largest concerns in the city 
and gives employment to a large number of 

men. The] manufactur al gas, coke, ooal lar. 

i'ii- . and Bince May, 1890, our Bubject lias been 
connected in Ins present capacity with the com- 
pan] 

The birth of Mr. Starks occurred March 21, 
1842, in Scotland County, Mo His father, Judge 

Price Starks, was born in Fayette C ity, Kj . 

and was the Beoond Bettler in Scotland County, 
where he engaged in operating a farm. !!«• waa 
presiding Judge of tin' Court of Scotland County 
and there continued to live until 1856, when he 
located in Platte County, where be continued to 
follow agricultural pursuits until his death, which 
occurred in August, 1 ss I 

Our subject's mother, whose maiden name waa 
Miss Emerine Ellis, was born in Kentucky, and 
died while living in Scotland Count] Sin- was 

Ibe mother o I leu children, ■ Bubject being the 

fifth' Dr N F. , the eldeht of the family, a grad 
nut.' of the St. Lonis Medical College, waa a anr 

g i of Gates' regiment, Confederate States Army, 

during the war. 



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J. O. Starks was given an ordinary common 
school education until about 1800, wbeu he went 
(ci Kentucky, entering the State University at Har- 
rodsburg, where he completed the classical and 
literary course. In 1864 be went to the mountains 
of Montana overland, and after remaining there 
one year returned to Platte County, where he en- 
gaged in teaching. He was elected School Com- 
missioner of Platte County in 1883 and continued 
to train the young idea until 1885, when he was 
appointed clerk to the Superintendent of Construc- 
tion of the Government. Building at St. Joseph, 
Mo. This position he held for five years, when he 
assumed his present duties. 

Mr. Starks has been twice married, his first al- 
liance having been formed in Kentucky with Miss 
Ida B. Mark, of Montgomery County. She died 
July 5, 1889. In November, 1892, in Saline 
County, Mo., he wedded Miss Maggie Hamilton, 
who is also a native of Kentucky. Mr. Starks is 
an Elder in the Christian Church and is Superin- 
tendent of the Sunday-school. Iu his political 
faith he sides with the Democracy. He is well 
known and justly esteemed in the business circles 
of St. Joseph as a man of correct principle and 
high moral worth. 



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OLIVER A. SANDUSKY is the proprietor of 
] the oldest commission house in St. Joseph. 
' This, with the exception of the one belong- 
ing to A. L. Charles of Kansas City, is the 
oldest of the kind on the river. Our subject is 

als igaged in general merchandising at Hamlin, 

Brown County, Kans., and is a stockholder in the 
Llano Live Stock and Laud Company, an exten- 
sive concern owning thirty thousand acres in 
Texas. He is considered one of the most enter 
prising and prosperous business men of the county 
and has been blessed with great success in what 
ever business he has turned his hand to. 

Oliver A. Sandusky was born near Lexington, 
Ky., on February 7, 1832, and is a son of Jacob 
E .. who was born in the same locality in 1808. 
Our subject's paternal grandfather, who bore the 
Christian name of Ephraim, was also a pioneer in 



Kentucky, while his father, in turn, had emigrated 
from the Old Dominion with Daniel Boone, set- 
tling in the Blue Grass region, where he improved 
a farm. The country was extremely wild and un- 
settled, and while with a surveying party at a 
place called Salt Licks he was attacked by Indians. 
The parly believing that "discretion was the bet 
ter part of valor" made for the woods, hiding in 
bushes and finally making their escape. He was 
truly one of the pioneers of the corning civiliza- 
tion, and his services were of inestimable value. 
He helped survey the country and in after years, 
indeed, when he was over eighty years of age, he 
was called upon to testify in a suit as to the sur- 
veys and location of old lines, made so many years 
previously. His memory was clear aud decisive 
and his opinions were held with marked respect. 
Our subject's paternal grandfather participated in 
the War of 1812 and was the owner of seven hun 
dred acres of fiue farming land, only ten miles 
from Lexington. 

Jacob E. Sandusky, our subject's " father, was 
also an extensive farmer near Lexington, where 
he engaged in extensive agriculture. He pur 
chased land in 1838 in Clarke County, Mo., with 
the intention of locating upon it, but gave up 
that plan, settling in Shelby County, which is still 
his place of residence, though he is past eighty-five 
years of age. The family are originally from Vir- 
ginia and in the early days the name was spelled 
Sodowsky, the cognomen being of Polish origin. 
Our subject's mother, who was also a native of 
Kentucky, was before her marriage Miss Hannah 
Middletou. Her father, Joseph, was born in Mary- 
land and was an early and respected settler in 
Kentucky, locating on the old Shelby Pike in 
Shelby County, between Franklin and Louisville. 
Both parents of our subject were personal friends 
of Henry Clay and were old Line Whigs back to 
the early days. The mother, who died in Shelby 
County, Ky., had a family of three children, two 
of whom are living. After her death her husband 
was again married, Miss Nancy Bladyes becoming 
his wife. Of (heir union five children were born, 
all of whom are living. Janes M., our subject's 
own brother, is in his employ as a salesman and 
during the [ate war was in the Confederate Army. 







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POUTB \l I \M» liHMii;.\rilli \l. KECOKD 






Tin- boyh I days "f Oliver Sandusk) wore 

• 1 in lii— Birth place ton milea from Lexing 
inn Ho removed with his parents when Beven 
\ >-iir~ .J age to a farm in Shelby County, near 
Shelbyville, and from the age "f eight years was 
Bd to hard farm labor. At thai time he waa 
-.•t .it plowing and until the age "i twenty three 
In- worked faithfully and untiringly on his fath 
er'a homestead. Such education a- he acquired 
waa obtained iliirin^ tin' three months' winter 
term in th" did fashioned log school bouse with 
its accompanying conveniences. In 1855 became 
bj wa) of boat to this state on the "Polar Star" 
and Ian. If. I .it St. Joseph, near whioh city he tool: 
charge of a two-hundred acre farm, fifteen miles 
north in Andrew County. 

In that county itx the year l s .>7 occurred ili>' 
marriage of Mr. Sandusky ami Serelda Potter, 
who wa- born in Caldwell County, Bio., ami whose 
father, John Potter, was an early Bettler in this 
-tat.-. Our subject local.'. I on a farm of eighty 
in Lndrew County, which he purchased ami 
operated until tin- war. He then enlisted in the 
Ninth Ifissouri Cavalry, Company M. being mue 
tored in al St. Joseph ami campaigning in thin 
state under <it<n Odin Guitar. In 1864 he <li.l 
considerable skirmishing ami fighting an. I was 
captured at Glasgow by Shelbj of Price's Army, 
was paroled and Ben) to the barracks it St Louis 

ami afterward to Uacon City, where he remai I 

until th.. war closed, when he wa- discharged. ll«' 
thin returned t>> hi- farm, which In. -o.n Bold, and 
in tin. fall of 1865 engaged in th.' grocer) business 
at th.- inrinT of Sixth ami K.liuou.l st iv.-l-. St 
Joseph, for about eight years. II.- graduallj 
worked into tin. general produce business and was 
\.-n successful. 

In 1^7:1 Mr Sandusky located on Market Square 

and hain Hi-. I ;i- ,-t -| ialt) certain lines of fruit, 

particular!) apples Be now buys ami s.'lls from 
two hundred to two hundred ami fiftj oars of ap 
pies i Beason, Bhipping to various points in Mis 
aouri, K rasas ami Nebraska, doing all business 
from this office. II. ■ has in- men begin packing 
tlm fruit in August, ami hi- expert workers in that 
line, a- in order to have the fruit keep perfectl] it 
must l>" exceeding!) carefully dealt with. This 



firm al-.. deals extensive!) in eggs and I. utter, ..f 
tin- formet commodity Bending as man) a- twent) 

cars east in a season. They deal in potal in 

carload lots ami general farm produce, ben 
onion- ami various -mall fruit- Thej have large 
-al.- in all pari- ol the country ami are among 
the most enterprising firms in th.- count) The) 
occupy a brick Btore 20 by I I" ' • rtl M i 

lot Sipiar.-. which i- admirab!) titt.-.l in every wa) 

for their special lii f trade 

In L891 Mr. Sandusky started a general mei 
chandising Btore in Hamlin, Kan- . ami has placed 
a nephew in charge of it 11.- has erected a pleas 
ant residence at No T'Jn South Tenth -tret. Po 
litically h<> is a Democrat ami personall) heisver) 
popular, a- he i- of a jovial ami friendly disposi 
t i. in. being very fond <>f good jokos or flashi 
wit ami humor. 



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JOSEPB PORTEBGB1 BBis tbeoldesl active 
practicing attorney of St. Joseph ami has 
Berved for more years as Judge of the Cir 
ouil Court than an) other man in Bucbauan 
County. He is said to be tin- best posted attornej 

in tin' cit) in regard to ti listinotions in law. 

am! is justly considered a very impartial ami 
righteous judge Mi Qrubb was horn in Pike 
County, 111., Februar) :'.. 1833 His parents were 
Alfred and Eliza i (Porter) Qrubb, natives of 
Bedford •County, V*a., ami Pulaski County. Iw 
respectively. Hi- paternal grapdfather, Jacob 

Qrubb. was of Baalish descent, ami raised tobat 

extensive!) mi In- plantation iii Virginia Hi- ma 
t.-rnal grandfather, Joseph Porter, wa- i civi! en 
gineer and surveyor, who taught those branches, 
Judge 8. I> Cowan, of this city, being numbered 
among hi- pupils. 

Out subject's father followed agricultural pm 
-nit-, u.i- married in Virginia and removed to 

Kentucky, going west in a wagon in true pi ■ 

style in 1880 he took bis family to Illinois with 
teams, locating on nen land in Pike County. He 

was on.' of tin- pioneers and in 1882 took part in 

the Black Hawk War About eight years later be 
admitted to the bar ami praotiosd at Pittofield 



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For several years he was sheriff of the comity, and 
iu the winter of 1846—47 was a representative in 
tlic Legislature. He later served as County Judge 
for a number of years, having probate and civil 
business. He continued iu practice until 1867, 
when lie died at the age of sixty six. In polities 
In 1 was a Democrat, and both lie and his wife were 
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
The latter, who was the mother of twelve children, 
died in 1873. Seven of these are now living, our 
subject being the third in order of birth. By his 
first marriage Alfred Grubb had four children, two 
of whom are deceased. 

The school advantages of Judge Grubb were 
limited in his youth, but in later years this defi- 
ciency was amply atoned for. He lived on the 
homestead farm in Illinois until seventeen years of 
age, when he became a clerk in a country store 
and there continued for several years. In 1S53 he 
came to Weston, Mo., by boat and entered the 
service of D. & T. D. S. McDonnell, general mer- 
chants and dealers in produce. Fortius company 
lie was bookkeeper for a year. They were largely 
engaged in shipping hemp, and at that time Wes 
ton was the largest point for the shipment of this 
product in the world. Mr. Grubb was engaged 
in the general commission business in St. Louis 
during the following year. 

In 1855 Judge Grubb began reading law with 
ex-Governor Silas Woodson and the late Bela M. 
Hughes, of Denver, Colo. He was admitted to 
the bar iu the following year, and at once began 
the practice of his profession, being elected in 
I860 to the city attorneyship, to serve one year. 
Tlir following year he was appointed Circuit At- 
torney of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit, which then 
embraced the entire "Platte Purchase," and which 
now constitutes the Fourth Congressional District. 

II iutinued in the difficult position during the 

border troubles and until January 1, 1865. He 
then resumed his general practice, in 1868 being 
elected City Attorney for two years. In Novem- 
ber, 1S7'_\ Mr. Grubb was nominated Judge of 
the Circuit, on the De cratic ticket, to till an un- 
expired term, while holding this office having 
charge of the civil and criminal cases of Buchanan 
and DeKalb Counties. In 1871 he was reelected 



without opposition, but when he ran for the posi- 
tion in 1SN0 he was defeated by William H. Sher 
man. The successful candidate, however, soon 
died and Judge Grubb was again chosen to till the 
unexpired term, which he held until the end of 
188(5, when he declined further service. In 1869 
he revised the laws and ordinances of St. Joseph, 
and the'great assistance he lent toward strengthen 
ing the foundations of law and order in this dis 
trict by his numerous and practical suggestions, 
can scarcely be over estimated. 

In October, 1857, a marriage ceremony per- 
formed in St. Joseph united the destinies of Judge 
Grubb and Miss Cora A., daughter of Dr. Daniel 
G. Keedy, who was a prominent pioneer physician 
of this place. Two children grace the union of 
mir subject and wife, namely, Joseph and Cecelia 
K., wife of C. A. Taney, a wholesale dealer iu teas. 






If If O. SNOWDEN is one of the earliest 

|p^| settlers of the ''Platte Purchase" now 

1' living. He came here in 1821, when a 

T/ lad of only seven years, and grew up in 

Andrew County, eight miles north of St. Joseph 

In that, county he was afterwards assessor for 

about six years, and has ever used his best 

endeavors to promote the welfare and prosperity 

of this region. He is the owner of considerable 

valuable real estate in this city, iu addition to 

which he has a well improved farm. 

Mr. Snowden was born in Fairfield, End., April 
'.•. 1834, ami is a son of Benjamin and Elizabeth 
(Deakins) Snowden, the former a native of Ken 
tucky and the latter of Indiana. Grandfather 
Jacob Snowden was also a native Kentuckian, and 
was one of the pioneer farmers of Franklin. Ind. 
He participated in the Revolutionary War and was 
of Welsh descent. He lived to an advanced age, 
being nearly ninety years old at the time of his 
death. Benjamin Snowden was a Captain in the 
War of 1812. He was married in Indiana and 
had live children by that union. Two of these 
are now living, one in Kansas City, and the other 
in Indiana. His second marriage was with our 
subject's mother, by whom he had nine children. 



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Seveu survived, and their record ie as follows 
James, a soldier of the Mexican War and one oi 
the fort} ninera, operates a good farm in Andrew 
County; Francis ax., who went to Oalifomia in 
IS50, is now .1 resident of Silverton, Colo.; II. 
who went lo California in 1849, ia engaged 
in farming in Andrew County; Jonathan, a farmer 
in the same county, served in tin' Missouri 
Artillery, and went to California in 1850; our 
subject is nexi in order of birth; Martha lives in 

3 Joseph; and Perry, the j igest of the family, 

enlisted three times in the war and was honorabl) 
disoh irged each time. Ho lives mi a farm adjoin 
mil; liis brothers in Andrew County. 

Benjamin Snowden was a miller by trade and 
owned a large flour-mill at Fairfield, I tut. . which 
supplied with six burrs, Be was also an 
extensive farmer in Andrew County, Mo., and was 
considered the finest drill master in the state. In 
1M I lie lost liis property and with lii-. ten children 
came to the weat. They were six weeks on the 
wbj and camped onl at night The) crossed the 
M ssissippi at Quinoy, and when they arrived in 
Andrew Couut) they entered land. The father, 
who was a prominent Mason, died January 16, 
1801, and was buried with Masonic rites. Be was 
a xtrong supporter "f Lincoln and a Free Soil 
Republican. 

II 11 Snowden remained on the old homestead 
until the death of bis father. Be went three 
miles to an old log schoolhouse where the chance 
of obtaining an edncation was extremely limited. 
Be ia large!) Bel f- educated, and was u -indent ai 
Chaple Hill College in La Fayette County, Mo., 
for one year, tu I S 'V I he was appointed by the 
couut) court as assessor, and held the position 
during the war. or for six years At that time he 
knew about every man in iudrew County. In 
I860 b< tool the census of the district, after 

which I ugaged in building bridges, giving bis 

own bond I'ndei his supervision four large 
bridges were built, two across the One Hundred 
and Two river, one across 1 1 » . - Platte and one 
on Dillon creek. This task ocoupied two or three 

ami at the Bame ti he carried on his farm 

and -n Bsfull] engaged in stock raising. Be 

became the owner of a farm on One Hundred and 



Two river at ile exact -- 1 « - ■ t where In- fatbei 
sed 1 he 1 i\er in IM I 

In I80S Mr Snowden caiui to Si Joseph, tvhi re 
he made his borne for one year and then returned 

to the farm. In l^il In. .a more took up bis 

residence in this oity; and this has I □ his pel 

manent home up to the present time. For two 
war- he was on the police force, aftei which, for 
a lilve period of time, he wa a secret Bervioe man 
under Major Bai 1 wig. 

On the 20th of September, 1801, Mi Snowden 
wa- united in marriage to Miss Fr - ffivana, 

who was born in thi- OOUut) on her father's farm 

The following children grace this union: Cora, a 
graduate of the high Bchool and now principal of 
the Steinooker School of this oity; Ida. who 
graduated from the high school in the same class 
as her eldei Bister, and is now the wife of De 
G -I. a wholesale confectioner in Atchison, 
Kan : Bertie and Battie, graduates of the Si 
1 ■|'h Female Academy, the latter being the 
wife of Charles Sherwood, manager >>f the George 

( >. Richardson C pany ol St Joseph; and Trne, 

a student in the high Bchool, The plea-ant home 
of the famil) i- fiuely situated on the con 
Washington and Twent) fourth street- Tin' 
building was erected iu l ss < Mr. Snowden is a 
K' publican in polities. 

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C\i;i. \\ EIGEL Couspiouous alike foi thi 
extent and variet) ol its stock and the vol 
in I its transactions, the Wei gel & Roth 

Furniture Com pan] is one of the most pros 
perous and extensive of the commercial establish 
menta of St. Joseph. The Company enjoy nnanr 
passed facilities in ever) way for the prompt I 
efficient transaction of business in their line, and 

the house possesses the oonfidei »f the trade as 

a merited result of the uniforml) honorable meth 
ode by which ever) detail of the business lias 

l iharacterized from ii- 1 iptiou until the 

present time. The bnsini aducted 

perfect and accurate system, and its management 
1- in the hands of substantial and successful bnsi 
neaa men, to whosi ius methods it owes the 

prominence it has achiei 1 



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The President and Treasurer of this company is 
Carl Weigel, whose name is a very familiar one to 
the citizens of St. Joseph. He is a German by 
birth and parentage, and was born in Duerkheim, 
Bavaria. His parents, Carl and Caroline (Rebe- 
nack) Weigel, were also natives of that place and 
the father was for many years an officer in the 
Civil Service and Government Counselor. Carl is 
the third in a family of four children, and is the 
only one residing in America. He was born on 
January 28, 1844, and was reared to manhood in 
Germany, where he attended school. After hav- 
ing graduated from the Latin School, he entered 
the Polytechnic school at Karlsruhe and completed 
the course there. 

In 1804, setting sail on a vessel at Bremen, Mr. 
Weigel crossed the broad Atlantic and landed in 
New York, whence he came directly west to St. 
Louis. He secured a position as bookkeeper in a 
machine shop in that city, where he remained for 
two years. In 1806 he came to St. Joseph and 
engaged as bookkeeper for Louis Hox in his furni- 
ture establishment, where he remained for thirteen 
years. After occupying a clerical position for 
some years, he became interested in the business 
and for a time rilled the position of manager. 

The Weigel & Roth Furniture Company was 
organized in 1SS:S, with a capital stock of $30,000 
with Mr. Weigel as President, The establishment 
was first located on Third street, but in 1892 was 
removed to the present location at No. 214 210 
South Sixth street. The building is 4(1 by 100 feet 
in dimensions and six stories in height. In addi- 
tion to this, there is a warehouse 32 by 80, two 
stories in height, The main building is entirely 
used for retail display rooms and is fitted up with 
a complete line of goods. Mr. Weigel selects his 
stock in New York and other eastern points, and 
through his shrewd business judgment is enabled 
to buy at the lowest wholesale prices, which per- 
mits him to sell at prices lower than any of his 

i ipetitors. 

In St. Joseph in 1870 Carl Weigel was married 
lo Miss Mary L. Carolus, a native of New Jersey, 
who was reared in St. Joseph. Their family con- 
sists of five children: Carl. Jr., a graduate of the 
high school and Secretary of the Company ; Frank, 



head salesman for Weigel & Roth; Henry, who is 
an upholsterer; Oscar, who is a member of the St. 
Joseph Drug Company, and Eugene. Fraternally 
our subject is connected with the Knights of 
Pythias, of which organization he is Master Ex- 
chequer; the Knights of Honor, being Past Dicta 
tor of the lodge; the Woodmen of the World and 
the Order of Maccabees. In his political con nee 
tions he is a stanch Republican. 



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I yi F. WEYMANN, M. D., occupies the im 
yjf/\ portant Chair of Physiology and Oph- 
41 thalmology in the Ensworth Medical Col- 
v lege of St. Joseph. He is a practical 

oculist and aurist, making a specialty of those 
two important branches. The Doctor is a member 
of the Missouri Valley Medical Society, the Bu- 
chanan County Medical Society and the Council 
Bluffs Medical Association. His office is located 
at the corner of Seventh and Felix streets. He 
is a graduate of and has studied in some of the 
best medical colleges in this and foreign countries, 
and is a thorough and practical man in his special 
departments. 

Dr. Weymann was born in Saxony, Germany, 
near the town of Grimma, April 23, 1Sti:i, bis 
father, Jacob William, being a well-kuowu mer- 
chant of that place. He was united in marriage 
with E. Wilhelmina Wiesner, who was born in 
Burkartshain, Saxony. The Doctor received his 
education in his native tongue iu the common 
schools, and later entered the Gymnasium and 
graduated from that institution at the age of 
eighteen. Soon afterward he began the stud\ of 
medicine and entered the University of Leipsic, in 
the Medical Department. 

Pursuing his studies there until 1881, in Noveni 
ber of that year Dr. Weymann set out for the 
United States. After a a stormy voyage he ar 
rived at his destination and went direct to Mil- 
waukee, Wis., where he entered the Literary 
School of the German- American National College. 
graduating therefrom in 1SS3. In the fall of 
1SS1 he entered the Central College of Physicians 
and Surgeons of Indianapolis, where he pursued 



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Ins medical studies, graduating in 1 ^sT with the 
tor of Medicine and taking the fad 
ultj prize (gold medal) for the highest general av 
erage,hi8 average ninet) uine and seven elevenths 

being the highest ever known in the history of 
ili<' ins) itution 

Liter gradnaling from tin' Indianapolis Gollege 

Dr rVeymann t iluded to become a s| ialist, 

in Furtherance of which intention he went abroad 
for special research and Btndy, In Paris he con 
tinued hisstadies in the Boole de Medicine, taking 
two semesters in the Eye and Bar Department as 
h private strident of Prof, de Wecker. Returning 
to Lmerioa in INSS, tin- Doctor located in Oincin 
nati, Ohio, where he remained f< >r about a yeai 
ami then went to Council Bluffs, Iowa, where he 

was Professor of Languages in the high sol 1 for 

iwn years. At this time, however, he did not give 
u|> his profession but practiced, having certain 

office hours outside ol his bcI I duties. In June, 

1891, ,.nr --nl ij.M-t finally Imc.-iI.mI in St. Joseph, lip 
inj-J appointed to the iirof.---.ni--.liip mentioned 
above 

In 1886, while pursuing bis studies in Indian 
apolis, the Doctor was joined in wedlock with Miss 
Kmnia L Eteis, a native of Germdny. of this 
union has been born a little daughter, Flora, who 
is the joy and pride of her parents' home. The 
Doctor's practice is constant!} increasing and he 
has won f..r himself a truly enviable position 
among the large and enterprising circles of his 
professional brethren in this oitj 

JONATHAN l' CI STKK. who is superintend 
i-nt of the Buell Manufacturing Company of 
St Joseph, Buchanan County, understands 
his business thoroughly and is rapidly bring 
ing the woo Inn mills of tliis city t.. the front. 
This company is well known in the western states 
ami turns ..in a superior grade of woolen goods. 
They employ in the manufacturing department 
over one hundred and sixtj five bands, and the 
mill consumes annuall) over one million pounds 
of the raw material. Mr. Custer is an experienced 
buyer and is a clever designer of new patterns 



In 1888 the new mill was started and our robjecl 
drew the original plana which were then completed 
i'\ eastern architects ll- was superintendent for 

four years, when, on account ol | r health, be 

was obliged to j^i \ «• u|> bo arduous an emploj men! 
Prom 1885 to I s '.'! be simplj attended to buying 
the necessarj wool, there being no I •< *t i • ■ r judge of 
this article in the Btate. In the fall of 1891 be 
again assumed the Buperintendentahip of the 
company's manufactory, though be still continues 
to do t he buying. 

Our subject was bon ar Montrose, I < lountj . 

Iowa, Ma) '•'. 1846, and is a -on of -l L. and 

Orpha (Brown) Custer, both natives ol P isyl 

vania, the former of Fayette County. Bis paternal 
grandfather, Jonathan Ouster, was also born in 

the Keys! Btate, and was of English descent 

Be located in Highland County, Ohio, in the earlj 
days, ,iinl was ,-i Buooeasful farmer near Bills! 
Our subject's father was a natural genius ftiul 
mechanic AI Danville, Ohio, he was r.n aomi 
years engaged in the manufacture of plows 
Later in life lie removed to Decatur County, 
Iowa, where he entered and improve. 1 a farm, ami 
was anione/ the early settlers His next move was 
to Lee County, in the same state, where he carried 
on ii farm until 1848, then returning to Highland 
Count] where be was ..nee more employed in the 
manufacture of plows In 1854, again coming 
west, lie returned to Ins former occupation as a 
farmer in Van Buren County, Iowa He is now 
living at Bonaparte, Iowa, having reaohed his 
seventy third year, Be is a member of the Gei 
man Baptist Church. His wife, who died in l^ s -'.. 
waa a daughter of Richard Brown, of Pennsylvania, 

who was a farmer an. 1 one of the pioneer- of Lee 
Count] . Iowa. 

Jonathan B. Ouster is the a ml in a family of 

eight children, five ol whom are living. In Ins 
eighth year, with his parents, he became a 
resident of Iowa, and tor nine years lived on his 
father's farm, receiving only common district 
school advantages. Be afterward entered the 
Mount Pleasant Academy, where be pursued . 
course of study. In 1864 he branched out toi 
himaell and Boon obtained employ menl as a spinner 

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In the fall of 1805 Mr. Custer came to St. 
Joseph, entering the employ of Mr. Buell in his 
woolen factory as a linisher and sometimes acting 
as a clerk in the office. From 1881-83 he was 
superintendent of the old mill and so well did he 
manage things that he was given a like position 
when the new manufactory started. In 1 -S - *< » he 
built a pleasant home at the corner of North 
Second and Isabella Streets. The amiable hostess, 
whose maiden name was Martha McKown, became 
our subject's wife in St. Joseph in 1867. She 
was born in Buchanan County, and is a daughter 
of Jeremiah McKown, an early settler of this 
region. Two children, a son and daughter, were 
born to Mr. and Mrs. Custer: Charles E., who is 
employed by Richardson, Roberts, Byrne & Com- 
pany; and Dora, who lives in St. Joseph and is 
the wife of Harry Ellershaw. 

Socially Mr. Custer is a member of the Ancient 
Order of United Workmen, and also belongs to 
the National Union. He is a true blue Republican, 
and religiously is a member of the First Baptist 
Church. He possesses many sterling qualities 
and well merits the esteem of his fellow men. 

If I L. McDONALD. Among the prominent 
n"""! and enterprising young business men of 
JL St. Joseph is this gentleman, who is presi 
t/ dent of the McDonald Hardware Company. 

This firm deals in light and heavy hardware, farm- 
ers' tools and general supplies, their place of busi 
ness being located at No. 106 Fourth street, 
where they have a three story building, 20 by 12i> 
feel in dimensions. The company was started in 
February, 1888, by W. McDonald, now of St. 
Louis, and by W. O. and E. R. McDonald, who 
are both now deceased. The company was incor- 
porated with a capital stock of $10,000, and for 
the past live years has carried on an extensive and 
lucrative trade. Our subject comes rightly by the 
taste for the business in which he is engaged, as 
his grandfather was a machinist and hardware 
man in Philadelphia, in which city, E. R., our 
subject's father, was also in the same trade. 

Mr. McDonald, who is a native son of St 



Joseph, was born October 26, 1869, and is a son ol 
E. R. and Mary B. (Reed) McDonald. Our sub- 
ject's paternal grandfather, Aaron McDonald, who 
was born in Philadelphia, Pa., was the first hard 
ware merchant in the Quaker City. He came to 
St. Joseph about 1804, being connected with the 
Kansas City shops. E. R. was also a hardware 
man in Philadelphia, in the company of Rus-ell 
& Irwin. He was married in the Quaker City, 
and in 1864 engaged in the hardware business in 
St. Joseph. He was a member of the firm of Will 
iam M. Wyeth & Company until 1880. This con 
cern then dissolved partnership, and he helped to 
form a corporation known as the Wyeth Hardware 
& Manufacturing Company, of which he was Sec 
retary and Treasurer. This became one of the 
leading houses in the West, but Mr. McDonald's 
death occurred only a few months after it was 
started. He was an active member and deacon in 
the Baptist Church. Mrs. McDonald, who is still 
living in St. Joseph, is the daughter of Joseph A. 
Reed, who was a pattern-maker and of English 

descent. 

Our subject is the fourth in a family of live 
children. W. O. was Vice-president of the Mc 
Donald Hardware Company until his death, in 
1891. E. It., Jr., was Secretary and Treasurer of 
the s;ime company until he was called from this 
life, in 1892. Mamie is the wife of Rev. W. 1. 
Cole, Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Lex 
ington, Mo., and A. L., the youngest of the 
family, is Secretary and Treasurer of the company 
in which our subject is President. The youth of 
the latter was passed in this city, where lie attended 
the public and high schools. In 1887 he entered 
the employ of the Wyeth Hardware Companj as 
an order clerk and was gradually promoted until 
he became clerk in the buyer's office. In Febru 
ary, 1893, in company with his brother A. L., 
he became the proprietor of the McDonald Hard 
ware Company, which is one of the largest con 
Corns of the kind in the West. 

The responsibilities of life have early fallen 
upon the shoulders of Mr. McDonald, lint he has 
already shown himself to be thoroughly capable of 
discharging his duties in a manner worthy of a 
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naidered bj all who have bad dealings with 
him to be a young man of great commercial prom 

- he possesses a level head, ^.>.>il judgment 
and executive talent Be is in politico a firm 
iiinl loyal supporter "f the Republican partj 



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GHRISTl \N F. MEYER, ol St Joseph, 
Bachanan County, where he baa made liis 
home since 1860, is Secretary "f the Retail 
Merchants' , Protective Association, which 

organized in October, 1889. He has I i :i 

witness of miit-li of tin' development of tins city 
anil in the earl] days engaged in freighting across 
tin' |iljiin> On his arrival here, there were bridges 
mi Edmond and ESighth straws acn^s Smith 
Greek, which is now a paved Btreet anil there was 
also a mill on tli»> corner of Felix ami Eighth 
\1i Meyer has long been nnmbered as 

"i f tin' enterprising business men "f this 

place. 

Mr. Meyer was born June '-', 1840, in Wesl 
plialia, Prussia Hi-- father, Henry John, was 
bom in the same house in the village near Min 
den, as were his son ami father, Henrj John, Sr. 
Our subject's great-grandfather, Anton ius Meyer, 
erected this structure in 1577, ami >■■ substantially 
was it imilt that it is still in a good Btateof pree 
ervation ami is now owned by Henrj J., a brother 
of Christian 1''. The Meyer family for a number 
• if generations were s.,Mi<-rs in the Prussian Army. 
Grandfathei Meyer, who wa- a farmer, lived to the 
age of eighty four years. Henry John, Jr., who 
operated a farm on the banks of the river Weser, 
died when forty two years of age in the faith ■>! 
tin' Lutheran Church. His wife, Bllen, daughter 
< ■ f Charles Shackle, was born in tin' -ami' locality. 
Her father was a farmer ami a merchant He was 
in tin- German service, went on the march I" 
Russia, and took part in the battle of Waterloo. 
Mi- Bllen Meyer died March L 1889. Her eight 

children an' all living and thrt f tin' number are 

located in America. 

Reared on a farm, Mr. Meyer became a sturdy 
youth of fine physique ami good constitution He 
learned t>> Bwim in the neighboring river ami was 



loeallj noted for tin- part he t'».k in athletic 

s|i..rts. He received a g I education and waa a 

Btudenl in tin' gymnasium f"i Borne time In 
1 860 he concluded to trj hi- fortune in the N«« 
World, and on the 15th "f August Bailed from 
Bremen on the "Goethe." The voyage was a 
severe one, storms ami contrary winds impeding 
their progress, and when they finallj arrived in 
Ni'\\ York city, thej had been nine weeks ami 
three days on the way Mr. Meyer ;it once pro 

oeeded to Indianapolis ami booe obtai I a place 

mi a farm at the munificent Balarj "f $13 a month. 
After Learning English, going i" si-hi.nl for on< 
winter, In- taught in an English ami German 
Bchool in Hancock Count] f"i -i\ months. I.'' 
turning t" Indianapolis, In' olerked in a grocer] 
Btore until tin' fall of 1864. In tin' Bpringof 
1865 in' returned t" the Fatherland on a visit ami 
pleasantly Bpent tlm next six months. 

In the spring of 1866 Mr Meyer arrived in Si 
Joseph. After staying here a month, be went t" 
Nebraska City, where he worked a few weeks in a 
mill. Preferring St. Joseph, he returned, and as 
In- could get nothing else to do, he worked in a 
brick-yard until July 6, 1866. In company with 
ten young men In' then Btarted with ..\ teams 
across tlm plains to Fort Sedgewick, Colo., in the 
employ of the Government. On his arrival there, 
In' w as made t ranspoi tation clerk for near!] a \ ear 
Then going t" Fort Laramie, Wyo . he was con 
nected with the commissar] department until tin' 
end of 1 sCi 7 . 

Once more returning to St Joseph, Mr. Meyei 
took a business course in Bryant's Commercial 
College ami in the fall obtained employment with 
the wholesale grocery bouse ol ('. I' Smith, with 
whom he continued for three years. In I — • T 1 be 
engaged in teaming, starting with a two wheeled 
draj ami finall] running four truck wagons \' 
this business he made considerable mone] ami 
therefore worked .-it it until 1884, when be sold out 
ami purchased a farm "f 1 * v< ► acres, nine miles 
south nf this city, in Andrew Connty. Aftei 
carrying mm this place for three .\ ears, In- embarked 

in llir gr ry businees on Tenth Btreet St 

h. ami ran that establishment for three 
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to forwarding the interests of the Retail Mer- 
chants' Protective Association and to his efforts is 
mainly due its success. Mr. Meyer is agent for 
the Nassau Investment Company of Council Bluffs, 
Iowa. 

In the spring of 1892 our subject was nominated 
and elected on the Republican ticket to the City 
Council from the Second Ward. He is one of the 
committee on public buildings and is President of 
the Board of Health. He is a member of the Ger- 
man Evangelical Church, was Treasurer for four- 
teen years, Trustee for seventeen years, and was 
Chairman of the building committee. The church 
to which he belongs is owner of the' Ashland 
Cemetery and Mr. Meyer is Treasurer of the Asso- 
ciation. He is a member of St. Joseph Lodge, 
No. 78, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and 
(if St. Joseph Chapter, No. 14, Royal Arch Masons. 
He is Secretary of the board of trustees of King 
Hill Lodge, No. 19, Independent Order of Odd 
Fellows. 

The home of Mr. Meyer is at No. 1 1 10 Powell 
street. He was married here in 1871 to Miss Mag 
dalena Schneider, a native of Canton Berne, 
Switzerland. When she was a child of seven 
years she came to America with her parents. Our 
subject and wife are the parents of six children, 
as follows: Fred J., who is in the employ of the 
Wyeth Hardware Co. ; Edward Charles, a clerk 
for the Burgess, Frazier Hardware Co. ; Oscar O. , 
who died at the age of fifteen years; Annie, who 
lives at home; Paul, now attending school at 
Indianapolis; and Frieda. 



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ILL M. SHIRLEY comes from an old 
Virginia family. His parents were For 
lunatus and Elizabeth (Brother) Shirley. 
He is a Kentuckian by birth and eduoa 
tion. In 1879 he moved to St. Joseph, where he 
lias since been engaged in the printing industry. 
Mr. Shirley is an experienced printer, having 
been in the business fifteen years. He began at 
the lowest round of the ladder and is thoroughly 
conversant with every part of the art (if printing. 



He is senior member of the firm of Will M. Shirley 
& Brother, commercial job printers, Nos. 014 and 
010 Edmond St. They do the finest and most 
artistic work of the kind in the city, giving special 
attention to copper-plate engraving and printing 
to half-tone illustrations, etchings, color printing, 
commercial stationery, catalogues and pamphlets. 
The office is abundantly supplied with type faces 
and labor-saving appliances, and well equipped 
with modern machinery, run by electricity. These 
advantages, combined with Mr. Shirley's knowl 
edge and experience and his prompt filling of 
orders, cause a constantly increasing demand for 
the high grade of work done at his office. 

Mr. Shirley is an enthusiastic military man. In 
April, 1893, lie was elected Captain of Company F, 
Fourth Regiment, National Guard of Missouri. 
This company is one of the oldest in the regiment. 
Mr. Shirley was the leadiug promoter of the well 
known Wickham Rifles, which company was or 
ganized in August, 1891. He was made Sergeant 
and held that rank until his election as Captain of 
Company F. In October, 1892, he was one of the 
detail from the Wickham Rifles to go with Com 
pany H, of the Fifth Provisional Regiment, 
National Guards of Missouri, to take part in 
tin- dedicatory ceremonies of the World's Fair 
at Chicago. 

In politics Mr. Shirley is an ardent Democrat 
and is a member of the famous Jefferson Club. 

He is active in philanthropic work and is n g 

nized as a most useful and popular citizen. 



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dj A. GORE, M. D., is one of the oldest prac- 
ticing physicians of St. Joseph, to which city 
/ he came in 1801. His birth occurred in 
Nelson County, Ky., November 27, 1823. 
His father, the Hon. Henry Gore, was a member 
of an old Virginia family, was born in the Old Do 
minion, and when a boy removed to Kentucky with 
his father. Jonathan Gore, who became a planter 
in Nelson County, Ky. Our subject's father was 
also owner of largo plantations and a prominent 
public man, being Sheriff for over twenty five 





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s, and for two terms a member of the Kentucky 
31 ite Legislature Be waa State Benator for one 
term and died in Kentucky at 1 1 1 • - age of seventy 

He sjaa ;i «l-\...t«-.l in' nii.fi "f tin' 
Baptist Church and a man whose 1 i f * - was in nil re 

Bpeets worth] of oommendation. The ther of 

..in subject, who waa born in Virginia, waa in hei 

maiden] 1 Miss Ann Qlasw I>. Her parents 

removed to Kentucky, where her girlhood was 
passed and her education acquired. 

In a family of nine children, of whom five 
liviog, Dr, Gore i- the fifth in order of birth. Hit* 
boy hood day - were passed in lii- native state on lii* 
father's farm, where he received a common school 
education. Possessed of an active and intelligent 
mind, he pursued 1 1 i — ■ studies with seal and olose 
attention, determining early to adopt the medical 
profession. When only eighteen years he com 
menced hi- -indies under the direction of I'r tier 
rilielil and Dr. Bemiss, of Bloomfield, and in the 
winter of 1848 14 took one term at the Louisville 

Medical College. He it w began praol re 

Biding in Kentucky until l s l">, when he concluded 
to ^< farther west as the field "f liis future labors. 

Locating at l'aris, Monroe County, Mo., Dr. 
( I. ire engaged in practice in that neighborhood fur 
a Dumber of years and in 1854 removed to Gentry 
ville. where he remained until 1861. His labors 
in lhi> new field were extremely arduous, as he was 
obliged in ride eight ami day over a district of 
about ninetj miles. His practice was extremely 
large, a- there were few physicians in this portion 
nf the west, and he was sometimes even called into 
luwa. During the war be waa the only doctor who 

bad the courage to rid it after night, and did 

the principal Burgery in this portion of the country 
in those early day - 

In Paris, Mo. , the Doctor was united in marriage, 
in 1848, to Miss Oerelda Vaughn, who was born in 
Madison County, Ky., and by her marriage has 

I the mother Of three children: Tin Unas, 

Walter ().. a train dispatcher at Topeka, in the 
service of the Rock Island Railroad, and Annie, 
who is now M'- John Brady of Omaha. Our sub 
jeel was a member of the State Medical Society 
fur many years, and fur three terms was Health 

< officer iii Si Joseph Be is b member of the An 

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oient Free and Accepted Masons and of the Chris 
tian Church Politically he is a Democrat, and 
professionally is cumbered among the leading phy 
Bicians of St Joseph 

G\ I • I JAMES II l>A\ IS, as a linn r in a 
new country, baa literally seen ihe wilder 
in---, blossom a H the rose, for in bis recol 

lection he has watched tin- wi-t state 

develop from a wild prairie, where Bavage beasta 

and Indian-, a thousand time- more dangerous 
than any animal, roamed, into the great Common 
wealth of to day. 

Cap! Davis was the son of William Davie, who 
was horn in Montgomery County, Ky., August B, 
IT'.is. He in turn was the son of John l> Davis, 
a native of the north of Wales, who, after coming 
to America, fought as a soldier under Washington 
After residing for Borne time In Virginia he went 
to Kentucky about 1797, win-re hi- decease 

-iirred. The mother of our subject, who. prior 

to her marriage was known as Miss Annie Smith. 

had her birth in Clark County, Ky., in I s " 1 Her 

father, who bore the name of William Smith, was 
likewise a native of the Blue Grass Slate and a 

farmer by occupation. 

The parent- of our Bubjecl were residing in 
Montgomery County, Ky., when the father was 
killed by lightning in 1829. Mrs Davis again 

married, her second husband being William 
Nelson, she became the mother nf eight children 

bj ihis union and died in that OOUUtj in 1868, 

Capt. .lames II. Davis was ..lie in a family of 
-i\ children, thr if wl are living. His birth 

occurred August 22, 1821, in Montgomery County, 

Ky . where he was reared to usefulness "ii his 

father's farm, alternating the work thereon by 

attendai at the subscription bo] I He re 

mained under the parental i""f until reaching bis 

ninetieth year, when he left I ie ami learned the 

business of a wool carder, which occupation wa- 
in- fur thirty yean and in which trade he became 

ail e\|iert 

lingual 1 :!. 1850, Ca|it Davis was united in 



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marriage to Miss Lucinda White, who was born in 
tbe same county in Kentucky. Mrs. Davis was 
the daughter of Thomas and Polly (Jones) Wliite, 
likewise natives of the Blue Grass State. Her 
paternal grandparents were John and Grace 
(Roberts) White, while on her mother's side she 
was descended from Joseph and Lucy (Foster) 
Jones, natives of North Carolina. Thomas White 
followed the occupation of a farmer in his native 
county, where he resided until his decease. His 
wife later came to this state, where she passed 
away June 3, 1881, at the age of eighty years. 

Mrs. Davis, who was one in a family of seven 
children, was born June 4, 1823. After her mar- 
riage she removed to this state with our subject in 
1851, and located upon the farm which is their 
present beautiful estate. It was then in its primi- 
tive condition, and the work of clearing and 
improving it fell to the lot of our subject, who set 
himself industriously and cheerfully to the task. 
His property, which in that early day comprised 
one hundred and thirty two acres, has been added 
to from time to time until now Mr. Davis is the 
proud possessor of two hundred and thirty two 
broad and fertile acres, from the proper cultiva 
tion of which he reaps handsome returns. In 
1882 he added to the value of the place by erect- 
ing thereon a commodious residence, which cost 
$2,500, and which is a model of neatness and 
comfort. He carried on farming and t lie raising 
of much grain, besides devoting considerable 
attention to the breeding of good grades of stock. 

In ISO'.! Mr. Davis organized a company of 
militia, of which he was made Captain, and which 
was first known as Company K, Twenty-fifth 
Mounted Infantry, but later consolidated into the 
Eighty-first Mounted Infantry. Our subject 
served until the close of the war, rendering 
efficient service under Col. Williams and Gen. 
Fiske as a scout, and was the last man to be dis- 
charged in the county. 

Of the four children born to our subject and to 
his estimable wife only one is living, Annie, Mrs. 
George Galbroath of Atchison, Ivans. She was 
given an excellent education, being a graduate of 
the St. Joseph High School and a student at 
Camden Point. Capt. Davis takes an active 



interest in politics, voting the Democratic ticket. 
In 1804 he was that party's candidate for Sheriff 
and was defeated by a very small majority. He is 
prominent in Masonic circles, being connected 
with Blue Lodge, No. 22, at De Kail). With his 
wife he is a member of the Christian church, and 
is a man whose habits and character are above 
reproach. 

li ¥ ATHON G. GETCHELL, the gentleman 

tp^l whose name heads this sketch, is a promi- 
1] nent and influential business man in St 
f/ Joseph, Mo.; he is the senior member of 

the lirm of H. G. Getchell & Co., street paving 
contractors; also Vice-president of the St. Joseph 
Paint it Roofing Co.; he is also interested in the 
insurance business, in the form of life and acci- 
dent; lie is a member of the St. Joseph Board of 
Education, Director and Secretary of the St. Jo- 
seph Free Public Library; ho is also Secretary and 
General Manager of the Empire Loan" Association, 
which has a capital of $1,000,000; he is also the 
inventor and patentee of what is known as " Get- 
chell's Composite Pavement," which is being ex 
tensively used for street paving in this section of 
the country. 

Mr. Getchell was born August, 185a, in Bath, 
Me. His father was a native of New Brunswick 
and a member of the old American family who 
emigrated to Maine in an early day. The grand 
father of our subject, Capt. Getchell, was a ship- 
builder in New Brunswick and brought his son. 
our subject's father, up in a knowledge of the same 
trade. There he followed his chosen vocation un- 
til the family moved to Bath, Me., after which he 
engaged in ship building until 1858. At this 
period he moved to New Orleans, La., where he 
purchased a market house and later rented it that 
he might engage in contracting ami building. He 
sneceeded in escaping the Confederate A run at 
the time the Civil War broke out, but when (ien 
Butler went through Louisiana this patriotic 
young man joined this branch of the northern 
army and was given a position on the stall' as Cap 
tain, where be remained until the close of the 
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Alter bis retain li the father of "iir Bubject 

i tinned in contracting till he went to Cincinnati, 

Ohio, when In- now resides, engaged in steamboat 
in;; an. I boose roofing The Bite "f his residence 

- Walnut Hill. 

'I'lif mother "f our subject, whose name was 
Betsy, was born in Maine, where Bhe was married 
nu«l reared two bora, Bathon, onr Bnbject, who 
was two years old when his mother died, and M. 
EL, who i- tin. Assistant Superintendent of Build- 
ing "f Kansas ( ily, M . 

Bathon Qetchell was reared ami edncated prin 
oipally in tlic city, attending tin- high schools and 
supplementing this bj taking a course at Grundy's 
Business College. IF. acquired a knowledge of 
tin- roofing business, ami when he had reached liis 
majority his fattier took him in partnership ander 
the firm name "f Z Qetchell & Son. In I NTs In. 
located in Memphis, Tenn., where he engaged in 
roofing. When the yellow fever came in all its 
fury, sweeping thousands of lives into eternity, he 

was for 1 to remain in tl itj for some time 

\- -.'.>n as an opportunity presented itself he made 
his escape with twenty live others, leaving the oitj 
by way of the Oohoma refuge slpniiier, which was 
cut loose up the liver. By flagging the tram mi 
the Ir..n Mountain Bail road this hand of twenty 
six came t.> St Louis, hut as soon as the police 
were notified they searched the entire citv for 
them, hiit our subject was crafty and so evaded the 
law and made his nay to Cincinnati, 

After the fever was over Mr. Qetchell returned 

t.. Memphis, where he contii 1 in his former 

business till l^M. when he came to St. Joseph anil 
.'•■■I with the Si Joseph Qas Company, sell 

ing their product In 1885 he fori 1 the st 

Joseph Roofing Company, in partnership with C 
II N ' i - 1 1 . and remained in COmpanj with this gen 
tleman fur two yean, after which he worked as 

overseer in the St. Joseph Grading and Paving 

Association. About two years later he fori l the 

at lirm of Qetchell a Company, his partner 
being Mi l \I Borneo, .1 r This company i 
u'.iu'cd in all kinds of street paving, ami since 1802 
has been known as the si Joseph Roofing Com 
pany, of which our snl.ji.ct is 9*ice president and 
Manager. In December <>f 1891 he was instm 



mental in organizing tin- Empire Loan Company, 
having a capital of $1,000,000. Mr Qetchell was 
the Genera] Manager of this company during the 

lirsl year, and since ,1m f 1892 he has I n 

Qeneral Manager and Secretary. 

February 10, 1880, ..ur subject was united in 
marriage !•• Miss Minnie, daughter of Hon 

Thomas I,. Whetstone. e\ Slate Senator of Ohio, 

ei Representative, ami a prominent politician of 
Cincinnati. He was also a pioneer of the Buck 

eye state. Mrs. Qetchell was horn in Cincinnati, 
<>hi... in the year 1866, and bore her husband four 
children, namely: Sadie I,., Fanny \\ '., Clarence 
H and H. (1., .Ir. Mr. Qetchell was ..iieuf the 

first to agitate the institution of the free libraries, 
ami was secretary for three year- He i- a charter 
member of the Moila Temple Post of Illinois, also 
has a membership of the Misba Lodge at Memphis. 
Tenn. He is president of the Blaine Club at St 
Joseph, the largest pol it ical club in Missouri. Tin. 
Commercial and Benton Clubs claim him as an in 
fluential and prominent member. 

In religious affairs the gentleman of whom we 
write is a zealous worker in the Methodist Bpisoo 
pal Church. Politically he is a stanch Republican 

ami has I n sent to every st at .• c. .n viMit ion. In 

1889 he was appointed Internal Revenue Collector, 
I. iii after eighteen months' service in this line be 
resigned in order to engage in more profitable 
business 

G VIM'S SAXTON. One of the good farmers 
in the fertile Township of Washington is 
the subject of our sketch, who is residing 
imi Section 28. His tine property of two 
hundred ami fort] acres shows to the stranger tin' 
effect ..f sensible management and good farming 
He is not led away bj any foolish notions, l.ut 
keeps straight on and i.aises crops of wheat and 
corn that cannot fad t" prove that In- understands 
hi- business 

lame- .1 Sax ton, the father of our BUbject, wa- 

i.oin April s , 1786, In Vermont, and was the son 
of \aion Sazton, also a native of the Green Moun 

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tion and during the War of 1812 was a soldier in 
the ranks. Rosetta (Schellhous) Saxton, the 
mother of our subject, was the daughter of Martin 
Scliellbous, who came from his native Holland to 
Vermont when only six years of age. He was 
likewise a cultivator of the soil and was well edu- 
cated. Mrs. Saxtou was born October 12, 1792, 
and received all the advantages for obtaining an 
education which the primitive schools near he r 
home furnished. 

The elder Mr. and Mrs. Saxtou were married in 
Vermont in ISO? and six years later came west as 
far as Ohio where they located in Lorain County 
This was during the early days in the history of 
that state and Mr. and Mrs. Saxton passed 
through many hardships and privations in thus 
opening up a new farm. The mother still lives at 
the advanced age of one hundred years and it is 
very interesting to hear her relate the thrilling 
scenes of those early days in which she and her 
husband were the prominent characters. During 
t In battle of Lake Erie she could hear the booming 
of the cannon eighteen miles away. She is a most 
lovable Christian lady and is a member of the 
Seventh Day Advent ist Church. 

In 1834 the parents of our subject moved to 
Cleveland, Ohio, and six years later again took up 
the march westward, their destination beintr Ra- 
cine County, Wis. There Mr. Saxton died in 1856. 
In early life an Old Line Whig, he later joined 
the ranks of the Republicans, and while a resident 
of Lorain County was elected by that party to tie- 
office of Sheriff. Of the large family of eleven 
children born to Mr. and Mrs. James Saxton, only 
four are living, viz.: James, who makes his home 
in Buchanan County; Aurilla, now Mrs. J. An 
drews, who lives in Andrew County; Mary A. 
Kirbey. residing in St. Joseph, and our subject. 

He of whom we write was born February 0, 
1834, in Lorain County, Ohio. He pursued his 
studies in the little old log schoolhouse of his dis 
tricl and remained under the parental roof until 
the death of his father. Then, in L856, he was 
married to Mahala C. Fisher. Mrs. Saxton was 
the daughter of Josiah and Caroline (Clark) 
Fisher, natives respectively of Vermont and Massa 
ehuselts. The father, who was a carpenter by 



trade, came west to Wapaca County, Wis., in 1854, 
where he plied his calling until 1SS1, the year of 
his decease. Mrs. Caroline Fisher dying in 1839, 
the father of Mrs. Saxton was married to Emily 
Williams, who is also deceased, and by whom he 
became the parent of five children. In early life a 
member of the Christian Church, with which body 
his wife was also identified, Mr. Fisher later joined 
i lie Seventh Day Adventists, in the faith of which 
religion he died. 

Mrs. Saxton, who was one in a family of four 
children, was born March 20, 1834,rn Chautauqua 
County, N. Y. when- her parents were married and 
where her father held the office of Town Clerk. 
In addition to following the trade of carpenter he 
taught school for many years and at one time held 
the responsible position of County Superintendent. 

To our subject and his estimable wife have been 
born a son, Elwin F., who resides at home. Onr 
subject, who removed to Kansas in 1859, located 
on a farm in Dauphin County, and on coming to 
Buchanan County in 1876 purchased the two hun- 
dred and forty acres where he has made his per 
manent home. In addition to this valuable piece 
of property he is the pjssessor of fifty acres mi 
the Platte in this county. In religious affairs both 
Mr. and Mrs. Saxton are Seventh Day Adventists. 
and socially our subject is a member of the A. H. 
T. A. In politics he votes the straight Republican 
ticket. 

Albe M. Saxton, the deceased brother of our sub 
ject, was born February 12, 1821, in Lorain 
County, Ohio. In addition to attending the dis 
trict school he took a course of instruction in the 
Commercial College at St. Louis. He began for 
himself at the early age of fourteen years, engag 
ing as clerk in one of the stores of Cleveland. In 
1842 he was similarly employed In St. Louis, and 
two years later, coming to this state, began clerk 
ing for Middleton & Perry. After a twelvemonth 
thus spent young Saxton came to St. Joseph and 
launched out in the grocery business on a small 
.scale. Being very successful in this enterprise, 
he soon developed an excellent business, and tak- 
ing into partnership one Mr. Donnell. the firm 
being known as Donnell tV Saxton, they enlarged 
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Btook of drj g la, During the gold excitement 

tfessrs Donnell & Saxton owned and operated the 
steamers "Omaha" and " Silverheels," trading 
extensively between St Joe and St. Louie 

In ls.v.1 the above firm disposed of their genera] 
merchandising business and opened the tir-t bank 
in St. Joseph, which was known as the State 
Savings Bank. This was later merged into the 
Saxton National Bank, of which Mr. Saxton waa 
made President, holding the position until In-* 
death. In 1857 he was married to Mi-- Emma 
Flint (net Donovan), a sister "f Col John 
Donovan The) were devoted members of the 
Episcopal Church and moved in the best cirolea "f 
iv ill the city. In polities Mr Saxton wa- a 
Democrat He was a liberal contributor to every 
worth] cause, and in his death, which occurred 
■I u 1 1 « ■ *J 7 . 1889, St .1. seph iosl one "f its wealthiest 
ami moat valued citizens 

I I KNKY L ELMENDORF i- theCit) Libra 
p-H rian in the St. Joseph Public Library, to 
1 which ]>■ >sit i»m he W8S elected in .Inly. 
< 1892, b) tli'' Board <>f the institution. 

This library, which is aituated on tin- tirst floor 
with reading rooms on the floor above, is in the 
building at tin- corner of Tenth ami Sylvauie 
Btreeta There an- about nine thousand books, 
and the annual circulation is about one hundred 
thousand. 

Mr. Elmendorf was born in the citj "f Brook 
lyn, N ^ . October I 11 . 1852, ami is a sou "f the 
Hen Antli.'iiy Blmendorf, who was ,i graduate of 
tin' Rutgers College at New Brunswick, N l . 

from which he i ived the degrees of Bachelor "f 

Arts and Blaster of Arts. He also was graduated 
from the Theological Seminar] "f tin' same place, 
ami entered the ministry "f the Reformed Church 
He had charge -f churches at Hurley, N 5 
Hyde Park, N. Y , and for about (went) years 
was located in Brooklyn, where hi- death occurred 
at the age of fiftj three years, He was a native 
of Kingston, DUter County, N Y . and a - 
M in Blmendorf, likewise a native ol Dlster 
County, and .d direct descent from some Holland 



ii lenot refugees, who went from a place near 
St Remi, Prance, to Holland, settling near Elmen 
dorf, which name was given to them, and latai re 
moved to the United States Phe grandfather of 
our subject was a mechanic ami blacksmith, bav 
ing a large ahop He was a participant in the 
War of the Revolution. The mother of our sub- 
ject, who was horn in New Brunswick, N. J., bore 

the maiden nan f Sarah Clink Her father, 

Mahlon. who was also of New Jersey, was ,i -on 
of John, who ran the old stage line between New 

York ami Philadelphia in tl arly part of this 

oentnr] He was of English origin. Mrs. Elmen 
dorf was the mother of ten children, only three of 
whom are now living. Our Bubjeol is the seventh 

child and son ,,f thi- number, and wa- reared in 
Brooklyn ami New Brunswick, N i . remaining 
in the former city until his thirteenth year. His 
education was acquired ill the Polytechnic In>ti 

lute of Brooklyn. 

In 1872 Henry Blmendorf branched out for 
himself in business and for about live years was 

located in New York city, carrying insure lines. 

He traveled for a uumber of years representing 
the tii in of Janewaj & Company, manufacturers of 
wall paper. In tin- he continued until he hi' 
came Assistant Librarian for Gardner Sage at 
New Brunswick, in 1881, which position he 
held for about one year. Hi- next venture 
was to trj his fortunes in the west, ami local 
ing in Iowa he was engaged in the real estate 
business for some three years in Corning In 
1 ss > I he finall) came to St. Joseph ami wa- travel 
ing representative of the iron and hardware busi 
nese belonging to .1. H. Robiuson After travel 

mt,' for that house for three years he I ante a 

clerk in the auditor's oflu f the Burlington ->- 

tern, which place he retained until elected to bis 
pie-' nl position. He is a member of the First 
Presbyterian Church ami i- public-spirited and 
well thought of. He thorough!) understands 
everything pertaining to hi- branch of the work 
.iml ha- shown himself to !"■ »erj efficient Hi 
pleasant and accommodating to those who avail 
themselves of the library privilege?, though at the 
same time he keep- a watchful e\e over tie h. oka 
ami proper!) belonging <■■ the city 



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d(OHN CORBY, deceased, of St. Joseph, was 
Mayor of the city and many times a member 
' of the Council, in both of which positions he 
not ouly gave entire satisfaction to his con- 
stituents, but at the same time advanced the lust 
interests of this locality. In his public position 
he brought to bear the same wisdom, sagacity and 
honesty which in private life made him respected, 
honored and successful. 

The gentleman of whom we write was born in 
the city of Limerick, Ireland, on June 24, 1808. 
He was the second child and oldest son in a family 
of ten children whose parents were John and 
Bridget (Shehau) Corby, who in 1820 with their 
family emigrated to America and settled on a 
farm in Beaver County, Pa., where our subject 
remained only a few years, and then starting out 
in the world to find an honest means of obtaining 
a livelihood. His industrious and frugal habits 
soon enabled him to become an employer instead 
of being employed, and in a few years we find him 
a contractor on the Baltimore & Washington Rail 
way, one of the first railroads built in the country. 
He afterward took and carried out large contracts 
on the Pittsburg & Erie Canal, on the Grand 
Slack Water Navigation project for Lickiug river, 
Ky., on the Madison & Indianapolis Railroad, and 
also contracts for railroad pike and levees in Ohio, 
Kentucky, Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana. 

During a trip to the west Mr. Corby arrived in 
St. Joseph in October, 1843, and with wise fore- 
sight felt assured from the first that this would 
become a commercial city of note. It was then a 
mere trading post, but with keen judgment he 
read the future in store for it and purchased a 
Dumber of lots from Joseph Robidoux. In the 
following spring he brought out a large stock of 
goods, commenced merchandising and erected the 
fust brick house in the town. For a number of 
years he carried on the largest retail business in 
the vicinity, investing his profits in real-estate 
which have ever proved remunerative. In 1857 
he retired from the dry goods trade, opening a 
banking house, in which line of business he con- 
t iniied until his death. 

Mr. Corby w.is one of the originators of the 
Hannibal \. St. Joseph Railroad, taking an active 



part in securing its charter and franchises; also, 
in order to determine the best route for the road, 
he made several carriage and horseback trips 
across the state. He was one of the lirst directors, 
which position he resigned to become a contractor, 
and as such constructed twenty-five miles of the 
road. The Roseport & Maryville or Palmetta 
Railroad Company was organized in 1S57, with 
Gen. Jeff Thompson as President, and John Corby 
as Vice president. 

Later our subject became the President of the 
company, and under his administration it was con 
solidated with the Northern Railroad of Kansas 
under the name of the St. Joseph & Denver City 
Railroad Company. By this act the company 
secured one hundred and twenty-five thousand 
acres of laud, granted by the State of Kansas to 
the Watheua (Kansas) Railroad Company, which 
thus secured the success of the enterprise. In 
those early days Mr. Corby was also a director in 
the St. Joseph & Topeka Railroad" Company. 
In 1856 he was elected Mayor of St. Joseph, 
being always foremost in every enterprise from 
which benefit could accrue to the city of his home. 
In 1858 he was one of the incorporators of, and a 
director in, the St. Joseph branch of the bank of 
this state, and when this was in 1801 merged into 
the State Natioual Bank he became a director and 
so continued until a short time before his demise. 

On May 30, 1852, Mr. Corby was united in 
marriage with Miss Amanda Musiek, youngest 
daughter of the late Hon. Joel L. Musiek, of 
Florissant, St. Louis County, Mo. After a life of 
constant activity our subject was attacked with 
heart disease in 1807, and consulted some of the 
best physieiaus in the United States with but little 
benefit. In 1861) he visited Florida where he 
spent a part of the winter, returning to St. Joseph 
on February 2, 1870, and residing here until his 
death on the 9th of May following. In many 
respects he was a remarkable man, and though by 
nature he was given to the accumulation of wealth 
his methods were characterized by strict integrity, 
a practical piety and a warm, kind hearted and wise 
charity. He made libera] donations to St. Joseph 
Seminary of the Sacred Heart and other institu- 
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Joseph Hospital between $4,000 and $5,000; in 

tin' -..mi.' m;h beg • 00 to a female seminary 
to In- located on Si. Joeepb avenue an. I Albemarle 
Btreet, $10,000 and lota foi building the St Joeepb 
Cathedral, and one hundred an. I sixty acres of 
hud valued at about $10,000 tor a Catholic 
oeineterj near tin- oity, thus making a total of 
about 130,000 dispensed during one year for 
religious, educational and charitable pnrp 

Ten Hi.- VMM.- reserved in tin- center of the 
one hundred and sixty acre tract, about three 
miles from St Joseph, which were donated to the 
cemetery. Upon this reservation, which is oo^ 
ered with a beautiful growth of forest trees, Mrs, 
Corby ha- erected a memorial chapel, which in 
point of architectural beauty ami ohastenesa i 
adornment excels anything in the wesl Phis af 
feotionate memento tells by its solid walls, ii- 
artistie design, its emblematio frescoes and bj its 
BBOred purpose that the love of a true woman 
Phis chapel is built in tin 1 Gothic 
style of the thirteenth century, in form an irregu- 
lar cruciform, a pentagonal sanctuary forming one 
aim It is 12 feet. It) inches front; 55 feet-, 5 
inches through the transept, and has a total 
length of si feet and :i inches. The massive 
wall-, with numerous buttresses are entire!} of 
limestone, laid in rough, Woken ashlar style, and 
an- richly ornamented with cut and carved I u 
roll Count] Bandstone dressings The strength, 
durabilit) and sublimity of the exterior are In per 
.■cord with the artistic and elegant interiot 
of the structure. The frescoing, beautiful in de 
gigs and elaborate in execution, is the admiration 
of those whose culture enables them fully to ap 
preoiate it- merits. On the left of the altar and 
facing the auditorium is a beautiful fresco of the 

Madonna ami Child, whih the right is the 

vault in which are deposited the rtal remains 

of John Corby. This i- an open Bpaoe witb a 
highly ornamented arched entrance looking toward 
the altar. Upon a deeplj recessed tablet on the 

outside of tic- north wall of the vault, which is 

ornamented with two beautiful columns, carved 
and chased to Bymbolize mourning, i* insoril 

l letters, "To the memory of John Corb 
On the western wall of the interior of the vault i- 



a fine painting of the Holy Bepuloher, and on the 
oanopj above is a painting of "Our Saviour." 

On the outer or northern wall of the intei 
represented the "Ascension," and between the 
windows are the fourteen " Stations of the ' i 
representing t'lnist going from the Judgment 
Hall in Jerusalem to Mount Calvarj without the 

I | the walls of the nave above are 

basso relievos, life size, ..f the twelve Apostles 
These various scenes areof superior artistic merit, 
are beautifully set in appropriate moldings, and 
the spaces about them are bighlj ornamented with 
Qothio tracery. The chapel, which will seat about 
three hundred people, is indeed a gem of beauty, 
and is a fitting and lovely expression of the genu 
ine piety and tender affection of bet who thus 
practical!] pays loving tribute to him whom it is 
built t.. commemorate. 

Mrs. Corby has led a quiet, unassuming life, 
but has been always liberal and kind hearted, re 
lieving the sufferings of the poor and dispensing 

her ans for their benefit. She is bighlj re 

Bpected and is probably the wealthiest lady in this 
vicinity, as b) her husband's will she became the 
sole and unconditional heir to his vast estate 

If J B \ i; v (i \ i; woo D Bl CKINGB \m 

Ir^ There are few business men in the city of 

1. St. Joseph more active and enterprising in 

v all their methods than is our subject He 

is of the incorporators of the German ameri 

can Bank, of which he has b ie of the Direc 

tor- up to tin- present time. He wa- tin' financial 

agent of the German a rican Bank Building 

Company and also Secretary and Iffanager, being 

one of ,-i commit I f three to superintend the 

erection of the building at the southwest corner of 

Sixth and l'V|i\ streets which was put up at a OOSt 

of $1 |ii, iiihi flu- i- bj all an- Hi., finest offioe 

building in the oity, being attractive and elegant 
both on the exterior and interior Our subject 
ha- an elegant Buite of office rooms in the German- 
American Bank Building, where be is engaged in 
negotiating loanB, and I of the Insurance 

Company of North America, the Pennsylvania Fire 



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Insurance Company, the Travelers' Life and 
Accident Insurance Company, the Hartford Fire 
of Hartford, the Franklin of Philadelphia, Michi 
gan Fire Marine of Detroit, and Citizens' of Penn- 
sylvania. Mr. Buckingham was horn in Norwalk, 
Huron County, Ohio, May 6, 1847, and is a sou of 
Samuel and Julia A. (Camp) Buckingham. Sam 
uel Buckingham with two brothers located at Nor- 
walk, Ohio, having been reared near New Haven, 
Conn. , and was a descendant of the original Thomas 
Buckingham, who on June 25, 1 037. with two 
London merchants, lauded in Boston, and the 
next spring located at Quinnipack, now New 
Haven, Conn. H. G. Buckingham was reared in 
his native county, his school privileges being those 
of the common schools on the Western Reserve. 
He afterward attended the Normal School at Milan, 
Ohio, after which he entered the Western Union 
Telegraph Office, at Norwalk, Ohio, learning the 
business as an operator. When only twenty years 
of age he was stationed as operator of the general 
office of the company at Cleveland. Just prior to 
this he had worked on the Lake Shore Railroad as 
an operator at different points for two years. 

In the Forest city Mr. Buckingham remained 
for several years and in 1870, in company with 
John McConuiff, of Montreal, Canada, was selected 
to come to St. Joseph by the recommendation of 
Arthur Cole, who was Superintendent of Teleg- 
raphy of the Council Bluffs Railway, and was lo- 
cated in this city, though having since removed to 
Austin, Minn. Mr. McConniff was an operator ou 
the Grand Trunk Road at Montreal and both he 
and our subject were selected by the railway man 
agement to come here as train dispatchers. This 
was at the time the Council Bluffs and Missouri 
Valley roads were consolidated, and made the 
Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs Rail 
way. Mr. Buckingham continued for little over a 
year as I rain dispatcher and then accepted a posi 
tion as Chief Operator of the Western Bnion Office 
of St. Joseph, remaining in their employ about 
two years and resigning in 1873. 

In the latter year Mr. Buckingham engaged in 
the insurance and loan business, being made De- 
partment Secretary of the old Life Association of 
America, the central office being located at St. 



Louis, and with that company he remained until 
it passed out of existence. Iu 1874 he engaged in 
the lire insurance business, securing an old estab- 
lished agency, and has carried the same companies 
ever since, being the agent of six leading concerns. 
He also does an extensive business in loans and 
has given his entire attention to this business for 
nineteen years. He is Secretary and Treasurer of 
the Buchanan County Road Association and at 
tended the state convention at Seilalia. In the con- 
vention of 1893 Mr. Buckingham was named on a 
committee of seven to assist the Legislative Com- 
mittees in preparation of (lending road improve 
went bills. He is a member of the St. Joseph 
Fair Association and is the owner of a team of 
three year old fillies of Hambletouiau and Strath- 
more stock. 

Mr. Buckingham was united iu marriage May 7, 
1872, to Miss Rebecca, daughter of David Hull 
and sister of George and James Hull of this city. 
Mrs. Buckingham was called to the home beyond, 
October 12, 1877. On November 1, 1881, our 
subject led to the marriage altar Miss Annie 
Clagett, of Lexington, Mo., and a graduate of the 
Lexington Seminary. Three sons have blessed 
this union, namely: Thomas H., Samuel J., and 
Henry G., Jr. Mr. Buckingham's pleasant resi- 
dence is just outside the city limits on Frederick 
avenue, their home being a handsome and elegant 
structure. He is a member of Christ Episcopal 
Church and is a man of noble and conscientious 
purpose. 

GART. F. M. POSEGATE was elected May- 
or of St. Joseph in 1882, on the Republic 
an ticket, by the unprecedented majority of 
one thousand and twenty. In that position 
he served his fellow citizens faithfully and well 
and inaugurated many important measures bearing 
on the welfare and improvement of this city. Dur- 
ing the term of President Hayes he was appoint 
ed Postmaster of this place and served his full 
term of four years, and in July, 1892, was ap- 
pointed by Secretary Foster Assistant Inspector of 
Public Buildings, serving until March 15, 1893,and 






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POK i i; \i I \Nl> iiioiiiJAl'lllcAi. i;K( <>i;i> 






iinl I. since 1850 be baa been .1 prominent pub 

lie man, well known and verj popular in 81 l" 
Bepb. 

Tbe -uliji'ct of this Bketcfa was boru in La fa 
yette, [nd . < totober II, 1837; removed with his par 
.•ni- t" Liberty, Mo., iu 1840, and from thereto 

I! lev ill--, same state, three years later In the 

year IM S he went i" Des Moines, [owa, there aol 
iug as carrier boj and devil on the Iowa Star, (li«> 
first oewspaper ever published in that city, and 

from tli came to St Joseph, £wo years later. 

During the succeeding ten years he established the 
first job printing offioe in Si Joseph, as also the 
Daily <iml Weekly West newspaper, which be Bold 
in August, I860, and removed t'> Memphis, Tenn., 
taking a position on the Eagle and Enquirer, a 
Bell and Everett uewspaper, bat becaase of his 
oatspokeo Union sentiments was compelled rery 
bi "ii to leave the oil ) 

Ciipi Posegate then pr led t" Eligbland 

County, Ohio, where he enlisted in Company A. 
Forty eighth Ohio Infantry, under President Liu 
coin's tiist call for three-year troops Upon the 
organization "f the regiment he was appointed 

Second Lieut int; was promoted to First Lion 

tenant before leaving the state, and acted .is Adju 
taut of the regiment daring Sunday, at th«' battle 

of Shilob. In the aften n of that day he was 

severely wounded, and for his gallant and merito 
rious Bervioee on that famous battle t i « ■ 1 < 1 was pro 
moted to the rank of Captain. He served faith 
fully in all the campaigns and battles iu which the 
Port) eighth was engaged, up to and including 
the capture of Vioksburg, when he was compelled 
i" resign on account of failing eyesight. 

After a season of rest and care tbe latter was 

greatl) restored and Capt Posegate then ax pted 

a reoraiting Lieuteuant'a commission from Gov 

BrOUgfa and Adjl. (i.-n Cowan, assisting ill the 

organization of the One Hundred and Seventy 
fifth Ohio Infantry. On account of the yet deli 
ndition of hi- eyes he accepted the position 
ol Regiment Quartermaster, in which capaeitj be 
Barred during the remainder of the war, being 
mustered ont at Camp Denniaon in Jul) of 1865 
Although In- waa simply the Regiment Quartet 
master ol the One H Ired and Sevent) fifth, be 



did much service in th<' field daring the oanipuign 
from Columbia to Nashville, espeoiall) at Thoiup 

son's Stat ion and Franklin 

Capt Posegate was married in New L< 
Uighlaud County, Ohio, to Miss Sallie Johnson, on 
the Oth da) of September, l v -"^ She was called 
from the Bhores of time Jul) -'■'•, 1878, iu St 1 
seph, leaving two little daughters. The Captain 
was united in marriage with .Miss Emma P Cush 
man, in Taunton, Ma-.-. Jane II, I 882, and l>\ 
this marriage has two children, a son and daugb 
ter, 1 1.' 1- a charier member of Custer Post, \ 
7, Department of Missouri, which be has served as 
Commander, and baa ever been active and zealous 

in all matters pertaining to the good of il dei 

In IM17 he returned to St. Joseph, M . becoming 
.me of the proprietors of the Daily ll< raid, Belling 
his interest in that paper two years later, and ee 
tablishiug the St. Joseph Steam Printing Company, 
of which he was for many years the President 
In 1889 he made the race for Congress ou the Re 
publican ticket and carried the citj of St. Joseph 
bj 1 majority of twelve hundred and fifty and five 
out of the six counties iu the district, reducing the 
Democratic majority in the district from thirt) 
three hundred to lesa than six hundred 






r> o\ CII.MiliBS [NGLES, aa our honored 
_ aubjecl is familiar!) known to a host of old 

\J[ lime friends and acquaintances, baa been 
Z* numbered among the leading and influen 
tial citizens of Plattsburg for full thirt) eight 
years. Be was born in Auburn, Cayuga County, 

\ ■> . February '_'*',, 1826, and 1- the son of Ln 
thony Ingles, a native of New Jersey and a prom 
iiient merchant ol Clinton, N. Y. The mother of 
our Bubjeol waa a Miss Chrystler, of Poughkei | 

and passed aw.i\ m early life She was tl wuei 

of large tracts of laud in Ohio At fourteen years 
ol .iu r| ' Mr. Ingles entered Skaneatelea Academ) 
ami at seventeen began a course in Hudson I *ol 
later completing hi- studies in Twinsburgb 
Institute, a Presbyterian college of Ohio, from 
which he was graduated with honor in 1846, re 
ceiving the degi f A 1! Among hie olasa 



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mates were Cud), afterward Secretary of State in 
Minnesota, anil Dr. A. O. Risley, of Cameron. 

The father of our subject and the father in law 
ol ex Gov. William H. Seward endorsed notes for 
a man named Leech, said notes being of the value 
,it' $80,000. A judgment was rendered against 
Leech, who was an extensive miller, but he ab- 
sconded and Anthony Ingles was obliged to pay 
must of the debt. After leaving college Mr. In- 
gles removed to Kentucky and read law with Judge 
Pryor, who was a professor in the Louisville Law 
School, While pursuing his legal studies he also 
hud charge of an academy four miles from Carroll- 
ton, whore he taught until 1853. In 185 1 he passed 
a law examination with Henry Crittenden, brother 
of T. T., before Chancellor Pyrtle and Judge James 
A. Pryor. Entering at once upon the active du- 
ties of his profession, he remained one year in 
Kentucky, and then came in 1M55 to Missouri. 

Locating upon six hundred and forty acres of 
land east of Lathrop, Mr. Ingles remained there 
for one year and added to his original real estate 
three hundred and twenty acres of Government 
land lying due oast twelve miles from Plattsburg. 
In the meantime he industriously taught school. 
When the United States laud office was reopened 
in 1856, the original receiver, Judge Brown, had 
died and the office had been closed until a new re- 
ceiver, H. VV. Whittington, was appointed. Mr. 
Ingles then became connected with the office as a 
lawyer and claim litigant, and removing to Platts- 
burg sold his farm and invested in other lands. 
Thomas E. Turney and T. 1). W. Yonley, later 141011 
the Supreme Bench of Arkansas, and Col. James 
H. Birch, Jr., and his brother, C. C. Birch, were 
among the attorneys here during that busy time. 
Mr. Ingles located largo tracts of land for eastern 
parties who would send him either land warrants 
or the cash and he would buy the warrants in 
Washington and locate the land. For a time he 
acted with Col. M. Jeff. Thompson, the famous 
Swamp Angel of the war. 

Charles C. Birch died in the latter part of 1859, 

having g< insane during the trial of a murder 

case in which he and Charles Ingles were counsel 
for the defense. A young lady of the county had 
two suitors, o if whom was visiting her, having 



come from his home in Stewartsville. While there 
he was one day called to the door whore he was 
without warning shot instantly through the 
head. This atrocious murder was laid to the 
other suitor for the hand of the young lady, who 
at mice raised a purse and ton men were arrested 
for the crime. The result was that no one was 
convicted of the awful deed. Mr. Birch became 
insane upon the second day of the trial, which 
lasted seven days. He was afterward committed 
to an asylum in Fulton and six weeks later passed 
away. 

In lSCi'J John Huston, of Clay County, was made 
Receiver of the Land Office and our subject became 
his assistant and had charge of the office, C. W. 
Porter being Registrar. Mr. Ingles continued in 
the active duties of Receiver until in 1861 the of- 
fice was removed to Boonville and consolidated 
Mr. Ingles and T. D. Yonley went to Boonville 
and closed up the busiuess for the district, remain- 
ing there until all litigated cases weVe disposed of 
and acting as attorneys for the litigants. 

In 1859 the United Stales Registrar at Washing 
ton ordered two hundred thousand acres of land in 
Mercer and Grundy counties that had been im- 
properly sold by the state to be restored and 
placed with the Plattsburg office. This was col 
lege land donated by Congress to the Slate Com 
inissiouers, who had sold for $1.25 per acre two 
hundred thousand more acres than the state was 
entitled to and the mistake discovered twenty years 
after promised to be most disastrous to a large 
number of settlers who had purchased their homes 
in gooil faith and in many cases highly improved 
the land. 

T. D. Ballew told the excited people that Mr. 
Ingles could and would assist them and work For 
their interest and about two hundred men fully 
armed came down a week in advance of the adver 
tised sale. These two hundred men employed Mr. 
Ingles to make two complete abstracts of the laud 
tu be sild and ranging t hem-elves in front of the 
Office Upon the advertised day of the sale threat 
cued to promptly shoot down any man who would 
bid on any of the laud The town was full of gold 
brought thither to buy the much advertised farms 
and homesteads fur three days previous the (wo 






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hundred men keeping Btriol watoh and ward bad Thomas E. Turney did the lailk <>f the legal wik 
camped before the office and Ballcu as doorkeeper in thai locality 

admitted them four ut a time. All being bound to Poi many yean Mi [ogles devoted liimaelf t" 

secrecy, Mi [nglea assisted them to a description business and duriug tbal time bandied many im 

.>f their homes, marking ap the same apou the portanl cases and made ii handsome income, re 

maps which he had made. This continued until ceiving exoellenl pay for services rendered. J. 

all bad dearly identified their land, when Mr. Marion Brooks, a brilliant attorney dow id l."~ 

[nglea made out the several applications f aob Ingeles, Cal.,'studied uodei Mi [nglea, receiving 

in. in and bad one map entirely marked up with the the benefit of his extended experience and wise 

exception "f -i\ hundred and forty acres "I the suggestions. Mr. [nglea actively engaged in prac 

large body "f land. tioe until about two years since, and has I oou 

The morning o( the sale rami', the office was nected with uearly all of the leading litigants of 

"l'i d and the Registrar declared the land open thecircuit. 

for entry. Mi [nglea at once handed in his t\\>> Although at onetime Prosecuting Attorney, Mi 

hundred applications foi the two hundred men [ngles made a s| ialty of defense and was ooun 

who answered promptly to their names and handed Belfor defendants in twenty seven murdei oases, 

in their money. The other attorneys made ap and but one of his olieuts was bung and only ten 

plication, but were disappointed Mr. [ngles ■"'"• to the penitentiary. Oursubjeol was counsel 

mounted bis horse and rode out into the country for Ool. James N. Burnes, ol St Joseph, in a case 

where he spent three dayB for hia health, aud then involving $110,000. In this, the famous Biden 

returning received abuse from the h< attorneys, bangb case, Mr [ngles chose as assistants Sum 

Inn was upheld by the voice of the public and to Gr i and Judge Henry Ranney The oast) had 

this day is held in loving remembrance by the been in the courts for years and many prominent 

homesteaders who, through his helping band, re men of the state were witnesses The final trial 



tained the property endeared to them l>y lln> labor 

.•f years and old family associations. Th itire 

affaii |>as^,-,l ,.iT without the Bring of a single Bhot, 
but after the close of the exciting day the victors 
loudly celebrated their \ ictory 

\t the tin f the Civil War Mr [ngles issisted 

in raising the Home Guards and in company with 
many others was anxious to join Gen. Price at 



wa> held at Plattsburg and resulted in success f"i 
Col. Burnes, a change of venue having first been 
obtained. 

A pronounced Democrat, altl gl vei a can 

didate tor official position, Mr. [ngles has evei 
taken a lively interest in l'"tli local and national 

elections and frequently Btumped the < try f"i 

li i ^ friends. His time is now mostly occupied with 



Lexington, but having earnestly endeavored to do the care of hi~ real estate and numerous invest 
so, was obliged i" return borne, finding it an utter 
impossibility to cross the river. He was soon after 
arrested by the [federal authorities and placed in 
jail. tlin old college building. Finally he and 

twenty "i there were takenjo Platte City by Col 

Kimball and held there -i\ weeks as hostages for 

the Bafety of Judge James II Birch, who bad I a 

arrested by the Confederates and carried t<> Price's 
Army, Judge Birch and Gen. Price were old 
friends and the Jndge fared well. After his re 
lease the twenty two hostages were also Bel Civ... 
Mi [ogles was never molested again, but at once 



ments. He own- about three thousand acres of 
fine farming land in Miasouri, and has also oonsid 
erable valuable real estate in Los Angeles 

The home faun upon which Mr. [ngles has re 

Bided for twenty sii years > tains three hundred 

acres, the commodious residence standing just in 
side the city limits The t'>v\n proper extended 
■ nit to the place but has bad Bixty acres vacated. 
During bis busy life be baa engaged in general 
fanning and been especially successful in raising 
good horses, and feeds cattle, li"^- and othei 
stock. The faun is all underlaid with a bed "f 



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oil and gas, and many experienced Pennsylvanians 
have pronounced the prospects fine. Preparations 
have been made to siuk shafts for coal and work 
will soon begin. Meantime the farm boasts one of 
the most productive vineyards in this part of the 
state. 

In 187 ( J Mr. Ingles bought a mineral tract near 
Joplin, Mo., sank shafts, and sold one hundred and 
twenty six acres which had cost $1,500 for more 
than $20,000. This property has since changed 
hands at a valuation of more than $200,000. Mr. 
Ingles is also interested in a zinc company at 
Joplin. For one summer he operated the Dan- 
ville silver group in Colorado, then one of the most 
promising mines in the state, but which needed 
more capital to carry the ore to market. 

Mr. Ingles entered into the bonds of marriage 
in Carroll County, Ky., November 28, 1848. His 
wife was Miss Polly Ann O'Neal, a native of Car- 
roll County. Her parents, James and Sarah 
(Craig) O'Neal, were both from Virginia families 
widely known in the Old Dominion. Grandfather 
Craig married the sister of the wife of Razor 
Boone, brother of the celebrated Daniel Boone. 
The parents of Grandmother Craig were among 
the first families of Virginia, and her grandfather 
was imprisoned for preaching in the very early 
days. Two members of the family were numbered 
among the signers of the Declaration of Independ- 
ence, and a numerous family connection was 
actively engaged in the War of the American 
Revolution. 

Anderson O'Neal, the brother of Mrs. Ingles, 
married a sister of James Allcoru, United States 
Senator from Mississippi. Mr. ami Mrs. Ingles lost 
a little one at fifteen mouths of age, but two daugh- 
ters survive to cheer their declining years. Mary 
is a graduate of the New England Conservatory iu 
Boston, and is there teaching the Rudersdorf Sys- 
tem of Music. Annie is the wife of Mason S. 
Peters, of Peters Brothers, Live Stock Commie 
sioners of Kansas City. She was educated in Vas 
sar College, where she spent two ami a half years, 
and at the tine' of her marriage was studying 
music in Boston. She is now studying Osteopathy 
at Kirksville, Mo., under Dr. A. E. Still. Mr. 
Peters was Clerk of the County Court. Mr. and 



Mrs. Peters were married at the home of Dr. 
Lorimer of Boston, and afterward removed to the 
west. 

Mrs. Ingles, a most estimable and accomplished 
lady, was educated iu a private school, and for 
twenty live years has been a member of the Mis- 
sionary Baptist Church, and ever responded with 
ready aid in the good works of that denomination. 
She is a Prohibitionist aud defends her views with 
eloquent argument aud logic. Mr. Ingles is not 
connected with any religious organization, but al 
though very liberal in his views is a stanch sup 
porter of the best interests of society and is 
esteemed a generous giver in social aud benevolent 
enterprises. The members of the family have a 
wide acquaintance, occupy an enviable social 
position and command the high regard of all who 
enjoy the pleasure of their acquaintance. 



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CHARLES KEARNY, a sou of the celebrated 
Gen. Stephen W. Kearny, who built, and 
named the old fort at Nebraska City which 
was afterward moved to its present, site, is 
an old settler of St. Joseph and has been for many 
years a clerk in the Pacific Hotel. He is well 
known to commercial travelers and has been a wit- 
ness of the great changes, not only in this city but 
in the surrounding country. In March, 1878, he 
assumed the position of clerk in the Pacific House, 
which was then run by Kitchen Bros., who man 
aged it for five years afterward. E. A. Hammond 
was the next proprietor, and he iu turn was sue 
ceeded by Irvin it Bailey, who sold out to R. L. 
Duvall. Murray & Hinies are the present pro 
prietors. During all these years our subject has 
been day clerk, hardly missing a day. 

Our subject was born iu Jefferson Barracks, 
Mo., March 7, 1834, and is a son of Gen, Stephen 
and Mary (Radford) Kearny, the former born in 
Newark, N. J., and the latter iu Virginia. His 
paternal Grandfather, Mr. Kearny, who was an 
Episcopalian, was a native of Ireland. The birth 
of (Jen. Kearny occurred August 30, 1794, aud 
when the war broke out in 1812 with Great Britain 
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taring the arm] as First Lieutenant lb- dis 
tinguished himself in the assault on Queenstown 
Heights and was promoted to a captaino] in April, 

1813 He was retai I in Ihe army, rising through 

successive grades i" !»■ Brigadier General In I84fl 
In the Mexican War he commanded the Army of 

the West, which made a o [nest of New Mexico 

and established a provincial government at Santa 
Fe He continued bis march to California, and on 
mber 6, 1846, fought the battle of Sun Pas 
ohal, where he was twice wounded Subsequently 
he commanded the troops "f sailors and marines 
amla detachment ol dragoons in the battles "f 
San Gabriel and Plains of Mesa, January s 9, 

IM7 Prom March b> Jni f that year, In' was 

Governor of California. Joining the arm] in Mexico 
he was Governor of Vera Cruz in March, 1848, and 
in the following Ma] was Governor of the Cit] of 
Mexico. For his services he was brevetted Major- 
General He died in St. Lonis, October 31, 1848 
The Genera] was the author of a "Manual for the 
exercising and maneuvering of I ' r i i t • •■ 1 States dra 
goons'' "OrganicLaw" and " La ws f or the Goi 
ernmenl of the Territor] "f New Mexico." 

Phillip Kearny, a nephew of Gen. Stephen W. 
Kearny, was bun in New fork in Jane, (815, 
graduated in Columbia College and in 1837 ac 
cepted a lientenantcy in the First Dragoons, bis 
nncle being Colonel of the regiment. Soon after, 
be %. i — i t » - . 1 Europe nuder government orders to ex 
amine the tactics "f the French cavalrj Bervice. 
He rolnntereed for thai reason t" go as a soldier 
with French troops to Algeria, winning the I 
of 1 1 1 « - Legion "f Honor. In 1840, returning to 
the United States, he was attached to the stalT of 
Genera] Scott, serving with great gallantr] in the 
Mexican War He was made Captain of dragoons 
in. I later was brevetted Major. In the final assanll 
mi I li«' < 'it v of Mexico he lost an arm. Subsequentl] 
he served in various expeditions againsl the In 
ilians Mini then returned t" Europe. In the Italian 
War if 1850 he was a volunteer aide I" Oen. 
Mourier of the French army, being engaged in the 
battles "f Magenta and Solferino, and for bravery 

was a a ind time presented with the Cross of the 

Legion of Honor < hi the fust ramors "f the late 
Rebellion be returned to tin- United States and 



was made Brigadier General ovai some New Jerse] 
troops. His services in the Peninsular Campaign 
of 1802, when be commanded a division, and in the 
Becond battle of Hull Run as well uh others, were 
brilliant ami valuable, He was mail'' Major 
General at Harrison's Landing, and at Chantilly, 

while reoonnoitering in advani f his troops, was 

killed September I. 1862. 

< ) 1 1 r subject's grandmothei . after the death <>f heT 
husband, married Gov. William Clark, who was 
one "f the tirst governors "f Missouri, lb- was in 
the Louis and Clark expedition thai discovered the 
headwaters "f the Missouri river Both grand 
parents are now deceased, Mrs. Stephen W 

Kearny is tl mther "f nine children, of whom 

Charles, our subject, is the b I Until fourteen 

years of age he was brought np in the regular 

army, at which li his father's death occurred 

He attended a private school in New Haven, Conn.. 
and engaged in clerking in a grocer] store in St 
Louis 

In 1855 Mr. Kearn] came to St. Joseph, where 
he entered into a retail grocery business, and Imilt 

the second brick house in the place <>n ac ml 

of the wildcat mone] and the corresponding de 
pression in financial circles, be left the business al 

tl ml of two years, and then went to Texas 

where h< v engaged in running a ranch, raising 

horses and Bheep until the war brok it For the 

following two years be was in St Louis ami othei 

cities Going to Leavenworth, Kans., I ogaged 

in the grain and commission business, contrai 
to furnish the Government with Biipplies 

In 1866 Mr, Kearny returned to St. Joseph as 
agent for the St. Louis Steamboat Line, continuing 
with them for aboul two years. His nexl step was 
to operate a farm of our hundred and Bi'xtj acre- 
mar W'alhi'iia, Doniphan County, Kan. and be 

continued as a fan • for some fifteen years While 

t here, he was one of the County Commissioners foi 
t wo years. 

In Jerse] City, in September, \^~<~<. our subject 
married Miss Lnnie Stewart, who was born in New 
Jersey. Her father, Thomas G. Stewart, was for 
some years n business man in St Louis, ami after 

ward came to tliis city, where his ileatl curreil 

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the wife of W W. Bloss, formerly editor of the 
Gazette; Harriet, Mrs. H. A. Owen; Anne, wife of 
W. C. Bragg; Radford, who is engaged in the cigar 
business in this city; Robert, a clerk in the 
Micholet Hotel; Jennie and Phillip, who live at 
home. 

Under John Corby Mr. Kearny was a City Conn 
oilman. He belongs to Zaredatha Lodge, Ancient 
Free & Accepted Masons; to Mitchell Chapter, 
Royal Arch Masons, ami the Moila Shrine. He is 
a Democrat in politics, and religiously belongs to 
Christ Episcopal Church. 



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CHARLES M. THOMPSON is Deputy Cir- 
cuit Clerk of St. Joseph. Few are more 
widely or favorably known in this region 
than is he of whom we write, who is a true 
type of the genial, warm-hearted and hospitable 
Southern gentleman. He has always taken an 
active part in political circles, being an ardent 
Democrat and is a man of wide newspaper experi 
ence. For twelve years past lie has been in the 
Circuit Clerk's office faithfully performing his du- 
ties in that position. 

Our subject was born at Harper's Ferry, Va., 
October 12, 1830, and is a son of Meriwether and 
Martha (Bradus) Thompson, who were also both 
natives of the Old Dominion. Mr. Thompson was 
reared in his native state and when nineteen years 
of age, or in 18411, first set foot in this city. His 
brother, M. Jeff, having located here the previous 
year and an elder brother, Bradus, being engaged 
in the practice of law in this city, he was favorably 
impressed with their account of this settlement 
ami concluded to try his fortunes here also. His 
last mentioned brother returned in 1872 to Vir- 
ginia, where he resided until his death, about seven 

years ago. 

Mr. Thompson had learned the printer's trade 
in the east and his first work here was on the St. 
Joseph Gazette, then published by James Riden 
baugh who established the paper. For fifteen 
years our subject worked on the Gazette as printer, 
foreman, and later became the sole proprietor. 



It had passed through many hands in the mean- 
time. At the outbreak of the war and for some 
years succeeding he served as its editor and the 
Federal troops from Towa under Col. Curtis took 
charge of the paper and suppressed it. 

Mr. Thompson then became foreman of the 
Herald, assisting in getting out its first issue and 
remained with them until the close of the war. 
In I Mil in company with Col. Jacob Childs he es 
tablished the Evening News, which paper started 
in to replace the old Gazette, the presses and busi 
ness being purchased by Childs & Thompson. 
They continued until the campaign of 1804 and 
then sold out. For the following two years Mr. 
Thompson engaged in the real estate business and 
was then elected City Recorder and Police Judge 
at the same time, serving for three terms or six 
years in that position, after which he went to Has- 
tings, Neb., ami opened up a hotel, continuing in 
business there for one year quite successfully. 
He then met with a severe loss, his hotel being 
consumed by fire, resulting in the sacrifice of 
everything of which he was possessed. Returning 
to St. Joseph he was soon appointed to his present 
responsible position, and was for nearly a dozen 
years in the Circuit Clerk's office under S. D. 
Gowan. 

In St, Joseph on the 8th of May, 1852, Mr. 
Thompson was joined in matrimony with Miss 
Jane Lyon, whose father, A. B. Lyon, was a mer 
chant and for years a Justice of the Peace. His 
death occurred in St. Joseph. Mrs. Thompson 
was born in Kentucky and came to this city when 
Only fourteen years of age. To our subject and 
wife have been born nine children, of whom three 
are now deceased, and six, two sons and four 
daughters, are yet living. Sallie, now the wife of 
Dr. Smyth, of Belfast, Iowa, was formerly the 
wife of Richard A. Proctor, the famous astrono 
mer; Annie, now the wife of Louis Got trail, who 
was born in Friburg, Switzerland, lives in Flor- 
ida; Bettie is the wife of J. H. R. Lyle, of Buck- 
ley. Wash : and Mary, Mrs. Edward Hammond. 
is now with her mother in California. The two 
sons are John H . who is in California, and Charles 
M. Jr., who is with McCord, Cowlins & Co., Fori 
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G[ I >L rOHN I H l.l i; i- a member ..f the 
lii mi of John F. Tyler .\ Oo.,of which Will 
f) iiun EL Spratl is the junior partner. Thej 
are dealers in real estate, loans and insur 
ami' in St. Joseph, Bnohanan County, where they 
do an extensive business in these branches Col 
Tyler waa born September 12, 1838, in Jones 
villi', Lee County, Va His father, Henrj C, 
who was born in Lenox, Mass , was a lineal de 
Boendanl "f one of tin' brave emigrants who came 
over in tin' Mayflower. Grandfather Tyler par 
ticipated in the War of the Revolution. 

Henry C. Tyler waa reared on a farm, ami upon 
reaching hi- majority engaged in merchandising 
in different counties of the oi.l Dominion. Hi' 
in, nil- a business of buying all tin' stock in a county 
ami driving it south. In time he became the 
owner of large traots of land, having a place of 
thirteen thousand acre- near Cumberland Gap, 
'iVnn II.' was also engaged in a number of en- 
terprises, building stores and mills and other im 
provements in small villages, and helping to im- 
prove tin- country generally, all of which resulted 
in great *,' I to tin' people and much to his ma- 
terial profit. At tin- time of his d»»ath in 1851, at 
the age of fort] five years, he owned eight stores 
in different counties, II C Tyler was a Baptist 
ami his wife a Presbyterian. The latter, whose 
maiden name wis Jane E. Fulkerson, was born in 
Virginia ami was a daughter of a larov planter in 
that state. Mr- Tyler died in 1851, just nine 
days before her husband's death. 

Our BUbject, who was an only child, was in his 

thirteenth year when his parents died, anil was 
I by an uncle. Arohelaus II Pnlkerson, who 
was a fanner an. I stock raiser When seventeen 
years old the lad entered the Virginia Military In- 
stitute al Lexington, from which he graduated in 
1859. In the fall of that year he removed to 
Lexington, Mo , where he engaged in teaching for 
two _\ ears. 

\i the first tap of the drum in 1861, he volun 
leered in the United Slate, service as .i private in 
Company B, Fourteenth Missouri Infantry, but was 
elected as Major from the ranka At Lexington 
be was appointed Ordnance Offioai In Col Mulli 



gan, who n gnized his military ability He ha. I 

chare;!, of i hat department and between the lirsi 

ami sei ,1 fights at Lexington, a period of three 

dayB, made all the ammunition used cart rid 
canister, round ami grape shot They Snail] bad 
lo surrender, as the supplies gave out ami lie 
troops bad no water for twenty four hours Oni 
subject uas paroled, went to St Louis ami was 
then exchanged, after which be was appointed bj 
Gov. Gamble as Major and aid de-camp to 
Gen Schofield, then in charge of the Missouri 
forces. lie helped him organise ami muster in 
troops in Si Louis and throughout the state, ami 
then was appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the 
First Missouri Regiment, and assigned to duty on 
the Iron Mountain Railroad, where he remained 
for some two \ears or more. Hi' was afterward 
commissioned Colonel of his regiment, his former 
superior, Col. .loin r, Gray, having been made 
adjutant General of the state. Our subject was in 
charge of the southwestern district of Missouri 
under Gen. E M. Davidson until neatU the close 

of the war, when the regi nt was discharged ami 

mustered out. 

In the spring of 1865 Col. Tyler engaged in 
merchandising in St. Joseph for a couple of years 
with . I A. Piner. While teaching he had studied 
law with Judge John F. Ryland of Lexington, 
and after the war waa admitted to the bar. For 

some time l agagel in farming near St. Joseph 

ami built a good farm residei His wife waa 

dissatisfied, however, with living on the farm, ami 
therefore in l^7'_! they returned to St Joseph, 

when. ih. Col -I oommei I his practii f Ian 

ami from that drifted into the real .stale ami in 
anrabce business, now possessing lie- oream of the 
trade in this vicinit] In 1890 he to ib hi- nephew, 
William 1*'. Spratt, into partnership with him, and 

the] have their office in ilc Com trial Block 

Building. Our subject owns on., hundred ami 

si\t\ acres of well im|>ro\e.| farm Ian. I with g I 

buildings onlj on., mile from the citj limits 

One ofihe finest residences in St Joseph is that 
of Col. Tj ler. which he erected himself at the 
corner of Sixth ami Robidoui streets In I 
ington, Mo . on Novembei 9, 1862 »:i'- celebrated 



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the union of our subject and Miss Jane E., daugh- 
ter of William Spratt, who was an early settler and 
prominent man of that county. Mrs. Tyler was 
born and reared in Lexington. Col. Tyler was 
Quartermaster in the Union army and was clerk of 
Lafayette County for many years. 

The Colonel is a member of St. Joseph Lodge, 
No. 78, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and 
in politics is a Democrat. He is a member of the 
First Presbyterian Church of St. Joseph. Mrs. 
Tyler died May 8, 1887. She was the mother of 
four children, who are also deceased. 






d(OSEPH OPPENHEIMER, the genial and 
popular proprietor of the Oppenheimer Hotel 
I of St. Joseph, has been engaged in business 
in the same block steadily since 1874. He 
has risen from the lowest round of the ladder of 
success step by step, overcoming the numerous 
difficulties in his way with courage and zeal worthy 
of emulation. He is a prominent Republican, and 
was made a delegate from the Third Ward to the 
City Republican Convention. He has been fre 
quently sent as a delegate to county and state con- 
ventions and has taken a very active part in every 
thing pertaining to his party. 

Joseph Oppenheimer is a native of Bavaria, 
Germany, his birth having occurred near Nurem- 
bnrg, November 10, 1849. His father, whose 
Christian name was Moses, was quite an extensive 
dealer in cattle in Bavaria, where he died at the 
age of sixty-six years. Our subject's mother, 
whose maiden name was Fannie Gutman, was a 
native of the same country, where her father was 
a successful merchant. She is still residing in the 
old homestead in Germany, having passed the age 
of seventy years. Our subject is the second in 
order of birth in a family of nine children, six of 
whom are living. One of his brothers resides in 
St. Joseph, and he and Joseph are the only mem 
bers of the family now in America. Our subject 
was given an education in his mother tongue in 
the common schools until attaining the age of 



fourteen years, when he was apprenticed to a mer- 
chant for six years. 

The Franco- Prussian War of 1870, which 
created such a panic in mercantile circles in 
Europe, caused our subject to leave his native land 
and seek his fortune in America. Leaving Bremen 
in the steamer "Colorado,'' he landed in New 
York city after a voyage of sixteen days and re 
mained in the metropolis for only a few weeks, 
thence going to Omaha, where he obtained em 
ployment as a clerk in a jewelry store. His em 
ployer having lost seriously by reason of a fire 
which consumed most of his stock, he thus lost 
his position and was obliged to take whatever came 
to hand. Consequently he was employed for a 
short time in a liquor store. 

In 1874 Mr. Oppenheimer came to St. Joseph, 
obtaining work with the firm of Ferdinand Lutz. 
This was a branch of a Colorado house, and for 
five and one-half years our subject managed and 
ran the business. He then embarked in business 
for himself, starting his hotel, which was formerly 
known under the name of Joe's Place. Nine 
years later he purchased the interest of Messrs. 
Ferdinand Lutz and ran the Colorado House in 
this city for three years. He remodeled and re 
built his hotel, which occupies a lot 40 by 1 10 
feet, for three years our subject was associated 
with the St. Joseph Brewing Company and then 
retired. He owns real estate in different parts of 
the city and is altogether one of the substantial 
business men. 

In 1878 was celebrated the marriage of Mr. 
Oppenheimer and Miss Sophia Sponneman, a na 
five of Madison County, 111., and daughter of 
Christopher Sponneman, a prominent farmer of 
Madison County, where he yet resides. To OUT 
worthy subject and wife has been born one child, 
a son, Benjamin. Their home is located on Second 
street., between Felix and Francis. Socially our 
subject is a member of the Independent Order of 
Odd Fellows, of the Druids, Knights of Honor. 
Turners' Society and Bavarian Society. Though 
his mother is a believer in the Hebrew faith, our 
subject is liberal in his religious views and is prac 
tically an agnostic. 






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»[— \ l \ l i.isiia BARBER SHERWOOD, 
\*\ D D. , to whom have been given the appro 
\ print- titles of "Father" of the Platte 
< r byterj and Park College, has been 

Iv connected with the program of the Preebj 

terian Chnrcfa in Northwest If iasonri and has 1 d 

n minister in thai denomination since 1886. Prob 
ably the rapidity of the growth of this form of 
religions belief is dne more to hie efforts Hum to 
ili>>-.. of an) other "ii" man, for his labors have 
been untiring and his anooess marvelons. It is 
Baid thai the Platte is the banfter Presbyter) in 
tli- I nit— I states and oontaina more Btndeutstban 
any other Presbytery throughout Hi" oonotry. 
Throagh the ministrations of Dr. Sherwood more 
than two thousand members have been added to tli" 
Presbyterian Ohnroh, and he has also aided many 

young n to obtain a theological education pro 

paratorj to entering the ministry. 

A brief account of tli" anoestry "f Dr. Sherwood 
will be of general interest The Family originated 
in tli" North of England, whence Thomas Sher 

wood iliorn in 1588) emigrated to A rica in 1634 

and settled in Boston, Mass. In 1655 he removed 

to Fairfield, Conn., where I Btablished h perma 

nenl home II" and his wife, Alice, bad two 
children. Their son, Isaac resided For a time in 
Fairfield, removed thence to Mew York, bnl after- 
ward returned to Connecticut, Onto him and his 
wif", Elizabeth (Jackson) Sherwood, was born in 
1712 a son whom they named Joseph. This son 
grew to manhood, married, and became the Father 
of a son Nathan, who-." birth ocoarred at Fairfield, 

Conn . January 8, 1788 

During the Revolutionary War Nathan Sh«r 

u I was o f those valiant soldiers who offered 

tli"n lives in the defense of the Colonies B) trade 
be was a shoemaker, which occupation he Followed 
both in Connection! and lal"r in Vermont, where 
!"■ located in an early day. In 1815 he acoom 
panied bis ion, John, to Ontario County, N S . 

but later re ved to Orleans County, in the same 

state, where, on the 7th ..f February, 1824, be de 
parted this life John Sherw I, the -on of 

Nathan and the father of OUr subject, was horn In 

Connecticut, nfaroh 19, ITvJ, , u ,,| passed awaj in 
1862 upon the anniversary of hi^ birth lli^ life 



was a somewhat uneventful one and was quietly 
spent in the pursuit of his ohoaen occupation of 
farming. From Franklin County, Vt . he removed 
in 1815 to N"\\ V.,rk, where he cultivated a farm 
ami also was a contractor on the Erie Canal. In 1819 
be removed to Orleans County, N. Y. where he 
engaged in farming until his death 

The mother of U"%. EBliaha Sherwood was Luoy, 
daughter of Hon Elisha Barber, both natives of 
Connecticut. Mr. Barber was an early settler in 

Franklin County, Yt., where I ffioiated ns judge 

of the County Comi and occupied various posts of 
honor. The mother died in 1872. <>f her nine 
children, four now survive. Cur subject, who was 
the oldest son in the Family, was reared in Orleans 
Count_\. \ ST., where he was taken bj his parents 
at the age of nine. II" is a native of Fairfield, 

Franklin County, Yt., having I n horn April 15, 

1810. The house in which be gained a knowledge 
of the three R's was Bimilar in construction and 
Forniahings to other pi r' temples of learning." 

When eighteen years old l>r. Sherwood com 
menoed to teach in the township in which he re 
Bided, and For some time thereafter hi~ winters 
were spent in the Bchoolroom and Ins Bummers on 

the home faun. It had always 1 D his child am 

bition to I me a minister of the Gospel, and in 

order to prepare himself for his chosen work, be 

studied for a t i in the Rochester High School 

and afterward entered the Rochester Collegiate 
Institute. In 1834 he became a student in the 
Lam- Theological Seminary, where he was a class 

mate of Henry Ward and Charles II her I pon 

the establishment of the Oberlin College, in I s -'".. 
be entered that institution with the first class in 
theology and continued there until 1836, when be 
was graduated with the firel class receiving di- 
plomas from that now Fat is seat of learning. 

After a post graduate course in tl logy, oui 

subject accepted the pastorate of the Church at 
Wilson, Niagara County, N. 5f., assuming its 
charge in September of 1887. Soon afterward be 
was called to ii prominent place m the miasion 
work of th" Presbyterian denomination, and foi 
three years was closer) identified with this depart 
ni"iit of religious act ivit] Foi five years he was 
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iu Onondaga and Chenango Counties, being four 
years in the former and five years in the latter 
county. In 1855 he accepted a call to the pas 
torate of the Church at Edwardsburg, Cass County, 
Mich., where he rendered efficient service for four 
years. He was called hack on the first Sabbath in 
March, 1893, to Buchanan, in order to preach the 
dedicatory sermon upon the occasion of the dedica- 
tion of their new edifice. 

For three years Dr. Sherwood was pastor of the 
Presbyterian Church at Buchanan, Mich., whither 
he had gone in order to save the church from the 
ruin which threatened it. His efforts there, as in 
other places, were singularly blessed and he was 
instrumental in the conversion of many people. At 
the outbreak of the Civil War, he went to Cnsso 
polis, Mich., and for four years served as minister 
iu the Presbyterian Church. Iu 1805 he came to 
SI. Joseph as a general missionary in the Old Lex- 
ington Presbytery, which embraced at that time 
twenty-six counties. Doctor Sherwood has effected 
the organization of twenty-nine churches in the 
state and saved seven that had been scattered by 
war. He has organized two churches in St. Joseph, 
where his ministerial work has centered. At the 
time of his arrival in Buchanan County, there were 
more pistols than Bibles, but those pioneer days 
are happily past, and we of this generation cannot 
be too grateful to those forerunners in the path of 
civilization, to whose self-sacrifice we owe the com- 
forts and luxuries by which we are surrounded. 

The interest taken by Doctor Sherwood in 
educational matters lias continued uninterrupted 
throughout his entire life. To him is largely due 
the founding of Park College at Parkville, Mo., 
which was established about 1 S7~i and now occu 
pies a front rank among the Presbyterian schools 
of the country. Dr. Sherwood is President of 
the Board of Trustees of the College and for two 
years was financial agent. His efforts in its behalf 
have been so unwearied that he has earned the 
title of "Father of the College." In literature he 
lias earned the reputation of being a thoughtful 
writer and profound thinker. His work entitled 
"Fifty Years on the Skirmish Line" is a review 
of his ministerial labors, covering eighteen years 
in New York, ten years in Michigan, and more 



than a quarter of a century in Missouri. He is a 
fretpient contributor to magazines and his articles 
are characterized by force of thought and origi- 
nality of conception. 

January 3, 1837, in Genesee "County, N. Y. , 
Dr. Sherwood married Miss Aurelia M. Raid 
win, who was born in Chittenden County, Vt., and 
is the daughter of the Rev. Trueman Baldwin, a 
native of Massachusetts and a Presbyterian clergy- 
man. Mrs. Aurelia Sharwood died in St. Joseph 
in December of 1882. The second marriage of 
our subject occurred at Youngstown, N. Y., in 
1884, and united him with Mrs. Susan Butler, nee 
Beals, who was born in Franklin County, Vt., and 
died at St. Joseph in 1891. Six children were 
born of his first union, three of whom now survive. 
Jennie A. i> the wife of Dr. T. W. Anderson, of 
Cassopolis, Mich.; Charles L. is a pharmacist and 
successful business man of Sabetha, Kans. , and is 
the inventor of the Sherwood Excelsior Blueing, 
which our subject, manufactures and ship> exlen 
sively to the Western States and Territories 
Sarah married Dr. Joseph R. Taylor, and resides 
in St. Joseph. 

Fraternally, Doctor Sherwood has been through 
all the degrees of Masonry to Knights Templar, 
In former years he was a Whig and since the 
organization of the Republican party has been one 
of its most stanch adherents. He has often served 
as a member of the General Assembly, where his 
labors have been efficient and honorable. He lia^ 
tilled the position of Moderator in the Synod and 
has been on different committees. Park College 
and Highland University conferred upon him the 
degree of Doctor of Divinity. As a friend of edu- 
cation, a minister of the Gospel, and a public- 
spirited citizen, his name will be held iu loving 
remembrance by the people of Buchanan County 
long after he shall have passed to thai "bourne 
whence no traveler returns." 

dIOSEPH McINERNY is proprietor of the 
Commercial Hotel and also deals oonsidera- 
' bly in real estate in St. Joseph, Buchanan 
County. He is prominent in local Demo 
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He is 11 member of the Count) Demooratio Com 
mitti'i'. attends -ill county and state conventions 
and has been a City Committeeman, 

The gentleman of whom w write has madi bis 
home in St Joseph Binoe August 28, 1870, and i- 
well known in business, political and social circles 

He is a son of the E raid [sle, his birth having 

oocnrred near Kilrush, Count] Clare, March 90, 
1841. His grandfather, Dennis Mclnerny, was an 
extensive f. inner and his father, liiohael, also pur 
Bned the Minn- occupation. Ha was quite a wealthy 
man and a great lover of horses, owning a* fine 
breeds as <■< <uli I be found anywhere in the count] 
His wife, whose maiden name was Ellen nfeskal, 
was a native of Count] ('lam and reared a family 
of children, who are all yel living. Patrick lives 
in Dee Moines, Iowa; Thomas is a farmer in 
Cheyenne, Wyo., where Ins Bister, Mrs. .1. \V. 
Qriffin, also makes her home; Mrs. Pitzpatrick re 
-ides in Warm Springs, Mont., and our subject 
completes the family. The mother died in August, 

IST'J. al (lie good old age of eighty four _\ ears. 

I'ntil his fourteenth year Mr Mclnerny pa I 

In- days in the usual work and play of farmer 
boys and was then apprenticed to learn the gro 
eery business. At the end of three years lie went 
to Livei | ".I. I. England, being employed in a supply 
-tore Returning home after a short time, he set 
■ nit for America, leaving Liverpool on the steamer 
" Citj "f New York," and on arriving at his dee 
tination in l s, ">l he worked fortwo years in a ho 
tel at Freehold, N. J., after which be went to the 
oil regions of Pennsylvania. He remained there 
for about five years and then went to Kent, Ohio, 
engaging in business for two years in that village 

After three months spent in Rock Island, 111.. 
in 1879 Mi afolnern] came in Si. Joseph, which 
wa- even then only a town of IT. |ih) inhabitants. 
He bought propertj on which the Commercial 
Honse was built in 1868 and continued the busi 
There were fen buildings near the location 
but now, after the lapse of several years, the -cine 
i- changed and for miles in ever] direction snb 
stantial -tore- ami residences mark the tide of 

prosperit] which SOOn after his arrival -et 

strongly. <>ur Bubject gradual!] drifted into the 

real i — tate business and has I on il stores and dwell 



ing bouses iii different parts of tl itj In 

1888 I rooted the Dew Commercial Mouse mi tie- 
site nf the old building. This structure i- three 
stories in height and covers a Bpace of 60x120 
f.'.-t The hotel is located ai the corner of Sixth 
and Angelique streets He owns a number of 
lots on Bazton Heights and valuable property in 
oilier parts of the citj 

Mr Uolnem] is the author of the present citj 
charter, which waa adopted during the term of Mayor 
Hartwig. Mr. Mclnerny went with the Maun, 
.lames fjimbird, and Mr. Judson to tin- Leoihla 
lure to o,-t the hill put through Tin- charier. 

which has been a great benefit t" the city, trans 

ferred it from the third to the s nd das- II. 

is a charter member of the \\ Imi'ii of the 

World, Camp of i Im State nf Missouri, and was 
also a charter member of the St. Patrick Henevo 

lent Society, of which he is now Pi e-h lent . He 

wa- one of the original menihers of Branch No 
203, Catholic Knights of America, which waa 
formed in 1881. He wa- President of the same 
for -everal years ami wa- it- representative to the 
State Council. He is a member of tin' Hankers' 
Life Association of Dee Moines, Iowa, ami of the 
Hankers' Life Association of Minneapolis. In 
the Lncient Order of Hibernians Mr. Mclnernj is 
prominent, and religions!] he is a member of the 

St. Joseph Cathedral. 

In Davenport, Iowa, on the 3d of < tctober, 1871, 

Mr MoIneiU] and Miss Mary Kelly were joined 

in mat tin \ She was horn in Ireland and 

reand to womanhood in Iowa. < >f her eight chil 

dren four only are living, Tl Ideal "f these, 

l>r Joseph M. is a graduate of the Northwestern 
Medical College, being in the da-- of 1892 93. 

Nellie. Theresa and LgneS ,. lr ,> being educated ill 

the convent 



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WILLIAM K ADAMS, Local Freight 
Agent for the Burlington lines, has virtu 
ally been in the employ of the Chicago, 
Burlington & Qninoj since |sTI lie is 
a trusted man ami -lands high in the appreciation 



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of Lis employers, who have always in every way 
and at all times given him the most courteous 
treatment. He has a remarkable memory and few 
can recall dates and incidents of the past as 
readily as he does. Besides his lucrative position 
he owns a farm and has invested somewhat in real 
estate. 

The subject of this sketch was born in Lebanon, 
Conn., June 3, 1844, being a son of William Brad- 
ford Adams. The latter was born in Canterbury, 
Conn., as was also his father James, who was of 
the same stock as was the famous John Qnincy 
Adams. The ancestor of the family came from 
England to Massachusetts. Of his descendants 
one settled at Braintree and the other in Canter 
bury, Conn. Our subject has in his possession 
records of the family genealogy dating back to 
1296. At that date Sir Thomas (Apadams) 
Adams was summoned from the marches of Wales 
to Parliament. At the end of four genera 
tions the family name was changed to Adams. 
Our subject's greatgrandfather served in the 
struggle of the colonies for their independence, 
both his grandfathers being in the National army 
in the war of 1812. Our subject's paternal grand 
mother before her marriage bore the name of Alice 
Bradford, she being a descendant of the first 
Governor of Plymouth colony, William Brad- 
ford. 

William Bradford Adams was a mechanic, and 
in later years located near New Haven, where he 
resided until coming to Missouri with our subject. 
He was a member of the Congregational Church 
and departed this life in Hopkins, Mo., in 1871. 
Our subject's mother, who was formerly Man A. 
Knight, was born in Norwich, Mass., and was a 
daughter of Deacon Artemas W., wdio was a native 
of, and farmer in, Massachusetts. He was a Lieu- 
tenant in the War of 1812, and prominent in the 
Congregational Church. The Knight family also 
trace their ancestry to English origin. Mrs. 
Adams died in the east, in 1871, leaving two 
children, our subject and his brother Ed. P., who 
resides in St. Joseph and is Head Delivery Clerk 
at the Burlington Freight Warehouses. 

William K. Adams passed his boyhood in his 



native state and was brought up on a farm by tin 
sea shore, receiving a good common school ednca 
tion. When only eighteen years of age lie volun 
teered as a member of Company B, Forty-ninth 
Massachusetts Infantry, the date of his enlistment 
being September 1, 1862, and was mustered in at 
Pittsrield, Mass. He was sent south on the Banks 
expedition, making the voyage from New York to 
New Orleans on the ship "Illinois." They then 
proceeded to Baton Rouge and participated in the 
siege of Port Hudson. The regiment returned 
home by way of Cairo, 111., ami thence east, the 
survivors of the Forty ninth Regiment being mus- 
tered out at Pittstield, Mass., in September, 1863. 
Our subject, whose health had suffered materially 
during the enforced marches, hardships and ex- 
posure, so far recuperated as to attend school some 
during the winter. He engaged in teaching in the 
western part of the state until in September, 1867, 
when he began his railroad career as agent for the 
Housatonic Road, being located at Vandusenville 
Junction, Mass., for three and a half years, then 
resigning to engage in other business. But at the 
end of seven months, not. finding it congenial to 
his taste, he started westward. 

In November, 1871, Mr. Adams went to Council 
Bluffs, entering as a clerk in what is now a portion 
of the Chicago, Burlington & Quiucy Railroad 
system. Shortly he was transferred to Atchison. 

Kans. , as cashier of the local freight department. 

On May 1, 1872, he was sent to Hopkins, Mo., a 
new junction point, as agent of one of the Bur 
lington lines. Eight days later he was made agent 
of both 1 i ik's, and was continued in that position 
for eight, years and two months. As business con 
stantly increased, the new country developing 
rapidly, this was quite an important post and ably 
did he perform the duties which were placed upon 
his shoulders. On August 1, 1880, he was once 

i e transferred, being located at Red Oak, Iowa. 

an important station of the Burlington Road in 
that state, where he was agent until March 1, 
1882. Mr. Adams then resigned on account of 
failing health, after receiving from his employers 
excellent letters of recomnieiidat ion. Returning 
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belonging to him, neat the town, and operated it, 
mi Iin_; to make it lo^ permauenl home 

In December, 1882, Mr Ldams received an iii 
vital iuu f r< >■ it his former employers t>. again enter 
their Bervice, and after oouaideriug 1 1 • * - matter f"i 
some time be oonoladed to accept the | »< •— i t i • • i » 

off .1 as Local Freight Agent "f the Kansas City, 

si Joseph & Conncil Bluffs Etailroad in this city, 
beginning his dntiee on New Year's > ln_\ . 1888. 
Phe Bnrlington >v Missouri River Railroad shortly 
after began running trains into St. Joseph, as did 
also the Chariton Branch of the Ohicago, Burling 
ton & Quincy, the agencies of both being oon 
[erred i>n him i> well as that of the Hannibal & St 
Joseph Railroad. Under his supervision are about 
one hundred men. About 1889 the new Btock 
yards were located south of the <-iu and he has 
-i iit-f 1 1 ail the supervision of the agencj of it Mr. 
Adams owns a farm <>f two hundred acres in Nod 
away County, which be rents, and also owns real 
estate in the city. 

In Housatonic, Mass., occurred the lirst mar- 
riageof Mr. Adams, on September 2, 1866, when 
Miss Marj V Birdley, ;i native of thai place, be 
came hi> wife. Bhe was a descendant >>f an « >1 > 1 
Ni « England family and on her death in Septem 
ber, 1875, in Hopkins, Bhe I « • f t a family of three 
children : Jennie ('., who was the wife of Henrj 
l Mann, whose residence is in St. Joseph, and 
who was called from this life, January 80, 1803; 
Haiti.' U. now Mrs I'. '<'■ Burr, who is of Havi 
lock, Neb.; and Harlan E. , who is a Btudent at 
Park College, M ssouri. Mr. Adams was married 
in Hopkins, in 1^77. to Miss Annie Jackson, a 
native "f Illinois. While a resident <>f Hopkins 
our subject was Mayor "f 1 1 1 « - place for one year. 

II- is a n Iter of the Free an. I locepted Masons, 

..f Custer Post, <lran.l Arm) ..f the Republic, 
and also of the Anoienl Order of United Work 
men. For twelve years be was superintendent of 
Sundaj schools in Hopkins and elsewhere, and was 
an organiser of the Presbyterian Church of Hop 
kins. In tli.. Westminster Church of this city be 
is now Berving as an Elder. Politically, In' is a 
Republican and lias always manifested great inter 
i tli.' -i -*s ,.f Ins part] 



C\ I ■ I CLAYt M \< l><>\ ItLD i- numb 
among the enterprising young attorneys at 
law in St Joseph. II.' was a. limit. '.I to the 

bar an. I entered tin' "tli. f Judsoa a Mot 

ter. In 1887 he formed a partnership with Thomas 
F. Ryan, which connection existed until August, 
18112, when it was dissolved bj mutual consent, 
and since that time the Captain lias been praotic 
ing alone, having his office in the German Ameri 

can Bank Building. II.' is f Hi.' attorneys 

for the Missouri & Kansas Telephone Company, and 
is attorney for the Consolidated foe Company, for 
the Hanson Coal an. I toe Company and f..i the 
McDonald Feed .v Fuel Company, of which last I." 
is also Secretary . 

The gentleman of whom lliis is a brief life r>'.' 
ord is a son of Donald M MaoDonald who is one of 
tli.. honored early Bottlers, of St Joseph and whose 
sketch ma] I..' found in another portion of this 
work. Our subject's birth occurred in Stewarts 
vilh', Mo., June ".. 1856, where In' lived until his 
ninth year. He was ten years old when be began 
attending the public schools and was graduated 
from the lii^li school in 1875, delivering the vale 
diotory address, After his admission to the bar, 
he was in tli.' employ of I! I . MaoDonald for I bree 
\ ears. 

In military circles Capt MaoDonald is very well 
known and highly respected. In 1879 In- joined 
tin' Saxton Rifles and worked up. being Sergeant, 
then First Lieutenant, and was Gnallj its Captain 
until 1883, when the company was disbanded. In 
the spring Of l s '-'l hi' was appointed by Col \i 

I mill not as Quartermaster of the Fourth Regiment, 
National Guard ol Missouri, with the raid; of 
Captain through the Encampment. This position 
he held until August, 1891, when the Wiokham 
Kill..-, were organized and he was elected Captain 
and commissioned bj Go\ Francis The company 
of his command iB Company K. of the Fourth 
Missouri Regiment. In August, 1892, ih>' State 
Encampment was held at Brooktield, and hi-.com 
pany was among those present \ provisional 
regiment was to be organized with two companies 
from each regiment i" attend the dedication of tho 
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captain who were to be so honored were chosen on 
account of the best appearance and drill work. 
Capt. MacDonald and Capt. Grace of Chillicothe 
with their companies were the favored ones in the 
Fourth Regiment and twenty-eight of the Wick 
ham Rifles were present at the exercises at the 
" White City " in October. 

In politics the Captain is a Democrat, was for- 
merly a member of both the City and County Dem 
ocratic Committees and held the office of Secretary 
and Treasurer of the County Committee. For one 
term he was a school director from the Third 
Ward. He is very popular among his professional 
brethren and in social circles. 

It I ON. ABEL D. KIRK. Few of the citizens 
f"!| of St. Joseph are more widely known and 
1J none occupy a higher place in the regard 
^7 of others than the subject of this biograph- 

ical notice, who is a prominent attorney at law and 
notary public and is numbered among the success- 
ful professional men of Buchanan County. He 
is a man of wide travel and has visited almost 
every portion of the United States, from the At 
lantic to the Pacific and the Lakes to the Gulf. 
Being a close observer, he has gained a broad knowl- 
edge of men and things, and is well informed 
upon all general questions of importance as well 
as matters of local interest. 

Born in Bracken County, Ky., March 'J:!, 1826, 
Mr. Kirk was only two years of age when he ac- 
companied his parents to Mason County, the same 
state, and there he grew to man's estate. He is de 
scended from men of valor and patriotism. His 
paternal grandfather, Thomas Kirk, a native of 
Maryland, served with distinguished bravery in 
the War of 1812, while the great grandfather was 
a Revolutionary soldier. Grandfather Kirk re- 
moved in an early day to Kentucky, where he 
engaged in fanning until his death. Thomas 
Kirk, Jr., the father of our subject, was born near 
Hagerstown, Bid., and accompanied his parents 
to the Blue Grass state, where he early became 
familiar with agriculture. For many years he op 



erated as a drover, and it was his custom to drive 
hogs over the mountains to Richmond, Va. , also 
to trade with the Indian tribes of Mississippi 
and Alabama. These journeys occupied the win 
ter months, while during the summer he cultivat- 
ed his farm. His death occurred in February of 
1854, and it was felt throughout the community 
that his demise removed one who had always been 
an honest man, a kind friend and a public-spirited 
citizen. Politically he was a Democrat, as was 
his father before him. In his religious counec- 
tions he was a member of the Episcopal Church 
South. 

The maternal grandfather of our subject, Joseph 
Downing, was born in Maryland, a descendant of 
English and Welsh ancestors, and was a pioneer 
of Mason County, Ky. As a member of the Meth 
odist Episcopal Church South, it was his constant 
endeavor to aid that denomination in all its good 
works and he was one of its most devoted mem- 
bers. His daughter, Rebecca, the mother of our 
subject, was born in Mason County, where the 
greater part of her useful life was passed. When 
advanced in years, she removed to Falls City, 
Neb., where she passed from earth at the age of 
eighty-one. Her marriage had been blessed by 
the birth of twelve children, ten of whom grew to 
manhood and womanhood, and live of whom are 
now ( IN'.).'!) living. 

The school in which Abel D. Kirk gained the 
rudiments of his education was conducted on the 
subscription plan and was a rude structure similar 
to other pioneer "temples of learning." At the 
age of twenty he commenced to teach, receiving 
five cents a day for each pupil and continuing thus 
employed for nine months. He then located at 
Maysville, in Mason County, where for one year 
he was employed as clerk in a clothing establish- 
ment and later commenced the study of law under 
Judge R. H. Stanton and Theo. Campbell. In 
1850 he embarked in the general mercantile busi- 
ness and conducted a large trade until 1854, when 
lie removed by boat to Weston, Mo. One year 
later he settled in Archer, Neb., where he erected 
the first store building in the village and engaged 
in merchandising. In the fall of 1855 he was 
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represent the people of Ij i — distriol in the State 
Legislature, which then convened .'it Omaha He 
was the leading candidate of South Platte for the 
poeition nil Imt for his refusal in 

mak irtain pledgee, In- would undoubtedly have 

been elected As a membei "f \ain>iis committees, 
in- rendered efficieul aerrioeon behalf of his con 
stituente At the second Beesion of t !• « * NchrHsku 
rerritorial Legialature, Bevera] Btate hank- were 
established and In- was constituted a special com 
mill.-.' of banks, having their organization iu 
charge. 

In 1857 Mr Kirk located al Rulo, Neb., and 
served as Postmaster at thai place for Borne time. 
Hi' was oonnected with tin- inception of the firsl 
paper published there, known as the /.'»/•■ W\ att m 
Guide. While residing there In' was appointed 
ai.l dc camp witli the tank of Lieutenant Colonel, 
.hi Gen. John M. Thayer's staff, in tin- Nebraska 
militia. He also represented tin' people >>f that 

comi ity before the War Department in Wash 

ington, whither he was sent in order to gain a -•■! 
tlemenl with the Indians and half-breeds of his 
neighborhood, trouble having originated on account 

of some land belonging to tin" half In- Is which 

had been taken up by the whites ami improved 
into farms 

While tin' war was raging between tin- North 
and Smith, Mr. Kirk came i" st. Joseph in 1862 
ami for two rears made Ins home on a farm in old 
Sparta. Dpon thai place his wife died in 1863, 
and during' the following year In' came to St. Jo 
-.•|'h t" establish his home permanently. For a 

few months In' served as clerk in tin- offii f tin' 

County Clerk and also conducted a legal practice 
in tin- Probate Court. Subsequently In' was con 
nected with Judge Tutl for a time, then opened an 

office for the practii f his profession, which he 

afterward conducted alone 

In Tazewell County, III .Mr Kirk married Hiss 
\| i. \ Hammett, who was born in Illinois ami 
died in Nebraska The Becond marriage of Mi 
Kirk united him with Miss Helen Donovan, who 
was In, rn in I '.racket Connty, Ky . and reared in 
Sparta, this oounty, she died in l^ 1 '.:'.. leaving 

one child. Lulu M . who passed from earth when 

eleven years old. The present wife of < >n r subject 



bore tho maiden name of Elisabeth A Beartie and 
was born in Saline Connty, Mo Their marriage 
was Bolemnixed in Andrew Connty, Mo., in 1865, 

and has I n blessed \>\ the birth of two children. 

William I: . a traveling salesman, and Angeline 
I; . who is married to Geo I'. Mcluinch and lives 
in Brownsville. In tln-ir religious belief Mi Kirk 
and his wife are identified with the Christian 
Church as worthy ami devoted members. The po 
litioal affiliations of Mr Kirk bring him into sym 
patbj with the principles and platform of the 
Democratic part] and he is an aotive worker iu its 
ranks. 

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EiNOS J. CROWTHER In its mannfaoturee 
the prosperity <>f a city finds its impetus, 
i ami American enterprise is not prone to 
allow opportunities for the profitable i i • 
mint of capita] ami employment of lalior to 
waste. No location on the continent excels that of 
St. Joseph for the enooni agement offered tomanu 
factoring enterprises in supplying the means for 
their success. With every facility for transporta- 
tion offered bj the most favored cities, and with 
an agricultural population steadily increasing and 
strengthening the borne market, the incentives to 
energj in the way of reward- that are the fruit of 
enterprise exist here to an extent nol BUrpassed 
b) any locality in the l*nion. 

The Crowther .\ Rogers Manufacturing Com 
pany was incorporated iii January, 1893, with a 
capital stock of 1 15,000 and with Enoe J. Crowther 
as Secretary The foundry was established before 
the Civil War, and from l s 'i''' t" I ss I tie' firm 
name was Bnrnsidee, Crowther a Rogers But at 
the last named date the senior membei retired from 
the linn and the title became Crowther «\ Ro 
The foundry and machine shop are the oldest in 

the city a- well as among the nio-t prosperous. 
The main building is equipped with all the most 

i lem ami improved machinery adapted to the 

man n fact nre of cast iron woi k, propelled hy an en 

gine of thirty horse | ower. 

The Seoretarj "f this flourish arn, Enos 

■I Crowther, was born in Dnkinfield, England, 
Sept em her 24, 1853 His father, George ( Irowther, 



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was likewise a native of England, and was a 
inunlder by trade. After his marriage he emigrated 
to America in 1854 and located in Chicago, where 
in time he became superintendent of two foundries. 
In 1856 he removed overland to the northeastern 
part of Nebraska, where he engaged in farming 
for rive years. He came to St. Joseph in 1861 to 
take charge of the Union Foundry and Machine 
Shop, in which, two or three years afterward, he 
became a partner. He remained in that connec- 
tion, becoming widely known as a business man of 
enterprise, until 1885, when he died at the age of 
sixty one years.. Even at this day he is often 
spoken of as the finest moulder who ever came to 
St, Joseph, and his work has always been done in 
a conscientious and efficient manner. 

The mother of our subject, Harriet (Johnson) 
Crowther, was born in England and now makes 
her home in St. Joseph. She is a faithful member 
of the Episcopalian Church and a lady of generous 
disposition and cordial manners. Of her seven 
sons only four grew to manhood. Hon. Thomas 
J. Crowther, a practical moulder, assumed the 
charge of the foundry after his father's death and 
remained in that business connection until his de 
mise, which occurred March 8, 1892. A prominent 
local politician, he was chosen on the Republican 
ticket to represent the Second District in the Mis- 
souri Legislature, and served for two years with 
fidelity to the interests of his constituents. George 
C. is also influential in local politics and was nom- 
inated for Member of Congress against Mr. Barnes, 
but was defeated by a small majority, He served 
as City Treasurer for four years and is now Deputy 
Treasurer. James O. is a moulder by trade and is 
a member of the firm. 

Of his native land our subject retains no recol- 
lection, as he was but an infant when he was 
brought to America by his parents. Coming to 
St. Joseph in 1801, he has since made this city his 
home. During his vacations from school work he 
learned the trade of a moulder, completing it when 
seventeen. He then returned to high school, from 
which he was graduated in 1873. After teaching 
for one year he entered the law department of the 
University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, where he 
carried on his legal studios for one year. Later he 



read law with Judge Sherman and in March, 1875, 
was admitted to practice at the bar of the state of 
Missouri. 

Mr. Crowther, before entering upon his active 
business career, took an overland trip to the south- 
western states and territories and old Mexico, and 
spent about twelve months in becoming familiar 
with the customs of the people in that section of 
America. Returning home, he was elected City 
Registrar on the Republican ticket in 1876 and re 
elected two years later. He occupied that position 
until the spring of I SSI*, when he was elected City 
Attorney for a term of two years. In 1882 he en 
tered the firm of Crowther & Rogers ami remained 
there until 1886, wheu he accepted a position in a 
foundry at Albuquerque, N. Mex. In 1889 he re 
turned to St. Joseph and became foreman in the 
foundry, later accepting the position of Secretary, 
which he now holds. 

At St. Joseph, on February 22, 1880, Mr. Crow- 
ther married Miss Effie G. Barnett, who was born 
in Pennsylvania and reared in St. Joseph. They 
are the parents of two children: Fred. B. and F. 
Lolita. Fraternally Mr. Crowther is a prominent 
member of the Masonic Order, having attained to 
the degree of Knight Templar. He was formerly 
identified with the Independent Order of Odd 
Fellows, but has lately severed his active connec- 
tion with that organization. In his religious 
connections he is identified with the Episcopal 
Church as an active member and generous contrib 
utor to all its enterprises. Politically he is a Re- 
publican, as has doubtless been inferred from the 
previous lines. 

QEORGE W. DOWELL, M. 1)., of Agency. 
, is a well known medical practitioner of Bu- 
chanan County and in its history deserves 
' L honorable mention. Coming here about the 
beginning of the war, he has made this village his 
home ever since and has been constantly engaged 
in practice. From the first ho has had a good 
patronage, which has steadily increased up to the 
present day. Ho has ever boon an earnest student 
and keeps abreast of the theories and discoveries 






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which are being constantly made in scientific lines 
mi. I in actual practice in connection with medicine. 

Dr Dowell was born in Breokenridge County, 

K\ . in I s:'."J II.- is a a f George and Mar) 

(Wimp) Dowell, both oi whom were boru in Europe, 
tin' father in Scotland and the mother in Germany. 
Our Bnbjeol is the tenth in a family of twelve 
children and with the single exception of himself 
thej have nil followed agricultural pursuits, The 
t was educated in the common Bchools of 
Kentucky bn( while atill a youth he formed the 

ea si desire of entering a profession, dually 

concluding to become a physician. In 1853 he 
entered the Vandell Medical School, which was a 
branch of the old Dudlej College !!'• afterward 
was n atndenl in the SI Louie Medical College, 
from which institution he graduated in 1869, and 
to which he returned in 1876 for a poal graduate 
course. 

In the year INoO the Doctor was married al 
[owa Point, Kane., to Elizabeth C. Gilmore, who 
is a native of Missouri. Their marriage was 
blessed with a family of si\ childn n, the eldest "I 
whom, Mary, >li<<l in infancy. The others are as 
follows: Robert, a practicing physician of Agency . 
who is a graduate ol the Missouri Medical College 
of St. Louis; Virginia, wife of Joseph Smiles; 
A. Mie K Benjamin and Dora. The Doctor and 
family are members of the Cumberland Presbyte 
rian Church ai Agency and are active workers in 
i bat denominal ion 

n uft.-r his marriage Dr. Dowell located at 
[owa Point, where he was stationed tor five years, 
after which he removed to Agency, where he has 

.in extensive ami lucrative practice, DOl Only ill the 

village, bul in the surrounding country. He has 
always been actively concerned in the welfare of 
tin-- region and has done his share in advancing 
its prosperity. Daring the war the Doctor i ■ • ■ ■ U 
no part on either side bnl is a Democrat politically . 

lie is a meml f the Masonic fraternity and 

served toi one term as Worshipful Master of the 
lodge al Agency. The persona] character of the 
Doctor is al. .v.. reproach, his life being as an open 

b i >k which all may read The i r and I) 

have ever found in him a friend and he has ol r 

fully given to them his services many a time with 



out hope <>f remuneration. Particularly in the 
early >li_\s of his residence here he was obliged to 
ride long distances, often beiug called out in the 
dead of night and in the coldest winter weathei 

JOHN T. BERGHOFF has held the Chi t 
Surgery in the Northwest Medical College of 
St. Joseph since 1879, and "as one of the 
incorporators of that institution. An able 
ami skillful Burgeon, he was also a loyal soldier 
in the Union cause during the late war. being one 
of the tour hundred and ten original Republicans 
of this city who dared to vote in accordance with 
their sentiments in the hotly contested election of 
I860. 

Dr. Berghoff, whose office it in Bergboff Block, 
No. 215 South Si\th street, was born in Germany 
in 1825, and landed in Galvestou, Tex., April 15, 
1846. In that stale h. remained dnring the Bum 
mer, arriving in St. LouiB on October 16. Having 
studied pharmaoj in his native land, he purchased 
a drug sioie in St. Louis in 1850, at the same time 

studying medicine in the dical department of 

the St. Louis University, now known as the St 

Louis Medical College, from which institution he 
graduated on the 1st of March, 1855, having been 

me time previous assistant of Dr, Thou 
Banister, of the City Hospital. In I860 the Doc 
tor removed to St. Joseph, since which time be has 

I ii actively interested in the welfare of that city. 

When the war broke out in 1861, Dr. Berghoft 
entered the Duion Bervice, as Surgeon of the Thir 
teen ih Missouri Volunteers, under Col. E Peabody. 
lie was capture,! at the battle of Lexington, pa 
roled and sent to St. Louis bj < len. Sterling Prioe. 
He was re captured at Centralia, Mo . but being a 
paroled prisoner, was released. The Twenty fifth 
Regiment was organized from the old Thirteenth 

aii.l was also c nnded 1 ■_% Col Peabody. In 

March. 1862, the regiment was ordered to st, Louie, 
thence to Pittsburg Landing. On April 6, 1862, 
he was again taken prisoner at the battle of Sbiloh. 

While he was in the hospital at Shiloh, beil 
prominent ami note. I BUrgeon, he WBS called upon 

bj Burgeon Lyle, Medical Director of the I 



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Army Corps of *1>^ Army of tlie Mississippi, to as 
sist him iu bis duties and in thirty hours performed 
sixty three amputations. He also bad hard hos- 
pital service at Lexington, and one night a cannon 
ball passed through the brick wall of the building, 
scattering brick all over the house. Gen. Price 
afterward sent him to St. Louis with a number of 
wounded soldiers for the purpose of placing them 
in the hospital. At Central ia he was captured by 
the Anderson band: finding he was a paroled pris 
oner from Gen. Trice, he was carried Fourteen 
miles into the country to camp and then released. 

According to agreements entered upon between 
the commanding officers of both the Union and 
Confederate troops, as far as possible the soldiers 
of each army were to be attended by suigeons from 
their own ranks, and in this hospital there were 
three suigeons, four attendants and fifty-six 
wounded men belonging to the Union army, in 
charge of Surgeon Berghoff, and through his man 
agement all were liberated on their recovery, and 
not held as prisoners. The Doctor served with dis- 
tinction until the Twenty fifth Missouri was consol- 
idated with the P'irst Regiment of Missouri Engi 
neers, and was honorably discharged from the 
service on January 20, 1864. Returning home he 
was commissioned Surgeon of the Eighty seventh 
Regiment, E. M. M. , and March 10 as Surgeon of 
the Missouri Militia. 

Dr. Berghoff is the inventor of a universal ap 
paratus useful in fractures of the leg, and patents 
for this contrivance are now pending. This inge- 
nious arrangement is adjustable to any limb and 
admirably adapted to the treatment of fractures. 
being a support and consequently a great relief to 
the patient. In his practice he has used this ap- 
pliance for twenty years with the best results. In 
1868, and again two years later, Dr. Berghoff was 
elected Coroner of Buchanan County. He is a 
member of the American Public Health Association, 

the American Medical Association, the Missouri 
State Medical Associat ion, and the Missouri Valley 
Medical Association. For two years he was City 
Health Officer, and in 1868 was appointed and 
elected President of the Hoard of United States 
Examining Surgeons at St. Joseph, which position 
he tilled with honor until 1885, being again ap- 



pointed by President Harrison. He still serves 
acceptably in the same capacity. In politics the 
Doctor is a Republican, and has for many years 
been a member of (he Hoard of Trade. He was 
married December 27, 1847, in St. Louis, to Caro- 
line Rosenberg, widow of John Oelmian. She 
departed this life in April. 1884. On December 
27, 1884, Dr. Berghoff wedded Miss Marie Adams, 
of Qaincy, 111. Their union has been blessed with 
a family of four children: Marie, Caroline, John 
T., Jr., and Arnold. The pleasant residence now 
occupied by the family is situated at No. 30 Jack 
son street, and there the Doctor and his amiable 
wife delight in entertaining their many friends 



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HON JAMES NELSON BURNES, deceased, 
an ex Congressman from the state of Mis- 
_, souri was born in Indiana August 22, 1827, 
and was a resident of St. Joseph at the 
time of his death. His ancestry was Scotch Irish. 
His grandfather emigrated to America and settled 
near Fredericksburg, Va. , in the Colonial days, and 
when the Revolution broke out he became partici 
pant as a Minute Man. James Barnes, the father 
of our subject, was born February 14, 1877, and 
when about twenty eight years of age married 
Mary Thompson, whose family resided in Cul 
peper County, Va. Of their family of five sons, 
James Nelson was the fourth in order of birth. 

In 18)57 Mr. Burnes obtained some land from the 
Sac ami Pox Indians, included in what has passed 
into history as the " Platte Purchase," and toward 
the close of that year, James Humes had trans 
ported his little family to it, locating OD the Big 
Muddy at Weston, Mo. In his nineteenth year 
.lames Nelson graduated from the Platte County 
High School ami iu 1817 was married to Mary 
Skinner, daughter of Phineas Skinner, a shrewd, 
valiant Kentuckian. The brother of our subject 
assisted him in the pursuit of a law course at the 
Harvard Law School. The contact with mature 
minds benefited him greatly and in his second 
year he was made President of the Parliament of 
Harvard Law School. He early manifested the 
disposition that characterized his whole life, 
that of frankness and thought fulness for others. 






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Aftei completing the oatmeal thiB school Id 
Burnee graduated in 1852, and received the d< 
.if Bachelor .>f Law and returned to Platte < lonntj . 
where he actively engaged iu law practice. Three 
after he was eJeoted Oirouil Utorne] for 
In- jndioial .lisirict. and the aame year was chosen 
Presidential Elector, casting his vote f<>r Buchanan 
and Breckenridge, At tliis time he was also 
engaged in carrying .>n traffioinreal estate and 
buying and selling hemp, which was then 1 1»«> 
staple prodnol "f the soil. Bus practice in tlii* 

oonntj whs i siderable and hie business affairs 

nrere in i prosperous condition when the war broke 
..hi. Hi- followed lii" state and remained stead 
la-it., the Dnion, serving in the militia «ith the 

rank of Ooli 1 [n 1867 he suffered the loss of 

bis brother Daniel, who, with lii* brother Calvin, 
had always been close!} associated with him in 
business. Mis brother left »i\ prphaned children, 
their mother having died bul a short time previous, 
and these were adopted by Mr. Burnee, who pro 
rided for them a good home and treated them with 
the Bame fathei Ij devotion shown to his own chil 
dren. 

Mr Burnee, iu 1869, was elected Judge of the 
r.iiit ..f Common Pleas ..f Platte County, and 
retired from 1 1 1 • < bench in In7*_' tie had spoken in 
each campaign since 1856 and bad developed the 
oratorical powers of a skilled orator. In 1870 l.<' 

made a Btrong -| Ii which won for him a lasting 

reputation. Prom the time of the War until INTO 
lif bad affiliated with the Republican party, and 
was ;i member of tin- State Republican Convention 
in I^Tn His part] nominated two tickets, one 
beaded b] Gov. James McClurg, the other by Oov. 

I I: Gratz Brown and known as the liberal 

Repnblioan ticket. During this convention Mi 
Burnee distinguished himself bj bis forcible ora 
linns, advocating the enfranchisement of those who 
had been disfranchised during the war. and it was 
during one of these speeches thai be gave utterance 
to the expression, " Love is stronger I ban bate." 
\ft<T retiring from the benoh in 1872, be removed 
t.i St Joseph, discerning the business and profes 
■ional advantages of that growing < - i t \ . Sere he 
established liiins..|f in the Bank of St Joseph and 
afterward was instrumental in the organisation of 



the Nal ..'il Hank, of which lii- brother Calvin 
was made President 

Mr. Bnrnea was engaged iu a series "f busi 
enterprises, so numerous thai thej are nol 

easily traced the construct of railroads, build 

ing of bridges, extensive transactions in the pni 
ohase and disposition of large landed properties, 
and the promotion of public enterprises II. buill 
the second railway thai was ever constructed 
through 1 1 nit region, denominated the Western 

& Atchisoc Railway, being President of Ih i 

pau) thai constructed it. II" was als.. actively 
interested in building from Leavenworth, Kims.. 
to Ottnmwa, [owa, the Chicago .V Southwestern 
Railroad, which became a cart <.f the Chicago, 
Rock Island A Pacific Road In \^~,'> be secured 
the control of the St Joseph < * 1 1 _\ Water Works, 
an extensive system, and was President of tin- 
\\ ater Works Company up to the day .>f liis death 

He was also a member >>f tl riginal town com 

pany of Leavenworth and Atchison. Be bad 
watched the growth .>f these places from bis 
western borne onlj ten mil."- distant. 1 1 1 — paternal 
love therefore was deeply touched when lii- bod 
Calvin was elected Mayor ..f Atchison James 
Nelson Burnee was instrumental in erecting the 
Leavenworth and Atchison Hri. Ige, and J. J. 
[ngalls, in a speech at it- dedication, Septembei 

25, 1ST"., said: "Full justice will nol bed him 

until at the eastern approach of thai bridge stands 
a statue in bronze of CoL James N Burnee ..f Mis 
-.ini i." 

In Is77 the banks, in which were deposited the 
I it m Is of the State Treasurer of Missouri suspended 
payment for the reason that there was a deficit ol 
$1,004,000. Col. Burnes was the principal bonds 
man for the Stat.. Treasurer. The < lis.i -i<t was 

-.. sudden and unexj ted that it found him 

totally an prepared for it, and l>i- ruin seei I in 

evitable. Hi- enemies, personal and political, 

Beized with aviditj upontl pportunitj f"i seoui 

ing bis downfall. The State Treasurer, Co). Eli 
jali Gates, a more honest incumbent Hum whom 

could not be found, was indioted, and pro* dings 

•a ere begun in thi ( - I sembly for Ii 

il Through Senator Vest an arrangement 
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Col. Barnes paid the amount of the deficiency 
into the state treasury, the right of action against 

the defaulting banks resting with him. 

In the eighth or tenth year after his removal 
from Weston Mr. Burnes was particularly success 
fill in some financial ventures. His exploits as a 
rule were distinguished for their magnitude and 
the administrative skill involved in their execution. 
They were extensive, frequently comprehending 
the states of Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri 
and Ohio in their broad scopes. As a man of 
wealth, intelligence and influence, Mr. Burnes was 
unsurpassed not only in the entire northwest but 
also in the great mercantile and financial center of 
the country. His political affiliations after 1N70 
were with the Democratic party, and in the 
summer of 1882 ho was asked to stand as the 
party nominee for Congress. His speech of ac- 
ceptance of the honor tendered him, containing a 
statement of the demands of the Democratic party, 
was one of force and conciseness. He was elected 
after a hard fought campaign, the district which 
had previously gone Republican giving a Demo- 
cratic majority. He answered the roll-call for the 
first time in Washington in 1883. Among his 
colleagues were such men as A. M. Dockery, Will 
iam M. Hatch, A. M. Alexander, A. H. Buckuer, 
John J. O. Null, James O. Broadhead and Richard 
P. Bland. 

Mr. Burnes' first official service was one of a 
committee to attend the remains of Hon. Dudley 
C. Haskell, of Kansas, to their final resting-place. 
While he was still absent discharging this duty, 
the House Committee were announced, he being 
assigned to the Committee on Appropriations, then 
consisting of Messrs. Randall, Forney, Ellis, Hol- 
man, Hancock, Townsend. Hutchins, Totlett, 
Keifer, Caumiu, Ryan, Burnes, Calkins, Horr and 
Washburn. January 24, 1S84, he addressed the 
House for the first time upon a bill involving some 
important items of legislation. His second ad 
dress was delivered on the 28th of February, bo- 
ing a eulogy to the memory of Dudley C. Haskell. 
A close intimacy existed between the Hon. M r. 
Burnes and the Hon. Samuel Randall of Pennsyl- 
vania, and as a result, the former was made chair 
man of the sub -committee on the Consular and 



Diplomatic Appropriations Bill, a mark of respect 
second only to that bestowed when he was origin- 
ally appointed on the Appropriation Committee 
proper. In the Forty-ninth Congress he was 
officially designated Chairman of Committee on 
Deficiencies, a position which he held until his 
death. The Hon. William L. Holman, of Indiana, 
in a eulogy, spoke favorably of the great work our 
subject did as Chairman of the last named com- 
mittee. 

In the autumn of 1N8-1 Mr. Burnes was again 
nominated for Congress, this campaign being car 
ried on with such vigor that he was elected by a 
Democratic majority even larger than in the first 
election.* During the second session of this Con- 
gress, consuming a period of nine months, Mr. 
Burnes' time was nearly all occupied in making 
trips to Washington in the interest of his district. 
April 15, 1886, he was appointed by the Speaker 
on a select committee to investigate the cause of 
labor disturbances on the Missouri Pacific Rail 
way. In 1888 he was elected to Congress for a 
third time. He made a strong appeal for Federal 
courts at St. Joseph, which he secured. The 
Northern Pacific Railway had a claim of $2,000, 
000 against the Government. But Mr. Burnes, as 
a member of the Deficiency Committee, opposed 
its payment, claiming that the railroad owed the 
Government 860,000,000, and that the $2,000,000 
should lie paid by giving the railroad company 
credit for that amount instead of paying the cor 
porationthe $2,000,000 in hard cash. He attacked 
the claim in strong language that had its effect 
and the bill did not become a law. Thus several 
millions of dollars were saved to the Government. 
Congress adjourned March 4, 18S7. The family 
residence, located two miles south of the city 
proper, had a beautiful lawn and was known as 
Ayr Lawn. Here Mr. Burnes spent many happy 
hours with his family but frequently visited some 
summer resort or went on a fishing excursion to 
some pleasant lake in the far north. 

Mr. Burnes' memorable speech in the Fiftieth 
Congress, which met December 5, 1^77, was made 
upon the question of the French Spoliation Claims. 
On Angus! 27 forces were marshaled for a final 
struggle, and the claims were stricken from the 



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Appropriation Bill, Mr Barnes vu the leader 

< » r 1 1 pposition, ninl after presenting hi- ar^n 

nil-ills HiH I answering a', I objections, be stood forth 
victorious, and the bigbesl of praise was bestowed 
upon him Among Mi Barnes' warm friends 
were the Hon. Martin Claid] of St Lonis, the 
Hun William It. Morrison of Illinois, tin' Bon 
Joseph Camn of Illinois, tin- Hon. Bam Cox ol 
Mew Yi irk an. I man] "t hers. 

the aften f January 23, 1880, while in 

tin' verj art nf ottering tin- tir-t word of a Bpeech 
Mi Barnes was Btruck with paralysis, and wasas 
-i-ti'il liv Representative Batterworth of Ohio to 
tin- committee room of bis wn, who bad been in 
Washington ten daya Bj o'clock thai nighl 
complete paralysis ensued, anil on Thursday , tin" 
24th, James Nelson Barnes passed away. Tin' 
Congressional escort consisted "f Representatives 
Stone, Munson, and Waile of Missouri, Sagers "f 
Texas, Merrill of Kansas, Byrum <>f Indiana, 
Henderson of Iowa, Senator Vest of Missouri, 
Coke of Texas, and Tillie of Colorado. St Joseph 
was reached Saturday, tin' 26th, when tin' Knights 
Templar escorted tin' funeral procession t" \\> 
I, awn Persons of note from all over Missouri at 
tended 1 1 » « - obsequies, Representatives of (lie 
Government ami of various committees of (he 
Legislature were delegates, ami members of the 
Board "f Trade ami the Commercial Exchange 
were present. Tin' pall bearers were selected 
from Mr. P.iirni— * old friend-, namely The Hon, 
Cyrus Noorlso, fsaac T. Hosea, John S. Brittain, 
T. J. Chen, 8 B CJreen \ N Schuster, John 
Sanders, and Levi Took The services were di 

I bj the Masonic/Order and the remainswere 
interred al Mounl MoraCemeterj 

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I ||ON w M.l.l.i; F01 Mi. . \ State Senator 

r-H from the Second District of Missouri, (if 

1 Virginia ancestry, Kentuokj liiitli and Mis 

v iri rearing, thin gentleman embodies in 

In- strongly marked individuality ami sterling 

character tin' besl trait- of tli" beat | pin "f three 

great commonwealths. He exhibits the culture 
iiml dignit] of tin' Virginian, tin' graceful conr 



tea] ami geaial companionship of tin- Kentuokian, 
and the broad gauge liberality ami wide-awake 
energj "f tin- progressive ami public-spirited 
western Missourian. 

Born in Bath County, Ky . in 1843, became t" 
Missouri with his parents in 1851. The] aettled 

on a large tract "f wild land in tl astern part of 

Buchanan Count] ami pine led to build for 

themselves a home in what was then the verj 
border of the civilized world, 

Tim rugged experiences of earlier years served 
to develop in Mr. Toang a spirit of stard) inde 
pendence ami Belt reliance which has served him 
will in his battle with the world lifter receiving 

thn rudiments of an education in such bc! I- 

newly Bettled countrj afforded, Mr. foung attended 
college at Platte City ami Plattsbnrg, Mo., ami was 
a student there when the war broke oat At the 

olo f that memorable struggle he took up the 

atudy of law. He went to | isville, kv . !•■■ 

came a Btudent in the law college of that city ami 
graduated therefrom in 1870. 

rpon Mr. Young's return from Louisville be 

a< ptml tlm position of factor of tin- Missouri 

State Penitentiary at Jefferson City, of which be 
had entire financial control. After successfully 
discharging the dnties of this position for several 
month-. In' resigned, returned to St Joseph ami 
opeued up a law office. As tlm result of industry 
and energj he booh built up a lucrative business 
Ever since reaching manhood Mr. Young has taken 
an active and prominent part in Missouri politic- 
ami ha- proved himself 01 f the hardest uurk 

inn; mnl most enthusiastic members "f his part] in 

the state He i- IcnnWII to lln;l shrewd. Capable 

and clear beaded leader and an able organize) 
These characteristics, supplemented bj a personal 
popularity and acquaintance throughout the state, 
have enabled him I" do telling and effective work 

in local, slate ami national campaigns. 

In 1870, when B Grate Brown was elected <■"* 
enior. as the result of dissension ami division in 

the Republican party, Mr Y.iniin did g I service 

for his part] in northwestern Missouri In 1872 
he was ohosen a si ate Delegate to the State I 'emu 
oratic Convention, and was large)] instrumental in 
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Woodson for Governor, who after his election 
made Mr. Yonng his private secretary. During 
this year also Mr. Young took an active part in the 
presidential campaign, and frequently appeared 
on the stump in behalf of the Democratic candi- 
dates. 

After serving as private secretary to Governor 
Woodson for a short time Mr. Young resigned and 
resumed the practice of his profession. In 1ST) 
he was elected to the State Senate by a majority 
of 1,900, achieving the greatest victory ever won 
in his district. While in the Senate Mr. Young 
served on a number of important committees, and 
was recognized as one of the ablest, most progres- 
sive and most popular members of that body. In 
18X1 he was appointed by Governor Orittendon a 
member of the Board of Managers of State Lunatic 
Asylum No. 2 at St. Joseph, and discharges his 
duties in an able and business like manner. In 
June, 1884, Mr. Young was elected President of 
the School Board of the City of St. Joseph, which 
position he has filled for the past nine years. 
Much of the excellence of the public schools of 
this city is due to his untiring activity and the 
common sense exhibited by him in promptly and 
intelligently meeting their constantly increasing 
demands. 

Tn 1884 Mr. Young was a delegate from Missouri 
to the National Democratic Convention at Chicago, 
which nominated Grover Cleveland fur the Pres- 
idency. In 1885 lie was returned to the State 
Senate to till a vacancy caused by the resignation 
of R. T. Davis. During this session Mr. Young 
was instrumental in securing an appropriation of 
$1011,0(10 for the enlargement of State Lunatic 
Asylum No. 2, for which he was publicly compli- 
mented by the Board of Trade and the City 
Council. He introduced and passed the bill 
creating the Buchanan County Criminal Court and 
Circuit Court No. 2 and was the author of the law 
creating metropolitan law forSt. -Joseph. In 1888 
he was chosen a delegate to the State Democratic 
Convention, which met at Springfield for the pur- 
pose of nominating candidates for justices of the 
supreme court. Upon the assembling of the con 
vention he was elected its permanent Chairman, 
and in the discharge of his duties displayed a 



thorough knowledge of parliamentary law, skill in 
handling that rather turbulent body of men, and 
a promptness and firmness in his decisions that 
elicited the praise and won the admiration of all. 

Mr. Young's geniality of disposition and innate 
spirit of good fellowship have won for him a wide 
spread popularity. He is free hearted and open 
handed, and a general favorite of the people of 
the city, among whom he has so long resided. 
Progressive and public spirited, he has always 
advocated and championed those measures calcu 
lated to advance the material prosperity of the people 
of his state and city, and has ever aimed to subserve 
their highest and best interests. He is now 
serving as County Clerk of Buchanan County and 
discharging the duties of the office to the satisfac- 
tion of every one. 












JfUDGE THOMAS A. BROWN. Few citizens 
of Buchanan County have been more prom 
I inently before the public or have had their 
histories interwoven more inseparably with 
that of this region than has the honorable gentle 
man of whom we write. The plain record of such 
a man's life needs no embellishment in the hands 
of the historian, for his own good deeds are the 
best monument to his worth. 

Mr. Brown was born in Knox County, Term., 
January 28, 1812, and resided in that state until 
twenty-seven years of age, on a farm. In 1838 he 
emigrated to this county, locating some sixteen 
miles due south of St. Joseph, in which city he 
has for many years past made his home. He 
came from his native state witli his father in law, 
Joseph Blakeley, and his family, all locating In 
gether in Crawford Township on the county line 
The lands of the "Platte Purchase" had not yel 
been all surveyed and Mr. Brown assisted the 
Government party in order to expedite matters. 
Soon after settling on the land he pre empted one 
hundred and sixty acres, where he resided until 
184 1. Removing to Nodaway Comity, then apart 
of Andrew County, he settled at the Narrow--, 
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winter of IM I the oonnty ni organized, and in 
company with Junee Culkerson and Joseph Lowe 

1 rected the firs! i it noose and jail, and was 

appointed one oftbe county judges. In IMI be 
was appointed by Gov. Edwards to till a va 

eaney in the firsl Oonnty Coarl in plw f Judge 

Rohrer. He is tl ih one living who wielded 

the gavel there a< that early period. He was also 
mi the bench when t i i • » firsl oourl house and jail 
reeled al Bparta, then the county seat, ten 
miles soath of SI Joseph. The old l<>^ building 
i-* still standing, a relic of the flay when Sparta 
was o insidered to be a place "f greal Future pros 
peel - 

Judge Austin A King held the first Circuit 
< '• n r i at tin' raliin of Joseph Robidoux, in St. Jo 
Bepb, where the junction of Second and Jule streets 
now is. This court was held November 17. 1838 
The clerk, Edward Toole, who is still living, is 
now in Montana, while Samuel M Qilmore, tho 
former sheriff, is now in Oregon. Judge Brown 
was a member of Nodaway County Court for four 
teen years and was elected t" the Legislature in 
1846 for two years, again in l s ~>'_! and 1854 f'>r 

the sa length <>f time. Il«' Ims always been a 

itanofa Democrat. General Jackson was a warm 
friend of his father's, making the family a Bhorl 
visit while en route from Washington t" Nasi, 

villi-. 

Judge Brown lias always 1 nan active poli 

tician, having stumped the count} in many presi 
dential elections. In 1849 he went to California, 
driving an ux team all the way, ami was gone for 
two years, returning l>y waj of the Isthmus \i 

two different tinn's he was i fined in the jail ol 

St Joseph as a Rebel sympathizer, l>nt was nevei 
kept more than a few hours. He was ,, slave 
owner and had three sons in the rebel army. 
While in Nodaway Conntj be was indicted for 
treason, t ¥ ■ « - trial being appointed to take place in 
tins city, but he took a change of venue to DeKalb 

County, and can IT victor in the trial, which was 

nft. •! ward appealed t" the Supreme Court bnl was 
dismissed. For two years he was confined to the 
limits of St Joseph, bnl after 1868 was not mo 
tested, aftiT which In' settled five milee southeast 
ofthiapoint En 1 S 7'J be bought a farm f"nr 



mill's south, where be resided until 1885, when lie 
I ami' a permanent resident of SI Joseph 

In November, 1878, Jndge Brown was again 
elected Presiding Jndge of the < "■ nut % Court, t" 
whiofa position be was re elected fnnr years lata 
and again in November, 1890, tluis making bis 
services in the two counties cover a period of thii 
iv dun years, being commissioned to till the office 
eleven times He lias been identified with nearly 
all the important legislation "f the county, which 
soon after the war had a bonded indebtedness of 
$100,000 al ten percent semi annually and six pel 
cent, si-mi annually. 

The county repudiated its debt, not even paying 
interest. Judge Brown canvassed the county, 
lecturing in all portions of ■ the same and taking 

the ground thai the higher irts bad decided thai 

counties must pay tin's., bonds He was elected a 

member .>f tl ommittee i" effect a compromise 

on the Imsis nf paying the fa f tl riginal 

$400,000, and coupons with interest of $200,000 
more funded on twenty years' bonds al five per 
cent annually They created a sinking fund ami 
the indebtedness has been largely paid off, the 
fnnded bonds being sold by our subject at Newark, 
N. J., at pat value. The court has about $450,000 
each year in collect and disburse, the associates of 
Mr Brown being James Hillan and William 
Stanton, l>"t!i recently elected to the County 
Cnurt ami holding their tirst term 

Jndge Brown is now the owner of a hundred 
ami ten acre farm, night miles from St Joseph, t" 
the supervision "f whioh he gives considerable 
time, though now more than eight] two \>-ais of 
age. He was mustered in the United States sen 
ice during the Seminole War nnder General Wool, 

ami is justlj asking a pension for the sen s 

there r lered. During the late war he Buffered 

greatly fr the attacks of deaperadoes under the 

guise of militia In Jefferson County, Tenn . afi 
Brown wedded Miss Margaret l> Blakeley, on 
April 21, 1883. [n the dark days of the war when 
Iht husband was a prisoner in 81 Joseph, a Land 
uf men came to the bouse commanding her t" pre 
pare a meal for them, intimidating bar with 
threats of great ferocity, kftei their departure 
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days bad elapsed died from the effects of the scare 
she bad received. 

On November 9, 1873, Mr. Brown was united in 
marriage with Mrs. Mary A. Deacons, whose maid 
en name was Ardery, anil whose birthplace was 
in Bourbon County, Ky. To his first marriage 
were horn eleven children, seven of whom are liv- 
ing. For the last, few years our subject has been 
a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 
being now one of the Presiding Elders. He has 
thirty six grandchildren and sixteen great grand 
children, and is himself the youngest and only 
living member of a family comprising twelve chil- 
dren. Only six men are now living (who were 
heads of families in Buchanan County) that were 
residents here in 1838, when Mr. Brown first land- 
ed in this region. He has a great fund of histor- 
ical reminiscences, and though past four score 
years moves with a firm step and attends to his 
official duties as carefully and closely as his co- 
adjutors who are not more than half his age. 



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n< LBRECHT & HUBER. Among the land 
[I \\ marks of St. Joseph none is more familiar 
//*\ than the jewelry house belonging to the 
*/ gentlemen just mentioned; in fact it is the 

oldest business of the kind in the place, for it was 
established in 1851. Both members of the firm 
have been for a great many years reckoned among 
the substantial and enterprising business men of 
St. Joseph and with all the details of their trade 
they are thoroughly familiar, having commenced 
at the lowest round of the ladder of knowledge and 
success and steadily worked their way upward 
through years of experience. 

We will first turn our attention to the history of 
the senior member of the firm, John B. Albrecbt. 
He was born in the Grand Duchy of Baden, Ger 
many, at Waldshut on the Rhine, August 3d, 1821. 
His paternal grandfather, who was a farmer by 
occupation, lived to be eighty two years of age. 
Our subject's father, Raphael, was also a native 
of Baden and was an expert watchmaker in his 
native country, where he lived until cut down by 



the sickle of death at the age of sixty-five years. 
His wife, who was in her maiden days Miss Barbara 
Wiuterbalter, also lived and died in Germany 
The family of this worthy couple comprised eleven 
children, only four of whom are now living. Our 
subject, who is the second in order of birth, is, 
with the exception of a brother who resides in New 
Orleans, the only member of the family in America. 

Mr. Albrecbt was reared to manhood in his na- 
tive village and received good common and high 
school advantages. When fourteen years of age 
he was apprenticed to learn the jewelry business 
with his father, remaining with him for three 
years, when he went to Switzerland, working as a 
journeyman in Basle for two years, next going 
to Neufchatel, where the finest watches in the 
world are made by the skilled and celebrated 
Swiss. He remained in that city for two years, or 
until reaching his majority, when he returned to 
Germany, and while there debated the question 
whether or no he should enter the army. He con 
eluded to return to Switzerland,- whence he 
went to Marseilles, France, working at his trade 
for seven years and learning many of the French 
manners of turning out delicate jewelry, burnish 
ing, engraving, etc. He liked the city very much 
and it was with regret that he finally determined 
it would be best for him to leave and come to 
America. His brother Joseph had emigrated to 
the United States in 1847, locating in New Orleans, 
and it was through his representation that our sub 
ject concluded to cast in his lot with him. 

In the fall of 1849 Mr. Albrecht left Marseilles, 
taking passage on a sailing vessel, and arrived at 
New Orleans in forty nine days. Among the passen 
gers on the same vessel was John B. Hubor, our 
subject's partner for many years past. After 
working at his trade in the Crescent City Mr. Al- 
brecht came up the river and located in St. Joseph. 
The previous year he had come to this city and 
selected a site for business on Main street and at 
that time had decided to settle here. The city of 
St. Joseph then numbered only twenty live hun 
dred and gave no promise of the great future in 
store for it. For some time he did business in the 
old City Hotel, then removing to the Edgar House 
put in a large slock of jewelry and sporting goods, 






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guns, pistols, knives, etc., and while there was bo 
much emigration across the plains to California he 
did a thriving bnsinesB in the latter lines. In 1859 
the present large building was erected, 20x40 
(eel and three stories in height. For forty-two 
years the partners have been engaged in business 
together and do the principal repairing of all tine 
jewelry work in the city. 

In 1854 Mr. Albrecht and Miss M. L. Schmidt, 
who was born in Germany, were united in mar- 
riage. Two children were horn of their union: 
Alhert J., who is engaged in the insurance busi 
ness, and Oscar, who is paying teller of the Ger 
man American Bank. The family residence which 
was built by Mr. Albrecht is situated at No. 41S 
South Eleventh street. During the war he was a 
member of Company B, Missouri Regulars, under 
Capt. Hax, and was obliged to close his business 
entirely during those troublous times. For mer- 
itorious service he was promoted to the rank of 
Sergeant. Mr. Alhrecht was a member of the 
School Board for eight years and was active in es 
tablishing the German school now known as the 
German American school, which lie helped to 
build and had transferred to this city. He is a 
member of the Turner Society and is President of 
the German School Board. In politics, though 
formerly a Republican, he is now Independent, 
and lias always been a man of public spirit, having 
helped greatly many enterprises, among which we 
might mention his assistance in getting the Han 
oibal & St. Joseph Railroad through here and his 
share in building the Pacific Hotel and establish 
ing the Fair Grounds. The firm own two stores 
on Fourth st reel, which they built themselves, and 
a farm of fifty acres in Washington Township, 
which is under good improvement and but a mile 
from St, Joseph. 

John 15. Huber, the junior partner of the jew- 
elry firm mentioned above, is a native of Switzer 
land, having been born in Laufenburg, Canton 
Aargau, a beautiful village on the Rhine, Novem- 
ber 24, 1825. Mis father was .John B. Huber, also 
a native of that count ry and a prominent merchant, 
while his mother Was Johanna Albrecht before her 
marriage. She was born in Baden, Germany, and 

both hers. 'If and husband died in Switzerland. 



Mr. Huber was the oldest of four children and at 
the age of fifteen was apprenticed to a jeweler in 

Rheinfelden and later to one in Berne, where he 
remained until twenty years of age, then going to 
Lyons, France, and in INK! to Marseilles. As 
before mentioned, in the year 1849 he came to 
America on the same sailing vessel as did his pies 
eut partner, Mr. Albrecht. On arriving in New 
Orleans he engaged in working at liis trade for B 
short time and in IN50 located in Lexington, Mo., 
where he resided for a year, landing in St. Joseph 
in lSfil. Heat once entered into partnership with 
the gentleman who has since been the senior mem- 
ber of the firm. During the war Mr. Huber was 
in the state militia, being a member of Company I'. 
under ('apt. Hax. 

In 1859 Mr. Huber and Miss Mary Kueehle 
were joined in wedlock. Mrs. Huber was born in 
Indiana anil is a daughter of -Joseph Kueehle, a 
prominent businessman and bnwer. To our wor 
thy subject and his wife has been born two chil- 
dren: Flora, who is now Mrs. Louis, of St. Joseph; 
and Frankie, now Mrs. Conett, of this city. Mr. 
Huber owns a pleasant residence on the corner of 
Eighth and Francis streets, and is accounted one 
of the reliable citizens of the town. His historj in 
business circles is given more fully in that of his 
partner, in the first part of this sketch. 

JiACOB ESTEP may lie mentioned as promi- 
nent among the citizens of Cameron. He 
' has indeed for years been closely connected 
with the progress of Clinton County as one 
of its successful agriculturists. He was born in 
Frederick County, Md., November 23, L823, the 
son of John and Elizabeth Estep. When 
twelve years old he accompanied the other mem 
hers of the parental family to Ohio, settling in 
Seneca County, where he grew to manhood upon 
his father's farm. 

After serving an apprenticeship of three years 
at the trade of blacksmith in Melmore, Seneca 
County, Mr. Estep worked as a "jour" for a short 
time and then opened a shop at Bloomville, where 
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and manufacturer of wagons and farming imple- 
ments. While in the employ of others he had re- 
ceived $10 per month, but during the first year 
in which he engaged in business for himself he 
cleared sl."»H He remained at Bloomville for 
seven years, or until 1ST>7, when he came to Mis 
souri, and settled on a farm six miles south of 
Cameron. During the thirty years of his r j si 
dance on that place, he was successful in bringing 
the land to a high state of cultivation, until the 
farm was conceded to be one of the best in the 
county. His efforts were bo successful that he 
was enabled from time to time to add to his prop- 
erty until his possessions aggregated twelve hun- 
dred acres. Some of his laud, however, he has 
given to his children, and at present 1 1893) retains 
rive hundred acres. 

In addition to the occupation of a general farm- 
er. Mr. Estep engaged in stockraising. in which he 
was more than ordinarily successful, and also man- 
aged a blacksmith shop on his farm. In InTT he 
retired from active business and came to Cameron, 
where he occupies a comfortable home near the 
college. During the Civil War he served as First 
Lieutenant of Company H. Eighty ninth Missouri 
Cavalry. He assisted in the organization of a 
company, of which he was first elected Captain, 
but resigned in favor of a regular soldier. He 
participated in the battles of Camden Point. Blue 
Mills and others of minor importance. Among 
the notable -.kmnishes in which he engaged was 
the tight near Albany. Ray County, in which each 
party had about sis hundred men. " Bill" Ander- 
son, the leader of the Confederate forces, attacked 
the militia. His men stopped about two hundred 
yards distant, but he rode ahead, with the bridle 
l>etween his teeth and a revolver in each hand, un- 
til he fell about twenty feet inside the militia lines. 
Three or four of his men were fatally wounded, 
but not one of the opposing army was killed. 
During the Rebellion the duty of the soldiers in 
Missouri consisted largely in guarding the rail 
roads, and Mr. Estep served in that way as well as 
on the field until he was mustered out at the close 
of the war. 

With the public affaijs of Clinton County Mr. 
i has for a long time been closely identified 



as a prominent official and public-spirited citizen. 
From 1 S»>4 until 1866 he served as County Judge, 
and during that time the court had charge of the 
probate business in addition to the ordinary county 
affairs. In 1866 he was elected to represent the 
county in the Legislature and was active during 
the reconstruction period. Along educational 
lines his work has been especially effective and to 
his influence was largely due the adoption of a 
public school system. He served as a member of 
the Committee on Education, which prepared the 
first bill for public schools, and succeeded in mak 
ing the school year from three to six months. In his 
own county he has also aided in educational mat- 
ters and has done all in his power to foster the 
common schools. As director he rendered efficient 
service in his community and also served as Town 
ship Clerk for ten years. 

While in the Legislature Mr. Estep also served 
as a member of the railroad committee Prior to 
the war grants had been made, and the companies 
being nearly all bankrupt, the question arose as to 
what should be done with them. The state took 
the matter in hand and sold the railroads, the Han 
nibal iV: St. Joseph being the only one completed. 
Politically Mr. Estep has always held strictly to 
party lines, and since he cast his first presidential 
ballot for Fremont, has never failed to vote the 
Republican ticket, except in 1876, when he went 
to the Centennial. 

July 25, 1850, Mr. Estep married Miss Matilda 
•I. Culver, who was born in Seneca County, Ohio. 
June 14. 1828. Their family consists of the fol 
lowing-named sons and daughters: Emmett H.. 
who resides on a faim in DeKalb County, Mo.; 
Ida E . whose husband. Hector Filley, operates a 
portion of the Estep farm: Clara P.. the wife of 
Charles T. Williams, of Guthrie, Okla. : Minnie 
E., who is the wife of William A. Henderson and 
resides on the old homestead: Nettie M., Mrs. 
William E. MeComhs. of Welda. Anderson County. 
Ivans.: and Charles S., who was born April I s . 
l s 7t. and has recently completed a commercial 
course at the Missouri Wesleyan College. Socially 
Mr. Estep is a member of the Joe Hooker Post. 
Grand Army of the Republic, at Cameron. In his 
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IjUDGE JAMES A. MILLAN Lmong the 
^ I prominent, popular and thoroughly respected 
\J' eltizenaof St. Joseph is Judge Millan, who 
has resided here since 1852, and has been 
thorough!) identified with the growth anil pros 
parity of this region. In the early days he was 
a prominent newspaper man and is now oneof the 
judges and President pro ten. of Buchanan 
County Court, ex County Recorder and ex-City 
Assessor. His home is at No. 1008 Edmond 
street, th<> building being one of the old Robidouz 
relics lately remodeled. 

Mr. Millan was born in Lancaster, Garrard 
County, Ky., April 20, 1826. His father, Thomas, 
was a native of Fairfax County, Va., residing at 
Culpeper Court House. His paternal grand 
father, whose Christian name was also Thomas, 
was likewise a native and died in the Old Domin- 
ion. 

Our subject's father emigrated to Kentucky 
in early manhood. He followed the trade of 
saddle and harness making in Lancaster, and was 
honored with the position of Justice of the Peace 
for a number of years in that locality. In 1831 he 
brought his family overland to Palmyra, Mo.. 
purchasing two farms, which he opened up and 
carried on, afterward engaging in business in 
Palmyra, which was then the principal town of 
thai region. He was also made Justice of the 
Ptace in this state, was an old lino Whig, and a 
thoroughly respected citizen. His death occurred 
about the close of the war. 

Our subject's mother was before her marriage 
Miss Clarissa Garrett, a native of Charlotte ville, 
Va. She died in the faith of the Presbyterian 
Church, of which she was a devoted member, in 
1836, leaving four sons and a daughter, who most 
sincerely mourned her loss. The record of the 
family is as follows: Ellen is now Mrs. Cook, and 
resides in San Francisco; William, who was a sue 
cessful merchant, died in Palmyra, as did also the 
next younger brother, Thomas II., who succeeded 

to his father'- business; Alexander (l. i- a book- 
keeper in this city: James A . our subject, is the 
fourth in order of birth; an infant, who died early 
in life, completes the family. The father was 



again married, taking as his wife Mis Mary M. 
Garrett. She left one son, John S., a wholesale 

druggist of Memphis, Teiin., and at the age of 
ninety years Mrs. Millan departed this life in 
Palmyra, where she had resided for fifty years. 

Judge Millan was reared in Palmyra, Mo., and 
attended private schools for some years. \\ hen 
only seventeen years old he was apprenticed to 
learn the printer's trade, with Jacob Sosey, editor 
of the Palmyra Spectator. Three years later he 

went to Columbia and obtained a position as fore 

man on the Statesman, Continuing with them until 
1850, when he established the Missouri Sentiru /. a 
weekly paper which he conducted until 1852. 
About this time occurred his marriage in Prairie 
ville, Pike County, to Miss Diary E. . daughter of 
the Rev. William Barnett. Her father was a 
prominent Methodist Episcopal minister, and was 
ii missionary among the Wyandotte Indians for a 
number of years. He died at the home . ,f our 
subject in 1883, ageil eighty two years. 

In March, 1853, Mr .Millan locate.) in St 
Joseph, buying out the Adventure and chang 
ing the name of the paper to the St. Joseph ( 
mercial Cycle, which was a weekly and a strong 
Whig organ. In the following fall he took in as 
a partner E. C. Davis, finally selling out. 
He then engaged in the dry goods business on 
Second street, taking in as a partner his brother 
in-law, Mr. Cook, the firm being known as Cook 
& Millan. This was the tirst exclusive dry goods 
house in the city, and after running it about 
eighteen months successfully, he sold out his 
interest and returned to his printing business, 
starting the first job printing office, with hand 
presses, carrying on that business exclusively lor 
sometime and finally adding a l>o.ik bindery and 
blank book manufactory. 

About the close of the war Mr. Millan started 
the St. Joseph Democratic Vindicator, a weekh 
paper, and after running it about a year estab 
lished it as a daily, which was the first of the kind 
to be operated in this portion of the state. After 
taking in a partner he enlarged the journal and 
purchased the first steam engine attached to B 
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and built up a large and remunerative trade. In 
1S71 he sold out bis interest in tbe business and 
then going to Plattsburg, Mo., published the Mis- 
souri Reflector for one year, after which he 
transferred the paper to St. Joseph and for a year 
carried it on under the name of the St. Joseph 
Eifleeior. After selling it, it was removed to 
Plattsburg and is there still published. 

For two years Mr. Millan then conducted the 
Independent Sentinel at Independence, Mo., 
after which he returned to St. Joseph and was 
appointed City Assessor, holding that position for 
two terms. For three terms he served as Docket 
Clerk under the legislative session in Jefferson 
City. 

For some time later he engaged in the real 
estate business, being a Notary, Collector and Con- 
veyancer, and in 1879 was elected County Recorder 
for four years, serving as such until 1883, when 
he was made Cashier and Paymaster for the St. 
Joseph & Grand Island Railroad. He remained 
with that corporation until the office of the com- 
pany was removed to Omaha and then he returned 
to his real estate and similar business. In May. 
1892, he was nominated for County Judge of the 
Second District on the Democratic ticket and 
elected by a majority of six hundred votes. 

The home of Judge Millan was blessed with six 
children, three of whom are deceased: Edward 
A., dying in 1881, and two who died in infancy. 
Those living are: William, who is a commercial 
traveler for the hardware firm of A. F. Shapley 
& Co., of St. Louis; Mary E. , now Mrs. Winton of 
Kansas City; and Louise W. Mr. Millan was one 
of the early members of the School Board and was 
Secretary of the same for three years previous to 
the war, but then resigned. He helped build the 
first school-houses run under the graded plan in 
this city, and has ever been interested in educa- 
tional affairs. He is still a member of the News 
paper Press Association and belongs to the Episco 
pal Church. Politically he is a Democrat, and 
during the war had many interesting experiences 
and thrilling escapes naturally incident to that, 
eventful period in the history of this govern- 
ment. 



EiDWARD B. NEELY. The opinion of few 
on educational matters is sought for and 
I cpioted more by educational men in the 

east as well as the west than is that of the 
gentleman whose name heads this sketch and who 
has so ably tilled the position of Superintendent 
of the St. Joseph Public Schools for over a quarter 
of a century. The confidence which the people of 
the city repose in him and their appreciation of 
his work among them have been demonstrated by 
them time and again in their returning him to his 
present position. While keeping fully abreast of 
the times. Mr. Neely possesses a rare faculty 
among teachers of the day in being able to lay hold 
of the best in all educational movements and in 
casting away those worthless hobbies which find 
place in so many of tbe public schools of the peri 
od, and are useless not only to regard to the time 
of the pupils, which is uselessly consumed, but in 
regard to the money which is necessarily devoted 
to the teachers of these "fads." Under his wise su- 
pervision a system of schools has grown up in this 
city of which St. Joseph can justly be proud. It 
bears the stamp of his clear thought and good 
judgment, and the schools are acknowledged by 
all to be surpassed by none in the state. 

Professor Neely was born in Accomac County. 
Va. , on Christmas day, 1828, and passed the 
greater portion of his boyhood in Washington, D. 
O, where he was prepared for college by his well 
educated and able father, John Neely, A. M. In 
his seventeenth year he entered Washington Col- 
lege, in Pennsylvania, which is now known as the 
Washington and Jefferson College, graduating 
therefrom in 1847, being then in his nineteenth 
year. One month afterward he became assistant, 
teacher in Warfield Academy in Maryland. In 
ISIS he established a private school in his native 
county, at Onancock, which he conducted for two 
years, and then became principal of Margaret 
Academy in the same county, one of the oldest 
institutions of learning in the Old Dominion. 

On May 5, 1852, Mr. Neely was united in mar 
riage with Charlotte, youngest, daughter of the 
Hon. Jacob Slagle, of Washington, Pa., and the 
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Margaret Academy, and in company with a former 

fellow student removed to St. Joseph. This place 
then bad a population uf about three thousand 
only, and as it was before the dayaof railroading 
to any extent in the west, Mr. Neely made the 
journey all the way from Pittsburg by steamboat 

Here be and hie companii stablished the St. 

Joseph Male Academy, which soon grew to be a 
large and flourishing school. In 1860 the system 
of public schools was organized in the city, but 
they were discontinued on the outbreak of the 
Civil War. They were, however, reorganized in 
1864 with a school board of eleven members. 

Mr. Neely, who had conducted his private school 
uninterruptedly up to this time, was unanimously 
elected Superintendent of Public Schools August 

1'.', 1864. He was not an applicant and it was a clear 
case of the office seeking the man. Without inter 
mission he has since held this responsible position, 
and was recently elected for a term of three years by 
a board consisting of seventeen members. The com- 
pletion of this term will make thirt\ one years of 
continuous service in this one position. Prof. Neely 
has always been active in general educational mat 
lers, taking a special interest in the work done in 
this slate. In 1866 he was elected President of the 
first teachers' convention ever held in .Missouri, 
which assembled in St. 1. mis. The same year he 
became County Superintendent, serving for a term 
of l wo years and being twice re elected, in each case 
leading his ticket by several hundred votes. After 
his six years' service, as the city schools demanded 
all his attention, he declined renomination as 
( lounty Superintendent 

In 1 s7<> Governor McClurg appointed Professor 

Nee|\ on the Board of Regents of the Stale Nor- 
mal School, and at the first meeting of that bod) 
held in Jefferson City our subject was elected 
President, and while he served as such the Nor- 
mal School for the northern district was located 
at Kirksville and the one for the southern district 
at Warrensburg. Handsome buildings were erect 
ed, excellent teachers secured and the schools 
thoroughly organized. In 1871 the St. Joseph 
school hoard built a large handsome school edifice, 
which, in recognition of the services of .Mr. Neely, 
was named in his honor (lie " Neely School." 



In 18D0 the city established a free public libra- 
ry, which receives an annual support from the 
general revenue. Mr. Neely was a member of the 
first Board of Directors and is now serving as its 
Vice president. He is a passionate lover of hooks 
and literature, and in bis disposition is genial and 
warm-hearted, by these means winning and keep- 
ing many friends. In the ChioagO Inter (><■<', iii 
soon after the death of the great statesman, . I, inns 
(i. Blaine, was printed a program of the exercises 
of Washington College's graduating class, Sep 
tember 29, 1847, of which both Blaine and Mr. 
Neely were members. Many of the classmates 
have since become famous throughout the land, 
some for one thine; and some for another. On 
that occasion Mr. Neely was booked for an oration, 
for which, both for his manner of delivery and 
the thought betokened iu bis speech, which were 
far beyond his years, be received great credit and 
praise. 









JAMI'.S LIMBIRD, the subject of this sketch, 
residing at No. 1326 Francis street, St. 
' Joseph, Mo., was horn at Kicker, Lincoln 
shire, England, July 24, 1843. He is the 
youngest of nine children, seven sons and two 
daughters, who are all living with the exception 

of Charles, the eldest, who died iu the trenches 
near Sevastopol, Russia. He whs a brave and 
gallant soldier, and for his courage and service at 
Inkerman ami Balaklava, received a gold medal 

from Qu i Victoria. The father of our subject, 

whose christian name was also -James, was the old 
est of bis family, there being two other brothers, 
both of whom died unmarried. Grandfather 
Limbird was an only son, as was also his father. 
Therefore, so far as known, this family is the only 
one bearing the name of Limbird. Many sur- 
names are spelled in a soinevvliat similar way, but 

i e properly ate the same. Some) hues the ( ler 

man name. Li m berg, has appeared in city direc 

tories as Limbird by mistake. 

Our subject's ther bote the maiden name ..f 

Elizabeth Lane, and her death occurred at Bicker, 
England, when he was onlj eight years old, Foj 



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some reason Lis father was disinherited, probably 
because he had been away from home and not in 
communication with his parents for some years. 
The property was consequently left to his two 
brothers who, as before mentioned, died in early 
manhood. They wasted their patrimony in riot- 
ous living and died in poverty. 

In 1850 the eldest sister of our subject, Eliza- 
beth, became the wife of William Spridgen, and 
emigrated to the United States, settling in Van 
Wert County, Ohio, and two years later two of 
the brothers, Anthony and David, also came to 
the United States. They settled in the same 
county, buying forty acres of timberlaud adjoining 
the farm of their sister's husband. In the winter 
of 1854 they sent for their father, their brothers, 
Richard, Mark and James, and their sister Han 
nah. Accordingly, in February, 1854, they took 
passage on a sailing vessel, called "John Bright" 
after her captain. During a very stormy voyage, 
tin- father fell ill, dying at Toledo, Ohio, and 
leaving his children destitute of means. Kind 
people at the hotel secured passage for them on a 
canal boat to Delphos, Van Wert County, Ohio. 
When they arrived at Delphos, the home of their 
elder brothers and sister, they still were ten miles 
from their destination. A hackmau took the last 
half sovereign and small change they had left, 
and landed them four miles from home. They 
had been compelled to walk nearly all the way be- 
fore leaving the hack and arrived just before dark, 
hungry, muddy, disheartened ami disgusted with 
the country. 

The next few years in the life of our subject 
were extremely hard. After living for a time with 
liis older sister he struck out for himself to earn a 
livelihood. After being knocked around from pil- 
lar to post for several years, working usually for 
his board and clothes when he could find anything 
to do, he at, length found a home in Allen County, 
Ohio, with his brother Authony (who had just 
been married), living with him until the war broke 
out. With his brother Richard he enlisted on 
July 29, 1861, at Lima, Ohio, in Company I, 
Twenty seventh Regiment, Ohio Infantry. His 
first active service was in Missouri, when, under 
Gen. Sturgis, his regiment went to re-enforce 



Mulligan at Lexington. From there they pro- 
ceeded to Kansas City, afterward joining Fre- 
mont at Springtield. Retreating from there the 
command took up their winter quarters at Sedalia, 
from which point they marched to St. Louis the 
last of February, 1862, sleeping at night on the 
frozen ground and snow. Joining Gen. Pope, he 
was present at the capture of New Madrid and 
Island No. 10, was on the Mississippi steamboat 
flotilla to Fort Pillow and then went to Pittsburg 
Landing and the Siege of Corinth. He was at 
the last named point sent back disabled from the 
battlefield, being discharged August 18, 1862. 

Coming home, he taught school in the home 
district for §17 per mouth during the wiuter, 
boarding around with the scholars, a very pleas- 
ant custom, and in the spring went to Big Sandy 
River, Kentucky, where his brother Anthony's 
command was, and after a visit with his brother, 
he assisted Joseph Coltingham to recruit a com- 
pany of cavalry at Parkersburg, Ky. That gen- 
tleman and his brother-in-law were shot by bush- 
whackers while out in the mountains recruiting. 
After taking care of them until they had partially 
recovered, he enlisted in Company B, McLaugh- 
lin's Squadron, Ohio Cavalry, his brother Anthony 
being a Sergeant in said company, having enlisted 
in September, 1861. The Liiubird family furn- 
ished five soldiers for the saving of the Union. 
Mark was in Company K, Sixteenth Ohio Infantry, 
having enlisted in Ohio in 1861 ; William Spridgen, 
a brother-in-law, enlisted in the Thirty fourth 
Iowa in November, 1861, and died in the hospital; 
Richard served for three years; Anthony and 
Mark were captured and confined in rebel prisons 
for seven months, and our subject served as a 
private soldier until November, 1865, when he was 
discharged, being at the time Chief Clerk of the 
Department of North Carolina at Raleigh. He 
was iu twenty four battles, besides the three 
months of continuous fighting preceding the cap 
ture of Atlanta. In his company one hundred and 
eighty seven men were enlisted, and only thirty- 
nine answered to the final roll-call. Among the 
treasures of the war he holds are the many testi- 
monials of regard and appreciation received from 
his comrades and superior officers. 



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After being finally discharged al Columbus, 
Ohio, Mr. Limbird again taught school in the borne 
district ;i( $1.25 a day, boarding round. In the 
spring In- unit to Bchool in Delphos fur a few 
weeks bimself, and then came with his brother 
Anthony to Carroll County, Mo., where be taught 
scbool. After a few months of suffering with the 
ague be left that county and started for Lowa. 
From Chillicothe to Princeton, Mo., In- rode in a 
hack with John anil Josie Arbuckle, who hail come 
from Ohio ami wore on their way to Ravenna, Mo. 
After some conversation be concluded to accom- 
pany theiu, and taught school for awhile at 
Ravenna. 

Ou March 30, 1867, Mr. Limbird ami Josie 
Arbuckle were united iu marriage at Ravenna, 
Mercer Ci unity, Mo. Returning to Carroll County 
in 1 si'il', they Lived for awhile in Norborne, where 
he engaged in teaching ami also took up the 
study of law, being admitted to the bar at Car 
rollton in August, 1873. His next move was to 
Oregon, Holt County, Mo., in 1S74, where be 
practiced law in partnership with James Foster, 
bul remained with him only a short time. Then 
he took office with Probate Judge H. Russel, 
assisting him with his books. He was in Sip 
tember, 1874, nominated by the Republican 
party for the office of Prosecuting Attorney, and 
elected. In lN7f> he was again elected, and in 
1880 he was elected to the Legislature. In 
June, 1882, he moved to St. Joseph, Mo., en- 
gaging in the practice of law. His family con- 
sisted of his wife and children — Maud, ('lytic, 
Uberti, Janus and Ethel. In April, 1884, he 
was appointed City Counselor of St. Joseph, 
which position he tilled until April, 1SS7, when 
he went into the law office of JudHon & Biol 
ter. In March, 1890, he was appointed United 
States Surveyor of Customs for the Port of St. 
Joseph, Mo. In polities he has always been a 
Republican. He has for six years been a member 
of the faculty and led in it on Forensic Medicine 
at the Northwestern Medical College at St. 
Joseph, The history of his life is a record of 
struggles with poverty, of difficulties overcome 
and vanquished, 




EV. ALBERT BUSHNELL, Pastor of the 
Tabernacle Congregational Church of St. 
Joseph, was born in Salisbury, Conn., 

September 30, INI7, and is the youngest 
of eight children. Pilgrim and Puritan blood 
II' i wed in the Veins of his aneest ry, while his father, 
a sturdy New England farmer, made it hi- ohief 
object to inculcate into the minds of his children 
correct principles of right and duty, teaching them 
that "A good name is rather to be chosen than 
great riches." Reared under such surroundings 
it is not strange that the element of conscience 
early became a marked feature of our subject's 
character and has so continued throughout life. 
All (juestious of whatever source which came up 
were early settled by the standard of right, so that 
whether in school or collego or engaged in the 
ministry, he has been much consulted upon ipies 
tious of conduct, great confidence being plaoed in 
his judgment because of his fearless and impartial 
adherence to his conscientious convictions. 

Early in life, while yet a pupil of the district 
schools, Mr. Bushnell showed great love for and 
exhibited considerable skill iu declamation and 
could often have been heard haranguing the raft- 
ers and haymows of his father's barn while he 
practiced on pieces for exhibition days. This love 
of oratory he has never lost, but in later years he 
has consecrated it wholly to the service of his 
Master. He thought to give his life to business 
but eventually entered the Scientific Department 
of Williams College in the class of 1868. Here 
his studies were somewhat interrupted bv his being 
sent upon a scientific expedition to South America 
with four i)f his fellow students under the lender 

ship of Prof. Orton. Returning f rem thai country, 
be completed the college course and afterward 
taught school for two years. 

Mr. Bushnell then decided to study for the mill 
istry and entered 1'nion Theological Seminary in 
New York City from which he was graduated after 
taking the full three years' eouise in 1^7:!. Com 
iug westward he accepted a call to the Leavitt 
Street Congregational Church in Chicago, and 
under this church made exceedingly good progress. 
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proved burdensome to so young a pastor and after 
serving that congregation for two years he accepted 
a call from the church at Sterling, 111., and re- 
moved there with his bride, to whom as Miss Mar 
garet Curie, of New York Mills, a lady of Scotch 
parentage, he had recently been married. There 
he took a very active part in temperance and evan- 
gelistic work not only in his own but surronnding 
towns. During one winter of his pastorate he 
welcomed more than a hundred into the church, 
all on confession of faith, brought in by his per- 
sonal activity. At the end of three years he re- 
signed and spent considerable time in studying 
and lecturing, his achievements in the latter field 
being of a flattering character, giving him assur- 
ance of marked success had he chosen to continue 
in that line of work. But being of a home loving 
nature he preferred a more quiet life thau the 
lecture field would permit of his enjoying. 

Iu 1879 Mr. Bushnell removed to Geneseo, 111., 
where a large church had been awaiting his favor- 
able consideration of their invitation to the pastor 
ate. Here he labored steadily for ten years, giv- 
ing his best efforts to the development of the spir- 
itual life of the whole community, yet frequently 
going abroad to make addressss on temperance 
and missionary subjects, speaking occasionally also 
in large conventions and Chautauqua assemblies. 
Though refusing numerous calls from other fields 
in order to stay with the people he loved, he was 
at length prevailed upon to assume the leadership 
of the Congregational forces in this city and came 
here with his wife, mother and four children, Feb- 
ruary 1, 1879. Since that time great changes have 
taken place in both church and congregation; the 
former old barn like structure has been supplanted 
by the handsomest church edifice in the city, a 
building which cost with the ground on which it 
is situated, $30,000; its present membership num- 
bers about two hundred and the church is recog 
nized as among the very best of the evangelizing 
forces in the city. 

The Tabernacle Congregational Church was or- 
ganized May 12, 1807, with ten members and began 
worship iu Brady's Hall, the best public audito- 
rium in the city at that time, but now occupied by 
William Kingsbury's printing-office. The Rev. 



W. L. Bray was soon called to the pastorate, but 
ill-health compelled his relinquishment of the 
work after only eight months' service. A successor 
was soon secured, however, and the young church 
pushed vigorously forward through the assistance 
of a very steadfast friend in Boekford, 111., Mr. J. 
H. Manny. By 1870 a church edifice capable of 
seating nearly two hundred members was ready 
for dedication. This building was occupied by 
the congregation until the present large structure 
at the corner of Jule and Thirteenth streets was 
entered in October, 1890. Including Mr. Bray, 
the first, and Mr. Bushnell, the present pastor, 
seven gentlemen have served the church as spirit- 
ual leaders and teachers. The intermediate pas- 
tors in their order were Rev. Jonathan Crane, F. 
L. Keuyou, W. B. Hague, W. E. Seaver and F. S. 
Haydeu. Presenting a northern type of Christian 
life the church has never enjoyed an equally fair 
chance with its confreres because of the great 
prejudice existing in the minds of the people. It 
has also suffered seriously from the removal of its 
members on account of political and commercial 
causes. Still the church has pressed courageously 
forward, always standing for the truest manhood 
the broadest fellowship, the most earnest brotherly 
love and the vital doctrines of the Gospel. 

IiUDGE WILLIAM M. STANTON, of Jack 
k. I son Township, Buchanan County, is influ- 
l^/ ential in local Democratic circles. In the 
fall of 1892 he was placed in nomination for 
Judge of the First Judicial District of Buchanan 
County, being erected to that responsible posi 
tion by an overwhelming majority. He has always 
been a student, keeping thoroughly abreast of the 
times, and it is largely owing to this, in connection 
with his keen perception, quick discernment and 
nicely balanced judgment, that he has been chosen 
to fill this office. Iu 1870 Judge Stanton pur 
chased the farm where he now resides, which com- 
prises eighty acres of well improved and fertile 
land. He also owns other property, his posses- 
sions amounting to about two hundred acres, situ- 
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The birthplace of Judge Stanton was in Platte 
County, Mo. He firsl opened his eyea to the light 
of day October 25, 1846, being the youngest in a 
family of ten ohildfenborn to Blaford and Matilda 
Stanton, who were natives of Kentucky and Ten 
aessee respectively. Bluford Stanton emigrated 
to Missouri with his parents as early as the year 
1809, and made this stall- his home daring the re 
mainder of bis life, his death ocourring in 1865. 
His father, John Stanton, was one of the earliest 
settlers of Missouri, where be lived until death 
called liiin from bis labors. The Stanton family 

ca to America originally from Ireland. In the 

the fall of 1887 our subject's father settled in 
Platte County and there reared his family- In 
1861 be went south and died in Alabama four 
years later. Two of his sons, Albert and David, 
enlisted in the Confederate cause, the elder dying 
in Arkansas in 18(>3. The other son, David A., 
returned from the army, and has since made Jack- 
son Township bis place of abode. 

The year 1866 witnessed Judge Stanton's ar- 
rival iii Buchanan County, prior to which time he 
had received a common school education, and was 
thus qualified for the active business of life. He 
at once turned his attention to agricultural pur 
suits, to which occupation he had been reared 
from childhood. He also engaged more or less in 
buying and selling stock. October 11, 1869, he 
was united in marriage with Cynthia 1>., daughter 
of John Hall, a well known citizen of Crawford 
Township. Six children have blessed the union 
of Mr. and Mrs. Stanton, their names being 
Henry, Katie (who is the wife of Robert Thomas, 
of Tremont Township), Benjamin, John, Albeit 

and Louis. 

Judge Stanton, his wife and daughter are faith 
I'nl and consistent members of the Christian 
Church, in thework of which they lake a leading 
part. The hospitable home of the family is always 
..pen to their many friends iii this vicinity and a 
cordial welcome is extended to dm. and all. To 
this fact in a large measure is due the popularity 
of Mr. Stanton, who is held in the highest regard 
by those who are in a position to know him 
well. 



I| SAAC CURD. No one is more worthy a place 
I ill the records of the founders of this city and 
I of those who have been prominently connected 
with the welfare ami progress of si, Joseph 
than he of whom we write, who in the earl} days 
of its history was a successful merchant, and is 
now a wealthy and retired citizen. 

Mr. Curd, who has been a resident of St. Joseph 
since 184 ( J, was born in Cbilliootbe, Ohio, in July, 
1826. His paternal grandfather, John, who was 
the owner of a large estate in the Old Dominion, 
was born iu Virginia, to which state his ancestors 
had emigrated from England. Our subject's 
father, Isaac Curd, Sr., was born in Goochland 
County, Va.. rose to the rank of Major in the War 
of 1812, bis services as surge m being c died into 
constant requisition at that time. He was a grad 
uate of the medical department of the University 
of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, and was a prac- 
ticing physician for many years. 

About 1820 Mr. Curd emigrated to Ohio, engag 
ing in the practice of medicine in Chillicothe in 
partnership with Or. McDowell, who later removed 
to St. Louis and there established the McDowell 
Medical College. In 1831 Dr. Curd located at 
Fulton, Calloway County, Mo. , traveling a portion 
of the distance by team. lie remained in- that 
city until 1849, still continuing his practice, and 
then removed to St. Joseph, dying the same year 
at the age of sixty eight years. Hi' was an old 
line Whig, was prominent in his profession and 
exceptionally well informed ami intelligent. His 
wife was formerly Miss Jane Tre\ illiau. who was 
born in the Old Dominion and whose death 0C 
CUrred in Fulton, Mo. 

Iu a family of ten children the following are 
now living, our subject, the eldest, and John, ol 
whom will be given a brief history in this sketch 
Isaac Curd passed his boyhood in Fulton until 
1842, when he went lo Dubuque, Iowa, clerking in 

a dry goods store until 1849, wl he joined his 

older brother, John, who was locale. I here engaged 
in merchandising. Together thej commenced 
business on Main street, between Seventh and 
Felix, which was then the business portion of the 
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their business undertakings, but in that year 
closed out their stock. During later years tbey 
bail done business on Fourth street, in the Union 
Block. Mr. Curd, after leaving the mercantile 
business, invested largely in laud, and became a 
stockholder in the Hannibal & St. Joseph Kail- 
road, of which his brother was one of the first 
directors. 

.Since 1861 the attention of our subject has been 
largely given to his real estate interests, which are 
considerable, as the property has grown remark- 
ably in value. He has owned about fifty acres 
now comprised within the city limits, and still 
owns about eighty acres adjoining the city, in 
addition to other lands in Kansas aud elsewhere, 
having about 800 acres in different farms. 

For about seven years he was a Director for the 
old Farmers' and Mechanics' Savings Bank, and 
was also once a Director in the branch of the 
State Bank of Missouri. He was also an organ 
izer of the old Insurance Company which was es- 
tablished in 1850, and in company with a partner 
built the brick stores on Felix street now occupied 
by Henry Brill as a book store, which property he 
still owns. At one time he was a member of the 
t'ity Council From the Third Ward. He has as 
sisteef in the building of all the railroads centering 
at this city, among these being the Hannibal & St. 
Joseph, the St. Joseph & Denver, St. Joseph & 
Topeka, and also the Narrow Gauge. In the build 
iug of the Pacific House he was also interested, 
and in company with his brother, took stock to 
the amount of the lot on the corner of Fifth and 
Felix streets for the Masons' and Odd Fellows' 
Hall. 

John Curd who was born in Goochland County, 
Va. , became a merchant in early years, aud en- 
gaged in that line of trade in Fulton in 1843. 
Some years later coining to St. Joseph, he erected 
a store on the corner of Levee and Jule streets, 
the building being at that time the best store in 
the place as well as in the business heart of the 
city. For many years he, in company with his 
brother Isaac, carried on a lucrative business. For 
years he was prominent in city matters. From 
twelve to fifteen years he occupied the position of 
City and County Treasurer, aud in many ways 



manifested the great interest he took in the ad- 
vancement of the best interests of the community. 
Both he aud his brother are members of the 
Democratic party, and enjoy the high respect and 
esteem of their fellow citizens, which they truly 
deserve. 

CHARLES R. WOODSON, M. D., Superin- 
tendent of Lunatic Asylum No. 2 at St. 
Joseph, has held that responsible position 
since August 11, 18U0. It is one of the 
largest institutions of its kind in the United 
States and will accommodate seven hundred and 
fifty patients. Dr. Woodson has the assistance of 
three physicians and ninety employes in perform 
ing the duties which he has assumed as Superin- 
tendent of the Insane and everything about the 
institution has been carried on iu such a manner 
as to reflect great credit upon his ability as a phy- 
sician aud officer of the state. The magnificent 
building, which was completed in 1874, cost $500, 
('00 and contains a larger number of patients than 
any other asylum in the state. It is fitted out 
with every known convenience for caring for its 
unfortunate inmates and under the watchful eye 
and skill of Dr. Woodson the health of the inmates 
of the institution has been better during his incum- 
bency than at any other period of its existence. 

Dr. Woodson, of this sketch, is a uative of 
Kentucky, having been born in Knox County May 
17, 1848. He is the son of Benjamin J. Wood- 
son, also a uative of the Blue Grass state, his 
birth occurring November 2, 180S. His mother, 
who bore the maiden name of Margaret J. Ful 
kerson, was born in Lee County. Ya., March 30, 
1813. After her marriage with Mr. Woodsou the 
young couple removed to Kentucky, where they 
made their home until 1855, and then, thinking 
to better their condition, took up their residence 
in La Fayette County, this state. One year later, 
however, they came to Buchanan County, where 
the father died May 28, 1892. The mother, who 
still survives, makes her home in St. Joseph. 

The parental family included eleven children — 
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former and one of the latter are now living. Mi 
and Mrs Benjamin Woodson were devoted mem- 
bers of the Christian Chnreh, in which body the 
father was an Elder They were Liberal and 
cheerful contributors toward its support ami were 
identified with that denomination for a half oen 
tiny. Iii politics Benjamin was ;i Whig until the 
outbreak of the Civil War, al which time he joined 
the ranks of the Democrats, to whose principles he 
was a loyal adherent until his decease. 

The gentleman whose name we place at the 
head of this sketch received his primary odiiea 
tion in the public schools of Buchanan County. 
Later in life, desirOUS of following the profession 
of a physician, he entire.! tin- Missouri Medical 
College at St. Louis, from which institution he 
was graduated with honors March 6, 1S72. 
Opening an office for practice at Agency, Buchanan 
County, he soon became one of the skillful prac- 
titioners of this section, remaining in that place 
for seventeen years. 

January IS, 1886, Dr. Woodson moved to the 
< • 1 1 y of St. Joseph and there engaged in the act- 
ive practice of his profession until i S',K>, when he 
was appointed to the responsible position of Sn 
perintendent of Lunatic Asylum No. 2 in that 
city. Tin' asylum contains six hundred and forty 
ses.'n inmates, who are cared for in the most 
praiseworthy manner by the Superintendent and 
and his efficient assistants. The employes are 
under the strictest discipline ami have worked 
faithfully in the discharge of their respective du 
lie-, ami by so doing have made a very successful 
administration of the past two years. 

The marriage of our subject with Miss Julia 
I'alier occurred February 26, 1872. Mrs. Wood 
son is the daughter of Dr. Paul T. Taber, of 
Albany, N. Y., who died in Buchanan County in 
1853. She was born September 1, 1853, in the 

above county, and received an excellent education 
in tin' St. Joseph Female Seminary and Convent. 
Bj her union with our subject two children have 
been bom: Paul G., whose birth occurred Novem 
ber IS. 1ST:!, and Julia, born January 12, 1888. 

In religious affaire Dr. Woodson is a member ,,f 
the Christian Church, while his good wife holds 
membership with the Baptist congregation. So- 



cially, the Doctor is a member of King Hill Lodge 
No. 19, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and 
llesperion Encampment, in which bodies he has 

tilled all the chairs. He is also prominently i 

nected with the Ancient Order of Dnited Workmen. 

having served as its medical examiner for many 
years, and is a member of (he National Union 
lie stands very high in the medical profession and 
is a member of Buohanan County Medical Society, 
St. Joseph Medical Society, District Medical So 
ciety of Northwest Missouri (which body he has 
served many years as Vice-president), the Stale 
Medical Society, National Medical Psychological 
Society, and is one of the faculty of Ellsworth 
Medical College of St. Joseph and Missouri Yallev 
Medical Society. He has at various times occu 
pied prominent positions in these numerous so 
eieties, at one time tilling the Chair of Materia 
Medica and Therapeutics for years, also the Chair 
of Obstetrics for four years, and is at present 
Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine 
and Diseases of the Nervous System. 

Dr. Woodson has always taken an active interest 
in politics, believing in the principles of the Dem 
ocratic party. It goes without saying that he is 
one of the most prominent anil best known men in 
this section and his sterling worth and strict in 
tegrity have won him the confidence and high re- 
gard of all with whom lie has been brought in cou 
tact. 

l\ JlflCHAEL PTJRCELL, M. D., is the oldest 

\f/\ practitioner of medicine in St. Joseph, 
1 having begun to practice here iii 1850. 
4/ He was born in County Tipperary, Ire 

land, in L820, his birth taking place at Eeat hert , 
which was also the birthplace of Phil Armour of 
Chicago. Our subject's father was a wealthy man 
and a thoroughly devout Catholic, intending his 
son to enter the ministry and in furtherance ol 
that plan placed him while quite young in a lead 
ing Irish college. At the age of eighteen, being 
well prepared, he entered the Louvain University 
ii Lorain, Belgium, where he took a full nniver 

sity course. Latin was il niversal language in 

use there and in that be became an adept. He 



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studied bard and graduated with honor in a large 
class made up of bright young men from all parts 
of the civilized world, the University then being 
the in jst popular one on the continent. 

During the course, coming in contact with many 
liberal miuds, Mr. Purcell decided to abandon the 
original idea of entering the priesthood, and 
turned his attention to medicine instead, pursuing 
liis studies in that line and taking a thorough 
course in chemistry and the sciences allied to and 
closely connected with medicine. For his class- 
mates he had a number of young Americans, to 
some of whom he became closely attached, and 
finally yielded to their entreaties to cast his fort- 
unes in with them in the United States. Accord 
ingly he went to Rhode Island, the home of one of 
his friends, and after further pursuit of his medi- 
cal studies, began to practice, later removiug to 
Indiana, where he still pursued his profession. 

In 1849 the Doctor joined a company from In- 
diana who were going to California for gold, but 
on reaching St. Joseph the party disbanded and 
Mr. Purcell wisely concluded to locate in this city, 
where he soon worked into a large practice. In 
later years he has devoted himself almost entirely 
to chronic cases. He is a close student and keeps 
thoroughly posted on the latest discoveries in all 
branches relating to the prevention and treatment 
of disease. He regrets the unfraternal feeling 
shown by many members of his profession, and on 
account of being outspoken at all times and caring 
little for other people's criticism when he feels 
that he is in the right, lie lias naturally made many 
enemies as well as friends. In his opinion there 
is much humbug in so called medical science, and 
he is thoroughly averse to quacks. 

In 1855 the Doctor was united in marriage in 
this city to Miss Mary Jane Mitchell, by whom he 
has had twelve children. 

JiUDGE WILLIAM B. SMITH, of Agency, 

^ I Buchanan County, was elected to the position 
\J' he occupies in the fall of 1888 as Judge of 
the First Judicial District, and two years 
later was re-elected for a second term. His 
friends again urged upon him to accept the posi 



tion for a third time, but he absolutely refused. 
Judge Smith was born in Philadelphia, McMiun 
County, Tenn., in 1832, and at the age of twelve 
yeafs came with his parents to Buchanan County, 
where he grew to manhood, receiving the beuelits 
of a common-school and academic education. 

The parents of our subject, Hugh and Elizabeth 
J. (Fyfe) Smith, were natives of North Carolina, 
the former born in 1 TUG. His death occurred in 
Agency in 1888, while his wife is still living, aged 
eighty-seven years. They reared a family of five 
children, our subject being the oldest. James C , 
the second sou, was killed in a boiler explosion at 
Agency, and left a family to mourn his loss. 
Mary C. is the widow of M. H. Floyd. Amanda 
P., deceased, was the wife of Hiram Luckett. 
Hugh A. is also deceased. Grandfather David 
Smith was born in North Carolina, but his father 
was a native of Ireland. 

In Buchanan County, January 2D, 1855, was 
celebrated the marriage of Judge Smith and 
Miss Ella Estes. Five children came to bless 
their home. Theodore F. became a merchant, 
succeeding his father in the mercantile business, 
and was quite successful. In 1891, while locking 
up his store, he was assassinated. Ashe was not 
known to have an enemy, it is supposed the 
motive of the murderer was robbery. Ho left a 
family of several children. J. C. is' the second 
physician at the asylum; William P. is an exten 
sive farmer and stock-raiser near Agency; Mary 
E. became the wife of John AlcLauahan, a pros- 
perous farmer of this county; the oldest of the 
family died in infancy. 

When Buchanan County bore little resemblance 
to its present position, among the best in the state, 
our subject came here with his parents, and not 
liking farming, he went into a store at old Sparta 
at the age of eighteen years, and then engaged 
with Tootle & Farleigh. After six months with 
that firm, he went to work for Felix and Edmund 
Robidoux. At the end of two years he entered 
the Chapel Hill College, where he was a student 
for a short time. Next, in company with his 
father, he engaged in merchandising, and later 
ran a mill at Sparta, where he had an extensive 
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In 1865 Mr. Smith, i ling to Agency, l>uilt a 

large mill which he ran for sonic years, and then 
soiling it engaged in merchandising. Tiring of 
the o immereial life, he sold his business interests 
and has since been engaged in farming, being the 
owner of a desirable piece of property comprising 
one hundred and twent] acres adjoining the vil- 
lage He was active in securing the right of waj 
and encouraging the railroad enterprises which 
have been the making of the county. 

Judge Smith has been a Democrat all his life. 

After the dentil of his wife lie devoted himself to 
his children until they had nil reached mature 
years, when, fourteen years after the death of his 
lir-t wife, he was united in marriage to Miss Sarah 
Nolan. He is an active member of the Christian 
Church, being now an Elder and also Clerk in the 
Agency church. He is also Superintendent of the 
Sunday-school, and his life has been a witness of 
the faith that is in him. Socially he is a member 
of the Ancient Free ami Accepted Masons, a 
Knight Templar, and generally attends the con- 
claves of his fraternity. He is also a member of 
the Independenl Order of Odd Fellows, and has 
passed all the chairs in the Chapter and subordi- 
nate lodges. 

JjUDGE JOHN H. CARET has served I'.u 
chanan County in many official positions and 
I has been noted for the faithful manner in 
which he at all time-- discharges his duties. 
He has been progressive in his ideas and has kept 
thoroughly abreast of the times. In I SS | he was 
elected Count] Sheriff, an office he held satisfac 
fcorily For one term, previous to this, and in IS7'.i 
was elected . I ndge of the Firs! Judicial District, 
serving for one term to the credit of himself and 
Constituents. He is known as oneof the most pub 
lie spirited men of this region, and is well and 
favorably held in the esteem of all. At one time 
he was Manager of the Missouri Insane Asylum 
No '-'. which position he felt to be one of the most 
responsible of the many he has held. For a number 
of years he has been the school trustee ami is al- 
ways to be found advocating educational measures 
Mr Carey has been engaged in farming all his 



life and has through industry acquired all the 
property he now owns It is his endeavor to raise 
a line grade of horses, mules, cattle and hogs, and 
his live stock has frequently been awarded premi 

urns at large fails and exhibitions. His valuable 
farm of two hundred and fifteen acres is located 
on Sections I anil fi, Jackson Township. 

The birth of Judge Carey occurred in Wicksford 
County, Ireland, in June, 1835, and when twelve 
years of age he crossed the Atlantic with his par 
etits, all locating in St. Louis, Mo., where the] 
remained until 1856, the mother having, however, 
died in 1849 with the cholera. Judge Carey is 
the oldest of the four children born to Patrick and 
Mary (Hartwell) Carey. One of the children did 
at the same time as did tin' mother, and the oldest 
sister, Catherine, is the wife of Michael Welch, of 
Washington Township. Bridget M. is the wife of 
William Briggs, of Matney Station. 

I« 1856 Judge Carey came to linchaiian County 
with his father, with whom he reside, I until his 
marriage in 1 SO 4, with Nancy W.. daughter of 
Joseph and Martha Oilmore, who were among the 
earliest settlers of this region. To our worth] 
subject and wife have been born three daughters, 
Martha I!., Frances A. and Margaret J., who are 
all at home. Judge Carey belongs to the Demo 
cratic party and is a man of influence in its conn 
cils. Asa judge, Mr. Care] was ever found on the 
side of the oppressed and down trodden, his de 
cisiona being rendered in a manner that inspired 
the respect and Confidence of all. He is well read 
and educated and his opinions on all the leading 
questions of the daj carry much weight with his 
fellow citizens, as he is known to be a man who 
carefully weighs evidence and one who, when once 
his mind is made up on a given question, is prett] 
sure to be correct. 



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THOMPSON B. POTTER, M. D . is Profes 
sor of Operativeand Clinical Surgery in the 
Northwestern Medical College of St. Jo 
seph, and in the year 1889 founded the 
Western Medical and Surgical Reporter in the in 
teresl of this college. He took the position ol 



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editor and shortly afterward obtained the entire 
control of the journal. He has always been a 
member of the prominent state and local medical 
organizations, and is widely known through the 
professional press, to which he has always been a 
valuable contributor. During all his years he has 
not rested, being a man of untiring industry, and 
when not. actively engaged in the duties of his pro- 
fession he is constantly pursuing various lines of 
study and research, or transferring his own origi- 
nal ideas on various subjects of importance to paper 
for the benefit of his contemporaries. Having a 
trained intellect he is wonderfully quick to appre- 
hend, and his constant training enables him to see 
almost at a glance the critical points of a medical 
question, discovering every argument for or 
against it, and arriving almost invariably at a cor- 
rect conclusion. 

Dr. Potter was born in Clinton County, Mo , 
December IS, 1849, and is the sou of Thomas 
Potter and Hessa (Smith) Potter. Soon after the 
birth of our subject his father removed toDe Kalb 
County, where on a farm his boyhood days were 
spent. His maternal grandfather was Thompson 
Smith, well known to the older settlers of Missouri 
and very prominently identified with the early 
political history of the state, having served as a 
member of the legislature continuously for twenty 
years, and being intimately associated with men 
who molded the destiny of this commonwealth. 

Until his sixteenth year Dr. Potter attended the 
common country schools, and then entered McGee 
College, located near Macon City and at that time 
a most flourishingCumberland Presbyterian institu- 
tion. After completing his literary course he im- 
mediately began teaching, at the same time study 
ing medicine under a private preceptor. To tit him 
self for the medical profession was his cherished ob- 
ject and in this endeavor he received every en- 
couragement, sympathy and aid from his mother, a 
woman remarkable for her energy and lofty am- 
bition, for her purity of purpose and her strength 
of character. 

Overcoming almost insurmountable obstacles, 
Dr. Potter entered the Jefferson Medical Col- 
lege at Philadelphia, in the fall of 1873. There 
with characteristic enthusiasm he threw himself 



heart and soul into the work, and soon became dis- 
tinguished in Iiib class as a most untiring student. 
He took three courses in this institution and grad 
uated in March, 1875, taking a $50 prize for the 
best thesis. The venerable Dr. Wallace came for- 
ward after the degree of M. D. had been conferred 
upon him, and said: " Young man, you have gained 
a prize, and not without opposition, for many able 
papers were presented in competition with yours 
I must confess that I was surprised, as well as 
pleased, on reading so able a monograph on this 
subject coming from the hands of a student. Go 
on, young man, we expect to hear from you again. 
Remember that science is not promoted by institu- 
tions but by individuals." 

Directly after graduating Dr. Potter returned to 
Missouri and located at Cameron, where he re- 
mained for eleven and a half years. Daring this 
period he was always ready to aid with time, in 
rluence and ability every project having for its ob- 
ject the mental and moral advancement of the com- 
munity. He built up a large and lucrative prac- 
tice and steadily increased the high reputation 
with which he left college. While living at 
Cameron he was called to the chair of Physiology 
and Diseases of the Nervous System in the North- 
western Medical College of St. Joseph. This posi- 
tion he held until the year 1NS4, when he resigned 
on acconnt of its interfering too much with his in 
creasing practice. 

In 1882 Dr. Potter was appointed local surgeon 
for the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad, which 
place he held until 1SS0, when he resigned. In 
1883 the Pension Examining Board for the Third 
Congressional District was created at Cameron, 
and although an uncompromising Democrat, our 
subject was appointed on this board by President 
Arthur, and served as its secretary for three years 
when he resigned on account of his removal to 
this city. 

A striking characteristic of the Doctor is his 
devotion to principle. Where many persons See 
only the fuels and results, he finds a principle ami 
follows it without fear, often grasping one that 
others cannot discern at all. To the fact that he 
is always on the alert, and possesses the power of 
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is entirely absorbed in whatever presents itself for 
his investigation, does he owe his great success as 
;i surgeon. We may add to the above qualities 
thai he possesses much imaginative power and a 
keen sense of moral obligation. For him there is 
do halfway measure — nobility is all noble, false- 

1 1 all false ami the one tiling great and beau 

lifnl on earth is the Law of Duty. 



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JOSEPH A. PINER, who foj two terms was 
the efficient and able Mayor of St. Joseph, 
during which time many important public 
works and measures were carried through 
that have added greatly to the appearance and use- 
fulness of the city. i> now the senior member of 
the firm of Piner & dates, Omnibus and Transfer 
Company, their office being at No. 721 South 
Eighth street. 

Mr. Finer was born in Boone County. Ky., Au- 
gust 13, 1830, and was reared to manhood in his 
native state. For ten years he was Sheriff of Camp 
bell County, and then engaged in banking at New 
port. Ky.. for four years. In 1862 he left his 
native state, coming to St. Joseph, where he en- 
gaged in general merchandising business on the 
corner of Eleventh and Pen n streets. At the end 
of two years his store was burned out with a com- 
plete loss to the owner of all his stock, fixtures and 
even his books and accounts. 

Mi. I'iner thus found it necessary to begin at the 
bottom round of the ladder again, but notwith- 
standing the discouragement he pressed steadily 
forward, believing, as time has since proved, that 
success WOUld ultimately bless his efforts. lie 

purchased a saw mill on Lake Contrary, which he 
ran successfully for twelve years, his next business 
undertaking being the one which he is now con- 
ducting, in which he engaged on the 1st .if May, 

1ST'.'. In this is invested a capital of $20,000. 

The present firm was formed s twelve years 

ago and their annual returns are about $'20,000. 
They give employment to about twenty men, this 

being the only nibus line in the city. They own 

about twenty hacks and carry all mails to and from 
all trains, both day and night. 



During the time Mr. Piner acted as Mayor of 
the city the St. Joseph Water Works were eon 
tracted for and built under his supervision The 

s_\sleni is one of the finest, having a pressure ..f 
one hundred and twenty five pounds to the inch 
This and many other improvements which were 
secured for the benefit of the city at a reasonable 

expense, were promoted and largely acquired 
through the agency and interested part taken by 
our subject. Politically he is a thorough going 
Democrat and is active in all campaigns. 

Mr. Finer was married at Newport. Ky.. in ISM. 
to Miss Elizabeth Maine, who was called from this 
life in 1801, leaving a daughter, Cornelia, who is 
the widow of Thomas Massey, of St. .Joseph, and 
who for several years was a partner of our subject. 
Mr. Filler's residence, which is tasteful and mod 
ern. is located at No. 711 South Eighth street, the 
the home being now presided over by his daughter. 
Mrs. Massey. Mr. Finer was again married in 
1862 to .Miss Sophie Bennett, who died in 1890 
Whether occupying a public or private position. 
Mr. Piner has ever had the welfare of Si. Joseph 
deeply at heart and has endeavored in every way 
possible to advance her best interests and welfare. 
He is a loyal citizen and a worthy member of soci 
ety, having many personal qualities of sterling 
merit which have won him the respect and high 
esteem of all. 



EDMUND A. DONELAN, M ]).. or St. 
Joseph, is a distinguished member of the 
medical profession, having served as both 
County and City Physician. He has been 
President of the St. Joseph Me, ileal Society and 
Treasurer of the Missouri State Medical Associa 

tioli was one of the founders of the old College of 

Physicians and Surgeons in this city and during 
the existence of this college was one of its lect 
iireis, tilling the chair of Materia Medica ami 
Therapeutics for two years and in 1881 was 
elected Professor of I )iseases of Women and < 'hi I 
dren. He continued his work at the Ellsworth 
Medical College, with which he is still connected 
Ife is now one of the Professors of that institution 



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Recently the Doctor has been engaged in public 
life, having been elected in 1876 to the Legisla- 
ture (the Twenty Ninth General Assembly) and 
being re-elected to the Thirty first General As- 
sembly. He served intermittently in the State 
Legislature up to the present Assembly, and has 
altogether taken a very prominent and influential 
part in all public affairs. 

Dr. Donelan is a native of the Empire State, his 
birth having occurred April 5, 1824, in Ogdeus- 
burg, St. Lawrence County. His boyhood was 
passed in his native place, where his early educa- 
tion was also acquired. In 1839 he removed to 
Wayne County, Ind. , where for two years he at- 
tended the Beech Grove Academy, and after com- 
pleting his studies engaged in teaching school for 
two terms. In the year 1844 he first turned his 
attention toward the study of medicine while in 
Liberty, Union County, Ind., and took a course of 
lectures at the Ohio Medical College during the 
winter of 1847—48. For a period of some six months 
he engaged in practice at Abingdon, Ind, later 
coining to Missouri, where he first located in Ari- 
zonia. 

In 1850 Dr. Donelan settled in Savannah, 
Andrew County, and the following year returned 
to college, graduating in the class of 1852. In the 
fall of that, year lie was honored with being elected 
to the legislature from his county, and two years 
later was re-elected to the same position, serving 
for two full terms. In 1857 he removed to l'latts- 
mouth, Cass County, Neb., a year later being 
elected to the Nebraska Territorial Legislature. 
In 1859 he was elected to the Territorial Council, a 
body corresponding to the present State Senate, 
and during the session of 1859 -60 was its presiding 
officer. 

In the spring of 1860 the Doctor removed to St. 
Joseph and at once opened an office, his practice 
growing in the course of a few years very exten- 
sively. He has always aimed to keep thoroughly 
posted by means of study and research on all the 
modern discoveries in medicine, and the proper 
treatment of disease, and it was with the same end 
in view that he entered the Bellevue Medical Col- 
lege of New York city in the winter of 1870—71, 
as a post graduate, particularly for the practice in 



the famous hospital, where all of the most ap- 
proved methods and latest discoveries are always 
used in the treatment of patients. The practical 
experience thus obtained has been of incalculable 
value to him in his professional career. To what 
ever department he has turned his attention, he 
has met with marked success and is justly num 
bered among the influential citizens of St. Joseph 
as one who has always had her welfare deeply at 
heart. He is in his political affiliations a loyal 
member of the Democratic party. Both his public 
and private life have been above reproach, and 
like an open book to be seen and read of all men. 



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It I ERMAN HECK, who is residing on Section 
Ip^l 36, Township 55, Range 30, is a native of 
1 ! Germany, his birth having occurred in 
// Heidelberg on the 8th of November, 1829. 

He is the son of Philip and Atriauna (Datum) 
Heck, who were born in the same community as was 
our subject, and the latter of whom was of French 
descent. The father was a stone-cutter by trade, 
and in later years followed the occupation of a 
fanner. He reared a family of eight children, all 
of whom married and have made their homes in 
Germany. The children are as follows: Jasper, 
Catherine, Mary E., Anna M., Mattus, Gretchen, 
Christina and Herman. The father and mother of 
these children departed this life in Germany. 
The paternal grandfather of our subject served in 
the army under Napoleon. 

Believing that the New World afforded greater 
opportunities to a young man of energy ami 
ambition Herman Heck accordingly bade adieu to 
the friends and scenes of his youth, and started to 
make his fortune in the United States. In 1846, 
going down the river Rhine, thence to Hanover, 
he embarked on a vessel bound for New York. 
The voyage consumed twenty-nine days, and was 
on the whole a pleasant, one. Upon landing in 
New York he found he had but $20, but with 
energy he went to work to remove the obstacles in 
his pathway, and soon became apprenticed to 
learn the cabinet maker's trade. For a few years 
after his arrival Mr. Heck resided in New York 




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city and afterward went to Rochester in the same 
state. In the spring of 1852 he oame to Missouri, 
working in St. Joseph for a short time or until ho 
hiul decided where to locate. Thence going to 
Hainesville. he there followed his trade until the 
breaking out of the late Civil War. 

In the fall of 1862 Mr. Sees became a member 
of Company I?, Sixth Missouri State Militia. He 
took part in several battles and skirmishes, in one 
of which he was wounded in the right, thigh. At 
the close of eighteen months of gallant service he 
received his discharge on account of disability, 
after which he went to Leavenworth. In 1865, 
returning to Hainesville, he engaged in buying, 
Helling and shipping stock, in which he has been 
largely occupied up to the present time. He has 
also dealt extensively in lands as a matter of 
speculation. 

In 1869 Mr. Heck bought, and located on a farm of 
three hundred and five acres located six miles east 
of Lathrop. In the fall of 1884 he became the owner 
of forty acres south of that village; this he has 
improved, and upon it he has erected a good 
residence and substantial farm buildings. He 
also has another farm of one hundred ami sixty 
acres, and in Lathrop erected two substantial 
store buildings which he owns. As a business 
man he has shown marked ability and exercises 
good judgment in his varied financial under 
takings. 

In 1879 Mr. Heck was united in marriage with 
Miss Mary M. Cooper, daughter of E. W. anil 
Anna Cooper. Nine children blesssed their union, 
seven of whom are living; William H. and Her- 
man 15. (twins), Orland, Elmer, Etrinne, Ray 
mond and Iona. The mother, who was a faithful 
member of the Baptist Church, was called to her 
final rest in 1892, at the age of forty four years, 
leaving many friends who deeply mourned her 
loss. 

Mr. Heck is a leading Mason ami a charter 
member of Lathrop Lodge; he belongs toCami ion 
Commandery and is also a Knight of Pythias. In 
his political sentiment he is a thorough Repnb 
lican, though upon his arrival in this country he 
Oast his first vote for a Democratic nomil He 



is [ire eminently a self made man, having reached 

his present Buocessand prosperity entirely through 
his own efforts. 

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FATHER RICHARD .1. CULLEN, Pastor of 
the Church of tin- Holy Rosary in St. Jo 
seph, was born in Salem, Mass., .Inly '27, 
1854, and is a son of John Cullen, who was 
born in County Kilkenny, Ireland, near the village 
of Stone Ford. He was a shoemaker by trade 
and emigrated to America when a young man. 
In Februai-y, 1862, he enlisted in Company <i, 
Eleventh Massachusetts Regiment, and served nn 
til the close of the war, being raised to the rank 
of Sergeant and being in active service in many 
important battles. He was twice wounded and was 
captured by the enemy, being held for one hun 
dred days in a rebel hospital. His capture was 
owing to a wound which he received, a ball having 
passed through his right leg ami into his left one. 
He was exchanged and went home on a furlough, 
afterward returning to the front. 

Our subject's mother, formerly Miss Mary 
Powers, was born in County Waterford, Ireland, 
and came to America when a young lady. Her 
father, Maurice Powers, was a farmer in the Em 
erald Isle and on his arrival in America went first 
to New Hampshire, locating in Dartmouth, his 
famil}' being the first Catholic one to settle in the 
town. Later he removed to Salem, Mass., and 
both he and his wife departed this life in Worces 
ter, Mass. 

Our subject- is one of two children, his brother, 
Maurice J., being an undertaker for Thornton in 
this city. Father Cullen was reared in Salem 
and educated in the Pickering School of that city. 

When fourteen he was apprenti 1 for two and a 

half years to learn the printer's trade in tl (fice 

of the Salem Observer. Afterward he clerked in a 
grocery store until 1871, when ho entered the St. 
Laurent College, in St. Laurent, Canada, six miles 
from Montreal, graduating from the Classical De 
partment in 1878 and a year later from the Sci 
entitic and Philosophical Departments. He then 
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Seminary and in 1880 entered the Grand Theo- 
logical Seminary at Montreal. 

On the 20th day of December, 1884, Father Cul- 
len was ordained a priest by Archbishop Fabre, of 
Montreal, when he left Canada for St. Joseph, ar- 
riving in this city January 20, 1885. He was 
an assistant in St. Patrick's Church until May of 
the following year, during which time he passed 
through a siege of smallpox. In May, 188*), he 
was sent to Stanberry, Mo., in Gentry County, be- 
ing Pastor of St. Peter's Church for three years. 
About this time he supervised the three churches 
of St. Mary's, in Harrison County; St. Patrick's, 
of Gentry County, and at Grant City, north, in 
each of which places he gathered good congrega- 
tions. He was then called as assistant in the 
Cathedral of Kansas City, remaining thero until 
May of 1892, when, on the death of Father 
Sheshy, Father Cullen was appointed Pastor of 
his present charge. 

The Church of the Holy Rosary was organized 
in 1888 from St. Patrick's congregation and now 
numbers about seventy-five families. Father Cul- 
len is a Democrat in politics and is a member of 
all the prominent Catholic societies here, among 
which we might perhaps mention as foremost the 
Catholic Knights of America. This bright young 
priest is a gentleman of good education and is con- 
scientious in the discharge of the duties devolving 
upon him as the shepherd of his flock, a counselor 
of youth and a comforter in time of affliction. 

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ROBERT H. FAUCETT. Among the im- 
f^ portant industries of the prosperous and 
1^ thoroughly wide-awake city of St. Joseph 
is the R. H. Faucett Mill Company, which 
was organized in 1888 with a capital stock of $50,- 
030. It succeeded the Eagle Mill Company with 
a stock of $31,000, which mill was erected by 
Capt. Kircheval about the year 1870 and passed 
into the hands of the State Savings Bank and was 
then organized as the Eagle Milling Company. 
The mill was practically rebuilt in 187S, and much 
improved later when the roller process and various 
modern mill machinery were placed within it. The 




stock of the present company is held by four men, 
all residents of this city, our subject being Presi- 
dent, J. T. Faucett, Secretary, and C. B. France, 
Treasurer. The pay roll of the concern is $6,300 
for six months, and their shipments are extremely 
large. The mill, which is situated on the corner 
of Seventh and Olive streets, has switch connec- 
tions with all railroads centering in this city. At 
the present time there is invested in the business 
about $100,000, and from the first the proprietors 
have met with signal success in their business 
enterprises. 

Robert Faucett was born in County Queens, 
Ireland, in 1835, and when only twelve years of 
age emigrated to the United States. He is a son 

of Robert and Faucett, and learned the 

milling trade with the former in his native land. 
In 1858 he arrived in St. Joseph, Mo., and for 
some time turned his hand to whatever he could 
find to do in order to earn an honest living. He 
was a carpenter and millwright for some years, 
and has been interested in and owner of mills in 
Buchanan and Platte counties. His first work in 
this direction was in about the year 1803, when he 
purchased a part interest in a mill belonging to 
E. M. Davidson, in the southern part of the county, 
and ran it for about two years. Iu 1805 he sold 
out his interest and built a large mill at Halleck, 
which he continued to operate for about fifteen 
years. 

In the neighborhood of that village Mr. Faucett 
purchased a farm of about seventy acres, which he 
improved and which he has disposed of. In 1875 
the former proprietor and builder of the R. H. Fau- 
cett Mill, Capt. Kircheval, failed, and the property 
fell into the hands of the bank. Believing this to be 
a good opportunity to venture and win, Mr. Fau- 
cett leased the mill, and after remodeling it car- 
ried it on for two years, when the Eagle Mill Com- 
pany was organized, which took the mill and con 
tinned to operate it until Mr. Faucett became 
proprietor of the present company in 1882. At that 
time he entered into partnership with Mr. Davis, 
now the proprietor of the Davis Mills of this city, 
but sold out his interest to that gentleman in the 
fall of 1884. 

For the four years succeeding Mr. Faucett 



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passed his time on his farm, but dealt Bomewhat 
in Board of Trade wheat. Since 1888 In- 1ms 
supervised t lie present mill company anil lias 
given his best energies and attention to furthering 

its interest. The town of Faucett, on the Maple 
Leaf Railroad, is situated on our subject's farm of 
one thousand acres, where general farm produce is 
raised. 

On October I), 1S5'.), Mr. Faucett was married to 
Miss Elizabeth Baker, a daughter of Zebediab 
Baker, one of the honored pioneers of Crawford 
Township, this county. To this worthy couple 
has been born a family of three sons and a daugh 
ter.whoare: Robert E., a dealer in general merelmn 
dise at Faucett; William H., who is engaged in 
farming near the same village; John T., Secretary 
of the Faucett Mill Company, and Fannie, who 
resides at home. The whole family are faithful 
and consistent members of the Cumberland Pres 
byterian Church. Though never having aspired to 
hold official position, Mr. Faucett is a firm Demo- 
crat in his political principles, and socially has 
been for many years an active member of the In- 
dependent Order of Odd Fellows. He is justly 
numbered among the influential, honorable and 
thoroughly respected merchants of St. Joseph, 
and has always manifested a creditable interest in 
the welfare and prosperity of the city. 



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LIJAH WATSON has a record which is 
equaled by few in any portion of the conn 
j try, for he has held the position of Posl 
master for forty years, having been ap- 
pointed under President Pierce in 1852, and has 
held the office for every consecutive term since 
that time. He has made a most efficient officer, 
is very popular, and the people of Rushville, Bu- 
chanan County, have grown to feel that he is 
thoroughly indispensable to them. 

On April 25, ISlii, Mr. Watson' a birth occurred 
in Kentucky. His parents were Jepthah and 
Polly (Lawrence) Watson. Hie former born in 
Maryland, near Harper's Ferry. He removed to 
Kentucky in his early manhood, from there to 
Iowa and later came to Buchanan County, where 



he died at the home of his son, our subject Hi- 
wife was also called from this life in this county. 
Our subject is one of nine children, of whom he is 
the fifth in order of birth and a twin brother of 
Klisha, whose death occurred in 1891. Bis earl} 
life was spent on a farm in the usual occupation 
of farmer boys of his days and his education was 
that of the common schools. 

On September 1 I, L838, Mr. Watson was united 
in holy matrimony with Miss Grace Soever, daugh 
ter of John Seever, a native of Kentucky, who was 
a farmer by occupation and who was called to his 
final reward in 1885. His wife had died two years 
previously. Mrs. Watson was born in Illinois 
July 20, 182'2, and the death of her mother occur 
ring when she was but a few days old, she 
was taken to Kentucky and reared to womanhood 
by her grandmother. By her marriage she became 
the mother of twelve children, only si\ of whom 
are living, two having died in infancy: Samuel 
(killed on a railway at the age of thirty years) 
and one daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Howard, who 
departed this life when about thirty years of age. 
leaving two children. Those surviving are: John 
H, born July 29, L839; .lames B , I nne 2, IMI: 
Elisha. March 2:!. 1852; Caples, April 5, In."'."'; 
George, November 21, 1856; Nancy O. , now Mrs. 
Abbott, born June 18, 1859. They have all mar- 
ried and have homes of their own with the ezcep 
tion of the youngest daughter who, with her two 
little boys, lives with our subject. The children 
are scattered in various portions of the country, 
one living in St. Joseph, Mo., two making their 
homes in Washington state, one residing in Iowa 
and the other in Winthrop. Mo. 

For five years after his marriage Mr. Watson 
engaged exclusively in farming and then entered 
the mercantile field, which business he has followed 
up to the present time. For nearly fifty years, al 
most their entire lives. Mr. and Mrs. Watson have 
been consistent members of the Methodist Kpiseo 
pal Church. Mr. Watson was Justice of the Peace 
for twelve years and was again elected by ever} 
vote in Hie township with the exception of seven. 
but. he then concluded he would serve no longer 
and his opponent therefore accepted the office. 
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all the more remarkable that, notwithstanding the 
reign of the opposite party for so many years, he 
has nevertheless retained his position, thus demon- 
strating that to his efficiency in filling the position 
is due his long retention in the office. 



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AURENCE J. STUPPY has the largest and 
finest conservatory and Greenhouses in St. 
j Joseph and is also the oldest in that Hue of 
business in this region. He is proprietor 
of the justly famed Central Greenhouses and has 
been a resident of this city since April, 1850. He 
makes a specialty of roses, cut flowers and decora- 
ting, keeping the largest variety of plants and hav 
ing over one hundred kinds of roses alone. Mr. 
Suppy was born in St. Genevieve, Mo., September 
5, 1849, and is a son of Francis and Mary A. 
(Kohler) Stuppy. The former was born in St las- 
burg, France, while the latter was a native of 
Switzerland. The name was formerly spelled 
Stuppi but in the course of time was changed to 
the present form. 

Mr. Stuppy, Sr., was reared to the life of a 
farmer and on attaining the age of eighteen years 
came to America, working as a farm hand near 
Canton, Stark County, Ohio, later going to 
Canada, and about the year 18-1(5 coming to this 
state. He taught for a time in St Genevieve and in 
1850 came to St. Joseph, where he taught school 
for a year and then was employed as a druggist's 
clerk. For two years subsequently he engaged 
in business for himself with W. R. Penick. After- 
ward Mr. Stuppy continued alone and in 1872 
retired, selling for some years musical instruments 
in a store. He was made Notary Public and still 
occupies that position, which he has held foryearB. 
He was also Deputy City Assessor, and at the time 
of the war had a privilege to sell ammunition here 
though he was the only man in St. Joseph allowed 
to do so, as he was of strong Union sentiment. 
He is an example of the self-educated and self 
made man who succeeds in spite of all discourage- 
ments. He is now making his home with our sub- 
ject, as his wife was called to her final rest in 1887. 



In a family of four children, two sons and two 
daughters, our subject is the youngest in order of 
birth. John 13., who died about 1875, was in the 
state militia and was in the drug business. Kate 
is now Mrs. L. R. Lancaster, a resident of St. 
Joseph, and Lizzie, Mrs. C. B. Kyser, of Kansas 
City. Mr. Stuppy, of this sketch, passed his boy 
hood in this city and remembers it in the early days 
when it bore little promise of its present develop- 
ment and prosperity. He attended the Bchool 
taught by Prof. Neely and was also educated in 
the German schools. In 1862 he entered St. 
Benedict's College at Atchison, Kans., where he 
was for several years. He learned the drug busi 
ness and later worked at photography. Returning 
to the drug business he entered into partnership 
with his brother, J. B. , occupying a store, first on 
Fifth Street and later on the corner of Sixth and 
Felix, which was the first one opened in the block. 
In 1873 he took a trip to Southern Kansas and 
erected a store and residence in Howard City, 
starting the drug trade in that city, but continu 
ing it less than a year. 

In 1875 Mr. Stuppy embarked in his present 
business as a florist on a small scale in the north 
western part of the town, having three green- 
houses. He succeeded so well that four years 
later he erected four small greenhouses on the 
corner of Sixth and Jule street, to which he has 
made additions for live years. These he after 
wards tore down and erected more extensive ones 
with modern improvements and steam heat. 
These cover a space of 80x110 feet, and in 1S87 
Mr. Stuppy purchased a block of land on the Mt. 
Mora road, adjoining the Mt. Mora Cemetery, 
where he built seven greenhouses, two of them 
being 25x110, two 20x115 and three 11x00. He 
has room for hot-beds, having over one hundred 
furnished with sashes and glass. He has a natural 
love of and desire for plants and flowers, starting 
his business mainly for recreation and pleasure; but 
finding he could make a greater success financially 
of this line than his former employment he has 
given up the other and is devoting his entire atten- 
tion to this. He owns two residences, and other 
property in the city, and is rigidly numbered 
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In Si Joseph, in May. L876, occurred the mar- 
riage of Mr. Stnppj ami Miss A 1 1 1 1 i » • E. Scbiesl, 
who was born in Dunkirk, N. Y.. of Germaa par 
outs. To tli'-m bave been born six children: 
Frank X., Annie E., Marie, John B., Selen and 
Laurence J. , Jr. The family attended the Catho- 
[io Cathedral, to which they belong, and in regard 
to polities Mr. Stuppy casts bis vote in favor of 
the Democratic nominees. 

/^EOKUK WASHINGTON MORRIS is one 

• of tbe very oldest business men of St. 
\Jl\ Joseph, Buchanan County, and one of the 

& pioneers of tbe place, with which be lias 
been identified since 1855. He is a brick eon 
tractor and in the line of bis occupation bus con 
strnoted some of the finest brick work in the city. 
In the early years he engaged in freighting across 
the plains and had some very peculiar and trying 
experiences and escapades. 

The birthplace of our subject was Lockland, 
Hamilton County, Ohio, and the date March 25, 
1834. His father, John Morris, was a native of 
England, and there married Miss Mary Jones. 
They were the parents of six children, of whom 
our subject is third. He was orphaned in his 
ninth year and went to live with a neighbor. 
This man removed to Madison. Wis., and after a 
residence there of some two years went to Cincin- 
nati, where he engaged in brick laying Mr. 
Morris' educational advantages were quite limited 
but he attended the night schools and studied 
alone. He remained in Cincinnati until in his 
twentieth year and became master of the brick 
laying business. He was next in St. Louis and 
Alton, 111., for two years, still pursuing his trade. 

It was in the year 1855 that Mr. Morris came 
to St. Joseph. His first work was for St. Clair 

Miller, and s e of the buildings then erected by 

him are siill standing. He soon engaged in con 
tracting and was quite successful until the rumors 
of the approaching war imperiled building enter 
prises. In 1 S< > 1 he commenced freighting from 
this point to Denver and Montana. lie made five 



trips and had several lights with the Indians on 
the Platte river. At one time, when surrounded 
by Sioux and Cheycnnes, his life hung in the l>al 
ance, but he managed to effect a compromise In 
1862 he went lo Montana, engaging in mining for 
two years, after which bo was for a short time in 
Virginia City. In 18IVJ be returned overland with 
a train of eight teams and twenty-one men. They 
were attacked at Plum Creek by ouo hundred and 
fifty Indians, who, of course, with their numbers 
overpowered the unlucky travelers. One of the 
latter was killed ami six were wounded. The In 
dians took everything from them, including their 
stock, teams and $80,000 in gold dust. 

After safely arriving in St. Joseph Mr. Morris 
entered into partnership with \V. Z. Hanson, and 
continued with him for three years in contract 
work. Since that time he has been in business 
alone. Among tbe buildings we make particular 
mention of tbe following, which are monuments to 
his genius: Tbe business houses of R. L. Mc- 
Donald, Britton, Thomas Tootle, Smith Drug 
Company, McCord, Sommer-Richardson Cracker 
Factory, Buell Woolen Mills, Commercial Bank, 
and many others. Among the notably line resi 
dences built under bis supervision are those of 
Col. Ogden, Col. Schuster, Smith, Vineyard, Nave 
and McCord. Employment is given regularly to 
from thirty to forty men. 

Mr. Morris owns a pleasant and commodious 
residence which he erected at the corner of Ninth 

and Charles streets. The mistress of this 1 le 

was formerly Miss Maggie Dillon. She was born 
near Dayton, Ohio, and was reared in St. Joseph, 
where she became the wife of our subject in I860, 
Her father, Abraham Dillon, owns the mill OB 
Dillon Creek. Mr. and Mrs. Morris are the par- 
ents of three children : Charles, who is iii tbe em- 
ploy of Sprague, Warner & Company, wholesale 

grocers of Chicago; Allen (i., of Fort Worth, 
Tex , and Harry L., who is now attending the 
Eclectic Business College. 

For eight years Mr. Morris served as Aldeiman 
from the Second Ward and is prominent in Demo 
cratic circles. He is a past officer of King Hill 
Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and 



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also belongs to tbe Encampment. He is connected 
with the Minnehaha Lodge, Order of Red Men. 
Religiously he is a member of the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church South. 



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EiLIJAH M. YATES is well known in 
Buchanan County, Mo., coming from one of 
I the oldest pioneer families, and is believed 

to have been the first white child born in 
the county. Since arriving at his majority he has 
been engaged in merchandising at Agency, first in 
partnership with an uncle, Elijah McCrary, under 
the firm name of McCrary & Yates. They did 
quite an extensive business and at length opened 
other stores at Easton and Stewartsville, and one 
near Gower. The partnership continued until 
1873, when the business was divided and Mr. 
Yates took in as a partner a younger brother, who 
was drowned in 187U, while on the way home 
from St Joseph, his body never being recovered. 
As early as 1878 Mr. Yates formed a partnership 
in the milling business with Ratlitf R. Boone, 
their connection having continued up to the pres- 
ent time. Our subject remained in the merchan- 
dising business until 1884, when he sold out and 
has since devoted his entire time to running the 
mill. 

Mr. Yates, who was born in 1838, is the fourth 
in a family of twelve children, who all grew to 
mat are years. His educational privileges were 
quite limited in his youth, but after his tweuty- 
second year he entered the Academy at Camden 
Point, and after eighteen months' attendance 
there engaged in teaching for the following two 
years. For a short time he tried his hand at 
fanning, but soon concluded that that vocation 
was not in his line, but that his tastes were more 
in a commercial direction. He has been very suc- 
cessful, and is recognized as one of the leading 
business men of the county, with the welfare of 
which he has long been identified. 

In 1873 Mr. Yates and Victoria Boone were 
united in marriage. Mrs. Yates died in 187U, 
leaving two children, Etna E. and Victoria B. 
Mr Yates afterward wedded Jessie, daughter of 



James M. Boone, of Texas, and of their union 
have been born four children: Hattie E., Lutie 
M. , Emmet N. and Jean Elmo. 

In politics Mr. Yates is a Democrat, and social- 
ly is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted 
Masons, to which he has belonged since 1860, 
having taken the Commandery degrees and having 
been a member of the Western Council, No. 2, since 
18(33. He has also passed all the chairs iu Odd 
Fellowship. He and his estimable wife are both 
consistent members of the Cumberland Presbyte- 
rian Church, and number a host of friends in va- 
rious parts of the county. 

Our subject's father, Pleasant Yates, was one of 
the first, if not indeed the first settler of Bu- 
chanan County, to which he migrated in the 
spring of 1837, from Caldwell County, Mo. He 
was born in 1806, being the oldest of six children, 
whose parents were Jesse and Nancy (Dodd) 
Yates, who were both natives of Virginia. On his 
arrival in this region Mr. Yates located on Section 
7, Jackson Township, where he entered one hun- 
dred and sixty acres of land. He had married 
Miss Harriet McCrary in Clay County, anil with 
his young wife drove here in a wagon, settling 
among the Indians, who were on every side. The 
young couple made their home in the timber bor- 
dering on the prairie, and there Mr. Yates lived 
until called from this life. On one occasion they 
found a starving family of Indians, and after tak- 
ing them home and giving them all they desired 
to eat, a member of the party requited their kind 
ness by stealing from them their only pig. At 
another time Mr. Yates loaned his gun to an 
Indian, who afterward, at the risk of his own life, 
saved that of his white brother. Mr. Yates owned 
over eight hundred acres of land at the time of 
his death, which occurred in 1878. Ho was polit- 
ically a stanch Democrat. 



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IfSAAC LECHTMAN, M. D. Our subject has 
I given special attention to chronic diseases, is 
[ extremely well read on all general subjects, 
and particularly those pertaining in any way, 
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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL KKCORD. 



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His office is al No. Mil South Ninth street, St. Jo 
Bepb, ami h is time is tally occupied by the large 
practice which has steadily increased since the 
early days of his location here. Tin' Doctor was 
born in eastern Russia. Dear the Black Sea, Decern 
ber in. lv>7. and was well educated in his native 
language. At the age of fifteen years he entered 
t he M ilitary School at Geronisb, where be remained 
until IS.")',). He has still in his possession a bronze 
medal which was presented to him by the Govern- 
ment of Russia for his military services during 
the Crimean War. 

In 1859 the Doctor entered the St. Petersburg 
Military Medical College and was a student there 
at the time of the War of 1862. He entered the 
army as Assistant Surgeon in a cavalry company 
and at the end of about one year took part in the 
final engagement, for which service he received 
the medal formerly referred to. In the battle of 
Thrishke, in 1S02, he was actively engaged and 
afterward returned to his studies, completing the 
same in L863, and being assigned to practice in 
the militar) hospital. He was next made assistant 
Surgeon to a battalion, where he remained until 
1868, and was Military Surgeon for his division of 
the army from that date until 1871. In 1ST - .' the 
Doctor resigned from the army in which he had 
won such distinction and given such good Bervice 

The year 1873 witnessed Dr. Leohtman's arrival 
in the United States, he having in the meantime 
spent sometime in the medical schools of Germany 
and England. He landed in St. Joseph in Octo 
ber, to which city he came largely on account of 
his wife, whose father, A. Calm, had already set 
tied here. For over twenty years our subject hits 
since been engaged in general practice, and espe 
eiallv daring the early years was obliged to ride 
for miles in every direction. He is a member "f 
the Northwestern Missouri Medical Association 
and is now its President. He has been extremely 
successful as a practitioner, though he labors still 
under some slight disadvantage on account of nol 
bavingan easy and fluent command of the English 
language. 

In his native land our subject was united in mat 
riage August 1 I. 1862, to Miss Astor Rosa, daugfa 
ter of Abraham Calm, who was formerly a resident 



of St. Joseph, but now makes his home in Chicago. 
To the worthy OOUple a family of twelve children 
have been born. Nine children are still living, 
their records being as follows: Cussel, who is 
with the Kamsey Printing Co., of Kansas City; 
Benjamin, who is engaged in merchandising at 
Rookawaj Beach, L. I.; Dora, who is a teacher in 
the same place, was a graduate of the St. Joseph 
High School, and formerly taught in Buchanan 
County; Eda, also a graduate of the High School 
in this city, and now a stenographer at Kockaway 
Beach; Nathan, with Swift's Packing Company of 
Kansas City: Samuel. Soph is, Isadora and Lena, who 
are still at home and attending school. Our sub- 
ject is a loyal Republican and is devoted to the 
best interests of his adopted country/, having never 
regretted his removal to America. 

*T=5jMMETT M. WRAY is Local Freight Agent 
I/-' of the Chicago & Great Western Railway, 
II i his home being in St. Joseph, Mo. He 
has been engaged in railroading since his 
seventeenth year, having gradually worked his 
way up from the lower rounds of railroad employ- 
ment to his present responsible position. In his 
particular branch he is considered tin roughly 
cai>able and efficient and lias proved himself an 
invaluable man to the company with which he is 
connected. 

The birth of Mr. W ray occurred in St. Charles 
County. Mo., on March 29, 1862. He was brought 
up on a farm and became thoroughly familiar with 
the various routine duties of farm life. He was 
too ambitious, however, to devote hinuelf to agri- 
cultural pursuits, as they were not at all to his 
taste, and while still a lad he firmly made up his 
mind to start out in another direction. He re- 
ceived a good common scl ool education and when 
seventeen years old entered the emplov of the 
Wabash Railway at Weiltzville, near his birth 
place. In thai village he remained as opeiator 
lor some time and was later stationed al various 
points, in October, 1884, arot piing the position as 
Agent at (!il re, Mo He was text promoted to 

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Alton Road at Marshall, Mo., where he remained 
for a few months. 

We next find Mr. Wray working as an employe 
of the "Cotton Belt" Route, aa their agent at 
Clarendon, Ark., and later find him placed by 
them at Fordyce, Ark., in a similar position. At 
the expiration of one year he became a resident of 
Brinkley, Ark., continuing still in the employ of 
the last mentioned company until November, 1887. 
His next place was as assistant agent at Ced;ir 
Falls, Iowa, for the Chicago, St. Paul & Kansas 
City Railroad, which became the Chicago & Great 
Western on July 1, 1892. When the headquarters 
were transferred to St. Joseph, Mr. Wray was 
made chief clerk for C. R. Berry, which position 
he held until 1890. He was made the agent when 
Mr. Berry was assigned to the position of Assistant 
General Freight Agent and has continued up to the 
present time as Freight Agent. He has under his 
control nine assistants and clerks, and about twenty 
outside workers. Mr. Wray attended the National 
Association held in Louisville in June, 1N92, and 
recently was present at a meeting of the National 
Association held in Milwaukee on the 13th of 
June, 1893. He is Secretary and Treasurer of 
the Local Freight Agents' Association of St. 
Joseph, and Chairman of the Executive Committee 
of the National Association of Local Freight 
Agents' Associations. This is a very important 
committee, made up of five members, one from 
each of the following centers: West Superior, 
Pittsburg (Pa.), Wheeling (W. Va), Nashville 
(Tenn.), and St. Joseph. Mr. Wray is so thoroughly 
energetic and full of business that he is just the 
man for a position of the kind he holds, as it takes 
a person possessed of these very characteristics to 
meet the exigencies continually arising in the 
freight department, which is justly considered a 
much more important branch of most, railroad 
systems than the passenger traffic, being the 
source of a much greater revenue to the road. 

At the residence of the bride's parents in Pendle- 
ton, Mo., on October 29, 1884, was celebrated the 
marriage of Mr. Wray and Miss Ada S., daughter 
of Job Price. Mrs. Wray is a native of Pendleton, 
Warren County, and there acquired her excellent 
education. She is the mother of two children: 



Mary Louisa, who will be five years old in May, 
1893; and Dryden A., now a year old. Mrs. 
Wray is identified with the Methodist Episcopal 
Church. Politically Mr. Wray's affiliations are 
with the Democratic party. 



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HI ERMAN W. KASTOR, Editor of the St. 
Joseph Volksblatt, the popular daily and 
weekly German paper published at St. 
Joseph, was born at Bamberg, Bavaria, 
Germany, October 26, 1838. His education was 
acquired principally in the college at Bamberg, 
and in 1854 he emigrated to the United States and 
located in New York, where he remained for 
several years. While serving as a member of the 
Sixth Regiment, New York State Militia, Presi- 
dent Lincoln issued his famous call for seventy- 
five thousand men, and Mr. Kastor was one of the 
number who volunteered in the defense of the stars 
and stripes, which were as dear to him as the Hag 
of his native laud. 

After removing to Leavenworth, Kans., in 1862, 
Mr. Kastor served for some time as Second Lieu 
tenant of the First Kansas State Militia, aud was 
in active service during Price's raid as well as 
upon other occasions of equal hazard. He spent 
the year 1864 at Kansas City. During the follow- 
ing year he resided at Wyandotte, Kans. , where 
he edited Die Fackel (" The Torch "), a German 
newspaper. He proved quite successful in the 
management of this paper, which he removed to 
Atchison. Kans., in 1867. In the following year 
he came to St. Joseph, where he accepted the 
editorship of the Volksblatt, and during the same 
year became one of the proprietors of this paper. 
Since that time he has tilled with (he greatest 
efficiency and success the dual position of editor 
and part proprietor of this well known German 
paper, which owes its popularity largely to his 
efforts. 

The marriage of Mr. Kastor took place in New 
York, May 6, 1860, and united him with Miss 
Theresa Rudolph, a native of Magdeburg, Prussia. 
Their union has been blessed by the birth of ten 
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jamiu, Louis, Amalia, Ernst, Frederic, Richard, 
William, Gertrude and Arthur. The position 
occupied by this family is a desirable one, as the) 
associate with the most cultured people of St. 
Joseph and arc highly regarded wherever known. 



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BORGE LOUIS HERMANN MUEHE. 
As one of the proprietors of the St. Joseph 
Volksblatt this gentleman lias become well 
^ and favorably known throughout Buchanan 
County. A native of Prussia, lie was horn No 
\ ember 6, 1842, and grew to manhood in the 
place of his nativity. He served in the Prussian 
Aran during the campaigns in Bohemia in 1866 
and also participate.! in l he service of INTO 71 in 
France. Saving resolved to seek a home across 
l hr broad waters of the Atlantic, he left his native 
land in 1S7H" and took passage on a steamer bound 
for New York. 

The war I^Ts witnessed the arrival of Mr. 
Muehe in St. Joseph, where for several years he 
was employed as local editor of the Volksblatt. 
He visited his nat ive country in 1884, and after re- 
turning to St. Joseph purchased a half interest in 
the paper with which he had hi'. mi previously con 
nected, his partner in the enterprise being H. W. 
Castor. The connection has continued ever since 
and through the energetic efforts of the proprie 
tors the Volksblatt has attained to a high rank 
among the German papers of the country. In the 
fall of 1884 Mr. Mu. he married Matilda, a daugh 
til of the late William Sclnueckel and a lady of 
pleasani disposition and amiable manners. 

ELUSTIAS E. CLOUD, M. D , is a prom 

i, inent physician and Burgeon who conducts 
an extensive and lucrative business in St. 
Joseph, lie was horn near Wabash, Ind., 
January I. 1852, his fathei being the Rev. E. S. 
Cloud, a native of Indiana, and his paternal grand- 
father, Ramey Cloud, one of the pioneer farmers 
of Wabash County, I ml. Ho was horn in Pennsyl 
vania, or New York, and died in Indiana. The 
family, whose name was formerly spelled McCloud, 



are of Scotch descent. Two families of this nam.' 
came to America in colonial .lays. They were 
shipwrecked and only nine of the passengers 
caped. They landed on an island where during 
their three months' sta\ eight of the number died 
and only one. the great great grandfather of out 
subject, was left. He was picked up by a passing 
ship and brought to the United States. He alt. 'i 
ward served in the War of the Revolution. 

Rev. H. S. Cloud was a graduate of a college 
iii Cincinnati ami entered the Missionary Baptist 
Church as a minister, preaching in Wabash 
County. Ind. In 1856 he removed to Burlington, 
Iowa, and was instrumental in founding the Bap 
list College there in I860, doing to Kansas, be 
was one of the pioneer preachers who organized 
the Missionary Baptist Church in tin' -tad'. A I 
Parallel, RileyCounty, he started a church organ 

ization and in the course of time lived to see a line 
stone church edifice. He was a cousin of Col. 

(.'loud, of Cloud County, Cans., and one brother 
was a Postmaster at Parallel and another brother 
a large stock dealer and merchant there. 

Rev. Mr. Cloud organized his circuit and served 
thirty-two churches in ten counties, making the 
rounds on horseback. He is a fine classical scholar 
and counts Greek only a pastime. During the 
war In- was a Onion man and is now a Republican. 

In |S7:S he retired and removed to Burlington, 
Iowa, where he lived for a short time and then in 
1885 came to Buchanan County, settling on a fruit 
farm in Washington Township, only two and one 
fourth miles from the city limits. 

Dr. cloud is of eight children. Hie mother, 

who was born in Pennsylvania, was before her 
marriage Miss Amanda Yandyke. When our sill, 
ject was about nine years of age lie began clerk 
ing for his uncle George, a merchant at Parallel, 
Cans., and continued with him until 1872, Tiding 
over the country to bn\ stock. By himself he firsl 

t,.,,k up the study of dicine, burning the mid 

night oil after tlie store had closed. He found a pre 
ceptor in Dr. Lyman, who kindly aided him until. 

in 1ST:?. I ntered the lieal department of the 

University of Iowa and continued his studies in 
thai institution for three years. In 1S7«>, only 
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home on account of the deatb of a near relative. 
Therefore he took an examination before the State 
Board and received from them his certificate. 

The firs! field of Dr. Cloud's practice was Corn- 
ing, Adams County, Iowa. When the new law 
regarding physicians was passed he continued his 
studies under Dr. A. J. Salts and finally went into 
partnership with him in the drug business. In 
1886 Dr. Cloud took an examination in the North- 
western Medical College and was graduated with 
the degree of M. D. He first located at No. 1717 
Edmond street, but in April, 1887, removed to his 
present office at No. 1302 North Fourth street. 
He makes a specialty of surgical cases, in which 
branch of the profession he is particularly success 
ful. 

Dr. Cloud was first married in Riley County, 
Ivans. He then wedded the daughter of Senator 
A. S. Edgertou, a large landowner of that county. 
By this union were born two children, Ada B. and 
Delphia E., who are both now living with their 
grandfather, Senator Edgerton. In St. Joseph, on 
September 4, 1890, our subject and Miss Cora E. 
Cutler were married. Mrs. Cloud was born in 
Leavenworth and is a daughter of Ed. L. Cutler, 
First Sergeant of Police in this city. One child, 
Fred Guy, has been born to our subject and wife. 
The pleasant home of the family is located at No. 
1526 North Main street. 

The Doctor is a member of the District Medical 
Society of Northwestern Missouri. He is a medi- 
cal examiner and member of the Woodmen of the 
World and of the Fraternal Aid Society. Dr. 
Cloud is Senior Chief Medical Examiner of the 
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company of New York 
and belongs to the Knights of Pythias, St. Joseph, 
No. 32, U. R. No. 17, and to the Independent Or- 
der of Odd Fellows. He is a member of the Ma- 
sonic Society, belonging to St. Joseph Lodge, No. 
98, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; to St. 
Joseph Lodge, No. 14, Royal Arch Masons, and to 
St. Joseph Council, No. 9, and of the Commanderv, 
No. 4, Knights Templar. He is also a member 
of Moila Temple, Mystic Shrine. In politics he 
is an ardent Republican. In personal manners he 
is very pleasant and affable, by his many sterling 
qualities making hosts of friends. 



CHARLES L. HORN is Secretary and Treas 
urer of the Horn- Long Land and Investment 
Company, of St. Joseph, which has at the 
present time a capital of $50,000. The 
company, which was organized in 189(1, commenced 
business with Louis H. Horn as President, August 
W. Horn Vice president, and Bertha L. Long and 
Charles L. Horn, as incorporators and stockhold- 
ers; the place of business being located at No. IIS 
South Eighth street. The Horn Heights com- 
prise a tract of twenty nine blocks, situated be- 
tween Fourteenth and Nineteenth streets and 
Pacific and Atchison, besides other scattering city 
property. 

Mr. Horn, of this sketch, is a member of the 
firm of Hermann & Horn, brick manufacturers, 
which company supplies the demands of St. Jo- 
seph with from three to five million bricks per 
year. This large establishment is fitted out with 
modern conveniences and at the present time a 
new patent kiln is being placed therein. This 
company is also agent for the Hydraulic-Press 
Brick of Kansas City and St. Louis. 

Charles L. Horn was born in this city August 
20, 1804. His father, John A. Horn, was of Ger- 
man descent, being born in Bavaria and emi- 
grating to the United States. He married Mii-s 
Amelia L. Hornung, who was also a native of 
Germany and settled in St. Joseph at an early day. 
After his marriage, which was celebrated at 
Westport, Mo., John Horn resided in Columbia, 
this state where he had invested a large amount 
of money in real estate and turned capitalist. His 
possessions comprised several houses, including a 
large block on Third street between Charles and 
Edmond streets. .He was one of the oldest set 
tiers of this state and died November 26, 1886. 
His wife still survives and makes her home at Oak- 
land, Cal. The family consists of five children: 
Louis H.,of the Herald Publishing Company; 
August \V. , of Kansas City, who was formerly in 
the grocery business in this city; John V., a resi 
dent of San Diego, Cal., where he is engaged in 
the manufacture of cigars; Bertha L., the wife of 
A. S. Long, M. D., of St. Joseph, and Charles L. 

Our subject was educated in the high schools 
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at Sputz Business College in Kansas City. In 
1891 he began business as an active member of the 
Si. Joseph Brick Company, in which lie has con 
tinned ever since. Mr. Horn is well deserving of 
the comfortable fortune which lie has acquired bj 
energy ami industry, and of the rest, which he has 
been enabled to take by spending a portion of bis 
time in travel through the Western states. For 
two years he enjoyed himself in the tropical cli 
mate of California, after which he went a little 
further north ami spent two more years in Seattle, 
Wash., acting as agent for the Seattle, Lakeshore 
& Eastern Railway Company. He has not only 
basked in the sunshine of California and other 
western states, but has also spent a portion of his 
time on the Atlantic coast, visiting the New Eng- 
land states. 

Socially Mr. Horn is a member of the Knights 
of Pythias, of the Juanita Lodge, No. 171, and 
Uniformed Hank No. 17. He is also a member of 
the Verdi Mandolin Club and has a wide reputation 
as a performer on that instrument. He is nut 
only said to be one of the finest executors of the 
mandolin in the statu, but has written and arranged 
Bome very choice music for club and orchestra work. 

Politically Mr. Horn is a supporter of the Dem- 
cratic nominees, for which he cast, his votes for a 
number of years. Like many other boys he was 
an ambitions youth, and owing to his own industry, 
frugality and push, he has accumulated considera- 
ble property, and is to day not only a great leader 
in St. .Joseph society, but a highly intelligent and 
respected citizen. 

WiEliNHARD HAEFELI. Probably no 
man in Buchanan County has a higher 
reputation for thorough honesty and re- 
liability than the above named gentle 
man. He is the owner and occupant of one of the 
fines! farms in this portion of the state, which, 
although not huge, is under the best methods of 
improvement. His beautiful home is located on 
Section 11, Washington Township, and comprises 
sixty-four acres. 

The parents of our subject, John and Magda 
lena (Saiiner) Haefeli, were natives of Switzerland, 



where the father was a farmer and cattle trader. 
They reared a family of live children ami passed 
their entire lives in the old country. Wernhard, 
of this sketch, and a brother, Jacob, who resides 
in Switzerland, arc the only members of the house 
hold living. 

Mr. Haefeli was born in the Canton of Solothum, 
Switzerland, September 29, 1834. He was tin- 
eldest of the family and was reared on the home 
farm, being given a good German education 
When starting out on his own account ho learned 
the trade of a bilker and in 1851), desirous of 1 1 \ 
ing his fortunes in the New World, set sail for 
America, landing at New Orleans. From there he 
made his way to Brunswick, this state, and for 
eighteen months was employed in working on a 
farm and in a sawmill. He then went to Lexing 
ton, but only remained there seven weeks when he 
found his way to St. Joseph and worked in the 
stone quarries, firs! lor a Mr. Venable and later 
for a Mr. Smable. 

February 21, I860, he of whom we write was 
united in marriage with Miss Cynthia, daughter of 
Peter and Elizabeth (Steiner) Olzenberger, natives 
also of Switzerland, the father being born in 1811 
and the mother in 1814. They emigrated to 
America in 1830 and were married in Holmes 
County, Ohio, in 1838. In 1849 they took up 
their residence on Section '1, Washington Town 
ship, Buchanan County where they were living at 
the time of their decease, the mother passing away 
in October, 1872, and the father dying in March, 
lSSft. They were devoted members of the l'resb\ 
terian Church and were highly esteemed by all who 
knew them. 

Mrs. Haefeli, who was the eldest in the parental 
family of ten children, was bom July _-">. ISo'.l, in 
Holmes County, Ohio. She received a good edu 
cation in both the German and English languages 
ami after her marriage located with her husband 
on the Albrecht farm, which they rented for Bevien 
\ears. In 1867, having accumulated a sufficient 
sum of money, Mr. Haefeli purchased his present 
estate, upon which he has resided for twent] Sl'l 

years. In 1870 I reeled on the place a beauti- 
ful residence, which cost s:i,l>0(>. His barn, which 
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ample accommodation for quantities of grain and 
stock. He Las further enhanced the value of his 
farm by setting out one thousand fruit trees, from 
which he gathers choice products in their season. 
He is the owner of some very fine trotting horses, 
including " George Forward," registered as No. 
1961, the grandson of ''George Wilkes," and No. 
519, a stallion, four years old. Mr. Haefeli has 
on his place several head of Holstein, Jersey and 
Short horn cattle, also Poland China hogs. 

The ten children born to Mr. and Mrs. Haefeli 
are: Amelia R., Albert W., Henry J., Rosa M., Ida 
E., Louis \Y., Minnie K., Otilla O, Helen L. and 
Sophia M. , the last of whom is deceased. In re- 
ligious affairs Mr. Haefeli is a member of the 
Catholic Church, while his good wife is connected 
with the Presbyterian Church. Socially, he is 
identified with the Gretli Society, in which body 
he has held office, and in politics the Republican 
(tarty looks upon him as one of its stanchest ad 
herents. Always greatly interested in educational 
a If airs, he now holds the office of School Director 
of District No. 2 and is giving entire satisfaction 
to all concerned. His children have all been given 
splendid school advantages, Henry having been a 
student at the Christian College. He has taken 
into his household a boy named Fred Wittenbaucb, 
wIki is being reared as one of his own children. 

During the late war our subject was a member 
of a company commanded by Capt. Louis Hax, 
and of which he was made Corporal. While in 
his native country he served in the Swiss Army. 
In 1885 Mr. Haefeli spent five months in the old 
country visiting his old friends and the scenes of 
his childhood. All in all, he is one of that class 
of foreigners which America gladly welcomes to 
her shores, for he is not only industrious and en- 
terprising but he is public spirited and an American 
at heart. 

EiDWARD O. WILD, a well known business 
man of St. Joseph, Buchanan County, is 
I General Agent of the National Tobacco 

Works of Louisville. He was born in 
Quincy, 111., September 25, 1861, and is a son of 



Edward G. Wild, whose birth occurred in Canton, 
St. Gallen, Switzerland. He was educated in his 
native language, and pursued a classical course of 
study in the Heidelberg University. He emigrated 
to America and engaged in the grain business, 
principally in Quincy. In 1877 he was stricken 
with the dread disease, yellow fever, while in 
Memphis, and died from its effects. Our subject's 
mother, La Belle, daughter of Mathias Obert, was 
born in Quincy. Her father was a native of 
Baden Baden, Germany, and came to America at 
an early day, first settling in the east and later 
removing to Quincy. He was a prominent local 
politician. He was made a member of Robert 
Wiley Lodge, No. l,at Baltimore, and at the time 
of his death was the oldest living Odd Fellow in 
the United States. He was a landowner and 
capitalist. His death occurred about 1883, when 
he had reached a good old age. Mrs. Edward 
Wild died about 1868, when our subject was still 
young. Of her three children only one other is 
now living, Anna, a resident of Quincy. 

After receiving good common school advantages, 
Edward Wild embarked in business with A. L. 
Langdon, founding the Augusta Review, which was 
published in Hancock County, 111., and after being in 
charge of this journal for two years our subject sold 
his interest. In 1885 he entered the employ of the 
firm with which he is still connected as a traveling 
salesman, dealing with the retail trade. Two 
years later he settled in St. Joseph, and when the 
consolidation of the National and American 
Tobacco Companies was effected he was appointed 
General Agent of the territory comprising Mis- 
souri, Kansas and Nebraska, succeeding W. C. 
Price, and having his headquarters in St. Joseph. 
He has now from ten to fifteen traveling men 
under his direction, and is making a good success 
of this branch of the company's territory. Mr. 
Wild has charge of the commercial traveling 
department in the Herald, also in the Commercial 
Reporter. 

The marriage of Mr. Wild and Miss Nellie 
Taylor was celebrated in 18N7. The lady was 
born in Brant ford County, Ontario, Canada, and 
is a daughter of J. L. Taylor, who was formerly a 
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Mo., luit is qoct Living retired in Cincinnati. A 
little daughter, Genevieve, has oome to bless the 
home and hearts of our worthy subjecl and hia 
estimable wife. She is a bright and beautiful 
child, the pride and delight of not only her 
parents but all who know her. 

In his political belief Mr. Wild is an ardent 
Republican, and is prominent in fraternal circles. 
He belongs to Zeredetha Lodge, Ancient, Free and 

Accepted Masons; St. Joseph Chapter, lioval Arcli 

Masons, and of Hugh De Pay en Commandery, 
lvnighis Templar. He is also a member of the 
Moila Temple Shrine. Mr. Wild belongs to the 
Doited Commercial Traveling Association, St. 
Joseph Council, No. 25, of which lie was a charter 
member and the first secretary. He is a leading 
member and was one of the originators of the 
Commercial Club of this city. Few of the young 
business men of this place are more popular in all 
circles, and as a financial manager he has display ed 
marked ability. 

J|AMFS M. WILSON, one of the able and 
BUCCessful young attorneys at, law of St. 
\ Joseph, Buchanan County, was born Decern 
ber ->'.K 1857, in De Kalb, Mo. His father, 
Judge .Jasper Wilson, was a prominent, early settler 
of this county. He was born in Orange County, 
lud.. where his father, James Wilson, had settled 
in 1812. The latter was born and reared in North 
Carolina. He made the journey to the Hoosier 
state overland in wagons and there engaged in 
farming until 1835, when he removed to a farm 
near Joliet, Will County, III. This property he 
entered from the Government, but, remained on it, 
for only two years, as he had heard favorable 
accounts of the tine land of the" Platte Purchase." 
Accordingly, he brought his family to this county 
and entered land in Bloomington Township. He 
Bleared and improved a farm and was a successful 
hemp ami stock raiser. His death occurred at. the 
beginning of the war. He was a Baptist in faith, 

II gh his father, of Scotch Irish parentage, was 

B Presbyterian The latter emigrated from Ireland 
to North Carolina at an early da\ and look pari in 
the War of Independence 



Judge Wilson was only fifteen years old when 
he came to this county. The old log house, which 
was erected in 1 s:{7 by his father and himself, is 
still standing intact and is the oldest building 
within the county borders. During the late war 
Mr. Wilson was a Lieutenant in Ihe State Militia. 
His line farm of one hundred and sixty acres is 

well stocked and a mode] i in every respect. In 

politics he is a Republican, and was honored by 
his fellow citizens, at one time being elected a 
Judge of Buchanan County. His wife, who bore 
the maiden name of Mary Carton, was born in 
Decatur County, Ind. Her father, who followed 
agricultural pursuits, was born in Kentucky and in 
1839 removed to Bloomington, Mo., where he 
passed his remaining years. Mrs. Wilson became 
the mother of five children, all but one of whom 
are still living. She was called from the shores of 
time in 1887, and was deeply mourned by the many 
friends she had drawn to her by her womanly 
qualities. 

The boyhood of James Wilson was passed on his 
father's farm, his time being fully employed in 
assisting to clear and improve the new land, and 
in obtaining an education in the district, schools. 
He lived with his parents until 1881, when he went 
to Norway, Kans., and taught school for a few 
terms. Before leaving the farm, however, he had 
taken up legal studies by himself, and had decided 
tn follow the practice of law. In INS I he com 
menced reading law with Judge M. Polk, formerly 
of Kentucky, but for many years a well known 
lawyer of St. Joseph. In 1886 Mr. Wilson was 
admitted to the bar and at once opened an office. 
A fter practicing alone for a short time, he took into 
partnership W. H. Kearby under the firm name of 
Wilson & Kearby. This connection existed from 
August, 1887, to New Year's Day of L891, when il 
was dissolved by mutual consent,. Mr. Wilson 
then became the junior member of the linn of 
Johnson & Wilson, with his office in the Hughes 
Building. The firm is engaged in the practice of 

civil law and is employed by a number of different 
corporations as attorneys. The partners are both 
wideawake and well posted young lawyers, and are 
enjoying a lucrative practice 

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Mary Minor were united in wedlock. She is a 
native of this county and was educated in St. 
Joseph. She is a lady who possesses many amiable 
characteristics, which readily make for her friends 
of all with whom she comes in contact. 

Mr. Wilson is a member of Enterprise Lodge, 
No. 232, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of 
which he is Past Grand; of Hesperia Camp, No. 
8, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and of 
Pride of the West Lodge, No. 42, Ancient Order 
of United Workmen. He is prominent in local 
political circles and has served as a delegate to 
County and State Conventions of the Republican 
party, of which he is an able champion. 



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FiREDERICK E. ERNST is the popular Tick 
et Auditor at the Union Depot of St. Jo- 
seph, Buchanan County. He is one of the 
leading young railroad men of this enter- 
prising western city and occupies quite a responsi- 
ble position as head of the ticket department. He 
comes from a pioneer family of this vicinity and 
his father was rilling the position of Postmaster of 
St. Joseph at the time of his death, which occurred 
August 2, 1892. 

The father of our subject, Charles F. Ernst, was 
born at Uracil, Wurtemberg, Germany, near the 
city of Stuttgart, October 5, 1838. His father, 
whose Christian name was Frederick, was a baker 
by trade, and passed his entire life in the Father- 
land. Charles also learned the baker's trade and 
was only a lad of twelve years when he came to 
America. For about six years he worked as a 
baker in Wheeling, W. Va. , and in 1858, when he 
arrived in St. Joseph, he was only eighteen years 
old. He continued at his trade until the war broke 
out, when, in 1861, at the first tap of the drum, he 
enlisted for six months' service in the state militia, 
the company being commanded by Captain Mast. 
When his time had expired he became a member 
of the Twelfth Missouri Cavalry. Ho was pro- 
moted to the rank of First Lieutenant of Company 
D, February 5, 1804, and later, on April 11, of 
the following year, was appointed Captain of Com- 
pany E, in the same regiment. His services were 



with the Hatch Division Cavalry Corps of Missis- 
sippi, commanded by Gen. Wilson. He took part 
in the battles of Franklin and Nashville and in 
1865 went to Fort Leavenworth, where the com- 
pany was fitted out to go on the Powder river ex- 
pedition against the Indians. They left Omaha 
July 1, 1805, and returned to Fort Leavenworth 
in March, I860. 

Charles F. Ernst was appointed District Revenue 
Collector on leaving the army service and retained 
that position until 1875. Subsequently, for 
twelve years, he carried on a clothing business at 
No. 409 Felix street. He was afterward for a 
number of years in the fire insurance business. 
In 1889 President Harrison appointed him to the 
position of Postmaster in this city and as such he 
served acceptably until his death. He was an act 
ive worker of the Loyal Legion, and a member of 
Custer Post, No. 7, Grand Army of the Republic. 
For six years he was Secretary of the St. Joseph 
Interstate Exposition and did much toward mak- 
ing it a success. He was a member of the Pres- 
byterian Church and always active in all good 
works. 

The maiden name of our subject's mother was 
Caroline M. Broder. She was born in Switzer- 
land, and is a daughter of a prominent masonry 
contractor. He brought his family to America 
and resided for many years in St. Louis, where 
his death occurred. Mrs. Ernst passed her girl- 
hood in St. Louis, and is now making her home in 
St. Joseph. She became the mother of nine chil- 
dren, five of whom are living. 

Fred E. Ernst is the oldest child of his father's 
family now living. His birth occurred February 
1, 1867, in this city and here he acquired his ed- 
ucation in the common schools. When still only 
a lad he was a clerk in the book and stationary 
business of Ernst & Brill. When eighteen years 
old he entered upon the duties of a clerk in the St. 
Joseph Union Depot. He pressed steadily forward 
and at the end of two years we find him Chief 
Clerk, and in November, 1890, Ticket Auditor. 
This position he is still acceptably filling with 
credit to himself and to the satisfaction of his em- 
ployers. He is popular among railroad men and 
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have dealingB. Though young in years and bnsi 
aees experience, he has already shown the mettle 
<if which he is made, and it is safe to predict his 
steady rise. 

Fraternally Mr. Ernst is a member of the 
Knights of Pythias, and belongs to Lincoln Camp, 
No. \~i. S. V., of which In- is a charter member 
and Past Captain. Be also belongs to the Wood 
men of the World In liis political belief ln> is a 
Republican and greatly interested in the success 
of the party. 

JOHN DEM* >NP, who owns a large drug store 
on the corner of Third and Edmond streets, 
is one of the best known among the wealthy 
business men of St Joseph. He is a worthy 
example of the German American citizen who lias 
risen from the foot of the hill of success through 
his own industrious efforts and can now stand on 
the pinnacle and can feel a just pride in reviewing 
the obstacles which he has overcome and by which 
he has apparently been made stronger. He o<vu 
pies a building which he erected during the war, 
covering a space 10 by 40 feet. Of this he occu- 
pies the basement, the first part of the second and 
all of the third floors, carrying a full stock of fam 
ily drugs, paints, oils, etc., and having a manufac- 
turing laboratory. He has carried on a strictly 
retail business, and is one of the most successful 
in his line of trade in the city. Several remedies 
and specifics manufactured by him are household 
words throughout the west, among which we might 
specially mention Demond's Irish Moss Pectoral 
and Cough Remedy, Smith's ElectricOil Rheumat- 
ic Remedy, and A. P.. Hardy's Tonic Syrup for 
Malaria, Chills and Fever. The first named rem 
edy is considered particularly efficacious, and the 
sales of this one alone are extremely larj^e. Of 
these various remedies Mr. Demond is proprietor 
and sole manufacturer, and give-, personal alien 
tion to his business, to which he attends strictly. 
In the old and picturesque city of Coblenz on 
Hie Rhine, in Prussia, occurred Hie birth of John 
Deinimd, the date of that event being March 28, 
1833. Until reaching his majority he remained 



in the Fatherland, and at the age of seventeen 
commenced serving a four years' apprenticeship to 
the drug trade. In 18"il he crossed the Atlantic, 
landing in New York city, where he was engaged 
as a clerk for about one year in a retail perfum- 
er) bouse on Broadway. The following year he 
went to Wisconsin, ijniii^ to Cassville, where he 
had friends through whose representations he had 
been induced to try his fortunes in the New World. 
There for two years he engaged in clerking in a 
general merchandise store, in the drug department, 

at the end of that time going with a fri 1 to 

Prairie du ( Ihien, then a lively western town, where 
in 1857 he opened a factory for rectifying spirits. 
But at the end of a year the financial crash came 
and he was left without any money. Going to 
Muscatine, Iowa, in 1850 he clerked for a time 
and then opened a small grocery store. 

The following year Mr. Demond arrived in St 
Joseph, then an outfitting point, coming with the 
intention of remaining here. Entering the huge 
wholesale drug house of Van Lear, Hardy it Com 
pany, he clerked for a year, or until the outbreak 
of the war, when he bought out a drug business 
on the southeast corner of Third and Edmond 
streets, opposite his present house. For the past 
thirty two years he has continued in the trade and 
was the first man to do any building during the 
war. In June, 1803, he located on his present 
site, where lie erected the store he has since occn 
pied. 

While a resident of Wisconsin Mr. Demond led 
to the marriage altar Miss Margaret King, who 
was called from this life August 5, 1892, and who 
was a faithful and devoted wife and mother 
'I' heir family comprises three children. Emily, who 
resides at home, is a graduate of a convent in 
Atchison, and is a tine artist, showing excellent 
talent. She is considered one of the best artists 
in St. Joseph, her particular forte being china 
painting. Otto, the second child, is now engaged 
in business with his father, and was graduated in 

July, 1892, from the Louisville College of Phar 
macy with high honors, taking the blue ribbon on 
account of standing highest in his class, axlolph, 
the youngest of the family, is also in his father's 

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Mr. Demond is a member of the Turner Society, 
and in politics is a Republican, though not a strict 
partisan, choosing to exercise his right of fran- 
chise in favor of the man best qualified in his 
opinion to fill a given position, regardless of party 
lines. In 1889 Mr. Demond erected a beautiful 
residence which is one of the finest, as regards 
both exterior and interior appointments and loca- 
tion, of any in the city. Its site is at the corner 
of Seventh and Jule streets and it is constructed 
of the finest pressed brick and stone. It is full 
two stories in height, and finished with butternut 
and other light hardwoods. The walls are fres- 
coed, beautifully tinted and in all respects the 
home is a model one of this decade. This brief 
sketch of his life, surroundings and home would 
be considered incomplete by the members of the 
family should we omit the name of Lizzie Groh, 
who has been faithfully devoted to their interests 
for twenty-one years, and is now the head of the 
household affairs. Ottelia Halm has also been a 
member of the household for over sixteen years, 
and is equally interested in all that pertains to its 
welfare. Mr. Demond is one of the leading busi- 
ness men of St. Joseph, and it is with pleasure 
that we give his sketch and such brief tribute to 
his worth as is therein contained. 



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CLARENCE M. BOYD, M. D., whose pleasant 
home is situated at No. 2335 South Sixth 
_^ ' street, St. Joseph, located here only a year 
ago, but for two and one-half years was en- 
gaged in practice with Dr. J. B. Riley near the 
Union Depot. Dr. Boyd graduated in the class of 
1892 from the Northwestern Medical College of 
St. Joseph. He had read in company with Dr. 
Riley for four years, and under his wise guidance 
and direction began to practice. 

Dr. Boyd was born in the state of Oregon on 
April 19, 1870, and since his first year has resided 
in Kansas, near Paola, coming to this city about 
five years ago. He received his education in the 
public and high schools of I'aola, and when fifteen 
years of age lost his father. His mother after 
ward married J. F. McCale, an engineer on the 



Kansas City Railroad, who, on account, of his con- 
nection with the company, brought his family to 
this city. Dr. Boyd has been self-supporting 
ever since his sixteenth year, clerking for some 
time in a grocery store. He is a close student and 
deserving of great credit, for in spite of all ob- 
stacles he determined to gain, and has succeeded 
in the acquisition of a good education. Though 
so young in years and experience he has an en- 
couraging future before him, and with the good 
start he has already made will undoubtedly before 
many years are past rank among the leading 
physicians of this city. Being pleasant, affable 
and social in manner, he makes friends wherever 
he goes, and these same qualities will prove of 
great use to him in the practice of his professional 
duties as they win the confidence and respect of 
patients and their friends. 

Dr. Boyd's practice is mainly in the southern 
part of the city and extends over a wide territory. 
He is devoted to the profession he has adopted, 
and believes it to be, as it certainly is, one of the 
noblest, if not indeed the grandest, work to which 
any man can be called — the alleviation of the suf- 
fering and woes to which human flesh is heir. 
Though by some the pastor's field might be con- 
sidered to be in some respects one which affords a 
wider scope for reaching the hearts and lives of 
men, it is an open question if the doctor does not 
possess the greater power, coming as he does into 
homes darkened with the shadows of approaching 
death, when he has an opportunity of offering 
words of consolation and sympathy such as is not 
afforded to the minister. Dr. Boyd is a member 
of the Knights of Pythias and uses his right, of 
franchise in favor of the Democratic party. The 
Doctor is also a member of the Knights of Macca- 
bees of the World and is Medical Examiner of 
that order. 



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J/OHN BLOOMER, Captain of Police in St. 
Josepb, has been since his youth a resident 
/ of this city almost uninterruptedly and lias 
been on the police force since 1866, with the 
exception of about, four years. He was first a 
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1868, afterward returning to his patrol duties, and 

whi'ii the D6W city charter was adopted in 18N7 lie 
was employed Sergeant, and was later promoted 

to the captaincy as successor of Capt. Broyles, who 
died while occupying that position. 

Mr. Bloomer was born in County Tyrone, Ire- 
land, near Ormagh, and when eighteen years of 
age emigrated to the United States, going to Litch 
field. Conn., where his sister was located. In that 
vicinity he worked for about three years for neigh- 
boring fanners and then came out west, entering 
and improving a farm in Dodge County, Neb., 
where he lived for three and one half years, then 
selling the place and coming to St. Joseph in 
1859. About this time he began carrying freight 
across the plains to Denver from this city, first 
with mules and later with ox teams, each outfit 
consisting of two wagons hitched together and 
drawn by live yoke of cattle. Denver being about 
eight hundred miles distant, the round trip re- 
quired about two months. 

Mr. Bloomer transported freight and other 
articles for the Government to some extent, but 
mainly engaged in freighting for himself. This 
proving a good business he continued it until the 
closing of the war, and after living a few years in 
St. Joseph engaged in various pursuits. He whs 
made a member of the police force as previously 
stated. About 1870 he again resumed his team- 
ing [or a short time, but for many years has been 
mainly engaged in assisting to keep the peace and 
order of the city. 

In 1858, while on his farm in Nebraska, Mr. 
Bloomer brought to his home his bride, who was 
formerly Miss Abbie O'Reilly, to whom ho was 
married in New York city, February 15, and with 
whom he had become acquainted in Connecticut. 
'I'd them has been born a family of nine children, 
four of whom are living One son, Michael J., 
died in 1891, at the age of twenty six years, in 
St. Joseph, in which city he had been a book 
keeper. Three children died in childhood. Those 
living are Fannie, now Mrs. 15. O'Connor, of 
l'lattsburg. Mo. ; Abbie, who resides at home and 
is a graduate of the Sacred Heart Convent; Annie, 
who is attending the public schools, and John, a 
sin. lent at the Christian Brothers College. The 



family, who are members of the St. Patrick's 
Catholic Church, reside at No 1502 Sacramento 

street. 



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JiOSEPH C. HULL is a retired business man 
of St. Joseph, residing iii his pleasant sub- 
! urban residence at the corner of Twentieth 
and Duncan streets, his house being sur 
rounded by an entire block of laud with a beauti 
fill lawn and shade trees. Our subject well merits a 
place in the records of t he men who have been found 
ers of this city's prosperity, as he was for many 
years actively interested in promoting her welfare 
and was connected with many of her leading enter 
prises. For exactly half a century this city has 
been his home, as it was in the year 1843, in which 
he first landed here. He then began buying and 
selling goods, continuing until 1S")'J, when he or 
ganized the St. Joseph Fire and Marine Insur 
ance Company, of which ho was made the tirst 
President and in which position he remained 
until he successfully wound up its affairs in 1862, 
after nine years of extensive business. It had 
paid its stockholders ample dividends, but it was 
deemed best to open a new company and so was 
closed out, and a now one, bearing the same name, 
was incorporate,!. 

But the unsettled condition of affairs during the 
war made it advisable to discontinue the enter- 
prise entirely, and therefore at the end of about 
one year after the second company was organized 
the business was closed out. Mr. Hull had entire 
management of both of these concerns and in 1855 
also organized the Farmers' and Mechanics' Suv 
ings Association, which carried on a careful and 
successful business until 18(S">, when the First Na- 
tional Bank was started, Mr. Hull was one of the 
incorporators of the last mentioned enterprise and 
was its cashier, as he had been of the former insti 

tlltioil. Ill 1S7S B loss of 919,000 WaS discovered 

in its accounts ami the bank was soon after dis 
continued. It is supposed that this money was 
stolen, but no (due has ever come to light as to the 
disappearance of the funds. The bank had been 
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HNiull Inns had little to <l" with the closing of its 
doors. It had declared ten per cent dividends, 

but the stockholders wer< I satisfied with this 

ratio of profit on their investment. William Zook 
was its first and Thomas E. Tootle its last Presi 
dent. 

Our subject was for many years interested in al- 
most every financial venture conducive to the 
growth and prosperity of St. Joseph. Among 
other concerns he wasa stockholder in the Valley 
Packing Company, which, after a flattering term 
of business, proved in the end a disastrous failure. 
Since L878 Mr. Hull has not been actively engaged 

in business but has attended to some real estate 
which he still owns. lie was in early life a Whig 
and a great admirer of Henry Clay, voting for 
William Henry Harrison in L840. 

On September 10, 1812, Joseph O. Hull first 
saw the light at Steubenville, Ohio. He received 

but a limited education, as the schools of that 
early day were not of He- best, and when only si\ 
teen years he began clerking for his uncle at. 
Wheeling, Va., and later attended the "Lanoas 
ter," an academy in that city, becoming there 
more thorough!) familiar with the English branches 
and giving some attention to French and Latin. 
In 1836 he removed to St. Louis, where, entering 
a wholesale grooery house, he sunn made himself a 
favorite with his employers on account of his lidol 

ity, industry and strict attention to business. Il(> 
remained in that city until ISC!, when he came to 
St.. Joseph. 

In Buchanan County, on September 19, 1844 

was performed the marriage ceremony that united 
t lie fortunes of Mr. Hulland M iss M art ha B. Kir 
cheval. To this worthy couple has been born a 
family of six children, of whom four are living: 
Edward, who is a traveling salesman for the Stand 
ard Oil Company; If rank, who is clerking for the 
Wyeth Hardware Company ; Robert Curtis, who is 

employed in a railway office, and Annie, widow of 

Will ard Vories, who was a son of Judge Henry 
Vories, and followed the insurance business. His 
death occurred December 11, 1801, and his widow 
is now making her home with her father. Mrs. 
Hull is still living, and both she and her husband 
are enjoying to the full the results of a well spent 



and useful life. Mr. Hull's business career was a 
successful one, and while he accumulated consid- 
erable property he at the same timet did not make 

that hi* chief object, frequently seizing opportu 
nities to assist other men also to rise in the com 
mercial world. 

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FjELIX EUGENE DE FONDS, Steward and 
Assistant. Superintendent of the City Hos- 
pital, was born in Strasburg, France, Feb 
ruary 28, L848. His parents, Eugene and 
Louise l>c Fonda, were worthy citizens of that 
country, where they passed, their entire lives. The 
subject of this notice passed his boyhood unovent 
fully in bis native land, whence in 1865 he emi 
grated to America and located in Wheeling, W. 
Va. Prior to crossing the ocean he had engaged 
in business as a ^as litter, but upon making settle- 
ment in Wheeling he followed mercantile pursuits. 
The year 1870 witnessed the arrival of Mr. De 
Fonda in St. Joseph, which had even then become 
well known throughout the United States as one 
of the foremost towns of the west. His first cm 
ployment here was as an employe of Herman Gar 
lich. In 1874 he was appointod Steward of the 
City Hospital and during the following year was 
chosen Secretary of the Hoard of Health. He 
tilled the latter position to the satisfaction of all 
concerned, until June, 1891, when the duties were 

added to tl ity. For nineteen consecutive years 

he has served as City Hospital Steward, in which 
capacity he has become widely and favorably 
known. 

It is universally admitted that Mr. De Foods is 
precisely the man for the place, and to him per 
haps more than to any other is due the high stand 
ing of the hospital. He gives his personal atten 

tion to the management anil supervision of the 
work and keeps the place in admirable condition. 
II is to be regretted, however, that he has been 
prevented by lack of adequate facilities from carry 
ing ont many plans for the better equipment of 
the hospital. More com moil ions hospital buildings 
are greatly needed, and it is to be hoped that lie 
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seoared. Mr. De Fonda makes a monthly and an 
annual report to the Board of Health. Since be 

beeaxn mnected with this institution there have 

been five sieges of smallpox at the hospital, the 

most severe having been in 1 S 7 -"> and 1885. 

At St Joseph, December 24, 1873, occurred the 
marriage of Mr. De Fonda to Miss Jennie Ifarsee, 
a native of Kentucky. They are the parents of 
three living children Adele, Eddie and Elva. 
One son, Maurice, was removed bj death when 
two and one half years of age. 

JfOSEPH L. UNANGST, one of the prominenl 
business men and enterprising merchants ol 
I St. Joseph, was reared in Kent Township, 
Stephenson County, 111., one of the finest 
farming districts in that state. His birth, however, 
occurred in the northeastern part of Northampton 
County, Pa., October '11, 1849, bnt when seven 
years of age Ids parents removed to Stephenson 
County, where the father engaged in farming. 
The latter, whose name was Philip, was born in 
Pennsylvania, and before leaving bin native state 
followed the occupation of B tailor. On his arrival 
in Illinois he improved a farm of one hundred and 
twenty acres, which he brought under line cidliva 
tion, erecting good buildings and making it a model 
one in every respect. He engaged in general farm 
ing and stock-raising until he wan called to his final 
home in 1871. Both he and his wife were devoted 
members Of the Lutheran Church and were held n 
the highest respect. The mother of .air subject, 
Leah Hahn Unangst, was also a native of the Ke\ 
stone State and of German origin. She departed 
this life iii 1890, leaving several children to mourn 

her loss. 

Joseph L. Unan^wt was the seventh in order of 
birth in a family of ten children, and received a 
Common school education In Kent Township. He 

remained under the parental roof until 1870, when 

he went to Hiawatha, Kans, where he engaged as 
i e]erk for a lumber firm, remaining in their em 
ploy for four years. Then going to Cass County, 
Neb, he there engaged in tin- lumber business for 
a short time and in 1875 traveled through Califor 



nia, Oregon, Nevada and Colorado During this 

trip he saw many of the most beautiful scenes of 
nature to be found in our country and reveled in 
their grandeur. In 1876 he arrived in St. Joseph 
and in the early spring entered the employ of 
Waterman & Bernard, continuing with that firm 
until 1879, when he formed bis present partnership 

with John Muelheisen, since uhieh time they ha\e 

carried on a steadily increasing and lucrative trade 
in lumber. They are also largel] interested in 
silver mines in New Mexico and gold mines in the 
Black Hills of Wyoming. 

January 20, 1888, Mr. Unangst was united in 
marriage with Miss Lena A. Sorge, who was born 
in Cincinnati, Ohio, and reared in this city. Two 
children have OOme to bless their home, a son and 
daughter, namely: Lomaand Herbert. Our subject 
is a member of the Ancient Order of United Work 

men, and in his political affiliations choose-, to be 

independent, using his right of franchise in favor 
of men whom he deems best lilted to carry out the 
will of the people, regardless of party politics In 
ISSS Mr. Unangst erected a pleasant: home resi 
deuce at No. 815 South I'' lei-nth street, over 

which his wife, a thoroughly accomplished ami 
amiable lady, presides with unusual grace and dig 
nity. Our Bnbjecl is numbered among the thor 
OUghly honorable ami reliable business men ol the 
city, and it is entirely due to his own ability and 
sagacious foresight I hat he has risen steadily tep 
by step to a position of influence and wealth. He 
is socially considered one of the most agreeable and 
popular gentlemen to be found anywhere, always 
making a host of friends wherever he goes. He ia 
intelligent and well read on all subjects, keeping 
infoii I on all the leading issues of the da] 



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CHARLES W. CARSON, Sherilfof Buchanan 
County, is one of the most popular gentle 
i men in Democratic circles in this part of 
the state. He was nominated and elected 
to his present position in the fall of 1892, recei\ 

ing a large majority of votes. His term of office 

runs from January I, 1898, to New Year's I >a_\ of 

1895 He has been selected to serse SB a de|e 



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gate to state anil county conventions of his party a 
number of times and is prominent in its various 
movements. He comes from an old Kentucky fam- 
ily, his grandfather, C. O, who was born in Ire- 
land, having settled in Rock Castle County at a 
very early day with his parents, and during the 
war of 1812 he was in service as a Lieutenant. 
He was an extensive farmer and planter and held 
a number of important county offices. In 1852 he 
removed to Buchanan County, making a settle 
ment in Washington Township four miles south- 
east of St. Joseph and engaged in the raising of 
hemp on a large scale in addition to general farm- 
ing until shortly before his death in 1860. 

Charles W. Carson was born in Rock Castle 
County, Ky., in the village of Mt. Vernon, Septein 
ber 27, 1852, being the son of James D. Carson, 
who was also born in the same town. The latter 
was married in Kentucky to Miss Sallie A. Wood- 
son, who was born in Cumberland County, that 
state, and was a daughter of Jefferson Woodson, 
who was a planter and who in 1849 started for 
California but died on the way at Little Blue, 
Kans. Mrs. Carson was also a niece of Gov. Silas 
Woodson of St. Joseph. The mother, who was 
reared in Kentucky, died in 1884, having survived 
her husband seven years. 

In 1853 our subject's father removed to Missouri, 
buying a farm in Washington Township where his 
father and two brothers had previously located 
and where all possessed large plantations. From 
1865 to 1867 he engaged in freighting across the 
plains to Montana with ox teams and later turned 
his attention exclusively to farming and dealing in 
stock. He was a Iioyal Arch Mason. Of three 
children two are now living, our subject's brother, S. 
J., being general agent for the William Deering 
Harvesting Machine Company of St. Joseph, hav- 
ing large territory in the West. 

Charles W. Carson has been reared in this 
county since his infancy and his first recollections 
are of places in this locality. He may therefore 
be duly termed one of this county's sons, as he lias 
nl ways been identified with her welfare. He at- 
tended the common schools and as he became of 
the proper age only at the time of the war the ad 
vantages were extremely meager in educational di- 



rections. The times were exciting and full of terror 
for young and old, necessitating the close of the 
schools many months at a time. Uutil reaching 
his majority he remained on the old homestead 
and then, with a young man's desire to seek new 
scenes, he went out west on the plains of the Indian 
Territory, where he engaged in herding cattle for 
about a year. ■ 

Mr. Carson then entered the employ of the firm 
of Gibbs, Sterritt & Company, manufacturers of 
harvesting machines and reapers at Corry, Pa. 
He traveled through southern Missouri and Kan 
Baa principally, representing the firm for eighteen 
months, after which with his brother, he became 
General Agent of the William Deering Machine 
Company, and for a portion of the time acted as 
General Manager at St. Joseph. We next find him 
for two years an employe of the McCormick 
Reaper Company, after which he returned to the 
Deering Company and with his brother was made 
General Manager of their works. He also sold more 
le*s in territory both east and west and supervised 
about one hundred and twenty-five agents for the 
next fourteen years. When he began working for 
this firm there was not a machine shop in the 
county, but now they are the leaders of the nu- 
merous manufactories which have sprung up in 
tin's locality. 

Mr. Carson has always been faithful and one in 
whom his employers could place the fullest confi- 
dence and this fact is shown by their retaining 
him for so many years in such a responsible posi 
tion. It is little wonder therefore, knowing these 
facts, that the people believed that in a public ca- 
pacity he would be equally faithful to their inter 
ests, for where a man is " faithful over a few things 
lie will lie faithful over many." 

In this county in the year 1885 occurred the 
marriage of Mr. Carson and Miss Nannie E. 
Mitchell, a native of Platte County. Her father, 
John S. , was a well-known merchant at Weston. 
Removing to St. Joseph, he kept a drug store for 
some time. He passed his last years on a farm. 
The union of our worthy subject and his amiable 
wife has been blessed with a daughter, Sallie ('. 
Mr. Carson is a member of the Ancient Free and 
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der of Red Men and of the Modern Woodmen of 

Ai ica. Hi- also belongs to f li»> Insurance Society 

of Commercial Travelers. Hi' uses his i" i >^1 1 1 of 
franchise in favor of tln> Democratic party, which 
bas seen lit to make him its representative in the 
important position be now holds. He is person- 
ally very popular and numbers many friends in 
business, political and social circles. 

GORTIS M. CANADY is Assistant Engineer 
at the St. Joseph Bridge & Iron Company, 
a responsible position in this, one of the 
large industries of St. Joseph, Buchanan 
County. He is a native of Clinton County, Iowa, 
his birtb having occurred at De Witt, November 
l'_\ 18(5(5. His grandfather, John Canady, was a 
fanner in Kentucky and was an early sett lei in 
Iowa. He is still living, though well along in 
years. 

William N. Canady, the father of the gentleman 
of whom we write, was a carpenter by trade, and 
was bom in Kentucky. Iri 18G1 be volunteered as 
a private soldier in Company A, Eighth Iowa In 
fan try and served until the close of the war, when 
he was mustered out as a Corporal. He saw con- 
siderable active service, for the Eighth Iowa was a 
fighting regiment. In lSliT he was married in 
De Witt, Iowa, to Loretta J. Turner, and soon 
after this event he removed to Story County. Iowa. 
Mrs. Canady is the daughter of Joseph L. Turner, 
who was horn in Brunswick, Mo., and located in 
Clinton County, Iowa, at an early day. He was a 
millwright and for years was interested in a Hour 
mill. He removed to Odebolt, Iowa, where he 
purchased a new farm, improved it, and there he 
is still living. William Canady entered the em- 
ploy of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad 
Company in Story County, Towa, and later was 
employed in the construction and building of the 
Iowa Agricultural College, at Ames. Iowa. His 

home is now at /enorsville. Boone C ty, Iowa. 

He is a well known member of the Grand Arm 3 of 
the Republic, is a Republican, and has been Jus- 
tice of the Peace for years. He and his wife are 
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 



They are the parents of nine children, who are all 
living. 

C. M. Canady, who is the oldest of his father's 
family, was reared in Story and Boone Counties. 

His education, up to the age of si\t 1 years, was 

thai of the public schools. In 1883 be entered the 
Iowa State Agricultural College, at Ames. Iowa, 
from which institution he was graduated in 1.887, 
With a degree of B. C. E. In the fall of 1SS7 be 
was elected on the Republican ticket to the posi 
tion of Surveyor of Boone County. This place he 
resigned to accept a position of traveling salesman 
for the King Bridge Company of Des Moines, 
Iowa. At the end of six moid lis he was employed 
by John H. Sparks as a salesman, and gradually 
drifted into engineering. 

In 1890 Mr. Canady was assistant County Sur- 
veyor under Harry Farwell. In the fall of the 
following year ho accepted a position as assistant 
engineer, at the St. Joseph Bridge & Iron Works, 
which important place he still holds. He has 
charge of the drafting, and making estimates of 
the work. He is practical and is master of his 
business. 

On the 28d of December, 1891, a marriage 
ceremony, performed in Coon Rapids, Iowa, 
united C. M. Canady and Miss Hattie Houghton 
as man and wife. Mrs. Canady is a daughter of 
Otis D. Houghton, a pioneer farmer of Boone 
County, where she was born. Mr. Eoughton is 
now engaged in merchandising in Coon Rapids, 
Iowa. With regard to politics, our subject is in 
dependent, choosing to use his right of franchise 
in favor of such candidates and measures as he 
thinks best, regardless of party lines. In his 
business methods he is enterprising and thor- 
oughly up to the times. 

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ERNARD PATTON, ex County Judge and 

retired contractor, resides at No. 101 s Mes 

1 1 Ji sanie street, St. Jos< ph. Be is one of the 

early pioneers and having been so largely 

interested in the progress of this city he is well 

worthy a place in the history of those who have 

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was born in Stranorlar, County Donegal, Ireland, 
June 29, 1829, and panned his boyhood and youth 
in the land of his birth. He learned the brick- 
layer's trade with his father, Daniel Pattou, and 
when in his twentieth year in 1849 came to the 
United States, believing that he could better his 
condition in the New World. 

Mr. Patton remained for a short time in Mon- 
treal, then proceeding to Ogdensburg, N. Y. , 
where he worked about six years at his trade. 
For one season following he went through the 
Southern States and was at Louisville at the time 
the Know Nothing party were killing many of the 
Irish. Concluding that that was a dangerous place 
for one of his nationality, he returned to New York 
and at the end of a year went to Toronto, Canada, 
thence to Collingwood in t he same province, and 
in the fall of 1855 went to Omaha, which was then 
the end of the Northwestern Railroad. 

Mr. Patton worked for a short time in Iowa 
City and for a few months in Des Moines, in the 
latter place on the old capitol. When the work- 
men on that bnilding engaged in a strike he went 
to Omaha, where they were just building the capi 
tol. Soon he crossed to Council Bluffs, where 
he obtained work and followed contracting for one 
year. In the fall of 1 857 he made the journey to 
St. Joseph by stage. Mr. Pattou was possessed 
of some means which he deposited in a bank at 
Council Bluffs, Iowa, which failed, and at the 
time that he considered himself worth about 
$3,500 he was worth absolutely nothing. In 
Council Bluffs he had invested somewhat in land 
which twenty years later he was obliged to sell 
for what he had paid iu taxes. On his arrival in 
St. Joseph he commenced working for John Cor- 
hry. on a building located on Felix street, the 
same that was recently burned. Soon after he 
began contracting and continued in that business 
for many years. 

In 1871 Mr. Patton erected the court house, 
doing the brick work for John De Clue, general 
contractor, being under a bond of $30,000. Mr. 
Patton also erected the Cathedral and a great 
many brick blocks, being for many years one of 
the principal contractors iu the city and employ- 
ing from twenty to sixty men. He was in part- 



nership with a firm conducting a brick yard and 
has also done large pieces of work in various 
places in the surrouudiug country. He early in- 
vested in St. Joseph residence property and has 
erected several fine houses near the river. An ad- 
dition to the city was platted by Mr. Patton, a 
subdivision between Thirteenth and Fourteenth 
and Olive streets, where he had a brick yard at 
one time. He was the first iu this city to manu- 
facture vitrified brick for street pavement, and 
though his coming to St. Joseph was largely a 
matter of chance, he has made a fortune here and 
has a great affection for the place. 

In 1860 Mr. Patton was made a member of the 
City Council, and in 1874 was elected a member 
of the County Court, in both of which terms 
he served as presiding officer. The preced- 
ing court had made contracts to build a court- 
house and issued warrants to pay for the same. 
Those were paid by the ordinary county revenues 
without special tax, but the court of which Mr. 
Pattou was a member had to economize and con- 
trive to meet these payments. Salaries were cut 
down, and the last year he served, the county 
judges received but $300 each. His associates 
were Samuel Cowan, the present Circuit Clerk, 
and John Rohan. Mr. Patton was appointed 
Police Commissioner by Gov. Marmaduke for 
four years. 

Mr. Patton was united in marriage in St. 
Joseph in May, 1859, to Miss Sarah Brey from 
Ogdensburg, N. Y. After nearly thirty years of 
happy companionship together, Mr. Patton was 
called upon to mourn the loss of his estimable 
wife, who died leaving one daughter, Mary. Sep 
tember 10, 1891, Mr. Patton wedded Miss Eliza- 
beth Guim, who was born iu Hartford, Conn., and 
reared in this city, coming here when nine years 
of age to live with her grandmother, Mrs. Mary 
Stevenson. For seven years she was a successful 
teacher in the public schools and by her union 
with Mr. Patton has become the mother of one 
child, Daniel James, born September 13, 1892. 
The Judge has always been a member of the 
Catholic Church, and for many years has belonged 
to the Cathedral. During the war he served in 
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nies. He has always used liis right of franchiea 
in Favor of the Democratic party. In personal 
appearance Mr Patton possesses a vigorous frame 
and is powerfully built He lias long been looked 
Up to as one of the founders of (Lis city's great 
ness and is prominent in everything connected 
with her welfare, as helms been for thirty seven 
years. 

JiOSEPH L. PACKARD, who has a pleasant 
home at No. 516 South Ninth .street, St. 
I Joseph, Mo., is a locomotive engineer on 
the St. Joseph & (hand Island Railway. 
Springfield, Mass. , was the place of his birth, which 
occurred April 10, 1836. That city was his home 
until his fourteenth year when he removed to the 
vicinity of Niagara Falls. He was brought up on 
a farm, hut agricultural pursuits not being to his 
taste, he concluded to pursue some other vocation 
in order to obtain a livelihood. In 1868 he became 
a fireman on the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railway, 
and at the end of about one year and one half, or 
in INTO, took charge of a switch engine in the 
yards. 

On March 27, 1872. Mr. Packard entered the 
employ of the Grand Island Railroad, and up to 
the present time has been in constant service with 
that road. For several years he has been running 
a passenger engine, his regular trip being to 
Hanover, a distance of one hundred and twenty 
eight miles. His present engine he took charge of 
December 12, 1X72, and for almost twenty one 
years he has had charge of no other. During this 
time he has been very fortunate in regard to acci- 
dents, never having had but one, and that was not 
al all serious. On this occasion, the engine was 
overturned and only slightly damaged, no person 
being hurt. 

Onthe2:ld of December, I S75, Mr. Packard 
led to the marriage altar Miss Lois Coll, who was 
born in Monroe County, N. V. She is a sister of 
C. 0. Colt, now of Kansas City, but formerly Cir 
cuit Clerk in St. Joseph. Mrs Packard is an 
act ive member of tin' ( 'ongregal ional Church. The 
home of our subject has been for thirteen years on 



South Ninth street He is a member of the 
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers lie is 
possessed of a very pleasant and genial manner 
which has wou for him a host of friends in rail 
road and social circles. It is now nearly a quarter 
of a century since he entered the employ of the 
railroad with which he is now connected, and by 
them he is considered one of their most valuable 
men, as he is always faithful and at the post of 
duty at the appointed time. They feel the) ma) 
safely place the utmost confidence in him, and 
that even at the risk of his life he will stand by 
their instructions to the letter. Passengers who 
commit themselves to his charge have little need 
to feel alarm, as he is familiar with every mile of 
the road and will safely conduct them to their dee 
tination. 

IlOHN F. JOHNSON. One of the pleasant 
k. I residences of St. Joseph is located at No. 301 
><' South Seventeenth street, and is occupied by 
Mr. Johnson. He is a native of Buchanan 
County and was bom at the old family homestead 
three and oue-half miles northeast of this city, the 
date of his birth being January 12, 1860. His 
parents, John K. and Mary E. (Stephens) John 
son, were natives respectfully of Missouri and 
Kentucky, and they still survive, making their 
home on the farm where they have resided so 
many years. 

John K. Johnson removed in 1837 from Jack 
son County, Mo., to Buchanan County, and four 
years afterward purchased the farm of one hun- 
dred and sixty acres where he still resides. On 
coming to Buchanan County he bad accompanied 
his father, Samuel Johnson, who went to California 
during the gold excitement of 1849 and was never 
heard of after he started home. He had been a 
man of prominence in his community and served 
as Judge of Andrew County for years as well as in 
other positions of honor and trust. 

Mr. Johnson was educated in the public schools 
and later by attendance ni the Christian Brothers 

College, which included in its course the study of 

the branches usuall] taught in an institution of a 

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Wyoming, where he engaged in herding cattle 
with the Dowling & Rush Cattle Company -for a 
period of five years. In the summer of 1888 he 
tilled the position of foreman for the Laramie 
Plains Laud & Cattle Company at Laramie City. 
In December of the same year he returned to St. 
Joseph, where he was married March 13, 1889, to 
Miss Rosa B. Breckenridge. After his marriage 
Mr. Johnson engaged in farming in Andrew 
County during the summer of 1889, and in the 
autumn of the same year he came to St. Joseph 
where he entered the office of William J. Browne, 
supply agent for the Kansas City, St. Joseph & 
Council Bluffs Railroad, and has remained in this 
position ever since. He and his cultured wife 
have oue son, George B. , who was born March 31, 
1890. 

While he is not an active partisan, Mr. John- 
son has nevertheless made a careful study of the 
political issues of the day and believes that the 
platform of Free Trade, as embodied in the prin- 
ciples of the Democratic party, is the one best 
adapted to secure the highest welfare of the 
United States. He is devoted to the interests of 
his chosen party, and no one is more pleased than 
he when it scores a magnificent local or national 
victory. He contributes liberally to religious en- 
terprises, although he is not identified with any 
denomination. Mrs. Johnson is an earnest mem- 
ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church and is a 
lady who enjoys the esteem of a large circle of ac- 
(piaintances. Socially our subject is a member of 
Camp 1, Woodmen of the World. 

The record of a few facts concerning the parents 
of Mrs. Johnson will undoubtedly be interesting 
to our readers. Her father, George W. Brecken 
ridge, was born in Bourbon County, Ky., July 2, 
1828, and made his home in his native place until 
September, 1S49, when he came to Missouri, the 
overland journey requiring thirty-one days. He 
settled in Andrew County, Mo., near Savannah, 
where he followed farming until he was foully 
murdered, July 4,' 1803. His wife, whom he mar- 
ried September 5, 1848, bore the maiden name of 
Jane E. Ardrey, and was born March 4, 1829, the 
day on which Gen. Jackson was inaugurated Pres 
ident of the United States. They were the parents 



of five childreu, three of whom are still living: 
Mrs. M. Site, Mrs. W. J. Browne and Mrs. J. F. 
Johnson. 

The following is taken from the St. Joseph 
Herald, July 8, 1863: "About nine o'clock Satur- 
day night, July 4, 1863, some unknown persons 
went to the house of George W. Breckenridge, a 
wealthy farmer residing some ten miles north of 
Savannah, on the Maryville road, called him out, 
and after asking many questions, fired upon him, 
the ball taking effect in his heart. Mr. Brecken- 
ridge then turned and ran toward the house, when 
he was again fired upon, some seven or eight bul- 
lets passing through his body. He managed to 
stagger into the house, and fell near the door. 
He lived about one-half an hour. Mr. Brecken- 
ridge was a rebel sympathizer, but had taken the 
oath, and we believe had remained quietly at 
home. No clue has yet been obtained as to the 
perpetrators of the deed.'' After the murder of 
her husband Mrs. Breckenridge moved to Savan- 
nah, and after spending one winter there, came to 
St. Joseph, where she now makes her home with 
Mrs. Johnson. 



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»T=3j DGENB H. SPRATT. The public spirited 
Ir I citizens of Buchanan County have con- 
Lai trihuted largely to the promotion of its 
interests and the extension of its influence. 
Among the number, probably few have become 
more widely and favorably known than the sub- 
ject of this biographical sketch, who is one of the 
most popular citizens of St. Joseph. As an official, 
he has discharged the duties incumbent upon him 
with energy and straightforward fidelity which has 
won the commendation of his fellow citizens. 

Mr. Spratt is a native of Buchanan County and 
was born in Bloomington Township. August 17, 
1858. He traces his ancestry to England, whence 
his forefathers at an early day emigrated to 
America and made settlement in Virginia. His 
grandfather, John M. Spratt, was born in the Old 
Dominion and from there removed to Kentucky, 
where he engaged in farming on an extensive 
scale. His death occurred in that state when he 
had attained the age of seventy-five years. 




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The father of our subject, James 1!. Spratt, was 
a Dative nf \'irgiuiu, wlience Le accompanied his 
parents to Kentucky when he was quite young and 

with them settled lit Campbellsvillc. Taylor Comity. 

Iii early life he was an agriculturist of the Blue 
( h ass State, but in 1837 he came on horseback to 
the " I'latte Purchase" and for a time sojourned 

in Saline County. From there he removed to 
I'latte County and after remaining there for a 
short time he returned to Kentucky, where he re- 
side,! until 1843. During that year he came to 
Buchanan County and with bis brother William 
entered laud in Bloomington Township. 

During the first years of his residence in Bu 
elianau Couuty, James B. Spratt was a poor man 
and his first purchase of land consisted of eighty 
acres. He added thereto until he became the 
owner of five hundred acres, all well improved 
and placed uuder good cultivation. In addition 
to general farming, he engaged in raisiug stock, in 
which he met with success. His experience dur- 
ing the Civil War was similar to that of many of 
his fellow-citizens. His cattle were stolen, his 
granaries pillaged, and the fields of growing grain 
transformed to a desolate waste. 

The death of James B. Spratt occurred in Feb 
ruarv, L875. Upon entering the door of a shoe 
shop in De Kalb, this county, he was shot by 
Frank Brown, who was hidden behind the door, and 
who had probably been hired to commit the das 
tardly assault. The bullet penetrated his left 
side through to the back of the neck and resulted 
in his death, forty days afterward. The murderer 
was sentenced to hang, but escaped from jail and 
was caught and Gov. Phelps commuted his 
sentence to imprisonment for life and after he 
had served fifteen years, he was pardoned by 
Governor Francis in January, IS',0!. 

The mother of our subject was known in 
maidenhood as Elizabeth Spencer and was born 
in Kentucky, the daughter of (). M. Spencer. 
She was reared in Missouri and resides in St. 
Joseph. In her religious connect ions she is a 
faithful adherent to the doctrines of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, and is a woman whose noble 
life proves the depth of her religious belief. Nine 
children, four sous and five daughters, were born 



of her marriage, and of these ,,ur subject was sec- 
ond in order of birth. His early life was passed 
upon the home farm, where he gained a practical 
knowledge of agriculture. He also attended the 
common school of the district and for a time the 
Leavenworth (Kans.) High School, and gained a 
good education, which has since been supple 
merited b\ reading and observation. 

After the death of his father Mr. Spratt took 
charge of the farm, which ho continued to operate 
until he was appointed, in 1S7S, Deputy County 

Sheriff under Ja s L. Spencer. After serving in 

that position for two years, he entered the employ 
of Woolworth & Colt, general dealers in books, 
where he remained for two years. He then re- 
turned to the farm and carried it on until he was 
elected Sheriff of Buchanan County in 1888. His 
service was so acceptable to the people that in 
1890 he was re-elected on the Democratic ticket 
by a majority of two thousand five hundred. 
He occupied the position from November, 1888, to 
January. 1893, retiring at the latter date after 
having satisfactorily served the people of the 
county. 

On the 24th of November, 1885, in Crawford 
Township, Buchanan County, occurred the mar 
riage of Eugene 11. Spratt to Miss Eveline, daugh- 
ter of John Chesnut, a prominent merchant ol 
Wallace, Mo. Mrs. Spratt was born in Buchanan 
County on the 1 3th of January, 1867, is a gradu 
ate of Holden College and is a lady of unusual in 
telligence and culture. She is the mother of one 
child, Harry, who was born August '.•, 1886. 
Socially Mr. Spratt is identified with the Inde 
pendent Order of Odd Fellows and the Uniformed 
Rank, Knights of Pythias. He is also a Royal 
Arch Mason and a member of the Order of Red 
men. 

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IfOHN M. RICHMOND, M. D., was born in 
. II Fairfield, S. G, September 17. is:'.7, the 
\Jl elder of two brothers whose parents were 
James B. and Agnes Richmond. The par 

ents trace their ancestry through that thrifty race 
of Irish who settled in South Carolina early in the 
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being a cotton planter, bis own and bis brother's 
early days were spent on tbe plantation borne. 

Losing bis parents in cbildbood, Mr. Richmond's 
home was broken up and he began at once to think 
and act for himself. His school days were spent 
at Mt. Zion School in Winnsboro, S. C. , where he 
was prepared to enter college, and in 1854 entered 
tbe University of North Carolina, then in the zenith 
of its glory, with over six hundred students. After 
four years' hard study he received the degree of 
A. B. and in 1860 that of Master of Arts. 

Our subject commenced the study of medicine 
during his senior year at college and afterward 
took a course in the medical department of the 
University of New York City, in which institution 
he received the tlegree of M. D. in March, 1860, 
successfully competing for the first anatomical and 
second surgical prizes in a class of one hundred 
and sixty. During this time he enjoyed the friend 
ship and instruction of such men as Martin Van 
Buren, Simms, Thomas andEmmett. From March, 
I860, until late in 1861 he was in Europe, most of 
the time in the hospitals of Paris, then the center 
of medical learning, Trausseau Velpeau, Neletou 
and Ricord being some of his clinical chiefs. 

But now the somber cloud of war was hovering 
over our subject's native land, and duty called 
him from these pleasant scenes. So, after some 
months spent in travel, he came home to take part 
in the great tragedy between the North and South. 
After running the blockade he soon found himself 
on the already historic banks of Bull Run as sur- 
geon of the Twenty third North Carolina Regi- 
ment. In various field and hospital appointments 
he served the Confederacy with all the earnestness 
of his nature, until at the Appomattox Court House 
on the memorable night of April, of 1865, with 
Gen. Lee, he was put upon his parole of honor. 
His last army service of which he ever speaks with 
pride was with "Orr's Rifles," one of the regi 
mentsof Gregg's South Carolinian brigades, which 
did as much fighting and lost as many men as any 
other regiment in the army. The remnant of this 
regiment lived at Abbeville, S. C, and after the 
surrender of the Appomattox Court House, the Doc- 
tor located there and practiced his profession for 
six years. His services were satisfactory, but the 



political and social status of his state under the 
reconstruction and "Carpet-bag Rule" was not, 
so in April, 1872, he moved with his family to St. 
Joseph. 

Though an utter stranger in coming here, Dr. 
Richmond has grown steadily in the confidence of 
the community and the respect of the profession, 
and he has made a comfortable home, a good prac 
tice and sufficient income, devoting his whole time 
to the care of the ailing. He has contributed 
freely to the literature of the profession and his 
arguments, while showing study aud originality, 
are terse and pointed, well received by societies 
and welcomed by the pages of journals. Though 
his contributions cover various subjects, those 
bearing on pelvic and abdominal surgery, calling 
attention mainly to gyneco'ogical, urinary and rec- 
tal diseases, have attracted the most attention. A 
neat little pamphlet containing some thirty of his 
articles, gleaned from journals and society trans- 
actions, has been published, many of the treatises 
being reports of cases illustrating his own surgical 
work. 

Dr. Richmond was married July 29, 1863, to 
Miss Edmonia Tomlin, of Clifton, Hanover County, 
Va. For over thirty years Mrs. Richmond has 
presided over the happy home which she has made 
so signal a success, proving with her life that mar- 
riage is not a failure, but, like a Roman matron 
being proud and conscious of her contribution to 
the state. They have six sons, all living, three of* 
whom are married and all of whom are leading act- 
ive lives. They are James, who is in business; 
Speir, a practicing physician of St. Joseph; Cor- 
bin, a salesman; John, an architect; and Harry 
and Willie, still at school. 



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JOHN KAY KERCHEVAL comes from oneof 
the oldest and most respected families of Bu- 
chanan County, his father having, been one 
of the earliest settlers of St. Joseph and at 
one time very wealthy, paying the largest tax of 
any man in the city. He was Capt. Frank B. 
Kercheval, a native of Pulaski County, Tenn., 
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France and in 1635, during the oppression of tin- 
Huguenots two brothers bearing the name esoaped 
to London, where one afterward died. In 1699 
the other brother came to America with his family 
and settled on the •lames river. In the line of 
descent we find that one of tin' family married a 
Miss Hall, a sister of George Washington's mother. 
Our subject's grandfather, John Kereheval, was 
born in Tennessee and was an iron manufacturer. 
He ran the old rolling mills at Fort DouelsOD, 
which were burned. He afterward removed to 
this state and with his sons entered land in Bu 
ohanan County, this being early in the forties. 

Capt. Kereheval, after his marriage, located on 
a farm only four miles east of this city. In 1849 
he settled permanently in St. Joseph and engaged 
in running a hardware store for live years, when he 
sold out. In company with some other gentlemen 
he went to Louisville, where the steamer "Omaha" 
was built and of this he was made captain. He 
ran between St. Louis and Sioux City, sometimes 
going as far as Fort Randall. He afterward built 
the packet boat " Hesperion," of which he was 
captain until it was destroyed by lire in 1862. 
Returning then to St. Joseph for a short lime the 
Captain engaged in the wholesale grocery business 
but eventually sold his interest to Turner, Frazier 
& Co., and purchased the "Omaha," which he ran 
until 1SIS4. His next commercial venture was in 
litting out fifty wagons for Bismark City, Idaho. 
However, these plans were changed, and the train 
proceeded to Virginia City, Mont. In that oityhe 
»us engaged in partnership with our subject for 
four years in the wholesale grocery trade ami on 
his return the Captain built the Eagle Mills, now 
owned by Faucet! & Co. During his last years 
he turned his attention to real estate in which he 
had considerable money invested. While in Mod 
tana he laid out the town of Kereheval City at the 
month of Musselshell river. He was well posted 
and a great reader and for many years had been 
active in the Presbyterian Church and had been an 
elder. He died in March, 1886. 

The mother of our subject, whose maiden name 
was Helen Kay, was born in Hopkinsville, Kv., 
and was married in Tennessee, She is now mak 
ing her home with our subject. Of her four chil 



dren, three are living: Sallie became the wife of 

Judge A. 11. Grambrille, of Alton, III , where her 
death occurred. Minnie, now Mrs. Thomas M. 
Long, is a resident of St. Joseph, as is also Fan 
nie, the youngest, who is the wife of J. II. Thorpe 
John Kay completes the number, lb- was born in 
Washington Township, December 15, IS IT, and 
received good public ami private school advantages 
in this place. In lMil he went t < • Montana with 
his father, but returned the following year to en 
ter the Northern Missouri University at Columbia, 
When a year had passed, he returned to Montana, 
where he remained until 1868. On their trips in 
the Northwest, he and other members of the part v 
had several skirmishes with the Indians. With 
his father, he was interested in the milling busi 
nes> and afterward in grain buying at Wichita, 
Cans., aud after two years in that city he returned 
and has since been engaged in the real estate busi 
in'* in St. Joseph. 

In Kansas City, on May 1 I, lST'J, occurred the 
marriage of John Kereheval and Miss Ella Sites. 
who was born in that city. Her father, Andrew 
J. Sites, of English descent, came of an old Vir- 
ginia family and with his parents removed to 
Saline County, Mo., in his youth. Coming to 
Kansas City he was married and started on his 
his business career, only to be cut down by death 
at the early age of twenty two years. His widow, 
whose maiden name was Ann E. Thrclkeld, was 
bom in Kentucky, and her father was one of the 
early settlers on the site of Kansas City, his large 
farm adjoining Market square. He was of English 
descent, his wife being a Miss Julia Kereheval, 
while her mother, a Miss Reynolds, was directly 
descended from the noted artist, Sir Joshua Bey 
nolds. Mrs. Threlkeld died in California in 1891 
aged eight seven years, when on a visit to LosAnge 
les. Her son, Edward, now a prominent merchant 
of that city, was formerly an active business man in 
Kansas City. Mis Sites, after her lirst husband's 
early death, became the wife of Judge M l> 
Trefren, an attorney at law and judge of the cir 
Cuit court in Kansas City. 

Mrs. Kereheval received a superior education in 
the Mary Institute of St. Louis, but since her mar 
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eleven years she was the editor of the society col- 
umn in the Gazette and Herald in this city. In 
addition to this she has also written for the Kan- 
sas City and St. Louis papers for a number of 
years. A portion of this work she was obliged to 
give up a few years since on account of the great 
demands upon her time and strength. She is con- 
sidered a leader in the literary and social world 
and now for the last twelve years has been a suc- 
cessful teacher in the public schools. For three 
years of this time she was a teacher in the Wash- 
ington School, and then became Principal of the 
Floyd, the finest school building in the city. Six 
teachers are under her supervision and the school 
under her direction has become one of the best in 
the city. 

OBERT M. NASH. It affords us great 
pleasure to make mention of prominent 
and agreeable men, and as such we can 
most heartily recommend the gentleman 
whose name appears at the head of this sketch, 
and who is the Secretary and Bookkeeper for the 
Board of Managers of State Lunatic Asylum No. 2 
at St. Joseph, Mo. Mr. Nash was born in Maury 
County, Term., October 24, 1858. 

His father, John M. Nash, was a native of 
Massachusetts, being born at Canton (about eleven 
miles from Boston), February 6, 1824. He was a 
contractor, and at the age of twenty seven went to 
Kentucky to build a railroad. There he was mar- 
ried to Jane Elizabeth Carter, daughter of Robert 
S Carter, of Carlisle, Ky. He followed the con- 
tracting business in Kentucky and Tennessee until 
1871, when he died in Nashville, Tenn., at the 
age of forty-seven. Prominent among the con- 
tracts he completed were those providing for 
bridges across the Ohio river at Louisville, Ky., 
and the Nashville, Decatur & Alabama Railroad. 
During the war he acted as Superintendent of 
Construction of the Nashville & Chattanooga 
Railroad. After his death at Nashville, Tenn., 
the widow with her six children, the eldest being 
seventeen years old. moved to St. Joseph, Mo., her 
present home, her parents having gone to St. 
Joseph, Mo., in 1857. 



The mother of our subject reared four boys and 
two girls, namely: Harvey C, who is the Commer- 
cial Agent for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy 
Railway Company; Anna E., wife of John M. 
Austin, a prominent dentist of St. Joseph, Mo.; 
Edward H. , who is with the firm of Tootle, Hosea 
& Company; Arthur E., who is in the employ of 
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway; 
Lizzie E., who married Mr. Carl Lepine, of St. 
Joseph, Mo. ; and Robert, our subject. 

Mr. Nash attended the public schools at Louis- 
ville, Ky., and Nashville, Tenn., until he came to 
St. Joseph, Mo., with his mother; he was again 
placed in school, where he remained until he was 
fifteen years old, when he entered the drug store 
of Thomas H. Elf red to learn the profession of 
druggist and apothecary. He followed his chosen 
profession until 188(3, when he was appointed 
Chief Clerk of the money-order department of the 
St. Joseph Postoffice under John C. Evans, Post- 
master. In May, 1890, h« received the appoint- 
ment of Bookkeeper and Secretary »to the Board of 
Managers of State Lunatic Asylum No. 2. and was 
re-appointed at their meeting in May, 1893. 

In January of 1888 Mr. Nash chose for his life 
compauion Miss Anna Connelly, who was born in 
this city, daughter of Michael Connelly, who 
emigrated to this country from Ireland at the age 
of eighteen, and settled in St. Joseph, Mo., in 
1 ST>7. He was a shoe-maker by trade, aDd suc- 
cessfully followed the business until 1884, wheu 
he retired. 

By his industry, perseverance and courage Mr. 
Nash has risen in spite of all obstacles, and is one 
of the most wide-awake and intelligent young 
business men of the city. He has in his many years' 
residence here seen the place undergo great 
improvements. Mr. Nash is a member of the 
Catholic Church and is affiliated with the Demo- 
cratic party. 

***>^*^|;£$£|: ^****«* 

\ILLIAM G. FAIRLEIGH. Since the 
early days of St. Joseph's history no one 
has borne a more important part or taken 
greater interest in her rapid growth than 
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is that <>f a in ;tn who has risen from the lowest 
rounds of the financial ladder to a truly enviable 
position as an influential and respected citizen. 

Mr. Fairleigh is a native of Elizabethtown, 
Hardin County. Ky., where liis birth occurred 
February 9, 1830. In the fall of 1843 he went by 
way of the Ohio river to St. Louis, proceeding from 
that point to western Missouri, accompanied by his 
parents. The tirst raonej he made after his arrival 
in Weston. Mo., was in selling apples on the street 
and at the boat landings. His father, Andrew 
Fairleigh, went to Savannah in I SIT) and the fol 
lowing year came to this city. He followed the 
trade of a silversmith until 1849, when he went 
to California, working at his trade in Sacramento 
and later working in the mines. At the end of 
three months after his arrival in the west he was 
called from this life. He sent to our subject several 
hundred dollars he had made, and the following 
spring his widow and two daughters went to Sac 
ramento where they started a hotel. This they ran 
for several years but were unfortunate, as the hotel 
was burned out three times. The mother is still 
living, though now eighty-one years of age, and 
makes her honie in San Francisco with her two 
daughters. 

Our subject for two or three years at this time 
turned his hand to whatever he could find to do, 
riding errands, ami later acting as errand boy and 
cleaning out the store of Smith <fc Donnell, which 
firm was the largest house of the kind in this city. 
Milton Tootle was then in business at Savannah, 
and in 1847 was taken into the firm on the retire 
nent of Robert W. Donnell. The latter entered 
into partnership with a Mr. Sazton, who occupied 
the adjoining store. Once during religious services 
a genuine backwoodsman appeared at the door of 
the church, motioned at the pastor to stop, and 
asked in a loud tune if Bob Donnell was there, for 
he had a barrel of honey to sell him. 

The first mentioned firm did business under the 
name of Smith, Bedford & Tooth, until the death 
of Mr. Smith in August of 1849. During his sick- 
ness Mr. Fairleigh rode as far as Platte County 
for the well known and skillful physician Dr. 
McAdow. Mr. Tootle bought the interest formerly 
owned by Mr. Smith, and the other partner retir- 



ing, he then took Mr. Fairleigh in as a partner, 
the latter being then only nineteen years of age and 
having only $600 to invest. The firm was known 
as Tootle \ Fairleigh. Soon after, Joseph and 
Thomas H. Tootle were also admitted to the firm, 

which existed until I860, when Joseph Tootle died 

and Thomas H. retired, taking a Bhare of th< 

goods. 

In the spring of 1 SC> 1 Milton Tootle, the senioi 
member of the firm, went east, buying $60,000 
worth of goods, but on account of the growing un 
easiness in regard to the war, it was deemed dan 
gerous to have the goods brought to this city. Mr. 
Fairleigh went to Quincy, 111., to have them 
stopped, and returned to the sellers at Philadel- 
phia, New York and Boston, but on his return it 
was found that that step was a mistake, as prices 
were rapidly coining up and there was an increas- 
ing demand for goods. The shipments, which had 
proceeded as far east as Pittsburg and Albany, 
were then brought west. Prints which had been 
purchased at eight cents and sheetings at seven 
cents were worth thirty cents by the time the tirst 
installment of goods reached this city. This was 
the only house to continue a jobbing business for 
several years. The firm of Powell, Levy & Lemon, 
closed out, Tootle & Fairleigh furnishing capital 
to start the firm of Lemon & Hosea in business 
about 1863, the latter being very successful also. 
In 1856 a large brick store between Felix and 
Francis streets, located on Second street, was 
erected by Tootle & Fairleigh. where they con 
tinued in business until 1S78, when Mr. Fairleigh 
retired on account of failing health. 

In 1849, when Mr. Fairleigh became a member 
of the firm before mentioned, there was about $20, 
(1110 invested in the business, which amounted to 
about $75,000 per annum. In I *7o, with a oapi 

tal of $100,600, thesalesa nnted to about $600, 

000. In 1857 they retired from the retail trade 
entirely, dealing in nothing but dry goods, boots 
and shoes and ipieensware. From lSf51 On, Mr 
Fairleigh was the manager and buyer and during 
the war prices rose to an enormous height; prints 
formerly at six cents rose to forty ~i\ and other 
dry goods in proportion 

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Thousand Islands in the St. Lawrence, and spent 
considerable time in recuperating, in June, 1878, 
going to Europe and returning the following Janu 
ary. Going into partnership with K. J. \V. 
Bailey and afterward taking in Isaac Weil, the 
firm of Bailey, Fairleigh & Weil was formed, Mr. 
Fairleigh remaining in the business for about two 
years, finally selling out in 1881. In 1857, with 
his brother Talbot as manager, the firm of Fair 
leigh & Co. had started in the hardware trade, 
which was very successful, the business being par- 
chased by William Wyatt in 1873. With Mr. 
Tootle, Mr. Fairleigh owned one half of the Buell 
Mills at one time and our subject also loaned 
* 15,000 on a mill at Blue Rapids, Neb. In 1881 
Mr. Fairleigh and Milton Tootle became half own- 
ers in the Buell Manufacturing Company, soon 
afterward building the woolen mill, which has 
since become a fine business. 

In the spring of 1880 Mr. Fairleigh became in- 
terested with Joseph Knight at Cheyenne, Wyo. , 
[>utting up $40,000 to buy cattle near Salt Lake 
City, which, after holding for two years, they sold 
out at a large profit. The same year he pur 
chased two thousand head of cattle in Texas for 
125,550, selling later at a profit of about 130,000. 
Though his success was large, he has not since in- 
vested in cattle, preferring to place his money with 
commercial and manufacturing concerns. In 1873, 
as the St. Joseph Valley Packing Company had 
done a big business for some time, Mr. Fairleigh 
invested $10,000 with them, but it did not turn out 
well, as he lost $44,000. Joseph Knight had also 
been a member of the company. One year, when 
their stock could have been sold for $00,000 profit, 
it was considered best to hold it over, which was 
an unfortunate move, as they ultimately lost $120, 
000 on the deal. 

On October, 1807, occurred the marriage of Mr. 
Fairleigh and Miss Alice O'Neil, whose Bister, 
Kate, is the wife of Milton Tootle. Mrs. Fair 
leigh was born at Shelbyville, Ky. Her father, 
James L. O'Neil, who had been a banker in that 
place, was identified with banking interests in this 
city in company with his son in law, Mr. Tootle, 
who started the Western Bank about 1850. To Mr 
Fairleigh and wife have been born four children: 



William G. ; James O'Neil, aged twenty-four, who 
is engaged in real estate and commission business, 
being a member of the firm of Enright & Fair- 
leigh, and Jennie and Mamie, whose double wed- 
ding was celebrated January 25, 1892. This was 
a notable event in St. Joseph society circles, all of 
the contracting parties being well known and very 
popular. Miss Jennie became the wife of Charles 
Enright and Miss Mamie the wife of Randolph 
Davis. William G. is the youngest of the family. 

Mr. Fairleigh's residence is situated on beauti- 
ful grounds comprising twenty nine and one-half 
acres on Frederick avenue and Twenty-sixth street. 
He has expended from $10,000 to $15,000 on his 
residence, which is a truly modern and beautiful 
home. In 1840 his father purchased the corner 
lot on Third and Felix streets for $250. This is 
where the Schuster Hax Bank now stands, the 
property having since greatly increased in value, 
as it is in the heart of the city. Our subject pur- 
chased the property from his mother and the 
heirs and in 1856 erected upon it a substantial 
two-story brick building and in 1867 erected the 
bank building just mentioned, the Calhoun Bank- 
ing House being started on the corner in 1861). 

Until 1876 Mr. Fairleigh's home was near the 
court-house on Fifth street. For this place he 
paid $1,500 in gold when gold was worth $2.50. 
In 1856, in partnership with Mr. Tootle, he pur- 
chased eight hundred acres of land at Forrest 
City, three miles from Oregon, where he laid out 
a town, started a store and induced several good 
firms to locate there. It was on the Missouri 
river and was a fair investment. He still owns 
lots in the town. Long before this, when Ne 
braska was still a territory, he went out with ;i 
party to the West, laying out town sites, one of 
which is now well-known Laramie City, but on this 
deal he did not make anything. Several times Mr. 
Fairleigh has visited California, but has not in- 
vested in property there. He is a Director of the 
Schuster Hax National Bank and stockholder in 
the Saxton National Bank of St. Joseph. He has 
never been a politician, though he votes the Demo- 
cratic ticket. Both he, his wife and family are 
members of and active in the work of the First 
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GEORGE FOSTER is Superintendent of the 
St Joseph Bridge & Iron Company's 
works. He is ;i practical mechanic, lias had 
years of experience, and his career in every 
position has been marked with success. 1 £•* is 
very well liked and numbers many friends among 
the business men with whom he has dealings. He 
is a native of Canada, born near Hamilton, De 
oember 29, 1853. He is a sou of Charles and 
Elsie J. (Gould) Foster, the former a native of 
Canada and the latter of Scotland. Mrs. Foster, 
who was a daughter of ( reorge < build, was brought 
by her parents to Canada when she was quite 
young. Her father was a well known farmer and 
-miller 

Tie' paternal grandfather of our Bubject, Col. 
Colen Foster, was born in the northern part of 
Ireland and received his military title while in the 
British Army. He was sent to take charge of a 
garrison at Toronto, Canada, in which place he 
was called from this life. Charles Foster is an 
architect, ami some time daring the late war 
he removed to Chicago, 111., where he pursued the 
vocation of contracting and making plans [or 
buildings. He was burned out during the Chica- 
go lire, hut is still living in the Garden City, and 
has not. yet left active business. 

George Poster is the oldest of eight children 
and from his twelfth year lived in Chicago, where 
he attended t'he public and high schools. With 
his father as a tutor he studied architecture and 
when only sixteen commenced working at, bridge- 
building. At the end of two years he returned to 
his father's employ and continued with him until 
he was of age. Then entering the employ of the 
American Bridge Workfl in Chicago in a subordi 

dale position, he was gradually promoted until he 
became Assistant Superintendent of the works. 

In Sept ber, 1884, he was made Superintendent 

of the Missouri Valley Bridge & [ron Works at 
Leavenworth, which company was then in its in- 
fancy. He toot hold of the business and under 
his management its trade increased tenfold. 

After being Superintendent in the Leavenworth 
works until December 8, 1892, Mr. Foster then 
came to St. Joseph, accepting the position of Su 
perintendent of the Bridge & Iron Company's 



works, of which he has cnlne charge. This fac 
torj has a capacity of some live million pounds 
per year, and the business is rapidly increasing, 
bidding fair to become one of the great industries 
of the west. 

Fraternally Mr. Foster is a member of the An- 
cient Free and Accepted .Masons, the Royal Arch 
.Masons and Knights Templar of Leavenworth, also 
belonging to Abdallah Temple, Mystic Shrine of 
that city. He uses his influence ami right of fran 
chise for the benefit of the Democratic party. 

A marriage ceremony was performed in Blue 
Mound, a village near Decatur, Macon County, 

111., in 1875, which united the hands ami hearts of 
Mr. Foster and Miss Lillian F. Miller, whose birth 
occurred in Ohio and who was educated in Illinois. 
Six children have been born to our worthy subject 
and wife. In order of birth they are as follows 
Charles, Ethel, Flora, Elsie, Nellie and Lillian C 



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DANIEL M. FORCE is a retired hardware 
J merchant, being formerly a member of the 
' firm of Force & Brown, and later carried 
on the business alone. He was a success 
fill merchant and is now enjoying a well earned 
rest in his pleasant home at No. 1807 Frances 
street. St. Joseph. Our subject was born in Bridge 
town, N. J., November 17, ISIS. He is a son of 
Samuel and Nancy (.tones) Force and was only 
aboul a year old when his parents removed to Cin 
cinnati, Ohio, where his father engaged in the trade 
of wagon and carriage making for about six years, 
afterward removing to Madison, [nd. Mr. Force, 
when only thirteen years of age, became self sup 
porting, ami embarked on a Mississippi river 
steamboat as cabin boy. His employer resided 
at Pittsburg and assisted in building his boats. 
When eighteen years old Mr. Force began to run 
as engineer ami for fourteen years worked in that 
business on the Mississippi and Missouri rivers 

About this lime he purchased an interest in a small 
boat running on the Missouri. His first trip up 
this river was as far as Weston, in the interest of a 
fur company in 1837, a trip with many interesting 
experiences, ami novel ones as well, ami on his le 



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turn he took the first Mormons bound for Inde- 
pendence. At a place three miles below Kansas 
City he took on a valuable cargo of buffalo hides 
and skins for St. Louis. 

In 1849 Mr. Force started for Nebraska City 
with a company of men which he took on his own 
boat, the " Mustang," to that place. It took four 
months to cross the plains to the California mines 
where he engaged in prospecting until October, 
1850, meeting with fair success. He returned home 
by way of the Isthmus and reached St. Joseph with 
about $2,000 clear. It took two months to make 
the voyage from San Francisco to Panama, where 
he found his boat had met with a misfortune, and 
after all he realized but about $100 for his interest. 
In February, 1851, he arrived in this city. 

Mr. Force was united in marriage February 25, 
soon after his return from the west, to Miss 
Mary, a daughter of Thaddeus and Abigail 
(Wait) Benight. In 1848 the family came from 
Virginia on our subject's boat, as passengers, Mr. 
Benight intending to engage in farming in this 
locality. He eventually invested in city real estate 
and died here in 1850. Of his family of seven only 
three are now living, Mrs. Force and her two 
brothers. The mother died in 1854, aged fifty-two 
years, Mr. Force, after his return from the west, 
engaged in the hardware trade on Sedgwick street 
and continued in that business until finally retiring 
some eight years ago. In addition to general 
hardware Mr. Force had a large business in whole- 
sale and retail tinware and met with signal success 
as a merchant. 

Eight children, two sons and six daughters, have 
blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Force. Charles, 
the eldest born, died in infancy, and the youngest 
of the family, Nellie, died at the age of sixteen 
years. Those living are: Oscar Benight, of Sun- 
shine, Col.; Annie, now Mrs. John Shireman, her 
husband being a member of the firm of Jones, 
Townsend & Shireman of this city; Jessie, the wife 
of Samuel Blythe, a stock raiser in Platte County, 
Mo. ; Maude, who became the wife of William Norton, 
a banker in Platte City; Mamie, who lives at home; 
and Phoebe, a teacher in the Steinecker School for 
the past five years. 

The family are all active members of the First 



Baptist Church of St. Joseph, of which Mrs. Force 
is the only charter member, she having joined it 
in 1850. She takes an interest in the church so 
ciety, and to her no little credit is due for the suc- 
cess attained by her husband and the influential 
position the family occupies in cultured society. 
She is a lady of strong individuality and her prac- 
tical qualities of mind have been impressed upon 
each of her children. She is well preserved in 
body and mind and is a woman of rare discernment 
and culture. The home over which she presides 
with womanly grace is a delightful one on a beau 
t if nil y terraced corner. Mr. Force, who is, how 
ever, not a politician, is identified with the Demo- 
cratic party and has long been numbered among 
the best citizens of St. Joseph. He has improved 
several lots and erected a number of stores. Per- 
sonally he is a man who commands respect and 
well deserves the many friends he has made since 
his first coming here, now nearly half a century ago. 

rii LEXANDER MOSES DOUGHERTY is 
/ / \\ senior member of the firm of Dougherty 
IPT^ & Most Lumber Company, with yards at 
■f/ the corner of Tenth and Mitchell streets. 

This company was started January 1, 1888, with a 
capital stock of $40,000 paid in, and is doing a 
business of $150,000 annually. The house keeps 
a full line of building material, hardwood, lime, 
hair and other supplies, the business being quite 
extensive in this and the surrounding country, as 
there is a great deal of contracting and building 
being done in this portion of the state. 

Mr. Dougherty was born near Versailles, 
Woodford County, Ky., October 18, 1833, and 
passed his boyhood and youth in his native state. 
When fifteen years of age he learned the carpen- 
ter's trade at Louisville and emigrated to Mis 
souri in 1858, working for two years in St. Joseph 
at his trade, and later engaging in the livery busi- 
ness for himself. He afterward took in a partner, 
the firm being known as Rusk & Dougherty until 
the war. 

Returning to Kentucky in 1861, Mr. Dougherty 
during that fall joined Gen. Morgan of Company 



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A, Fiftli Kentucky Cavalry, enlisting in Wood 
foril County, where he was born. He took pari in 
tin' Ohio and Indiana raids and was captured near 
New Lisbon, Ohio, at Buffington Island, with tif 
teen hundred and eighty of his fellow soldii-r--. 
This was in July, L863, and though they ware 
completely tired out for want of sleep, being fora 
number of days and nights in the saddle, they were 
straightway marched to Indianapolis, Ind. , and 
confined in prison there until they were finally 
sent to Camp Douglas, Chicago. They remained 
there until Lee's surrender, being held captives 
for about one year and one half. On the long 
march Mr. Dougherty was a witness many times 
of men falling to sleep while in the act of loading 
their guns, and while still under fire, as they were 
completely worn out, and almost dead for lack of 
rest. While held a prisoner Gen. Hohson was in 
command of the Federal forces and promised a 
parole, but Secretary Stanton opposing the meas 
ure, Gen. Hobson resigned. 

Mr. Dougherty was sent from Chicago to Lex- 
ington, Ky. , where he was paroled and transported 
to St. Joseph, arriving here in June, 1865. His 
financial losses during the war amounted to about 
§8,000. Heat once engaged iu the lumber busi- 
ness with John J. Arnold as his partner for some 
time, and later for about three years was engaged 
in business alone. The firm then became Dough 
erty, Hay & Company, remaining as such until the 
present firm was organized, January 1, 1888 
They have been situated in their present quarters 
since April, 1882, and are doing a promising busi 
□ess For about six years Mr. Dougherty has 
been much interested in live stock, having in 
vested some in Texas cattle. 

On March 7, L866, Mr. Dougherty led to the 
marriage altar Miss Celia Anna, daughter of Judge 
John A. Pullems, of Buchanan Count), who was 
for four years President of the County Court, from 
1856 to 1860. He lived on a farm twelve miles 
from St. Joseph and is numbered among the 
Worthy pioneers of this county. He was a native 
of Madison County, Ky., where his daughter, 
Mrs. Dougherty, was also born, but removed with 
her to this state when she was a child of only two 
years. Mr. Dougherty was r nth called to 

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mourn the loss of his wife, who was a noble 

Christian woman and a tender, affectionate wife 
and mother. She was called to her final real 
July 18, 1890, leaving a family of two children. 
William J. died at the age of eight years; Charlie 
died when eighteen months of age. Pearl is the 
wife of John H. Van Blunt, Superintendent of 
the Street Car Company of St. Joseph, ami John 
Harvey is Collector for the Dougherty & Most 
Lumber Company. For fifteen years Mr. Dough 
erty has been a member and Deacon in the' Tenth 
Street Christian Church of this city and takes a 
prominent part in its work. He is a thoroughly 
respected citizen in business, social and church 
circles. He has won the friendship of many by his 
upright life and manly qualties, and is well 
deserving the success that has attended him since 
casting in his lot with the citizens of this locality. 

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GAPT. JOHN N. SMITH was the Second 
Lieutenant of the first company ever raised 
here during the late civil contest. This 
broke up ami he reorganized it, being made 
its Captain. Joining Col. Boyd's regiment he took 
part in the fight at Blue Mills and next, going to 
Lexington, took part in the siege, and after the 
surrender of Col. Mulligan he was sent home 
with the mail, Oct. 3, 1863. He organized a 
company under Gen. Schofield's orders, was 
mustered in by Maj. Garth and was attached to 
Company H, Eighty first Enrolled Missouri .Militia. 
November 21. The same year this was reorgan 
ized and our subject was made Captain of the 
company, being ordered to take charge of Platte 
River Bridge on the railroad, thus serving until 
May 8, 1804, but on April 21 he had his leg broken 
by a horse. In the following August he was 
again called to duty and was with Gen. Craig, 
of St. Joseph, being relieved late iu the year. Mr. 
Sinith'is now engaged in managing his valuable 
farm on Section 25, Marion Township. 

David Smith, our subject's father, was a native 
of Virginia and was a soldier during the War of 
I SI 2. He was a farmer, both in the Old Dominion 
and in Lee Comity, \\'. Va., where he laler 



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removed. His wife, formerly Jenaie Bales, was 
bora and married in Bedford County, Va. David 
Smith made bis home in West Virginia until 1837, 
when he emigrated to Washington Township, 
Buchanan Comity, settling on the wild prairie 
land now owned by Isaac Lower, which at that 
time had upon it an Indian village. This was 
before the city of St. Joseph was known and a very 
few settlers were in the locality. The father was 
one of the first jurymen in the county, and one of 
his sons, Burden G., served for a number of years 
as the first constable of Tremont Township. He 
died with the cholera, when on the way to Califor- 
nia. David Smith died in 1848 and his wife the 
year previous. 

The only survivor in a family of nine children 
is Capt. John Smith of this sketch, who was bora 
June 21, 1827, in Lee County, Va., and being 
reared on the frontier, had but little chance for an 
education. He began to make his own way on 
reaching his majority, and was greatly interested 
in drilling for the Mexican War, but finally did not 
go into service. In 1851 he was united in wedlock 
with Elizabeth Hamner, a native of Indiana, and 
to them were born eight sons, three of whom are 
living, viz.: James N. , who married Pearlina Elsou 
and lives in Utah; Alexander S., who married Pearl 
Ingrem and resides in British Columbia; and 
Charles G., who makes his home in Utah. They 
are well educated men and expert electricians. 

After his marriage the captain settled on a farm 
in what is now a populous part of the city of St. 
Joseph and there he lived for six years, after which 
he was for two years located on a farm in Wash 
ington Township. His next move was to occupy 
a farm near Czech's Mills. After the war lie lived 
in Marion Township for one year, and after two 
other changes, in 1S74 moved to a place one-half 
mile west of his present farm. Later he bought 
a farm on Section 2, Tremont Township, which he 
cultivated for eleven years, then locating where 
he still resides. 

Capt. Smith's first wife having died in 1884, 
he was wedded February 24 of the following year 
to Mrs. Cordelia R. Henry, daughter of John and 
Lydia (Chaney) George, the former a native of 
Virginia and the latter of Kentucky. This couple 



were early settlers of Missouri, settling in this 
county in 1841. Mr. George, who was born Janu- 
ary 22, 1788, died in 1872, his wife having pre- 
ceded his demise by exactly ten years to the day. 
They were the parents of fourteen ahildren, seven 
of whom are now living, Mrs. Smith, who was born 
Marcli 2, 1840, being the youngest. She is the 
mother of three children now living: Mary J., wife 
of Thomas Donaldson of this township; Robt L., 
who married Stella Smith, also a resident of Marion 
Township; and Solon B. , who married Katie Rogan 
and lives in St. Joseph. Our subject has always 
been much interested in politics and has frequently 
been a delegate to the Democratic conventions. 
He has served a number of times as a juryman, 
has been school director, and has also served as 
Road Overseer for sixteen years. 



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ILAS WOODSON, ex- Governor of Missouri, 
is Judge of the Criminal Court of St. Jo- 
seph, Buchanan County, and is a man of 
great influence in this state. He was born 
May 18, 181U, in Knox County, Ky. His parents 
did not have the means for giving him a scholastic 
training and the principal universities of the day, 
before the era of railroading, were very distant 
from his birthplace. His educational privileges 
were therefore meager, but he made the most of 
such as were within his reach. The log school 
house in the mountainous regions, it would hardly 
seem, was the place where the genius and vast in- 
tellect of such men as Mr. Woodson would be nur- 
tured, but such was the case. His hardy outdoor 
life impressed upon his physical manhood the 
strength which must be the foundation of all 
higher development. He lias attained an exalted 
position without other aids than a stout heart and 
resolute will. As an American citizen, he loves to 
claim that he is a self-made man. In him are em- 
bodied the high qualities of a statesman, pure 
patriot, intrepid leader, just judge and an honest 
man. 

From the time when he was a boy Mr. Woodson 
was a recognized leader and was an industrious 



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worker on tlie liome farm. At the age of eighteen 
he started out to make his own way, ami after sell 
iug merchandise for a few months, as it was no 
congenial, he began the study of law and in 1839, 

B young man of twenty, was licensed to practice. 
His energy, application and talent secured success 
from the first. One other element in his character 
which contributed no little to this result was his 
happy faculty of making himself popular. 

In 1842, then in his twenty third year, Mr. Wood- 
son made B canvass of his district as a candidate 
for the Legislature and under the circumstances 
met with remarkable success. His opponent had 
represented the district in the General Assemby 
several successive terms and was generally believed 
invincible in his position. Young Woodson, how 
ever, was never daunted on account of the diffi 
oulty of a task nor surrendered until the battle 
had been resolutely waged. While his friends 
recognized his ability they gravely told him it was 
folly to undertake the defeat of such a rival. The 
people proved their faith by their votes and in the 
election honored Mr. Woodson with a handsome 
majority. 

While in the Legislature Mr. Woodson proved 
himself competent and his labors were approved 
by his constituents. Soon after the expiration of 
his term he was appointed Circuit Attorney for the 
Twelfth Judicial District by Judge Owsley, who 
recognized his worth and ability. At the end of 
four years he was reappointed for another term of 
service but before a year had elapsed, finding that 
his public duties conflicting with his personal in 
terests, he resigned. He had made a fine reputa 
tion and soon realized to a marked degree this fact 
in the large and lucrative practice which has ac- 
crued to him. 

Judge Woodson was elected by his district in 
ISC.) as a member of the Constitutional Conven 
tiou of Kentucky, in which he took an active part. 
Four rears later he was again elected to the Lesris- 

lature and with the expiration of his official term 

closed his career in Kentucky. In April, 1854, he 

removed to St.. Joseph, Mo., where he engaged in 
general law practice. He was elected Judge of 
the Twelfth Judicial Circuit of this state in I860 
and after his term expired he resumed his general 



practice. In 1872 be was nominated unanimously 
by the Democratic convention as (ioveruor of Mis 
souri and was elected. The four years which he 
spent in this important office brought great credit 
to himself and constituents. Thereafter, he was 
engaged in his regular legal work in St. Joseph 
until he was made Judge of the Criminal Court, 
which position he still acceptably fills. 



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ysAN BUREN WILKERSON, an old settler 
and a very successful stock-dealer of St. 
Joseph, was born in Jackson County, Mo., 
near Independence, August 25, 1837. He is 

located just three fourths of a mile from the city 
limits, where he is engaged in buying and selling 
cattle. His father, Ross Wilkerson, was a native 
of Kentucky, where he was reared, and went to 
.Monroe County when a lad, where he lived a year. 
and in 1835 located in Jackson, four miles south of 
Independence, on the Blue liver. He took a claim 
on the "Flatte Purchase" in Crawford Township, 
near the present site of Taos, in 1888, where he 
entered land and improved it in time. 

At first the country was a dense wood with scat- 
tered settlements, and after Mr. Wilkerson had 
erected a rude log house he remained there for 
about eight years, clearing and improving his 
possessions. In INKS he sold this land, and pur 
chased a farm three miles west in the same town 
ship, which comprised two hundred acres of good 
farm land that was already in a state of cultivation. 
Politically he was a Democrat, and held the respou 
sible position of Constable until the time of his 
death, in the year 1855. Ivoss Wilkersou's father, 
whose given name was William, was of English 
birth, and located in Kentucky, at an early day, 
where he farmed for a time, and then moved to 
Monroe County. Mo., where he lived till the tune 
of his death. 

The mother of our subject was Margerel Miller, 
a daughter of John Miller, a Virginian, who had 
settled in Clark County, Ky., where he lived ami 
died. Mrs. Wilkerson was born in Greenbrier 

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years, leaving a family of uine children, four sons 
and five daughters. Van Buren is the third from 
the youngest in this family, and was reared a farmer 
in Crawford Township, receiving his education 
in the primitive log school-house, until nineteen 
years of age. In the spring of 1 8T»7, he, in com- 
pany with a brother, started overland to California, 
with an ox team and wagon, and driving a herd of 
one hundred and twenty head of cattle. They 
went by the way of Kearney South Pass, Solano 
County, and took up a claim near Benicia, but it 
was a Spanish possession, belonging to Gen. 
Vallego, so they located elsewhere. Remaining 
two years on a ranch, these two brothers raised 
and sold large numbers of cattle, at the end of 
which time they returned to New Orleans, by way 
of the Isthmus Gulf Railway. Thence they 
went up the river to St. Joseph. 

Mr. Wilkerson remained here working on a farm 
until 1 800, when he removed to Texas and located 
in Collin County, where he owned a small tract of 
land, but not being entirely satisfied, lie returned 
home in less than two years' lime, where he 
accepted the position of Sheriff and Department 
Collector, under the instructions of Enos Craig. 
He held these two offices for about two years. At 
this period he engaged in the livery business, fol- 
lowing it for six months, when he purchased a 
farm, and started a cattle ranch. He made fifteen 
or sixteen trips to Texas in the interest of his 
business, four of which he made in vehicles. Aboui 
1872 he purchased thirty acres of land, on which 
he now resides, and on which he has erected a 
comfortable and convenient home. 

Mr. Wilkerson was united in marriage near tin's 
city, in 1870, his choice being a Miss Arabel 
Miller, who was born in this county to Isaac 
Miller. Mr. Miller was born in Monroe County, 
W. Va , and settled in Washington Township, this 
comity, about, 1S40. Our subject and his wife 
have been blessed with the birth of five children: 
Maggie, Robert, Edgar, Jay and Benjamin. Mr. 
Wilkerson is a thorough partisan of the Democratic 
party, and has ever been a strong Union man; he 
is a person whose courtesy and genial manner, 
both in social ami business life, make for him many 
friends. 



1/ f/IRAM C. BOONE was for many years 
IpH prominent in the history of Indiana, being 
1] one of the pioneers and patriots who 
•j/ opened up that region to civilization. He 

was born in Shelby County, Ky., July 3, 1789, 
I being a son of Samuel and Jane Boone, the former 
a gunsmith by trade, who was employed by the 
Continental Congress to operate the first gunlock 
factory ever carried on in America. This was lo- 
cated in Georgetown near Washington. After the 
Revolution, in 1785, he removed to Shelby County, 
Ky. When Mr. Boone was seventeen years old 
his father died, and shortly after, with his mother, 
brothers and sisters, he removed to Harrison 
County, Ind. The date of this migration was 
1811, the same year that the battle of Tippecanoe 
was fought. 

Tn August, 1812, Mr. Boone, then a youth of 
eighteen, was called upon to fill the position of 
Captain in a company of drafted militia, to go 
against the Indians who were threatening to take 
Vincennes and Fort Harrison. They had been 
given a regular detailed captain who, on perceiv 
ing the wishes of his men, with magnanimity 
yielded his position to Mr. Boone, who was justi- 
fied in the feeling of pride with which he ever re- 
membered this unexpected mark of appreciation. 
They marched to the relief of Fort Harrison, 
where they dispersed the enemy, and from there 
proceeded to Vincennes, where they were inns 
tered out of service. In the next month, at the 
request of the Colonel of the Fifth Indiana Regi 
ment, Mr. Boone commanded a company of 
mounted riflemen and was stationed for thirty 
days at the fort on White river in order to protect 
the frontier settlement there from the savages, 
After seeing more or less service during that win 
ter, Mr. Boone was given the rank of Major in 
the army, but from that time forward was able to 
pursue more peaceful vocations. 

In March, 1813, Hiram Boone married Miss 
Fannie Boone, who was a daughter of Jonathan 
Boone, and granddaughter of a brother of the 
celebrated Daniel Boone of Kentucky. Our sub 
ject is also a descendant of the English Boone 
family, his father having been an own brother of 
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removed to Land which he had purchased near La 

conia, In. I., where be built a house and q< ssary 

barns. In the spring of 1815 he purchased a 
tract of land opposite Br&udenburg, and for the 
following few years acquired property very rap 
idly. About this time he was induced t" go into 

partnership in the dry goods business with a i pie 

of men. the firm investing $9,000 in stock. Things 
did not go very well with his commercial venture, 
and tit- finally lost nearly all he had invested. In 
1822 Mr. Boone purchased a tract of land. He 
went to work iu earnest and soon acquired consid 
erable property, bis estate being worth about 
$40, 000 at the time of bis' death. This was ac 
cumulated through houest toil, without any speCU 
lalion or trading. 

On the 4th of July, 1820, occurred the death of 
Mr. Boone's first wife, and in August of the fol- 
lowing year he married Mrs. Sarah Renfro, nee 
Staples. Her mother was. before her marriage, 
■lane Haustin. who came of a very wealthy old Vir- 
ginia family. 

Mr. and Mrs. Boone had a family of eleven chil- 
dren. The ancestors of the Boone family emi 
grated from Exeter. England, settling near Phila- 
delphia not very long after it was laid out as a 
city. They were all members of the Society of 
Friends. 






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JILLIAM J. BROWNE, who makes I, is 

\jj home in St. Joseph, is much interested 
in all that pertains to the growth and 

advaiu lent of this locality. He is at 

the present time the Supply Agent for the Kansas 
City. St. Joseph & Council Bluffs Railroad. Mr. 
Browne was liorn in Manchester, England, March 
15, 1843, and when but seventeen years of age 
ased the great Atlantic to Buffalo, N. Y., where 
lie found his brother, who had lived lure for some 

lime. Iii 1861 he began working on the railroad 
in a local freight office of the Grand Trunk Bail 
way system, and with the exception of two years' 
time in all these thirty years, lie ha- Continually 
been employed on the railroad. 



\\ lien tie- Civil War broke "in. Mr. Browne, 
being of a highly patriotic nature, went to New 
York, and there enlisted in the Thirteenth New 
York Artillery, serving until the close of the war. 
He was in engagements in Virginia with Gen 
Butler, and later entered tie- gun boat service on 
the coast of North Carolina, which protected the 
supplies that were sent to Gen. Sherman, and 
distinguished himself in the capture of Fort Fisher, 
Goldsberry and other Confederate points. During 
an attack on Fort Petersburg Mr. Browne was 
laid up with the rheumatism, and found it necessary 
to ask for a discharge, which was given him June, 
1S65, at New York. 

After being relieved of his duties as a soldier, 
Mr. Browne came west to Council Bluffs in Hie 
year 1865, and five years later located in Kansas 
City, where he first operated a construction work 
for the Kansas City Railway Company, and sul>se 
quently accepted a position in the general freight 
and audit offices in St. Joseph, which he has held 
for eleven years, working iu several departments 
until he became familiar with every minute detail 
bf the business. For the last four years he has 
ordered ami disposed of all the material for the 

company, making all necessarj purchases for 

buildings, amounting to about 81..">(>0,000. 

August '1. 1SVJ. Mr. Browne was wedded to Miss 
Fannie, daughter of George Breekenridjre, an old 
settler of this state who was killed in the late war. 
He was shot at his own door by a body of men 
wearing blue uniforms, who called him out of the 
house and pierced his body with bullets; he was a 
cousin of the Hon. J. C. Breckeo ridge, of Ken 
tucky. The amiable companion of our subject was 
born in Buchanan County, this state, and reared 
and educated in St. Joseph. Mr. and Mrs 
Browne are the parents of two children, Jennie 
and Anna. The last named parent is a consistent 
member of the Methodist Church (South'), in which 

she has used her influence, both spiritually and 
financially, for a number of veins. The family 
residence is situated on Sixteenth street. No. 218. 
Mr. Browne attributes his sueee-s in life to his per 
severance, untiring energy and good judgment, 
qualities which almost invariable bring fortune to 
their possessor. 



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ATLIFF R. BOONE. Eveu amid tbe 
rush and exciting whirl of modern business 
life, there are times when the student of 
history, the devotee of business, and the 
promoter of social culture alike pause to contem- 
plate the past and ponder, if only for a moment, 
upon the lives and character of our pioneer an- 
cestors. Few now survive of that class of men 
who, leaving pleasant homes and the friends of a 
lifetime, bave sought, amid uncultivated wastes, to 
establish homes for their families and fortunes for 
their children. But though now for tbe most part 
departed into the eternal shadows, their memory is 
green in the hearts of tbe present generation and 
their example is deemed worthy tbe admiration of 
all. 

In 1838 there were only a few settlers who had 
ventured so far from civilization as western Mis- 
souri, and it was a primeval scene that greeted the 
eyes of Mr. Boone when, during that year, he 
visited Buchanan County and mad« a tour of this 
section of country on horseback. Though he did at 
once not permanently locate here, yet on his return 
to Kentucky his thoughts often wandered to tbe land 
far remote from the busy haunts of men, inhabited 
by wild animals and human beings scarcely less 
savage than the beasts of tbe field. Disposing of 
his property in the Blue Crass State, he came to 
Missouri in the fall of 1843 and pre-empted land 
in Buchanan County. Since that time be has been 
closely connected with the progress of the county, 
witnessing its rapid growth and becoming an im- 
portant factor in its development. 

Tbe family of which Mr. Boone is a worthy rep- 
resentative is one of the best known in the United 
States, and has been connected with the pioneer 
history of this country ever since Daniel Boone 
cast his lot among the earliest settlers of Kentucky 
and there achieved fame as a frontiersman and In- 
dian tighter. The father of our subject was Hiram 
C. Boone, who, by bis first marriage, reared three 
children: Grandison H. , who was born in 1814, 
and is now a resident of Meade County, Ky. ; Bat- 
liff R.,of this sketch; and John T. whose birth 
cost the life of the mother. He was reared by his 
Grandmother Boone and adopted the profession 
of a physician. During the gold excitement of 



184'J he went to California, and after the receipt 
of three letters was never heard of afterward. 

The second wife of Hiram C. Boone was Mrs. 
Staple, a daughter of Capt. Renfro, and a mem- 
ber of one of tbe leading families of Virginia. 
Unto them were born eight children, who grew to 
maturity, namely: Sarah J., who married Austin 
Slaughter, of Louisville; Samuel, a noted physi- 
cian and a graduate of the Louisville Medical Col- 
lege, but now deceased; Fannie, who married Dr. 
Ray, of Louisville; James M. , now residing in 
Hill County, Tex.; Julius B. who died recently in 
Texas; Victoria, wife of Judge Samuel Douglass; 
Melvina H. , wife of Thomas Hyatt, of Kansas; and 
Hiram C, who received a legal education and now 
resides on the old homestead in Meade County, 
Ky. Ratliff R. Boone was born in Harrison 
County, Ind., and was reared to manhood in Ken- 
tucky, where in 1844 he married Miss Sarah E. 
France. They became the parents of seven cbil 
dren, who grew to mature years as follows: Fan- 
nie E , John F. Sarah R., Hiram C, Victoria, 
Susan and Mollie H. 

As above stated, Mr. Boone came to Buchanan 
County for the purpose of making a permanent 
settlement in the fall of 1843. Upon the farm 
that he pre-empted he remained until 1S68, de- 
voting his attention to its cultivation and bringing 
it to a high state of improvement. Later he em- 
harked in the milling business, and ten years after- 
ward, in 1878, he formed bis present partnership 
with Elijah M. Yates. Politically be is an ardent 
advocate of tbe principles of the Democratic party, 
but in local elections is independent. 



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f\[ RTHUR WADSWORTH BRE\YSTEH is 
1 1 \\ a member of tbe well known and enterpris 
Jj i\ ing law firm of Carolus & Brewster, who 
■f/ have a convenient office located at No. 114 

South Eighth street, St. Joseph. He was born in 
Austinburg, Ashtabula County, Ohio, April 19, 
1865, tbe day on which our martyred President, 
Abraham Lincoln, was buried. When only four 
years of age he went to Kansas with his parents. 
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Dumber <>f years at White Cloud in that state, 
where onr subject was reared and educated. He 
afterward attended the Washburn College in To- 
peka, taking tit*- regular olassioal course and grad 
dating in the class of 1890 with the degree of 
Bachelor of Arts. 

In 1889 Mr. Brewster had the honor of represent 
ing Kansas in the Grand Inter State Contest at 
Grinnell, Iowa, the colleges of nine states being 
represented and the contest being for the suprem- 
acy of certain states and colleges as educational 
centers. The following states sent delegates to 
the contest: Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minne- 
sota, Colorado. Ohio, Illinois, Kansas anil Indiana. 
Mr. Brewster's subject was "Progress and its 
Agencies." Ex Gov. Fornker of Ohio and 
Judge Phillips of Kansas City were among the 
Judges. Our subject took part in ten oratorical 
contests while in college. As a Freshman he had 
the second place in the state contest and was a 
delegate to Bloomington, 111., when the contest 
was held in that city. 

During his vacations Mr. Brewster had spent 
the time wisely and had read law under his father's 
supervision, and after his graduation from the 
Washburn College he entered his father's office, 
where lie remained for about a year studying, and 
was admitted to the bar at Troy. Cans., April 1 1. 
1891. For nearly a year he was located at White 
Cloud, Doniphan County, and from there came to 
St. Joseph, arriving in this city February 20, 1892. 
He entered the law tirm of Huston & Parish and 
was with them until New Year's Day of 1893, when 
the present tirm, of which he is a member, was 
organized. Though lie has bpen so recently ad- 
mitted to the ranks of his legal brethren he has al- 
ready manifested equalities which must ultimately 
win for him success. He is naturally intelligent 
and gifted, being possessed of a good memory and 
a quick and apprehensive mind. As an orator or 
pleader, as has been shown by his success in the 
oratorical contest above refer nd to, he is the 
happy possessor of eloquence, a good delivery and 
quick wit, which favorably impress both judges and 
the public as well. Moreover his personal appear 
ance and physique are largely iii his favor a»d he 



has been compared to the famous Mi Kinley in 
build. His self command while on the platform is 
noticeable and remarkable in one who has not had 
years of experience. 

Recently Mr. Brewster delivered to the gradual 
ing class of the Northwestern Medical College at 
Tootle's Opera House an address which carried 
the audience by storm, his praise being sung by 
every citizen of St. Joseph who had the pleasure 
of hearing it, It was marked for depth of thought, 
research, pathos and originality. It is therefore 
no stretch of the imagination to predict for this 
young man a brilliant career, as be is a natural 
orator, bound to come to the front. In the polit- 
ical field also Mr. Brewster has already acquired an 
enviable reputation as a speaker, for in the campaign 
of 1888, while still a student at college, he spoke 
a number of times for Harrison, and also in 1890, 
previous to the local election, and again in that of 
1892 he made a number of forcible and thoroughly 
appreciated speeches, several of which were made 
in this city. He worked on the Congressional Coin 
mittee in Missouri and also spoke under the direc- 
tion of the State Committee. Mr. Brewster is 
a member of the Ancient Order of United Work 
men and, though he has wot been long a resident 
of St. Joseph, has already made many friends by 
his genial and cordial manner and the truly worths 
qualities which he manifests. 



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\ILLIAM LIEBIG, who owns a liveryi 

feed and sale stable at No. 1516 St. Jo- 
seph avenue, SI. Joseph, Buchanan 
County, has been engaged in running 
the same siuce March, 1888. He has $7,000 in 
vested and has a paying business. He keeps nine 
carriages and a good line of horses. The build 
ing which is occupied by his livery covers a space 

of 50 by 1 1<> feet. 

Mr. Liebig was boi.n in Baden. Germany, April 

4, 1813. and when eight years old removed to Ne 
maha County, Kans.. where he lived with his 
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F. Liebig, died in St. Joseph ill 18S8. He w;is a 
graduated pharmacist and was a student of his 
uncle, Prof. Julius Von Liebig, the famous chem- 
ist and professor at the University of Hesse Darm- 
stadt. C. F. Liebig was born and educated in 
( iermany. He married in Kail, Baden, Miss Solo- 
nia Kreiner. 

When ten years old William Liebig commenced 
working, first in Pennsylvania and later in Iowa 
and Kansas, mainly at farm labor. The latter 
part of the time he was to receive $30 per year 
and his clothes, which latter he did not, however, 
finally obtain. When twenty four years old he 
took a trip to Fort Laramie with his father for 
Majs. Russell and Waddell, freighters. From 
that time ou for several years he was engaged in 
driving across the plains to Fort Laramie, Fort 
Kearney, Danver and Salt Lake City, having six 
yoke of oxen harnessed to the wagon. While, at 
Cottonwood Springs on the Platte river, in camp 
with thirty-five men, who had their thirty wagons 
drawu up in a circle, they were attacked by Sioux 
Indians. There were hundreds of the enemy, but 
after a few hours of hard fighting they dispersed. 
Mr. Liebig received an arrow wound in his arm. 
During this same trip, at O'Fallas Bluff, on the 
lower Platte, a terrible snow storm set in and for 
two weeks the train had to remain stationary. 
Three huudred head of cattle died of starvation 
and cold. Nearly all the stock they had died din- 
ing one night. Altogether our subject had many 
exciting experiences while journeying over the 
plains. 

In 1861 Mr. Liebig enlisted in Company D, 
Eighth Kansas Regiment, under Col. John A. Mar- 
tin, ex Governor of the state. He took part in 
twenty eight battles, the first one being at Tulla 
horn a, Tenn. He was all through the Atlanta 
campaign, and then under McCook, as Corps Com- 
mander, followed up Hood. After the battle of 
Nashville he was sent to Texas and was finally dis- 
charged at Fort Leavenworth. He was wounded 
at Mission Ridge, being shot in the thigh, but re- 
mained in the ranks. About three hours later 
while ascending the ridge a shell burst and broke 
his leg. He was for three months in the division 



hospital at Chattanooga, after which he rejoined 
his company. 

After the war Mr. Liebig engaged in farming in 
Kansas and was for a while in a packing-house in 
this city, until the wiuter of 1874. After that he 
was engaged in handling horses until 1880, when 
he returned to his Kansas farm, which he engaged 
in cultivating until the spring of 1888, when he 
started in the livery business. He is greatly in- 
terested in civic societies. In 1872 he was made a 
Knight of Pythias in Holton, Kans. , and now be- 
longs to St. Joseph Lodge, No. '2'2, of that order. 
He has served as Commander and has held the 
various offices in the lodge. He attended the 
Grand Lodge of Kansas in 1884. He is a member 
of the Uniformed Rank, Lodge No. 17, and is Past 
Commander, having served fcr two terms with the 
Woodmen of the World. One term he was 
Deputy Consul and is Commander for his Camp. 
He is a member of the Grand Army of the Repub- 
lic, belonging to Custer Post. In politics he is an 
active Republican. 

While living in Kansas, just after the war, Mr. 
Liebig wedded Sarah A. Logue, who died in that 
state leaving three children, namely: Dora E , 
Mrs. Roy Boyce, of Fresno, Cal. ; Eleanora, wife 
of Dr. D. H. Fitzgerald, a resident of Wetruore, 
Kans., and Charles W., who, with his father, is en- 
gaged in the livery business. On March 26, 1881, 
was celebrated the marriage of our subject and 
Mrs. Kate Wootters of St. Joseph. 



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1/ SRAEL LANDIS. Among those who have 
been instrumental in promoting the scholastic, 
J literary and religious interests of the city of 
St Joseph no two are more woi I by of men- 
tion than are Mr. Landis and his estimable wife, 
whose popularity was based upon their social 
qualities and their well known integrity. Mr. 
Landis was born in Lancaster County, Pa., Octo- 
ber 17, 1808, and was one of five sons in a family 
of ten children. His father was a merchant in 
whose store our subject clerked until he attained 
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harness trade In 1833 Israel landed in St Louis 

with only £30 in his pocket; hut not discouraged 
in lli.' least, In- invested his means in material anil 
set up in the harness business. During the next 
eight years he labored faithfully at his trade, 
building up a profitable business, and then pur 
obased a farm eight miles from St. Louis. In 
1844, still looking westward, lie earne to St. Jo 
seph and opened a small shop, where he continued 
at his vocation and was gn-ath prospered. 

In 1 sr>7 Mr. Landis erected a large double brick 
on thocornerof Fourth and Felix streets, besides 
building other blocks. Having but $30 with 
which to start himself in business in St. Louis, our 
subject has, since 1833, amassed a very comfort 
able fortune. He was one of the three persons, 
including Reuben Middleton and Simon Kemper, to 
lay out Mt. Mora Cemetery, which afterward passed 
into the hands of the Cemetery Company Association. 
.Mr. Landis took a great interest in public affairs 
in earlier life, ami was at one time a member of 
the City Council and assisted largely in the erec 
tion of the hall for the Independent Order of Odd 
Fellows, which was located on Fifth and Felix 
Streets, and subsequently destroyed by lire. 

May 3, 1836, Mr. Landis was united in mar- 
riage with Miss Sarah Stibbs, who was born April 
23, 1809, in Bath, England, and came to the 
United States at the age of sixteen years. In 1834 
her family settled in St. Louis, where she and her 
sisters established the Young Ladies' Institute, 
the first school of the kind in that city. Mrs. 
Landis was connected with this institution until 
the time of her marriage, and after coming to St. 
Joseph was the tirst to organize a school here. 

The children who came to bless and add to the 
enjoyment of the home of Mr. and Mrs. Landis 
are: JohnC, Benjamin (deceased), Mary E., Anna 
Stibbs. wife of Dr. McDonald, Jr., and Lila, wife 
of Thomas Catlin, of Tarboro, N. C. Mr. Landis 
was thoroughly practical in the conduct of his af 
lairs, and his characteristic perseverance and thrift 
showed that he was a man of ability, intelligence, 
an admirable citizen and a true and faithful friend. 
He departed this life April 12, 1893. Mrs Lan 
.lis departed this life July 17, 1891, aged eighty 
two years. 




ILL1AM DAVID COBERLY, President 
of the First National Bank of Cameron, 

If was born in Danville, Vermilion County, 
III., June 19, IS 40, the son of James S. 
and Sarah A. Coberly. The biographer finds lit 

tie of special interest to narrate concerning his 

boyl d years, which were uneventfully passed 

alternately in the schoolroom and on the farm 
When he was seventeen years of age ho acoom 
panied the other members of the family to Mills 
County, Iowa, where for a time he engaged in 
farming pursuits. 

With his father and brother our subjecl drove 
t<> Pike's I'eak, Colo., in 1858, returning to Iowa 
the following year. Later he again went to Col 
or ado, this time driving through with a freight out 
fit from Fort Leavenworth. Ho was so delighted 
with the climate and business opportunities which 
the state afforded that he determined to make it 
his permanent home and accordingly located at 
Denver, where he resided until 1884. He lirst 
worked out by the month and saved his earnings 
until ho had accumulated $700, which enabled him 
to start in business for himself. 

Iu 1868 Mr. Coberly embarked in tin' stock 
business with John (t. Lilly aud for six years 
they had charge of a ranch in the San Luis Val 
ley, of which our subject was general manager. 
At the time the partnership was dissolved, in 1ST I, 
thoy owned about two thousand head of cattle 
and had quarters on an old Spanish grant. When 
the connection with Mr. Lilly was discontinued 
Mr. Coberly aud his brother engaged iu business 
together for six years and successfully managed 
a ranch in Middle Park, Grand County, Colo. 
Since 1884 he has continued alone ami now owns 
about fifteen hundred head of cattle and two hull 
died and fifty horses iu addition to a tract of six 
hundred and forty acres ami another tract which 
he leases. He has made of ranching a financial 
success and his judgment has seldom been in 
fault in the many enterprises in which ho has been 
interested. 

In March, ISSt, Mr. Coberly located in Stew 
artsville, Mo., where lie conducted a splendidly 
improved farm of four hundred ami forty acres. 
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while a special feature of stock-raising. He still 
owns the place and during the past year (1892) 
kept about four hundred head of cattle. In 
August, 1888, he came to Cameron, where he now 
occupies an elegant resilience containing a furnace, 
gas and all modern improvements. The dwelling 
was built at a cost, of $15,000 and stands to-day a 
monument to the success of its owner. 

Mr. Coberly was one of the incorporators of the 
First National Bank of Cameron and has been its 
President since September 1, 1890. The bank has 
a capital stock paid in of $5(1,0(10 and the follow- 
ing officers: W. D. Coberly, President; H. S. 
Beery, Vice-president, and C. J. Stevens, cashier. 
It was organized March '24, 1890, to succeed the 
Bank of Cameron, which had existed since August 
20, 1888, and of which W. H. Bohart had been 
President. The Directors are: W. D. Coberly, H. 
S. Beery, R. H. Alexander, L. C. Livengood, Frank 
Gage, William Couklin, J. C. Tracy, George Kem- 
per and Charles W. Wright. 

At Olney, 111., October 13, 1875, Mr. Coberly 
and Miss Florence Bayley were united in mar- 
riage. Mrs. Coberly was born in Olney and re 
ceived her education at the Wesleyan College, Cin- 
cinnati. Three children have been born to them: 
Gertie, William and Joseph Edward. In the so- 
cial circles of Cameron no family stands higher 
than that of Mr. Coberly and his beautiful home is 
ever open for the hospitable reception of their 
many guests. Mr. Coberly votes the Republican 
ticket but has never taken any active part in po- 
litical affairs and always refuses to allow the use 
of his name for any office whatever. He was made 
a Mason at Stewartsville and a Knight Templar at 
Cameron, and is prominent in the fraternity. 



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IiOHN M. SMEDLBY became the owner of his 
k. I present farm in the year 1868, since which 
\J) time he has been engaged in general agri 
culture and stock raising. This place, com- 
prising one hundred and twenty acres, is situated 
in Section 18, Agency Township, Buchanan 
County, and has been brought under high cultiva- 
tion by our subject, who has also erected good 



buildings on the place. He is well worthy to be 
numbered among the leading and progressive farm- 
ers of the county for he uses the most advanced 
methods in conducting his farm, which is a model 
one of the decade. 

The birthplace of Mr. Smedley was in De Kalb 
County, Ala., the date of the event being the year 
1838. He is the youngest in a family of seven 
children born to John R. and Ruth (Epperson) 
Smedley, natives of South Carolina and eastern 
Tennessee. Their family consisted of the follow- 
ing: Elizabeth, George W., Ellen R. , William 
Marion and our subject, besides two who died in 
infancy. With the exception of two they all re- 
moved to Missouri, as did also the parents, who lo- 
cated in St. Joseph. Grandfather William Smed- 
ley was a native of Scotland. 

John M. Smedley grew to manhood in Buchanan 
County, to which he came in 1851. He acquired 
his education in the district and common schools 
and was an apt student. When the war between 
the North and South broke out he enlisted in the 
Confederate cause in a company commanded by 
Capt. Maupiu. He was captured in the fall of 
1802 and after his release in the following year re- 
turned home and went to the mountains. He has 
always been affiliated with the Democratic party, 
to which he gives his ardent support. 

In 1863, soon after returning from service in the 
army, Mr. Smedley wedded Lucinda, daughter of 
Cook Lynch, a respected early settler of Buchanan 
County. They have six living children: Harry, 
who is a graduate of the justly noted St. Joseph 
Medical College and is a practicing physician in 
the county; Ruth, wife of Paris Moore, nephew of 
the well known "Uncle Ben" Moore; Oscar, 
Charles, Minnie and Bessie, who are still with 
their parents, attending the schools of the neigh- 
borhood. 

Mr. Smedley has always been a supporter of our 
tine public school system and is an advocate of 
good schools and teachers, having ever used his 
influence to obtain the same. He and his wife, 
with their two eldest children, are faithful mem 
bera of the Christian Church of Agency. Though 
he will leave to his family a considerable fortune 
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good name, For Mr. Smedley baa kept his emblem 
ished through many vicissitudes and no one is 

more Favorably known in this community. 






DANIEL ('. MILLER is numbered among 
the enterprising citizens and merchants of 
Agency, Buchanan County, Mo. He is 
one of the most liberal men in the com 
munity where he resides, and by his courteous and 
genial manner has not only won the patronage of 
his Deighbors and fellow-citizens, but has also 
gained their sincere good will and friendship. He 
keeps a well assorted stock of general merchandise 
and has a remunerative trade from the surround 
ing townships. 

Mr. Miller was born in Claiborne County, 
Tenn . in L831, and in bis native state grew to 
mature years. His parents were Isaac and Mary 
(Hodge) Miller, who were natives of Kentucky 
and Tennessee respectively. The mother died 
within two miles of her birthplace, when our sub- 
jeel was a lad of twelve years. The oldest child, 
Emily, became the wife of Milton Hurst, and after 
In-- death she married Thomas Henderson, who w, is 
Sheriff of Claiborne County, Tenn., when the war 
broke out. Mrs. Henderson's death occurred in 
southern Kansas. Mr. Miller is the second of 
l In- family, the third child being Lee, whose home 
is in St. Joseph. Mary .1., widow of George Kim 
berlane, is a resident of Andrew County, Mo. On 
the paternal side the family is of German descent. 
In 1851 Mr. Miller came to Missouri, locating 

where East* 0W stands, in this county, and 

then- remained engaged in farming for one year. 
His next venture was in a commercial line, as he 
engaged in business at Kastou, and later at Toas, 
until the war broke out. He then enlisted in the 
regular state militia in the defense of the stars 
and stripes, serving most of the time for three 
years. For twenty years after the war Mr. Miller 
engaged in fanning, at which he was very success 
fill. In ISSt he returned to general merchamlis 
ing. and carries the largest stock of goods, outside 



of the City of St. Joseph, to lie found in the 

enmity. 

The marriage of Mr. Miller and Lucj Wade 
Farmer was celebrated in 1864. Mrs. Miller was 
born in this state and reared in St. Joseph. By 
her marriage she has become the mother of two 
children, sons, the oldest of whom, Eugene E., is 
a partner in business with his father. The 
younger, Perry, is attending school. Mr. Miller 
and his family are members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, in which they are greatly 
interested, and it was largely through the instill 
mentality of Mr. Miller and his estimable wife 
that the present church building was erected at 
Agency. The former was Chairman of the Build 
ing Committee and had the handling of all the 
funds for that purpose. Nor was it indeed doe 
alone to the interest ho brought to bear on the 
question of building the church that the enter 
prise was carried out, but also to his generous 
contribution. In times of peace and win- he has 
ever been found a patriotic citizen ami true son of 
America. 

J [AMES B. STAFFORD is one of the leading 
men of south Buchanan County has also 
I been identified with the history of Platte 
County, where he was reared to manhood. 
( ! reat credit is due to the many self made men of 
our country, who, beginning life entirely without 
capital and confronted by the many difficulties 
which fall to the lot of all, yet courageously and 
undaunted puisne with firmness tin- course they 
have marked out, thus winning in the end the 
crown of victory. Among the citizens of Jackson 
Township who have thus risen is Mr. Stafford, 
who has accumulated by his own efforts a valuable 
estate comprising nearly one section of land, 

located in Buchanan and Platte Counties, lie 
has been actively engaged in stock and grain 
raising, and all the numerous improvements now 
to be seen on his farm have been made by himself. 
He owns a small part of the old homestead and 
desirable property in the village of Dearborn. 



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Ralph M. Stafford, our subject's father, was 
born in Giles County, Va., in 1808, and was the 
son of John Stafford, who was a native of the 
Emerald Isle. Ralph Stafford came to Platte 
County, Mo., in 1842 from Lawrence County, Ky., 
with his family. He entered one hundred and 
sixty acres of land, which he brought under good 
cultivation. Three of his ten children were born 
in the Blue Grass State, t he others having their 
birthplace in Platte County. The mother was be- 
lore her marriage Cynthia A., daughter of John 
Burgess, who moved to the county about 1840 
from Lawrence County, Ky. He entered laud 
near the line dividing Buchanan and Platte Coun- 
ties, where he resided until his death. Our sub- 
ject's father and mother were both active members 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and 
lived to see the church edifice erected in Dearborn. 
James B. Stafford, who was the second sou, was 
born in Lawrence County, Ky., in 1839, and grew 
to manhood in Platte County, being educated in 
the common schools. In 1866 he led to the mar- 
riage altar, Melissa, daughter of Anthony Grable. 
To the worthy couple have been born nine chil- 
dren: Cynthia M., Laura A., James A., John R. , 
Charles W., Jennie P. (deceased), George C, Ora 
L. and Fred R. 

Socially Mr. Stafford is a member of the Ma- 
sonic fraternity, and politically he is a stalwart 
supporter of the Democratic party. It is now half 
a century since our subject cast in his lot with the 
favored inhabitants of this region, and he has 
never regretted his removal to the west, as on 
these broad prairies he has reaped golden harvests, 
giving him and his family a comfortable livelihood, 
a pleasant home and abundance of means for his 
remaining years. It has been truly said that the 
farmer is the most independent of men, for though 
he is in a certain sense at the mercy of the wind 
and Mood, which may prove destructive to his crops, 
he is free from the cares and harassing anxieties 
which beset the man of business in cities and 
(owns. Moreover he lias the advantage of being 
able to study Nature in her varying moods, and 
needs not to be shut up in a close office or store, 
but may always breathe country air, and be "near 
to Nature's heart." 



fli MOS MILTON BROWN, who for the past 
f/l\ thirteen years has made his home in St. 
/r§\ Joseph, Buchanan County, was in the serv 
•f/ ice during the late war. In 1 8"77 he 

opened his present business of transfer and stor- 
age, commencing with only one team. The first 
load hauled was for Mr. Ambrose, the foundry 
man. Mr. Brown soon built up a large business 
which demanded more teams. Thus he added 
several, one by one, going into debt largely for 
the same, as he had very limited capital. Each 
month he met payments on these and now the 
business has grown to large proportions. About 
forty men are constantly employed, and twenty- 
two teams are kept busy. The stable and storage 
rooms cover a space 60 by 140 feet, the building 
being two stories in height. 

Mr. Brown was born in Christian County, Iud., 
August 10, 1840. There he lived until his thir 
teenth year, after which he removed to Missouri 
with his parents, John R. and Rachel (George) 
Brown. The family located in Andrew County, 
sixteen miles north of St. Joseph. The father 
died only eighteen days after coming to this state, 
having caught a severe cold while working on the 
old mill dam. In 1858 our subject with his 
mother, brothers and sisters went to Leavenworth, 
Kans. That fall Amos Brown took a Denver trip 
with his brother, John R. , whose death occurred 
in Cass County, Mo., six years ago. He was a 
blacksmith in St. Joseph, having a shop on Mes 
sanie street for years. The brothers went to Den- 
ver with a load of flour, which they sold. They 
then went to work in the Creger mines, near that 
city, where they remained for one year. Return 
ing to Missouri, Mr. Brown lived in Andrew 
County, six miles north of St. Joseph, from the 
spring of 1859 until 1861. 

On the 14th of June, 1861, Mr. Brown enlisted 
for fi\e months in Company G, commanded by 
('apt. Hubbard. This company, which was cav- 
alry, was mainly in Jackson and Bates Counties. 
stationed at Independence, Kansas City and Har 
risonville. They reached Lexington the day of 
the battle, but were sent after pome guerilla bands. 
In 1864 Mr. Brown went with three compsnies. 
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Arkansas, Following up Gen. Price during Ins last 
raid. Be whs in the fight at Big Blue, where of 

the sixty two men of the company sent out. thirty- 
two were killed. Mr. Brown's last active service 
was at Coonskin Prairie. Be was next sent to 
Little Kock, then to Independence, where he was 
discharged in June, 1864. Coming home, he was 

one of sixty t ake a company which was raised 

by Lieut. Henry Ogle, ami was placed under com 
mand of Gen. Loan, whose purpose was to make 
another raid. The most of Mr. Brown's service was 
in - ting, as he preferred active work to camp duty. 

After the war our subject engaged in baying 
and Belling horses in company with William Skin 
ner. These lie sold to the Government at the rate 
of about seventy five per month for two years. Bis 
next venture was that of running a saloon, which 
he opened up on Market Square and carried on 
for two years. For one season he worked in a 
briok yard, after which he bought ami sold wood 
for one year. For the succeeding sev< n years he 
engaged in hauling rod; for macadamizing pur 
poses. InlSTI he went to Cass County, where 
he stayed only a short time and then returned toSt. 
Joseph. He afterward went hack to ( 'ass County, 
where he was a resident for seven years, after 
which he opened his storage business in this city. 

On the 28th of April, 1864, Mr. Brown and 
Mahalnh Ann Pearson of Cass County were united 
in marriage. The lady was born in Clay County, 
and grew to womanhood in Cass County. The 
marriage is graced by four children, a son and 
three daughters: William A, who is engaged in 
business with his father; Minnie, Mattieand Effie, 
who are all attending school, Minnie belonging 
to the high school class of 1893. The family are 
members of the Patee Pail; Baptist Church. In 
1892 Mr. Brown erected a pleasant and substantial 
residence, containing thirteen rooms, which have 
the hardwood finish throughout. 

In polities Mr. Brown is a Republican, but is 
not an office seeker. I [e is a member of King Hill 
Lodge, No. 11^. Independent Order of Odd Pel 
lows. Since his boyhood he has been identified 
with the history and development of this pail of 
the state, in the welfare of which he is greatly in 

tei ested 



JAMI'.S W. STALK is Superintendent of the 
St. Joseph Terminal Railroad and General 
) Agent of the Santa Fe and the St. Joseph & 
Grand Island Railroads. Be holds a vei \ 
enviable position, is clever and well informed on 
all subjects, a^ well as those specially pertaining 
to railroading. His career has been marked b\ 
the exercise of correct principles and sagacity, as 
well as by his native qualities of industry and mi 
tiring zeal in whatever he undertakes. 

The birth of Mr. Starr occurred in San Fran 
cisco. Cal., April :i. 1865, his parents being Henry 
W. and Mary B. (Merrifield) Starr. The latter 
was an orphan and adopted when young by an 
aunt, who removed to California at an early day. 
The mother died in INS'.! in the faith of the Dutch 
Reformed Church. Our subject's father was born 
in Middletown, Conn., while his father in turn 
was a native of the same town, a prominent man 
in official and military circles, and one of the 
founders of the Wesleyan College at that place. 
He was a wealthy merchant for that day and gave 
his children the best of educational advantages. 

In the early days of the gold excitement, Henry 
\V., the fathered' our subject, went to California 
and was ship chandler in San Francisco for some 
time, returning to New York in the fall of lSCT. |.\ 
way of Panama. He located in Yonkers, where 
he engaged in the manufacture of firearms for the 
United States Government. During the war he 
had a large and extensive business, and at its close 
turned his attention to the manufacture of skates 
Retiring from manufacturing, he engaged as a 
general broker and commission merchant in Brook 
lyn until his death in 1892, at the age of sixty 
seven years. 

.lames Stair is the second in order of birth of a 
family of four children, of whom three are living 
His boyhood was mostly passed in Brooklyn, N. Y., 
and for some time he attended Maple Hall Insti 
tute at Jamaica, L. I. He was early thrown upon 
his own resources and at the age of fourteen was 
apprenticed as a jeweler in Lockport, N. Y.. where 
he became a practical workman and master of the 
business. At the end of four years be did journey 
man work for nearly a year, but retired from that 
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Boston, entering the employ of the American As- 
phalt Pavement Company, acting as their clerk 
and time-keeper for two years, or until they failed 
in business. 

On the very day that the concern was sold under 
the hammer Mr. Starr fell in with an old friend 
who had just accepted a contract to survey the 
Topeka, Salina & Western Railroad, with head- 
quarters at Topeka, Kans. , and he at once con- 
cluded to come out with the party. In 1882, 
therefore, he first found himself in the west as 
commissary. Two years later, however, the con- 
tractors failed and he was obliged to take whatever 
employment came to hand. He obtained a posi- 
tion with the Sanla Fe as night-car sealer and 
number taker, receiving for his services the munifi- 
cent sum of $30 a month, and later as night ticket 
clerk in the same company's employ at the local 
station at Topeka, eight months thereafter enter- 
ing as a clerk in the Auditor's office. He made 
application for the post of Material Agent in the 
construction department, received the appointment 
aud started in the place that fall. Until 1888 ho 
was located at the following places: Hutchinson, 
Ottawa, Colony, Chanute, Emporia and Strong 
City, all in Kansas. 

The construction of the road having been prac- 
tically completed, Mr. Starr became Station Agent 
at Concordia, Kans., remaining there until June, 
1890, when he was appointed Agent at Florence, 
Kans. , to succeed E. A. Austin, who was promoted 
to the rank of Train master. In the latter place 
Mr. Starr remained as Agent until 1892, and was 
then made Superintendent of the Terminal Rail- 
road. The city of Florence is a point of great 
importance on the Santa Fe system and is a regu- 
lar school of railroad education. Mr. Starr has in 
St. Joseph the superintendency and appointment 
of about one hundred and sixty men, and his posi- 
tion is a very important and responsible one. 

In Brooklyn, N. Y., on November 20, 1888, Mr. 
Starr and Miss Mary E. Penfield were united in 
marriage. Mrs. Starr is a native of Lockport, N. 
Y., there passed her childhood days and was gradu- 
ated from the high school in that place. To the 
worthy couple has been born a bright little son, 
Arthur J. Mr. Starr is a Master Mason, a member 



of Advance Lodge of Florence, Kans., and in 
political principles is strictly and loyally a Re- 
publican. 

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OLE O. STINSON is one of the most pro- 
gressive farmers of Buchanan County, his 
farm of five hundred and thirty acres, which 
is nicely improved, being situated on Sec- 
tion 2, Township 56, Range 35. In 1868 he bought 
the nucleus of this large property, a small tract of 
one hundred and sixty acres, where his residence is 
located. The more modest home he replaced in 
1889 with a commodious residence, which is one of 
the best frame houses in the township. Five years 
previously he built a substantial barn, 32 by 50 
feet. In all local affairs our subject has been 
prominent for years past and has been school 
trustee for nearly twenty years. He owes his suc- 
cess in life entirely to his industrious habits and 
the energy he has brought to bear on every under- 
taking. 

Ole and Ingaborg (Olson) Stinson were the par- 
ents of our subject. They were both natives of 
South Norway, where they were married on arriv- 
ing at maturity. In 1850 they came to America, 
settling on rented land in this township and later 
in life moved to Doniphan County, Kans. , where 
they both died, the father in 1864 and his wife six 
years later. They were both members of the 
Lutheran Church and were the parents of four 
children, three of whom are living. 

O. O. Stinson was born October 9, 1830, in 
Norway and came to America with his parents 
when twenty years of age. He received a good 
education in his mother tongue and was reared on 
a farm. Beginning to carve out his own fortune, 
he worked by the month for some time and then 
raised a crop of corn where the Patee Park Bank 
of St. Joseph now is. Thus he continued until 
1854, when he had accumulated enough money to 
buy teams and rent a farm. In I860 he chose a 
helpmeet in the person of Miss Laura, daughter 
of Peter Nelson, deceased, their marriage being 
celebrated in Washington Township. Mrs. Stin- 
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February, in Norway, and is well educated in l>"tli 
the English and Norwegian tongues. 

After liis marriage Mr. Stinson removed to Kim 
sms. locating on a farm in Brown County, which he 
pre empted. He built a small frame bouse, cleared 
and broke thirty acres. In 1863 he returned to 
Buchanan County, settling on a pari of his father- 
in-law's farm, where he lived for five years, and 
then, as previously stated, in 1868 came to his 
present farm. Hi> is pre-eminently a self-made 
man, and great credit is due to him for the sturdy 
courage with which he has overcome the difficul- 
ties in his pathway , 

A number of children were born to Mr. and Mrs. 
Stinson. The following four are living: Peter 
D., now a book keeper in the Park Bank of St. Jo- 
seph; Kate and Emma, who are graduates of Dr. 
Martin's Young Ladies' Institute of St. Joseph, 
where the former taught for some time, and Ida, 
who is a student in the same institution. Kirby 
( >. died in 1889, aged twenty years. He and his 
brother were both graduates of the St. Joseph 
High School. They have a tine library of books, 
printed in both the Norwegian and English lan- 
guages. Mr. Stinson is a Democrat and with his 
family is a member of the Lutheran Church, of 
which lie has been an official. 

- li AMES A. GIBSON is a very successful farmer 
^ I and one of the old settlers of Platte Town 
\J ship, his well cultivated farm being located 
on Sections 9, 10 and 11. His farm com 
prises three hundred and twenty three acres alto 
gather, and is one of the best in this locality. Of 
this one hundred and sixty acres, on Section 11, is 
the old homestead, formerly the property of his 
father, and this is nearly all highly improved. 

Mr. Gibson was born in Columbia, Boone 
County, Mo., January 2, 1840, and is a son of 
Arthur Gibson, who was born in Buncombe 

County, N. ('. This was also the hirthpku f 

Grandfather Garrett Gibson, who was of Scotch- 
Irish descent. He removed to Indiana, locating 
On B farm mar Greencastle, later went to Putnam 
County, 111. , and finally came to Missouri to live 



with his children. He was a member of the Bap 
list Church. Arthur Gibson, who was reared in 
Indiana and Illinois, was married in the latter 
state, and in 1839 brought his family in wagons to 
the west. For a short time he resided in Boone 
County, and in the fall of 1 840 came to the " Platte 
Purchase." He made a settlement on what is now 
Section 11, Platte Township. There he con 
structed a log house with puncheon floor. At the 
end of three years he became the owner of some 
land on Section 15, and as the years passed, con 
tinually added to his possessions. 

Mr. Gibson was an extensive raiser of hemp, 
grain and stock and at the time of his death, in 
1858 his property consisted of over 600 acres ol 
land. His wife, Jane, daughter of Thomas Moore, 
was born in Tennessee. Her father was also one 
of the early settlers of Platte Township, and was 
a member of the Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Gib 
son died at the home of her son in law in January, 

1887, but had resided for many years witl r 

subject. She was born in 1811 and was the 
mother of nine children who grew to maturity. 
Thomas G. is a farmer in Oklahoma; Rachel, wife 
of Levi Wilhelm, resides in Winchester, Kans. : 
Lewis, who was in the Confederate service, is liv- 
ing in Harvey County, Kans; Francis M. , who 
was in the hundred days' service, lives in JefFer 
son County, Kans; James A. is next in the order 
of birth; Nancy, wife of Milton Witt resides in 
Winchester, Kans; Clarissa, wife of West Clarke, 
and William B. live in Jefferson County; and 
George W. is a farmer on Section '2, Platte Town 
ship. 

James A. Gibson was brought up in this town 
ship and the only schools which he attended were 
of the old fashioned log kind. He was early 
obliged to work on the farm and ploughed with a 
woolen mould board, preparing the ground for 
hemp. He remained at his home until his mar 
riage, January 22, 1863, when Miss Caroline Hoi 
land became his wife. She was horn in Jackson 
Township, of this county, and is a daughter of one 
of the early settlers. 

In 1859 our subject bought a part of the old 
farm and in 1863 he located on this property and 
has here resided since. During the war he at- 



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tended strictly to his farming interests and was 
never molested or arrested. Many improvements 
now to be found on the farm have been made by 
the owner. The Platte river bends in such a way 
as to be the boundary of two sides of his land, 
which is very fertile and alluvial. On the 
place is a fine orchard, and for several years Mr. 
Gibson has made a specialty of feeding cattle, 
shipping about one car load a year and a like 
amount of hogs. 

To our subject and wife have been born twelve 
children, ten of whom are living. They are as 
follows: Almetta, wife of Samuel Shoemaker of 
St. Joseph; Emma, wife of John Roberts; Thomas 
W., a farmer on Section 11; Magdelina and Jaly 
A., who live at home; James W., now attending 
the University of Missouri; Francis M. , Dora, 
Jessie and George S. Jennie S. is deceased; an- 
other child died in infancy. 

For several years Mr. Gibson has been School 
Director and is now President of the Board. He 
was clerk of the district at one time and has also 
been road overseer. In the early days he went to 
St. Joseph to do all his trading. At present Mr. 
Gibson is Superintendent of the Sunday-school of 
the Baptist Church, to which he belongs, and is 
one of the building committee. He supports the 
Democratic party and has often attended county 
conventions. He has witnessed the erection of 
every church in this township. Only two of the 
five are now standing. They are the Frazier and 
New Hebron Baptist Churches. 



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IfOHN A. LYKINS has been prominent in all 
} I the affairs of Buchanan County for many 
v// years past, and at one time was a candi 
date of the Democratic party for Repre 
Bentative. In the ranks of that party he has been 
a faithful worker all his life and has acquired 
quite a local reputation as a politician. At present 
he owns nearly two hundred acres of land on Sec- 
tions 17 and IS, Jackson Township, which is one 
of the best pieces of property in the region. He 
has a pleasant and commodious residence and 
substantial farm buildings, which are kept up in a 



thrifty manner. When the late Civil War broke 
out he enlisted in 1802 in Company I, Fifth Mis- 
souri Regiment, Confederate States of America, 
under Capt. Downing. He served in different 
portions of the state and Arkansas until the close 
of the war, surrendering with his company at 
Shreveport, La. He has been a resident of 
Buchanan County now for the past quarter of a 
cintury, being thoroughly identified with her wel- 
fare. 

The birthplace of our subject was in Lincoln 
County, Ky. , the date of the occurrence being the 
15th of December, 1840. When he was fifteen 
years of age he moved with his parents to Illinois, 
living in the Prairie State for two years, and in 
1858 coming west with them to Platte County. 
Mr. Lykins is the seventh in order of birth in a 
family of twelve children. His parents, William 
and Eleanor (Roberts) Lykins, were both natives 
of the Blue Grass region. All but one of their 
large family grew to mature years, and were mar 
ried, having homos of their own. On the paternal 
side the family is of Scotch descent. 

In 1868 Mr. Lykins married Miss Rhoda, 
daughter of John Richardson, who was one of the 
first settlers of Buchanan County, having removed 
here from Kentucky. For some years after his 
marriage our subject rented land in order to get a 
start in business, and then purchased his present 
farm. The many improvements which can now 
be found upon it have all been made by him. He 
has two fine orchards, covering about eight acres, 
which yield an abundance of fine fruit of several 
varieties. For a number of years Mr. Lykins has 
given bee culture considerable attention and has 
been quite successful in that direction. He is 
engaged in general farming and stock raising, lint 
has made a specialty of growing fruit, for which 
his land is well adapted. 

Mr. and Mrs. Lykins are identified with the 
Christian Church, and socially the former is con- 
nected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. 
He is a self-made man, having climbed to his pres 
ent enviable position without wealth or the aid 
of influential friends. Though the difficulties and 
obstacles in his pathway sometimes seemed almost 
insurmountable, he has never faltered in his pur- 



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pose, ami ni'W ln> has readied the goal of success, 
ranking among the prosperous citizens of the 
county iiml holding a position which he well 
deserves, He is personally well thought of, evine 
ing the most delicate sense of honor and the 
strictest adherence to high principle in his various 
dealings with his fellows. Such a one merits the 
confidence and high esteem of all, and this is given 
in no small measure to the gentleman of whom we 
write, whose lies! eulogy is his life of unblemished 
reputation. 

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\ILLIAM DOWNES, whose pleasant home 

is situated at No. 71*1 North Sixth street, 

M[ St. Joseph, has been engaged in steam 
and gas fitting and plumbing at his pres- 
ent place of business at No. 115 South Fourth 
street since February, 1885. Eight years ago, 
when starting in this line of trade, he had only 
$500 to invest, but now has about $4,000 worth of 
stock. He employs at. times from twenty five to 
forty men and seven or eight plumbers and gas 
litters. His annual business amounts to from 

$12,000 to $15,000. 

Our subject's birth occurred in County Clare, 
Ireland, on November 15, 185'2. When nineteen 
years old he came to the United States and learned 
the plumber's trade in Chicago. He remained in 
the Garden City until 1N77, when he removed to 
Kansas City, and live years later became a resi 
dent of St. Joseph. He worked for Herbert for 
three years and then bought the old plumbing 
business of Kdward Alden. For one year he was 
in partnership with Mr. Love, under the firm name 
of Downes A; Love, but since that time has carried 
on the business alone. He has been a contractor 

on sewer work and has made ( siderable money 

in that line. Altogether, in summing up his busi- 
ness career, it is only just to him to say that as 
ilie result of his superior management and strict 
attention to his commercial interests, lie has met 
with signal BUCCess. 

On the 24th of January, 1884, Mr. Dowries and 
Miss Kate Mullens were united in the bonds of 
matrimony. Mrs. Downes is the daughter of 

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Dennis Mullens, whose death occurred two years 
ago. He was a prominent contractoi ami did good 
work in cutting down ami grading the hills of Hie 
city. He settled here about the year 1853 and was 
always active in everything relating to the de 
velopment of St. Joseph. Mrs. Downes was born 
in this city and is the mother of t wo children, a 
son and daughter, namely: Thomas and Margaret. 
The gentleman of whom we write is a member 
of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, was one of 
the charter members, was the first President of 
Division No. 1 in St. Joseph, and is the present 
Treasurer of the saint". He also belongs to the St. 
Patrick's Sodality, Gen. Shields' Club and to the 
Sherman Club, which was organized by Father 
Sherman. Cur subject and his family are mem 
hereof the St. Joseph Cathedral. In his political 
belief the former is a firm supporter of the Demo- 
cratic party. 

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y t ICHOLAS J. SCHLUPP, is a highly re- 

Vl spected and well to do citizen of St. Jo 
B seph, where he has made his home since 
fv 1859, with the exception of a few years in 

the service ami some time spent in Texas, where 
he owned a ranch. He is now Vice president of 
the St. Joseph Brewery Company, one of the 
largest of the kind in this part of the state. 

Mr. Schlupp was born in Heme, Switzerland. 
July 31, 1836, and is a son of Benedict, who was 
a fanner, and though nearly seventy-nine \ear- of 
age is still a resident, of his native land. lie is a 
member of the Lutheran or Reformed Church. 
His father, whose Christian name was Nicholas, 
was also an agricultui isl in the same portion of the 
country. Our subject's mother, Elizabeth, daugh 
tor of Benedicl Dick, was born ill Switzerland and 
was of German descent. Her death occurred in 
1846, when she left a family of five children, two 
of whom are since deceased. Of these OUT sub 
jeel is the oldest and at the present time is the 
only member of the family in America. 

Mr. Schlupp's boyhood was passed in his native 
city, Heme, and after the death of his mother he 
went to live with an uucle, attending the public 



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schools until eighteen years of age, when he start- 
ed to learn the baker's trade, but tiring of that 
occupation, decided to try his luck in America. 
In 1850 he left Havre in a sailing vessel ami 
though land was sighted in twenty-seven days, 
the vessel was quarantined seven days off New 
York city on account of sickness on board, On 
landing, Mr. Schlupp came directly west, working 
on a farm near Mokena, Will County, 111., for a 
year, thence going to Davenport, Iowa, where he 
obtained work in a bakery shop belonging to an 
uncle, until the fall of 1857, when, going to St. 
Louis, he was clerk there for a year. In 1859 he 
joined an excursion party going to Pike's Peak, 
which proceeded up the Missouri river to St. Jo- 
seph, where they lilted out wagons and started 
westward. They went as far as Fort Kearney, 
but many were by that time discouraged and con- 
cluded to return. Among these was Mr. Schlupp, 
who arrived in St. Joseph in the fall and worked 
at whatever he could find to do until the war broke 
out. He was among the first to enlist in Compa- 
ny B, Col. Peabody's regiment,, or otherwise the 
Thirteenth Missouri Infantry, Maj. Pettis' battal- 
ion. He was mustered in at, Kansas City as a pri- 
vate soldier and was soon promoted to the rank of 
First Lieutenant. 

At the battle of Lexington Mr. Schlupp was on 
detached duty with fifteen men, being stationed at, 
Independence, and so was not, captured with the 
rest of the regiment. He then went, with Gen. 
Curtis to Springfield, and on account, of the for 
mer regiment to which he had belonged being 
scattered and broken up, he was placed in Com- 
pany E, Fifth Missouri Cavalry, and as Aid to 
Gen. Loan, being placed in command of his 
Body Guard, which consisted of a part of the 
original company he was Lieutenant, of in Pea- 
body's regiment. After some skirmishing in Mis 
souri he was in command when Col. Porter was 
taken prisoner at the Osage Mountains in Grundy 
County. He was wounded, having his horse shut 
from under him, and as he fell he received a bay- 
onet thrust in the left cheek. He remained in the 
service until the three years' term of his enlist- 
ment was up, when he was mustered out and re 



turned to St. Joseph. Only three weeks later he 
was made commanding Lieutenant Colonel of a 
regiment of militia. 

In the fall of 1804 Mr. Schlupp engaged in 
freighting across the plains with two mule teams 
and wagons, hauling provisions to Denver and 
making several trips in the two years following. 
In partnership with Mayor H. R. W. Hartwig he 
engaged in the wholesale grocery business on 
Fourth street. In 180'J he took charge of the St. 
Joseph Brewery for his father-in-law, Mr. Kuechle, 
for three years, until the latter returned from 
Europe. In 1870 Mr. Schlupp started in the cat- 
tle business as a partner of Mr. Ballinger, and 
was one of the first lessees of the Cherokee strip 
before they were obliged to pay so much a head. 
They bought cattle in Texas and leased the land 
in company with the Cherokee Live Stock Associ 
ation. They were quite successful in this under- 
taking, having some eleven or twelve thousand 
bead of cattle, and continuing in the business until 
L890, when, on account of the Government's de- 
mands, they concluded to sell out. In 1809 our 
subject was an incorporator of the St. Joseph 
Brewing Company, which is the oldest, in the city, 
and of which he is now Vice-president. 

In 1807 was celebrated the marriage of Mr. 
Schlupp and Miss Sophia M. Kuechle, who was 
born in Indiana and whose father emigrated from 
his native place, Baden, Germany, locating in 
Indiana, where he was married. He was one of 
the first settlers in St. Joseph, coming here in 
1849 and enlisting as a soldier in the War of Mex- 
ico. Three children grace the union of our sub- 
ject and wife: Mamie, who was educated in Phil 
adelphia; Ada, who attended school in St. Louis, 
and William G., now attending the Christian 
Brothers College at St. Joseph. In 1800 Mr. 
Schlupp made a pleasant voyage and journey to 
Switzerland, being gone from home about four 
months and renewing his acquaintance with the 
friends and scenes of his youth. In politics he is 
a Republican and actively interested, attending 
the county and state conventions. He is a suc- 
cessful business man and is justly numbered 
among the enterprising merchants of St. Joseph 



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MARSHALL B. PYNE, a farmer and stock 
raiser of Agencj Township, is one of the 
honored early settlers of Buchanan 
V County, where he is recognized as a lead 

ing citizen. He is specially prominent in the 
township where he resides and liis authority on 
many questions is highly respected. He was horn 
in Frederick County, Va., March 25, 1825, and 
was educated in the Shemariuh College, from which 
institution he graduated, having become proficient 
in the languages and mathematics. 

Jonathan Pyne, our subject's grandfather, was 
born in Scotland and came to America in time to 
take part in the War of the Revolution The fam 
ily have numbered many noted patriots who have 
been identified with the leading events of the coun- 
try. Marshall B. Pyne is the youngest in a fam 
ily of six children whose parents were Lazarus and 
Mary (Putnam) Pyne, who were natives of Penn- 
sylvania, where they were reared to maturity. The 
mother was a descendant of the old Putnam fam 
ily in Virginia ami was also connected with the 
Commodore Perry family. 

In the year 18T>3 occurred the marriage of Mr. 
Pyne and Margaret S. , daughter of William Doug 
las, of i h>' old Douglas family of Rockbridge 
County, Va. In 1856 the young couple came to 
Missouri, locating in Buchanan County, upon 
tin' farm where he now resides. He purchased 
one (piaiter-section for §20 per acre and has since 
added to it until at the present time he owns one 
hundred and eighty acres. He is a successful ag 
ricultuiist and a conservative man, his prosperity 
being the result of his carefully planned ventures 
and investments, as well as df the industry and 
perseverance which are marked characteristics of 
the man. To himself and wife have been born 
four children, who are as follows: William Doug 
las, Mary Mildred, Julia Catherine and Jeb 
Stuart. 

Mr. and Mrs. Pyne are members of the Presbj 
terian Church, to which their eldest daughter also 

belongs. In politics our subject is one of the old 
JefFersonian Democrats and an advocate of the 
principles set forth by that famous statesman. 
During the war between the contending factions, 
Mr. Pyne was a member of the state militia organ 



i/.ed for self-protection on the border. Unlike 
many fanners whose minda are so apt to be given up 

entirely to the narrow routine of their duties, our 
subject, starting out in life as he did with a supe 
rior education, has always kept up liis leading and 
is a thoughtful student of men and affairs, He is 
an entertaining conversationalist and is thoroughly 
posted on all the leading topics of the day. As a 
fellow citizen and neighbor he is very popular near 
his home and possesses the respect and esteem of 
all who have come in contact with him. 

iT^ARRETT L. COZINE is numbered among 
- the early settlers of Jackson Township, Bu 

\>l chanan County, where he has, in partner 
2* ship with his son, about two hundred and 
fifty acres of land, all nicely cultivated. When he 
located on the farm it was in a wild state, bearing 
little resemblance to its present condition. Mr. 
Cozine is now held to be one of the most progress 
ive and enterprising fanners of the community in 
which he makes his home. 

Our subject was born in Mercer County, Ky . 
in the year 1824 and was the fourth in order of 
birth in a family of ten children, whose parents 
were John and Sarah (Bradshaw) Cozine. The 
father was born on Long Island in 1787 and the 
mother in Virginia in 1792. They located in Hen 
dricks County, Ind., where they remained until 
1842, in that year removing to Platte County. 
Mo., whence after a residence there oT three years 

they came to Buchanan County. The Cozine fam- 
ily originally came to America from Holland prior 
to the War of the Revolution. Our subject's pa- 
ternal grandfather, Garrett Cozine, was a native 
of Long Island, where he married a Miss List, who 
was also of Dutch descent. Our subject now owns 
the old homestead settled b_\ his parents when they 
first came to this county in 1845. 

The marriage of Mr. Cozine and Sarah, dangh 
ter of Daniel Seal, was celebrated in IS-V!. Dan 
iel Seal migrated from Ohio to this county in 1844, 
and made his home here until he was called from 
this life in (852. lb- was a native ot Pennsylvania, 

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were boru nine children, of whom our subject's 
wife was the fourth. Mr. and Mrs. Cozine were 
the parents of seven children, as follows: Sarah, 
deceased; Mary J., wife of Henry Peck, of Ed 
genton; Melvina, widow of Benjamin Givin; Alice, 
wife of Charles Hughes; Ella, John B. and Re- 
becca M., who became the wife of Henry Boydston. 

Mr. Cozine's chances for obtaining an education 
were of the most limited description, but he was 
naturally studious and very desirous of becoming 
well-educated, and during his youth many a night 
did he spend reading and studying by the uncer- 
tain light of a wood fire on the hearthstone. In 
this way he gained a liberal knowledge and in time 
became so thoroughly posted on common English 
branches that he obtained a certificate to teach, 
and successfully followed that occupation for sev- 
eral years. 

For a period of three years Mr. Cozine resided 
in Kansas, but aside from that has made Buchanan 
County his home for nearly half a century. He is 
a practical farmer, and having from boyhood been 
used to the various duties devolving upon an agri- 
culturist, is thoroughly posted as to the best meth- 
ods for conducting a farm. He takes many of the 
leading farmers' journals and in this way keeps 
thoroughly abreast of the times and obtains ad- 
vanced ideas in regard to his work. His place is 
thrifty and well cared for, thus showing without 
the need of additional evidence that the owner is 
an industrious and careful man. His life is one 
well worthy of emulation and it is with pleasure 
that we present this brief record to our readers. 

Mr. Cozine is a member of the Masonic frater- 
nity and has always been greatly interested in the 
same. He casts his ballot in favor of the princi- 
ples and candidates advocated by the Democratic 
party, with which he has voted at all times. In 
everything pertaining to the welfare of his town- 
ship and county, our subject has used his best 
endeavors to forward the same and may well be 
called one of the founders of the prosperity which 
in so high a degree haw blessed this portion of the 
state. He has builded wisely and well upon a 
foundation of uprightness and honor, having 
erected a structure which is the abode of success. 
To his family he will leave a considerable fortune 



and, more than that, to them will be given that 
priceless heritage — a good name, a uame not tar- 
nished by unworthy actions or dishonorable deeds. 
It came to him unsullied and unsullied he gives it 
to his children. Soon after the war our subject 
was elected to the office of Township Registrar for 
two years. He was also elected Justice of the 
Peace, but refused to qualify. 



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J |OHN K. JOHNSON occupies the honored 
position of the oldest settler in Township 58, 
I Range 35, Buchanan County. He is the 
fortunate possessor of a quarter section of 
fine land on Section 35, which is devoted to the 
raising of mixed farming and the ordinary amount 
of stock, both grain and animals being of good 
quality. A home-like dwelling and the various 
outbuildings indicate to the passer-by that the land 
is occupied by a family of enterprise and good 
judgment. 

Mr. Johnson is the son of Samuel and Sally 
(Travis) Johnson, natives respectively of Tennes-.ee 
and Kentucky. The parents were married after 
coming to this state and made their first home in 
Cooper County. Later they took up their abode 
in Jackson County in 1825 and settled upon a farm 
which is the site of the old Exposition Building in 
what is now Kansas City. He cleared and im- 
proved the property, making it his home for 
thirteen years before such a place as Kansas City 
was ever dreamed of. 

In 1838 Samuel Johnson removed to Andrew 
County and pre-empted the farm now known as 
the Green farm. He occupied a prominent and 
influential place among his fellows, and such wis 
his popularity that he was often chosen by his 
neighbors as referee in trying cases. Seated on a 
log under the shade of a tree, he held his court 
and would listen to the pleas of lawyers, and from 
his decision there was no appeal. He was later 
elected Territorial Judge, which position he held 
until the organization of the county. 

William R. Johnson, the brother of our subject, 
went, to California in 1847 and took part in the 
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murdered in Aurora, Oal., by Three fingered Jack 
and his gang. Samuel Johnson in 1849, in com 
pan] with his miii Alexander, crossed the plains 
with a pack mil lit and entering the mines remained 
until the following year. Desiring to return home 
at the expiration of that time, he embarked on a 
steamer bound for Panama and was never heard of 
again. His good wife, who survived him many 
years, died in St. Joseph in 1874. They were the 
parents of seven children, of whom three are still 
living. In his political relations the father was an 
old line Whig, the principles of which party he 
upheld upon every occasion. 

John K. Johnson had his birth January HI, 1824, 
in Cooper County, this state, and as soon as he 
was of proper age was sent to the primitive schools 
of his neighborhood, thus obtaining a fair educa- 
tion in tin- ordinary branches taught at that time. 
\\ hen starting out in life on his own account, he 
was married, in I S 4 ."> , to Miss Mary K. , daughter 
of William and Ellen (MoCnbbins) Stephens, na 
lives of North Carolina. The parents of Mrs. 
Johnson came to Missouri as earl}' as 1834, making 
their home in Callaway County, the father dying 
at the home of our subject at the advanced age of 
ninety six years. 

Mrs. Johnson was born January 20, 1824, in 
Kentucky, and after her marriage with our subject, 
which took place in Andrew County, they located mm 
what is now their present beautiful estate. The 
land was not improved in the least at that time, 
but by industrious ami well directed efforts Mr. 
Johnson has made of it one of the most valuable 
tracts in Township 58 of Range 35. He has OCCU 
pied the place for forty eight years, and by his 
upright life and many excellencies of character has 
won the high regard of the best and most rep re 
senlative people of the county. 

Of the nine children born to our subject and his 
estimable wife, two are deceased. Those living are 
William D., Elijah A., Mary Alice. Samuel, Nannie 
John V. and Emma I!. They have all been given 

g 1 educations and Mr. Johnson has served as a 

member of the School Board for many years, repre- 
senting District No. 3. In religious affairs, with 
his wife, he is a member in good standing of the 
old regular Baptist Church. Socially he is con 



nected with the ({range, and in politics is a strong 
Democrat. During the Civil War he entered the 
ranks, becoming a member of a company com 
manded by Capt. Claggett of the Paw Paw Militia. 

Besides their own huge family of children, which 

Mr. and Mrs. Johnson have so well reared, the) 

have performed the part of parents to six orphans, 
who bear the respective names of Lizzie Gibbons, 
William H. Lee, Mary Maud Lee, John J. Lee, 
Myra E. Lee and Roger S. Lee. 



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ICHARD THOMAS < ON NELL. As a 
conspicuous example of success in business 
^ pursuits in St. Joseph, the plumbing es- 
tablishment of R. 'J'. Conuell presents H 
notable instance. Its business has steadily ex 
panded from year to year from its inception until 
the present time (1893), until now it is said that 
his display rooms are the finest in the entire West, 
except perhaps those in Denver. Mr. Connell is 
in many respects an ideal business man, an untir 
ing worker, shrewd and methodical, and always 
tlrives his business, never allowing it to drive him. 
During the early years of his business experience 
he labored night and day ami the results of his el 
forts attest his ability. 

Born in White Block, Chemung County, N. Y. . 
June 5, 1853, our subject is the son of Miles aud 
Ann (Kean) Connell, natives of County Clare, Ire- 
land. The father emigrated to America when a 
young man and followed his trade of a butcher in 
Chemung County, N. Y. He was in the employ of 
various packing houses, among them those of J. 
L. Hancock, Craigon & Company, and J. W. 
Lord. Later he was with the Armour Packing 
House in Chicago, but retired from business for 
some time prior to his demise, which occurred in 
December of 1892, when he was seventy six years 
old. His widow still makes her home in Chicago. 

There were fourteen children in the parental 
family, ten of whom are now living. Mr. Connell 
was reared in Chicago, where he was a student in 
t he public schools until fourteen yeai s of age. In 
1SC>7 he was apprenticed to learn the trad.- of a 
plumber and remained with T. McKenna for three 



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years, after which he was with P. H. Murphy for 
two years. At the expiration of his apprentice 
slii|>, he found employment as a "jour." In 1881 
he removed to Kansas City and was there employed 
at his trade for about three years. At the request 
of M. E. Herbert, he came to St. Joseph iu 1884 
and remained in the employ of that gentleman un- 
til the business was closed. 

In April, 1NN8, Mr. Connell embarked iu the 
plumbing business at St. Joseph, and for one year 
was located on Fourth street. He then removed 
his establishment to his present location. On 
February 2, 1893, the store was burned to the 
ground, but Mr. Connell's characteristic enter- 
prise prevented him from being daunted by this 
misfortune. He rebuilt on a larger scale than be- 
fore and the present building is 40 by 113 feet in 
dimensions, two stories in height. The establish- 
ment has a display room, gas fixture room, glass- 
ware room, store-rooms and work shop, each of 
which is perfectly adapted to its purpose. Em 
ployment is given to about thirty hands. Mr. Con 
uell is prepared to till all orders with accuracy and 
dispatch and personally supervises all the details 
of his business so as to maintain the enviable rep 
utation which good work and honorable dealings 
have secured for him. The exercise of excellent 
business judgment has brought him the well- 
merited reward of prosperity, and he is now num- 
bered among the wealthy citizens of St. Joseph. 

GHARLES F. BROWN. That our subject 
was one of the shrewdest and most intelli- 
gent agriculturists of Buchanan County is 
shown by the success which has crowned his 
efforts, for he is now living retired from active 
work of any kind on his farm in Crawford Town 
ship. He is a man of much practical business tab 
tent and by judicious investment of his money has 
acquired a valuable property, which is a standing 
monument to the energy which he has put forth in 
the labors of life and to the good judgment which 
has characterized his efforts. 

Charles B. Brown, the father of our subject, was 
born in New Hampshire, while his mother, who 



prior to her marriage was Miss Elizabeth Salsbury, 
had her birth in Massachusetts. After their mar 
riage the parents removed to York state and passed 
the remainder of their lives on a farm iu Steuben 
County. They were very successful in cultivating 
the soil and were soon numbered among the well- 
to-do and prominent families of that county. The 
elder Mr. Brown took great interest in public 
affairs and was honored at different times with the 
positions of Justice of the Peace and County Judge. 
The parents were leading members of the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church ;md did much toward the 
elevation of their section in a moral and financial 
way. 

Charles F. Brown was one in a family of live 
children, his birth occurring June '29, 1826, in 
Steuben County, N. Y. He remained at home 
until reaching his twentieth year, when, ambitious 
to add to his knowledge gained in the country 
schools, he entered the Rogersville Academy, doing 
chores about the building in order to pay his tui- 
tion. After completing his education .young Brown 
left for Pennsylvania, in 1849, where he remained 
for two years, and then going to Washington, D. O, 
spent the following twelvemonth in the capital 
city. In 185(1 he shipped as a hand on a sailing 
vessel bound for Texas, where he was employed 
driving government teams for eighteen months. 
At the expiration of that time he went to New Or- 
leans and secured passage as deck hand on a vessel 
to St. Louis. 

In the spring of 1852 Mr. Brown came to Bu- 
chanan County and engaged to work on the farm 
of Andrew Wiley. He was variously employed 
for the succeeding three years, when, in 1855, hav- 
ing married Miss Pbu'be, daughter of William 
Moore of Bloomington Township, he went to Kan 
sas and entered a claim in Jefferson County. 
There the young couple continued to make their 
home for nine years. In 1804, however, Mr. 
Brown again became a resident of Missouri, when 
he purchased his present valuable property, which, 
prior to its division among his children, amounted 
to three hundred and twenty-five acres. 

Mrs. Phoebe Brown was born in Indiana and by 
her union with our subject has become the mother 
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iooslj she is a member of the Cumberland Presby 
teriau Church, which organization ber husband 
joined in 1870, and i- now acting in the capacity 
df Elder. In social affairs Mr. Brown holds mem- 
bership with the Masonic fraternity at BaJleck, in 
which order be ha- occupied all the Chairs. As a 
member of the Chapter he officiates as King. Po- 
litically he is a stanch adherent to Democratic 
principles, and while residing in Kansas was pre- 
vailed upon by bis fellow-citizens to iill the office 
of Justice of the Peace, which he did to the entire 
satisfaction of all for six year-. 

During the late war Mr. Brown was Captain of 
Company M, Fourth Regiment, Northern Division 
of the Kansas militia. A quiet, unassuming man, 
he is an influence for much good in the community 
where many years of his life have been passed, and 
his every deed and act are guided by the highest 
principles of truth, integrity anil morality. 



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BENJAMIN MOORE, one of Buchanan 
County's oldest settlers, came here in 1841 
' from Lee County, Va. , where he was born 
in IMS. No man is more highly respected 
than this gentleman, whose life has been honora 
ble and characterized by strict integrity. He was 
i mi- of thirteen children born to David and Susan 
(Smith) Moore, who were both natives of the Old 
Dominion. After their marriage they crossed the 
mountains, settling in Lee County of the same 
state, where they lived on one farm for over sixty 
live year--. After so many years of companionship 
and happiness together the death angel kindly 
summoned them both in the same mouth, February. 
1865, at which time they had attained the ages of 
eighty -even and seventy-six years, respectively. 
Two of their sous, Samuel and Joseph, served in 
the Union Army, while one son, Drury, a twin to 
our subject, served in the Confederate Army, en 
listing from Cass County, Mo. ( >n the maternal 
side our subject's grandfather, Drury Smith, was 
a native of Virginia and of German descent. 
Grandfather Benjamin Moore was also a native of 
the 'Mil Dominion and of [rish parentage. 

Following his brother, who had emigrated west 



waul in 1837, Benjamin Moore came to Buchanan 
County in 1841. His brother had entered one 

hundred and sixty aens and improved it to some 
extent at thai time They engaged in operating 
the place together, and alter selling the quarter 
section which he had pre empted Benjamin Moore 
purchased the farm owned bj his brother. In 
1855 he elected a substantial residence, the one in 
which he still reside-. For years after his advent 
into this county «auie abounded and afforded the 
settlers plenty of meat. Snakes also were more 
plentiful than desirable and were often very 
dangerous and troublesome. The rat tlesnakes es- 
pecially were of enormous size, measuring in some 
instances six feet iu length. For about twenty 
years Mr. Moore kept a post office in his residence, 
holding the ollice under Robert Jessee, who had so 
much confidence in his honesty that be was not re 
quired to give bonds nor take the oath of office. 
At the time he gave up the position the postal 
department of the Government owed him $71, 
half of which he afterward collected 

Iu January, 1 S I L> , Mr. Moore wedded Lucinda, 
daughter of James Gibson, who emigrated from 
Lee County, Va. , to Buchanan County in lSiiT, 
settling on the east side of the Platte liver, being 
One of the very first men to locate in the vicinity. 
His death occurred at the age of sixty three years 
and of his family but four are living: William 
E., of St. Joseph; Mrs. .Moore and her two sisters. 
To our worthy subject and wife have been born 
four children: Robert M. , a merchant at Agency : 
Martha J.; Eliza, wife of William N. Poteet, of 
Colorado, near Pueblo, and Susan 11., wife of J. 
B. Davis, who is engaged in carrying on our sub 
ject's farm, which comprises two hundred acre-. 
Located on Section 20, Agency Township. 

During the war Mr. Moore had his caps taken 
from his gun and on one occasion when he saw 
seven squirrels in a tree he touched his gun off 
with a match and in this way killed all the seven 

in as many shots. He was iu former dav- i f 

the most proficient shots with a rifle that the 
eouiitn overbad. He kept a fine team of horses, 
which were worth at least $300, and when they 
were taken front linn by two soldiers he treated 
them so kindly that thev relented and retu 



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the property. This was the more remarkable as 
liis sympathies were known to be with the South. 
The first vote east by Mr. Moore was for Henry 
Clay and since the dissolution of the Whig party 
he lias voted the Democratic ticket. He does not 
belong to any secret orders. Both himself and 
family are members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church South and when the church structure was 
erected in Agency he gave more to it than any 
other one man and was also liberal in bis contri- 
butions to the Union Church. 



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,\ILLIAM HUND for the past twelve 
years has been senior member of the firm 
lf[ of Hund & Eger, who own and control 
large bottling works at Nos. 4*21 and 4'23 
North Second street, St. Joseph. There is about 
$24,000 invested in the business, and employment 
is given to twelve men regularly and sometimes as 
high as twenty. The firm deal in Pabst Milwau- 
kee beer, of which they are agents in this locality, 
ami bottle the same for the market. They also 
manufacture soda, mineral waters, cider and vine- 
war, their annual business amounting to about 
$75,000. During the past twelve years their in- 
come has grown to this large amount from the 
former sum of $10,000 per annum. The business 
was started twenty years ago by Dunning & Clyde, 
who gave it a good start, but its present success is 
almost entirely due to the efforts of the present 
manager. 

William Hund was born in Baden, Germany, 
December 11, 1854, and when eighteen years of 
age left his native land, coming to the United 
States to seek his fortune. Landing in New York 
city, he was engaged in working for different par- 
ties in that place and in St. Joseph, to which point 
he came only a short time after. He was indus 
I rious and careful of his savings, and in the course 
of years regularly laid by in the bank a certain 
amount until he hail to his account nearly $5,000. 
This, when he saw a proper time to invest, was 
the nucleus of his present fortune. 

On June 21, 1887, Mr. Hund was united in 
marriage with Miss Amelia Haeffelo of this city, 



whose father is a well known gardener and busi- 
mau of this place. Three children have graced 
the union of Mr. and Mrs. Hund, their names be- 
ing Ada, William and Louis. Mr. Hund stands 
among the leading business men of the city. 

Louis Eger, the junior member of the firm above 
mentioned, was born in St. Joseph, October 20, 
1800, and was reared to manhood in this city. For 
some time he conducted a saloon at New Ulm 
Park, his father, Frank Eger, having conducted a 
brewery at that point from 1864 until 1870. This 
was one of the most extensive breweries in the city. 
Mr. Eger remained in the saloon business until 
taking his present position, since which time he 
has attended largely to the sales both in the city 
and surrounding country. 



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ifpsyOBERT H. THOMAS. The highly im 
IW( proved estate of the gentleman whose 
V name opens this sketch will attract the 
jy notice of the visitor, as it is pleasantly 

located on Section 7, Crawford Township, and 
com [irises four hundred and sixty two and one- 
half acres. Indeed a traveler through the fanning 
lauds of Buchanan County will observe with 
pleasure that signs of prosperity are on every 
hand, and that the well improved farms, among 
which that of our subject is prominent, far out- 
number those which are neglected. 

The parents of Mr. Thomas, Robert B. and 
Mary A. (Ewalt) Thomas, were natives of Ken 
tacky, whence they came to Missouri in 1844. 
After a residence of a twelvemonth in Jackson 
County, they took up their abode in Crawford 
Township, this county, where is now located the 
village of Halleck. The land which came into 
their possession was in its native wilduess, but the 
thorough process of cultivation to which the 
father subjected it made of it one of the best 
estates in the township. There he continued to 
make his home until a few years prior to his 
decease, when he removed to Platte County, where 
he died in 1891. The mother passed away in 
1873. They reared a family of twelve children, 
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Mrs. Thomas were devoted and working members 
of the Christian Church, in which body the Father 
was an offieer. 

Robert II. Thomas, who was the eldest in the 
parental family, was born August 1. 1839, in 
Bourbon County, Kv. His education was obtained 
in the subscription schools, which be was permit- 
ted to attend daring the winter season. He was 
given a thorough training in farm pursuits, how 
ever, and remained at home until reaching his 

majority, S< after which he entered the ranks as 

a member of a company of Boyd's BattalioD, 
State Guards, commanded by Capt. It. H. Smith. 

As such lie participated in the siege of Lexington, 

Pea Ridge, Springfield and all the intervening 
skirmishes during Price's retreat, going as far 

south as Arkansas and Mississippi. Later he 
returned to Fort Smith. Ark. , with Capt. Downing, 
who was very ill. From there he came home and 
engaged in shipping stock from the west to 
Chicago, after freighting for a year on the plains. 
The ladj who became the wife of Robert H. 
Thomas, in 1863, was Miss Rebeooa, a daughter 
of Thomas Foster, of Kentucky, but at the time of 
that event a resident of Platte County. She was 
born in the Blue Crass State in 1S43. By this 
union have been born nine children, seven of whom 
are living, viz.: Anion, John \\'., Emma, Henry 
Lovel, Everett, Kelly and Maud S. The parents 
are members of the Christian Church organization, 
which Mr. Thomas has aerved as Deacon. Socially 
he is a member of the Knights of Honor, and in 
1880 was elected Sheriff of Buchanan County, 
serving a term of four years. In politics he is a 
stanch Democrat and has been frequently sent as 
delegate to its various conventions. Always 
greatly interested in school affairs, he has given 
his children every possible advantage for obtaining 
an education and has served his district as a 
member of the School Board. 

ICHAEL HILGEKT is proprietor of a line 
restaurant on Felix street, St. Joseph. 
41 This is the most popular resort for busi- 
ngs men in the center of the city and, in 
fact, is the only place where one can got a first- 




class meal at low rate>. While he serves only the 
lust of well-cooked food, his prices are as low as 
the cheap and uninviting hash houses. Meals are 
set before the guest in a tempting manner, food 
being characterized by t he chief requisites of dain- 
tiness and cleanliness. 

The birth of our subject occurred on .Inly 3, 
1845, in Belgium. His boyhood and young man 
hood were passed in the country of his nati\it\ 
where he gained a good education in his mother 
tongue. 

In 1867, carrying out plans which he had 
formed some time before, he hade adieu to the 
scenes of his youth and crossed the broad Atlantic. 
Going to Minnesota he engaged in farming and 
stock raising for two years, after which he removed 
to Missouri and proceeded to develop a live hun 
died acre farm in Nodaway County. 

In 1 NTS Mr. Hilgeri opened a saloon at Mary 
ville, Mo., near which is situated his farm. On 
account of local option he was forced to suspend 
and a lew years afterward came to St. Joseph, 
where he was the proprietor of the handsome New 
Uhne Exchange. He has been very successful in 
his business ventures, particularly of late years. 

Our subject is the owner of a tine kennel of St. 
Bernard and fox terrier dogs, which are ondoubt 
edly the best of the kind to lie found in the state. 
At the late bench show in Chicago he secured the 
first prize on those exhibited and the leader was 
sold to a dog fancier at a fabulous price. Mr. Hil 
gert easily obtained from live hundred to eight 
hundred dollars per animal and even VOUQg pups 
sell readily at one hundred dollars each. 

Mr. Hilgert is a popular man who has a large 
circle of friends. He is considered a level headed 
man of business and. if be desired, could easily ob 
tain public office, but his ambition does not lie in 
that direction. His business is constantly increas- 
ing and his returns on his investments are so sure 
that he prefers to devote his whole time to those 
interests. He is Xi'vy hospitable, genial and good 

natured and to these qualities in a large asure 

is due the reputation he has made as a whole 
souled and warm hearted man. In personal ap 
pearance he is the fortunate possessor of a tine 
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ILLIAM T. STEELE (wbo is one of the 
oldest ami most prominent farmers of 
Bluoini n g t o n Township, Buchanan 
County, where he and his sous own six 
hundred and ten acres of valuable laud on Sections 
5 ami S) was born in Madison Couuty, Ky. , July 
18, 1828, and came with his parents when a lad 
of twelve years to Platte Couuty. There he grew 
to man's estate, his educational privileges being 
those of the common schools, after leaving which 
he returned east and for two years was in the 
schools of Cincinnati, Ohio, and then for one year 
pursued his studies at Bethany College, Virginia, 
with the famous Dr. Alexander Campbell. 

The parents of Mr. Steele were Rev. Oliver C 
and Sarah (Hill) Steele, both natives of Kentucky 
The father was born in 1803 and first began 
preaching the Gospel when a young man. His 
advantages previous to his marriage for obtaining 
an education had been very limited and his wife 
taught him to read. He was naturally intelligent 
and studious and at the time of his death had a 
library of over five hundred volumes. He was 
the means of getting many young men to attend 
Bethany College, among them being Moses E. 
Lard and others who became laborers in the work 
of introducing Christianity into the community in 
those early times. Rev. Mr. Steele was one of 
those men who ably defended the Scriptural teach- 
ings and held that all human creeds should be put 
aside and the Bible be made the only guide. His 
father, Brice Steele, was a native of Ireland aud 
was a member of the old Hard Shell Baptist 
Church, but afterward became identified with the 
Christian Church. Our subject's maternal grand 
parents were of English extraction. 

In 1853 William T. Steele was united in mar 
riage to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Elder John 
Dooley, M. D., who camo from Springfield, Mo., 
in 1839, was one of the prominent men of Platte 
County, and was an active worker in the Christian 
Church. Of this union were born four children: 
John, Sarah, wife of John Hyde; Clara and Oliver. 
Some time after the death of his first wife, Mr. 
Steele married Julia Dooley, her sister, and to 
them have been born three children: Silas, Jessie 
and Thomas, Jr. They have all been well quali- 



fied for the business of life with good practical edu- 
cations, aud the sons are numbered among the 
enterprising young men of this community. 

For about forty -three years Mr. Steele has been 
identified with the Christian Church, and is an 
active member. As all should be, he is well posted 
in the Scriptures and caQ quote authority for his 
belief on the leading important questions concern- 
ing his faith. Politically Mr. Steele favors the 
Democratic party and casts his ballot in favor of 
its nominees. He has been a successful business 
man aud has a competence for old age which he 
has made by honest toil, industry aud persever- 
ance. 



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CHARLES CZECH. Prominent among the 
industries of Buchanan Couuty are its inill- 
' iug enterprises and the men who have 
worked in that line have contributed effect- 
ively to the advancement of their communities. 
Mr. Czech, who is the proprietor of the Standard 
Roller Mills, is successfully conducting a flourish- 
ing business in Marion Township and has estab- 
lished a reputation for progressive methods and 
reliable dealings. 

Fred Czech, the father of our subject, lived and 
died in West Prussia, Germany, where also the 
mother, Mrs. Agnes (Artiszewski) Czech, departed 
this life. They reared a family of seven children, 
three of whom are deceased and of whom our sub- 
ject is the only member making his home in Amer- 
ica. The latter was born March 18, 1844, in 
West Prussia, Germany, where he received an ex- 
cellent education, being a graduate from the high 
school. He learued the trade of miller from his 
father and remained under the parental roof until 
reaching his majority. 

In 1869 young Czech determined to try his fort 
unes in the land across the sea and stepping on 
American shores a few months later made his way 
directly to Chicago, where he remained only a 
short time. Thence he went to Colorado, later to 
Kansas and in 1872 we find him in St. Joseph, 
this state. Engaging to work for Hauch Broth- 
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I s 7 T . when he Launched out in business for him 
-ill. buying his present mill property, which was 

then known as tin- Campbell Mills. This In' 
greatly improved, fitted out with modern machin 
erj and by the intelligent manner in which he con 
duots his affaire lias become one of the foremost 
millers in the state. In Inns he again remodeled 
his building, putting in a roller process, and two 
years later tilted the establishment out with steam, 
thus Laving liotL steam and water power Mr. 
Czech gives constant employment to fifteen men 
and turns out one hundred barrels of flour per 
day. His finest brand of flour is the "Lilly," 
though lie also manufactures the "Rising Sun" 
i which has a large sale), besides all kinds of pure 
rye flour, graham, corn meal, etc. He Las no dif- 
flculty in finding a market for Lis superior grades 
of bread stuffs, tLe city of St. Joseph being 
able to dispose of nearly all he can manufacture. 
In addition to carrying on Lis milling plant. Mr. 
Czech owns four hundred acres, nearly all of 
which is under the best methods of cultivation. 
Besides the tine varieties of grain raised on his 
place, he gives considerable attention to the breed 
ing of Poland-China hogs and Short Horn cattle, 
having on his estate some of the finest of these 
animals to be found in the comity. He is also in- 
terested in breeding tine draft and trotting horses, 
Laving in his stables the offspring of "Looker 
Lad," "Colonel West," 'Forward" and" Arabes- 
que. " whose record as trotters it is hard to beat. 

The lady whom Mr. Czech married, in 1875, was 
Bliss Sarah Fieschter, She was born in Andrew 
County, this state, and died in 1SS4, leaving three 
children — John, Agnes and Flora. In 1891 Mr. 
Czech was again married, the lady of Lis choice 
being Miss Lucy, daughter of Judge Jacob Lover, 
of this county, who took up his abode in Marion 
Township as early as ISIiT. Mrs. Czech was born 
in this county in 1850. 

Judge Jacob Boyer, the father of Mrs. Czech, 
is the son of Peter Boyer, a native of Pennsyl- 
vania, where also Lis mother, Mrs. Elizabeth (Link 
ley) Boyer, had her birth. The couple came to 

Ohio in ISI7 and made their Lome in Stark County 
until 1837, the date of their advent into Buchanan 
County. They made location on a wild tract of 



land, which the] developed and cultivated, and 
where they resided until their decease Mr. and 
Mrs. Lover reared a family of nine children, seven 
of whom are still living. Judge Jacob was born 
Christmas Day, ISL!, in Pennsylvania He re- 
ceived .i goo, I common school education in the 
Buckeye State and accompanied his parents on 
their removal to this county. \V hen starting out 
in life for himself he entered a claim from the 
Government, and was married, in 1811, to Miss 
Hannah Messier, the daughter of Sebastian and 
Calista (Kurtz) Kessler. natives of Wiirlemberg. 
Germany. 

Mrs. Boyer was born May '_'•>, 1822, in Wurteiu- 
berg, Germany, and after tier marriage located 
with her husband upon their farm in this count \, 
where they have six hundred and forty acres of 
excel lenl land. Mr. Lover is engaged exclusively 
in mixed farming and is now one of the well to do 
agriculturists of the county. In 1870 he erected 
a comfortable residence on Lis estate at a cost of 
$2,0(10. 

Of tLe nine children bom to Mr. and Mr- 
Jacob Boyer six are living, namely: William H . 
Liny Ann (wife of our subject), Isaac, James P., 
Elizabeth and Peter. Mr. Boyer is a member of 
tLe Lutheran Church, while his good wife is iden 
titied with the Catholics. In politics lie is a pronii 
nent Republican, and in 1866 was elected County 
Judge, serving six years. He served as a member 
of the School Board for man] ] ears, and at the 
present time litis the honor of being the oldest 
living settler in this township, being in his eight 
ieth year. 

Socially Mr. Czech, our subject, is a member of 
the Independent Order of Odd Fellow- in St. Jo 
seph. in which society he Las tilled all the Chairs. 
He is also connected with the Fncuinpment, in 
which body he has been High Priest. He takes a 
moderate interest in politics, always, however, 
casting his vote for the man who he thinks will 
best fill the office. 

Prior to coining to America Mr. Czech entered 
the German Army, becoming a member of the First 
I'.i-t Prussian Regiment, of which he was made 
Sergeant. In 1863 he was in active service along 
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He was later ordered back to take part against 
Denmark, but the regiment was excused on ac- 
count of distemper, which was prevalent among 
their horses. In 1866 he served in the Prussian 
Army against Austria, during wbich time he en- 
gaged in the following battles: Trautnau, Koenig 
gratz and Tobishau. After a service of three 
years and six months he received his honorable 
discharge and soon after came to America. At 
the present time he is a member of the German 
Landwehr Vereiu at St. Joseph. Mr. Czech is 
considered a man of enterprise and ability, and has 
acquired a handsome competence as the result of 
years of industry. He is widely and favorably 
known in the community where he has spent so 
many years of his life and with whose interests 
he has been so closely associated. 



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|VI i ELSON MONROE McCORKLE owns and 
I YJ occupies a well -developed farm, located on 
l] Section 10, Marion Township, which con- 
J/ sists of one hundred and twenty acres, and 

is tillable throughout its entire extent. Since it 
came into his possession he has by well-directed 
efforts brought it to a good condition, it being 
supplied with neat fences, good stock of various 
kinds, and all the needful machinery used in its 
cultivation. 

The father of our subject, Alexander McCorkle, 
was born in Kentucky October 3, 1793, and par- 
ticipated in the Mormon War. His wife, who, 
prior to her marriage, was Miss Elizabeth Fristo, 
was also a native of the Blue Grass State, the date 
of her birth being July 29, 1798. The young 
people were married in that state, and in ISIS 
made their way to Missouri, locating for a short 
time in Cooper County. Thence they removed to 
Clay County and in 1833 were numbered among 
the earliest settlers of Buchanan County. Their 
neighbors were few and far between and the 
family were often troubled by the Indians who 
came to their cabin begging. Deer, turkeys and 
fish were very plentiful near their home, and thus 
the larder was always supplied with fresh game in 
its season. 



Alexander McCorkle was very poor when locat- 
ing here, and in that early day disposed of his 
pork at $1.50 per hundred pounds. His wheat, 
when marketed, brought him forty cents per 
bushel, oats ten cents, corn ten cents, and potatoes 
sold for the same amount. It will thus be seen 
that in addition to clearing his place and battling 
with the many hardships which came to the pio 
neers. it was very difficult to get along, to say 
nothing of laying by a sum sufficient to clear his 
place. He was very industrious and economical, 
however, and at the time of his decease, eighteen 
years later, possessed one of the best estates in 
his township. His wife died in September, 1855. 

Of the parental family of twelve children, the 
following are living: Barbara Ann, Mrs. Hart- 
man, Urial J., A. Marion, Catherine E., Mrs. 
Wiles, our subject, Cynthia, Mrs. Mclniuch aud 
John L. The elder Mr. and Mrs. McCorkle were 
consistent members of the Baptist Church and 
were greatly beloved by all who knew them. 

On the death of Alexander McCorkle, his son, 
Urial, closed up the estate and found among his 
tax receipts $3.65 to be the highest ever paid. 
The home place included four hundred and sixteen 
acres, all of which was excellently cultivated with 
the exception of eighty acres. The father was 
very prominent and influential among his fellow 
agriculturists ami was ever ready to do his share 
in building up his community. 

Nelson M. McCorkle was born April 18, 1835, 
on his father's estate in the southeastern portion 
of this county, had but little opportunity for ob- 
taining an education as the schools of the neigh 
borhood bore little resemblance to the model 
temples of learning at the present time, and then 
the teacher often knew but little more than the 
pupil. Mr. McCorkle was given a thorough 
training in farm work and when a lad of seven 
teen, in company with his brother Urial, crossed 
the plains to the Golden State, the trip consuming 
four months and twenty four days. There the 
brothers worked in the mines at Mud Springs for 
eleven months, and when ready to return homo 
came back by the Nicaragua route. In 1855 
Mr. McCorkle drove six yoke of cattle to Salt 
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mail From that city to Independence, and while 
en ronte witnessed tin- battle of Asli Hollow mi 
the North Platte. 

January 1, 1857, Mr. McCorkle ami Miss Re- 
becca, danghteroi Washington Toland, were united 
in marriage. Her parents, who arc now deceased, 
were among the earliest settlers "f Clifton County. 
this state, where they were well-to-do farmers 
Mrs McCorkle was limn in Montgomery County, 
K\.. November 11. 1836. After his marriage Mr. 
McCorkle located on land near the old homestead, 
where he remained for two years and then removed 
to St. Joseph. Daring five years of the twelve he 
made his home in that city he was engaged in 
freighting from St. Joseph to Denver, Colo., and 
Nebraska City. Returning again to rural life, 
Mr. McCorkle farmed for three years on property 
just smith of the city of St. Joseph, and in 1873 
located on his present beautiful estate. As before 
stated, it comprises one hundred and twenty acres, 
from which he reaps bountiful harvests. In 1887 he 
erected a commodious residence at a cost of S'_',,"ii n ). 

Mr. and Mrs. McCorkle have never been blessed 
with children of their own, but have taken into 
their hearts and home seven little ones, viz.: Liz- 
zie McClure (now deceased), Andy Erringston, 
Allie, Dora, Hugh and Julia Lucket (the last four 
brother and sisters), and Pearl Morgan. Mr. 
Met lorkle has been 1 )e.icmi i,f the Christian Church 
for twenty years, of which organization his good 
wife is also a devoted member. He has been very 
much interested in Sunday school work and for 
the past two years has served as Superintendent. 
In politics he is a stanch Democrat, and has been 
sent to the numerous conventions of that party. 
As a member of the School Board be has rendered 
efficient service for seven years as a Trustee. 

Peter Toland, a brother of Mrs McCorkle, was 
a soldier in the Confederate Army during the late 
war He was a color bearer, and while on duty at 
tin- battle of Helena, Ark., was killed. 

LBKN SHELDEN, Chief Clerk in the Gen 
oral Freight Department of the Burlington 
Route in Missouri, with headquarters at St. 
Joseph, was born in Nebraska City, Neb., 




December 15, 1867. His ancestors were of Eng 
lish origin and representatives of the family emi 
grated to America as eaih as 1700, locating in 
New York and becoming pioneers of that state 
The paternal grandfather of our subject. John W 
Shelden, was born near Albany, N. Y., and fol 
lowed farming pursuits at Deposit, that state 
About IsTb he came west andjocated at Nebraska 

City, where he died at the age of seventy six 
years. He was a man whose honesty and upright 
ness were never <ptest,ioncd, and was prominentia 
i nected with the Methodist Episcopal Church. 

The father of our subject, Edward Shelden, was 
born in Deposit, N. Y., and removed to Nebraska 
when a young man of twenty in 1859. For a time 
he engaged in freighting between St. Joseph, Ne- 
braska City and Denver, and later became agent 
for a steamboat line with headquarters at Ne 
braska City. Subsequently, and until about 1879, 
he was a^'ent for the Kansas City, St Joseph & 
Council Bluffs Railroad, and after resigning from 
that position became agent for the Commercial 
Expre-s Fast Freight Line at Burlington, la., 
then at St. Louis. At present he is a resident of 
Nebraska City, Neb., where he i- engaged in the 
grain and live stock commission business under 
the firm name of Shelden & Froelich. Politically 
he is a Democrat and is prominent in the councils 
of his party, he recently having been appointed 
by Secretary of Agriculture, .1. Sterling Morton, 
as Inspector of the Bureau of Animal Industry of 
the United States. He is identified with the Pres 
byterian Church at Nebraska City, Neb. His wife 
was Virginia, daughter of Frank W. Nash, a 
native of Lynchburg, Va. , and for man} \ ears a 
tobacco met chant in Hannibal. Mo. The mother 
of our subject was born in Hannibal, Mo., ami re- 
moved Hie with her parents to St. Louis, Mo . 

where she was married. 

The eldest of four children, our BUbject spent 
his childhood days in Nebraska City. Neb. In 

1SSI he entered the Polytechnic Scl 1 at Si. 

Bonis, where he carried on his studies for three 

years. In order to devote special attention to the 
study of book keeping, he entered Bryant ,v Strat 
ton's Business College at St. Bonis, from which 
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employ of the S. G. Bnrnham and Company, 
Printers and Stationers, at St. Louis. Proceeding 
thence to Chicago, he entered the employ of the 
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway Company 
as an office boy in the General Freight Office. 
From that humble position he soon worked his 
way up to the position of Assistant Rate Clerk, 
which he tilled until November, 1886. He then 
came to St. Joseph, where he accepted a position 
as Rate Clerk in the general freight department of 
the Hannibal & St. Joseph afld the Kansas City, St. 
Joseph & Council Bluffs Railroads at St. Joseph and 
a year and a half later was appointed Chief Clerk. 
Upon the consolidation of these roads with the St. 
Louis, Keokuk & Northwestern Railroad and 
the Chicago, Burlington & Kansas City Railway, 
forming the Burlington Route, Missouri lines, he 
was made Chief Clerk in the Assistant General 
Freight Office at St. Joseph, which position he 
filled until April 1, 1893, when he was promoted 
to Chief Clerk of the General Freight Department 
and removed to St. Louis. His talents especially 
adapt him for this responsible position and his 
services are invaluable in the company which he 
serves with such fidelity. 

A Democrat, first, last and all the time, Mr. 
Shelden nevertheless is not a partisan in his opin- 
ions, but is always in sympathy with any measure 
calculated to promote the progress of the city. 
Socially he is connected with the Knights of 
Pythias, Juanita Lodge, No. 171, of Missouri. He 
is a stockholder in the Royal Loan Association 
and the Empire Building and Loan Association of 
St. Joseph. He is a member of the Episcopal 
Church and always aids, so far as possible, all the 
enterprises of that denomination. 






CHARLES W. CHASTAIN, M. D., a leading 
and popular physician and skillful surgeon 
' of Plattsburg, Clinton County, Mo., is a 
gentleman of fine attainments and liberal 
education. Locating in his present home in 1890, 
he formed a business partnership, and became the 
professional associate of Dr. J. O. K. Gant, widely 
known in Plattsburg and the surrounding country, 



his many years of extended practice having earned 
him more than a local reputation throughout Clin- 
ton County. The partnership thus formed con- 
tains every element of successful continuance and 
a largo clientage of patients and the general pub 
lie of Plattsburg are to be congratulated for hav 
ing at their ready command the services of two 
physicians of undoubted knowledge, practical 
skill and superior ability. Dr. Chastain is a na- 
tive Missourian, and was born in Benton County, 
May 6, 1857. 

At twelve years of age Dr. Chastain removed 
with his family to Marshall, Mo., and in the ex- 
cellent schools of that flourishing city received a 
thorough education in both the preparatory and 
higher branches of study. Soon after attaining 
his majority, having decided to adopt the medical 
profession, he began a course of study under his 
brother, Dr. M. T. Chastain, and became a mem- 
ber of the class of 1880, in the Medical Depart 
ment of the State University at Columbia, Mo., 
and graduated from the College of Physicians and 
Surgeons or theMedical Department of the Colum- 
bia College at New York, 1881. Dr. Chastain en- 
tered upon his professional career at Marshall, but 
inducements being offered in Kansas City, he re- 
moved to the latter city, and there prosperously 
engaged in the duties of a large practice, until 
June, 1800, when he located in Plattsburg and 
became a member of the medical firm of Gant & 
Chastain, general practitioners. 

Dr. Charles Chastain was married to Miss Ida 
Pickett, a daughter of William J. Pickett (de 
ceased), one of the early residents of Clinton 
County, and a citizen of genuine worth and ability. 
Mrs. Chastain is a native of Clinton Comity, and 
was married upon the old homestead farm eight 
miles south of Plattsburg, October 11, 1S87. The 
union of Dr. Chastain and his estimable wife has 
been blessed with the birth of a bright little 
daughter, the sunshine of the pleasant home. 
Mary B. was born July 11, 1888. Our subject is 
Democratic in principle but takes no active part 
in politics. His ancestors were sturdy Whigs, 
strong in their convictions and upright in charac- 
ter. His father, William W. Chastain, was a na- 
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with tin- growth and progress of the Btate. He 
was a public spirited citizen and was deeply 
mourned when he passed away in 1869. 

The mother <>f Pr. Cbastain was Miss Mary E. 

Tondy, daughter of Mills Toady, of Christian 
County, Ky.; she survived her busband a full 
score of years and died, beloved by all who knew 
her, about three years since. Dr. Chastain is a 
member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons 
and was formerly very active in the society. Our 
subject is also connected with the Knights of 
Pythias and fraternally has many warm friends. 
Dr. and Mrs. Chastain are members of the Chris 
tian Church, and ever ready to aid in the extension 
of the good works of that religious organization. 
Although our subject has passed hut a com para 
lively brief time in Plattsburg, Missouri being 
his and his father's natal state, he is widely known 
within its boundaries and highly esteemed as an 
energetic, able and progressive citizen. 






L If ELS P. NELSON, deceased, was a very sue 
VJj cessful farmer of Township 57, Range 35, 
1} Buchanan County, and owned at the time 
f of his death fifteen hundred acres of land 

which was nearly all improved. This property he 
accumulated through honest, industrious toil and 
good business methods. He was particularly de- 
voted to the cultivation of fruits, his apple orchard 
yielding from three to five thousand bushels annu- 
ally, and besidest his he raised quantities of pears, 
cherries, peaches, apricots, quinces, chestnuts and 
small fruits generally. He was honored and re 
spected, being a liberal supporter of churches and 
schools and a true friend of the poor. 

Mr. Nelson was born February '21, 1828, in 
Norway, and was a sou of Peter Nelson, deceased 
In IS 17 our subject emigrated to America and 
soon after arrived in St. Joseph. Coming to Cen 
ter Township he located on a wild farm. On May 

7, 1858, he wedded Miss Knger Tomenia, daughter 

of Lars and Christiana (Kittleson) Hoverson, who 
were both natives of Norway. The father was a 
lumberman by occupation and was a soldier in the 
Norwegian Army. In 1847 he removed to the 



I iiiled Stales ami improved a farm in Center 
Township. His death occurred in 1867, and that 
of his wife in 1878. The] were the parents of 
seven children, three of whom are now living: 
Hover, John (who lives in Kansas), and Mrs. NVI 
son. The last was born August 30, ls:'»S. in Nor- 
way, near Lillesund, receiving a fair education in 
both the English and Norwegian languages. 

After our subject's marriage with his youngwife 
he went to a farm in Platte County, where been 
gaged in raising many varieties of fruit for thirl\ 
years with signal success. In 1849 he took the 
trip across the plains to California, being live 
months on the way and going with ox teams. On 
his arrival at Shasta City he proceeded to engage 
in mining. In company with six others he then 
began rafting on the river, starting from Salt 
Creek, twenty miles above Redding, and was one 
of the first white men to go through to Sacramento 
in a boat. After being fairly successful he re 
turned to Missouri in 1853, resuming his farm 
work. He was devoted to the cause of education 
and was a school director for many years. He 
was a member of the Lutheran Church and es 
teemed by all for his honorable, upright and 
straight course in life In politics he was a Deni 
ocrat. 

Mr. Nelson's death occurred on November 5, 
INNS, in St. Joseph. Since that t ime Mrs. Nelson 
has carried on the farm with marked ability, having 
proved that she is a woman of superior business 
talent. In 1 NS'. I she erected a home which is one 
of the finest residences in the township. She 
bought all the material and hired her own carpen 
ters and workmen, supervising the whole. This 
house, which contains lei^ rooms, all nicelv far 
nished throughout, cost $3, Til lit. The same year 
she had erected on her farm a substantial modern 
barn at a ci >st of $600. 

Nine children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Nel 
son: Katie S .wife of HarryCox,of Platte County; 
Cora Alice; Paulina A., who became the wife of 
Frank Robertson, of Wilbur. Neb.; Leonora J.; 
Clara May, George A., Laura ('., Nina Pearl ami 
Leroy Price. They were well educated and three 
of them are graduates of Dr. Martin's Young Pa 
dies' Institute of si. Joseph. George was a stu 



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dent in the St. Joseph High School and later of the 
State University of Missouri. Two of them are 
teachers and the family are proficient in music. 

If I AMILTON R. TORREY, whose pleasant 
irH residence is situated at No. 1319 Penn 
ll street, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, is 
t/ Foreman of the locomotive and car depart- 

ment of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railway of 
this city. Few men in the West are more active 
in Masonic circles or more thoroughly imbued 
with the spirit of its teachings than he. He was 
made a member in 1866 at Aurora, 111., where he 
was connected with Jerusalem Temple Lodge, No. 
90, and Aurora Chapter, No. 22. He belongs to 
St. Joseph Oommandery, No. 4, and to St. Joseph 
Chapter of the Order Eastern Star, No. 198. Mr. 
Torrey has been an active member of the Command 
ery, filling all the important positions except 
Eminent Commander. He is a demitted member 
of the Aurora Council of Royal and Select Masters, 
No. 45. He is a Scottish Rite Mason of Dayton, 
Ohio, including the eighteenth degree, and of the 
Ohio Consistory, Valley of Cincinnati, up to the 
thirty -third degree. 

Mr. Torrey was born in Springfield, Otsego 
County, N. Y., October 4, 1829. The Torrey 
family is one of the earliest founded in America, 
and their ancestors are traced to the days of the 
Norman conquest, there being many representa- 
tives of the family in England and Scotland. In 
the seventeenth century four brothers came to the 
United States and among their descendants have 
been a number of well known men, prominent in 
public and legislative councils. Henry Torrey, 
our subject's father, was a machinist, and carried 
on a largo business in central New York. 

When only eight years old Hamilton R. Torrey 
began working in the shops at Morrisville, Madi- 
son Count)', N. Y.. running drilling machinery. 
He worked with his father until seventeen years 
old, when the latter was called from this life. 
Soon afterward our subject commenced his career 
as a railroad man at Corning, N. Y., for the Cor- 
ning & Blossburg Railway Company, with which 
he remained until 1848 as a machinist. In the 



same capacity he served for one year at Susque- 
hanna on the Erie Road. In 1852 he went to 
Canandaigua, N. Y. , where he was stationed for 
five years, first as a machinist and later as a loco- 
motive engineer. In 1857 he spent a few months 
in the west, but in the fall of 1858 returned and 
entered the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy service. 

In May, 1864, Mr. Torrey was given charge of 
the roundhouse at Aurora, which he superintended 
for ten years. We next find him an employe of 
the United States Rolling Stock Company of 
Chicago. For two years he was traveling inspector 
of locomotives and cars which were leased to 
various roads. In 1876 the company started their 
own shops in Chicago and he was given charge of 
the machinery department for the following four 
years. The same company then sent him to 
Urbana, Ohio, where he was given charge of their 
shops there for four years. In 1884 he came to 
St. Joseph as a machinist of the Kansas City, St. 
Joseph & Council Bluffs Railway, with whom he 
remained until September, 1891, when he took 
charge of the Hannibal & St. Joseph's railway 
interests in this city. He has about twenty-live or 
thirty men under his direction. 

On account of his father's death, Mr. Torrey 
assisted his mother and brothers, giving the two 
latter a good education. At Elgin, Illinois, in 
1854 our subject wedded Miss Eliza A. Headlock, 
who was also a native of the Empire State. She 
died May 1 1, 1873,at Aurora.after seven years of ill- 
ness, leaving a son and daughter, namely: Charles, 
who is an engineer on the Kansas City, St. Joseph 
& Council Bluffs R. R. , and Irene, the wife of 
H. F. Turner of Brookfield, Mo. At Cold water, 
Mich., on the 21st of December, 1S75, was cele- 
brated the marriage of Mr. Torrey and Miss Martha 
E. Hard, by whom he has two daughters: Zelia 
and Ethel Max, who are attending school. Mrs. 
Torrey is an active and official member in the Order 
of the Eastern Star. 

Personally Mr. Torrey lives a quiet, unobtrusive 
and upright life, and never loses sight of the 
beautiful and grand teachings of the Masonic 
Society, the noblest of fraternities. Unconsciously 
he lias influenced for the better all with whom 
he has come in contact. 



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EJDWARD M. DAVIDSON. No man in Bu- 
chanan County better deserves a represen- 
£ tation in the history of lier noted pioneers 
and those who laid the Foundation upon which is 
built her present greatness, than our subject, who 

came here in 1889 with his wife, mother anil two 
Bisters. They located on a (arm twelve miles south 
of St. Joseph and two miles south of Sparta, this 

being before the county was organized. In i*.">2 
he Imilt a flouring-mill, which he ran for seven- 
teen years. This was furnished with two sets of 
burrs ami was the first steam mill, as it was, in 
fact, the first of any kind in that portion of the 
county. From those earlv days until the present 
time, when he is now living a retired life at his 
beautiful home located at No. 1605 Faraon Street, 
St. Joseph, enjoying the rest he has so well mer- 
ited, he has been prominently connected with the 

eon nty's good. 

The subject of this sketch was horn in Cald- 
well County. Ivy.. February 8. 1811, was there 
reared to manhood, and married at the age of 
twenty-three years. In 1835 he removed to Put- 
nam County. 111., where by industry and economy 
he soon acquired a large farm. However, he did 
not remain in that State for very long, but four 
years after his arrival there removed to this county. 
lie cleared and greatly improved a farm of four 
hundred acres, and at one time owned double 
that amount of land. On his arrival in this State 
he had, as a result of previous years of toil, about 
12,000, which he wisely invested in stock and 
land, making a specialty of growing hemp and 
corn. 

During the gold excitement. Mr. Davidson fitted 
out two men who were to go to California and 
share their profits with him. Both, however, died 
in that State, and from this venture Mr. David- 
Son realized only a trifle. From the time he 

started his mill he had a good trade, the farmers 
from a large area bringing to him the products of 
their land, and the flour which was manufactured 
by him came to lie in great demand. In 1870 he 
sold his mill and farm, buying land just east of 
this city, on which he made his home until June, 
1892, when he erected his present home. lie has 
platted the land adjoining tin' city, bill has never 

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added it to the same, though he ha- owned prop- 
erty in St. Joseph since 1850. Mr. Davidson was 

an old-line Whig and later a Democrat lie began 
as a slave-holder and suffered great loss on thai 
account. The first township school of the county 
was organized by him, and he was lhe first Town- 
ship ( ' niissioncr. 

In Kentucky our subject was married to Miss 
Melinda C. Harnett, who died in .Inly, 1875. Mr. 
Davidson's mother continued to live with him 
until her death in 1ST.'!, when she was ninety- 
three years of age. February l. 1*7*. Mr. David- 
son wedded Mrs. Elizabeth (Percgor) Comegys, 
widow of George \V. Comegys. who had come 
lo SI. Joseph in 1858, and resided in Andrew 
County six miles northeast of this city until his 
death, January .'(, 1875. Mrs. Davidson was horn 
in Berkeley County. \'a., where her first marriage 
u:i- celebrated. Our subject's family comprises 
the following children: John W., of Atchison, 
Kan.; Mary II., Mrs. Wesley Walker, of this city; 
Maria C, who resides at home; Martha A., wife 
of James Bigham, a farmer of this county; Ed- 
ward S., who died at the age of twenty-six; Me- 
linda C, Mrs. L. D. Kirkham, of Ellis County, 
Kan.; Isabella J., who died at the age of forty-five 
and was the wife of W. 1). Maxwell, of St. Joseph; 
Eliza C, wife of W. D. Smith, Assistant Chief of 
the Fire Department in this city; and Charles |;.. 
a real-estate dealer in Denver. 

By her former marriage Mrs. Davidson has 
two sons: William 1'., who is a resident of Wy- 
oming and a physician; and George F., who is 
engaged in milling at Ottumwa, Iowa, and is 
agent for the K. T. Davis Brand of Hour in that 
place. The father of these children, George W. 

Comegys, was a native of Berkeley County, Va., 
and came lo .Missouri the year of his marriage. 
lie was a farmer exclusively, and his widow still 
owns the property formerly belonging to him six 
miles northeast of St. Joseph. 

Mrs. Davidson is an active member of the South 
Methodist Church, while her husband has been for 
many years a member and Elder in the Cumber- 
land Pre8byterian Church, having assisted in build- 
ins: 'be first iii f that denomination in the 

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byterian Church, at the corner of Sixteenth and 
Edmonds Streets, which he assisted in building 
after their former structure had been burned. 
The church was disbanded for a time, but is now 
strong and active. Mr. Davidson has always hern 
a Democrat, but is quite independent in his po- 
litical views. He is proud of his thirty-two grand- 
children and two great-grandchildren. His life 
is the record of one who has spent his years wisely 
and well, and he need be troubled with few re- 
grets in looking over the history of the past, for 
he has always been a man of upright character 
and conscientious purpose, holding the rights of 
his fellow-men as of paramount importance, and 
he has not merely sought to benefit himself in his 
onward journey. 






&ENRY E. GIBSON, one of the oldest resi- 
| dents of St. Joseph, was born September 30, 
18 12, where Para ell, a suburb of St. Joseph, 
now stands. He is a successful business 
man and is engaged in contracting for sewer work, 
grading, macadamizing and stone work. 

William Gibson, his paternal grandfather, was a 
native of the Emerald Isle, and when three years 
old emigrated with his parents to Virginia, where 
he engaged in farming. William D., Jr., our sub- 
ject's father, was a native of Lee County, Ya., and 
was reared as a farmer. He was an extensive 
dealer in live-stock also. During the War of 1812 
he enlisted as a private soldier, although only 
seventeen years of age. We find him among the 
early settlers of Kentucky, where he resumed his 
former occupation of buying and selling stock, 
often driving cattle and hogs over the mountains 
to Charleston, S. C. 

In 1840 Mr. Gibson, Si-., came to Missouri, en- 
tering a claim in Grundy County, where he lived 
for about one year. In 1841 he purchased a claim 
of one hundred and sixty acres in Buchanan 
County, the present site of ParneU, This tract 



was heavily timbered, and he proceeded with 
characteristic energy to the work of clearing and 
developing the place. He constructed a log house, 
which he afterward weatherboarded. This build- 
ing still stands. In 1846 he took a Government 
train to Santa Fe, N. M. With his sou, Thomas 
J., he volunteered in the Mexican War, becoming 
a member of the company commanded by Capt. 
Neal. He was in the service for one year, when 
the war ended, and he returned to his farm. At 
the time of his death, in 1864, he was an extensive 
land-owner. When in Kentucky he served as a 
constable, and in politics was a Democrat. He was 
a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church South. 

The mother of our subject, Margaret, daughter 
of Thomas Johnson, was born in Manchester, Ky., 
where her father carried on an hotel. Mrs. Gib- 
son's death occurred in 1886. Of her nine chil- 
dren, only four lived to maturity, namely: Thomas 
J., a capitalist, whose home is in Washington 
Township; Susan, Mrs. Z. D. Washburn, of St. 
Joseph; Elizabeth, wife of A. D. Read; and our 
subject. 

The youth of Henry E. Gibson was passed 
quietly and uneventfully on a farm. He attended 
private school in St. Joseph, as this was before the 
days of our modern public schools. In 1861 he 
volunteered in the State service, but afterward 
joined the Confederate arm}'. Mr. Gibson was 
sent South to Gen. Price with despatches, and af- 
terward took part in the battle of Lexington. He 
was aiso in the battles of Pea Ridge and Benlon- 
ville, Ark. He served until his term of enlistment 
expired, when he returned home and entered the 
recruiting service. He was captured four miles 
south of St. Joseph, and kept under guard in this 
place for three weeks, when his father succeeded in 
obtaining his parole under bond. He was harassed 
a good deal, arrested six times, and was attacked 
by men in ambush once. After his father's death 
he conducted a farm for some time. 

In 1873 Mr, Gibson engaged in merchandising 
in St. Joseph, at the corner of Ninth and Olive 
Streets. The firm was first Terry & Gibson, and 
later Gibson & Kenneard. Mr. Gibson was also 
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was the largest of the kind then in this city. Af- 
ter seven years in tin- grocery business, Mr. Oih- 
son sulci nut and engaged in contracting. He later 
became an equal partner with his- cousin, William 
E. (Wlison. This linn put in the Blacksnake sewer 
and a part of Mitchell Avenue sewer. The\ se- 
cured the contracts tor all the concrete work for 

the Custom House, and control a large business, 
at times employing from eighty to one hundred 
men. Mr. Gibson owns twenty-seven acres of the 
old farm, adjoining the city on South TwcnU- 
second Street. l'arnell Place, which was laid out 
in lXilo, W as a part of this homestead. 

On Christmas Day. 1867, Miss Mary ('less be- 
came the wife of our subject. She was born in 
Cumberland County. Md.. and is a daughter of 
John and Catherine (Rice) Cress, the former from 
Virginia and the latter a native of Maryland. Mrs. 
Gibson came to St. Joseph in 1865, with her mo- 
ther, who died here. Three children have been 
born to our subject and wife. Annie E., a grad- 
uate of the High School, died at the age of twen- 
ty-one years; Edward is in business with his father; 
and Jessie completes the number. Mr. Gibson 
was Assistant Chief of the Fire Department for 
three years and afterward tilled the position of 
Chief for one year. In politics, he is a Democrat, 
and has served as a delegate to county conven- 
tions. 



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I'KD B. WRIGHT. Among the successful 
business men and those who have been 
prominently identified with the welfare of St. 

Joseph is our subject, who has been City 

Clerk since 1885. lie took an active share in the 
Organization Of the free Public Library, and in 
company with Ed I.. Douglas succeeded in getting 

the proper petition to present to the C cil, with 

the object of having the latter pass an order sub- 
mitting the question to the people. This was 
done and carried by a seven-eighths vote to set 
aside a certain sum for the purpose. As a city 
official he could not be on a committee, but largeh 



as a result of his enterprise in the matter St. 
Joseph has to-day a line public library. Mi. 
Wright was born in Platte County, Mo., near the 
town of Weston, September 4. I860. His father, 
Allen Wright, was born in Kentucky, and his 
father, in turn, emigrated to thai State from Vir- 
ginia. Allen Wright came to Missouri when a 
young man, becoming the owner of a large farm, 
where he raised anil dealt extensively in cattle, 
for a time he was connected with the Commissary 
Department of the regular army at Ft. Leaven- 
worth, lie was called from this life in 1865. Our 
subject's mother, who bore the maiden name of 
Frances Sheelev, was born near Liberty, Clay 
County, this State. Her father. George, emigrated 
to that county from Virginia, and was an early 
settler and large farmer in this Stab-, where his 
death occurred. Mrs. Wright, who was a member 
of the Baptist Church, died in this city. 

The subject of this sketch is the second in order 
of birth in a family of live children, only two of 
whom are now living. His brother, George T., 
residing in Riverside, Cal.. is manager of the 
Columbus Buggy Company. In 1867, after her 
husband's death, Mrs. Wright removed with her 
family to Cameron, Mo., where our subject re- 
ceived his education in the common scl Is. 

Early in life he set out to make his own way, 
working on a farm and at various things until 
reaching his sixteenth year, when he was appren- 
ticed as a printer under .1. II. Frame, editor of the 
Cameron Vindicator. Remaining with him for 
nine years, he worked up from the lowest position 
to local editor. In the meantime the paper, which 
had started as a weekly Organ, had developed into 
a daily, and during the last four years he was One 
of the associate editors. 

In 1883 Mr. Wright first came to this city as 
local reporter for the si. Joseph Herald, the editor 
of which was Col. Tracy. Mr. Wright was soon 
made city editor, and in the journalistic field was 
very successful. In April, 1885, he relinquished 
his editorial work, being appointed City Clerk by 
Mayor Hartwig. He was the first to occupy the 
position in this city, and it is surely an evidence 
of the fidelity and industry with which he has per- 
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lias been re-elected to tlie place each succeeding 
term, serving under Dr. Doyle, Mr. Englehart and 
Mr. Shepherd. All business connected with the 
city passes through his hands, and he lias brought 
everything under a thorough system, using meth- 
ods which are truly creditable and original. 

In Sioux City, Iowa, a marriage ceremony was 
performed in 1885 which united the hearts and 
hands of Mr. Wright and Miss Lulu M. Floyd, who 
was born in Macon County, Mo. Mrs. Wright is 
an intelligent and cultured lady, dispensing a 
cordial hospitality and warm welcome to the many 
friends she and her respected husband have made 
in this city as well as elsewhere. Politically, he is 
a Democrat and belongs to the Jefferson and Bu- 
chanan County Clubs. 



z*p* LARENCECHADDINGTON KING, Assis- 
ll[ r tant Cashier of the Commercial Bank, See- 
^^^y retary and Manager of the Commercial 
Building Company, and Treasurer of the Provi- 
dent Building and Loan Association, is one of the 
most popular young gentlemen of St. Joseph, 
where he occupies a position of prominence soci- 
ally and in business circles. A man of good judg- 
ment and fine principles, it is not strange that he 
is winning his way to the front in commercial cir- 
cles and gaining an enviable reputation as a finan- 
cier. 

Mr. King was born in Liberty, Mo., February 
14, 1865, and is the younger of two children born 
to William A. and Elma (Pence) King, natives 
respectively of Tennessee and Kentucky. The 
name which our subject bears is one renowned in 
the United States, and immortal in the history of 
Missouri. His grandfather, Gov. Austin A. King, 
served for two terms as Governor of Missouri, 
from 1855 until 1863, at a time when the highest 
ollices were accompanied by the greatest dangers, 
and when thousands were falling martyrs to the 
cause they championed. Politically lie was a 



Whig, and was a stanch supporter of the Union. 
For some time he was a Member of Congress, 
where he was distinguished for the able manner 
in which he represented his constituency. He 
was a native of Tennessee, from which State he 
migrated to Richmond, Hay County, Mo., and 
there acquired the ownership of a large farm and 
coal-mining interests. 

The maternal grandfather of our subject was 
Edward Pence, a native of Kentucky, who became 
an early settler of Missouri, locating near Weston, 
Platte County. LTpon his large farm he engaged 
in general agriculture, although he made a speci- 
alty of hemp-raising. The father of our subject 
was an attorney -at-law and followed that profes- 
sion in Weston, Mo. The mother is now the wife 
of N. P. Ogden, President of the Commercial 
Bank of St. Joseph. 

The boyhood years of our subject were some- 
what uneventfully passed in the ordinary routine 
of school life. He was about sixteen years old 
when he accompanied his parents to St. Joseph, 
where he grew to manhood and has since made 
his home. While completing his high school 
course, he employed his evenings in gaining a 
practical knowledge of printing in a newspaper 
office. In 1881 he entered the employ of John S. 
Britton A- Co., dealers in wholesale dry goods, 
whom he soon afterward represented on the road 
as traveling salesman. 

In 1880, Mr. King became manager of the St. 
Joseph Safe Deposit Company, but resigned the 
position one year later in order to accept the 
place as bookkeeper in the Commercial Bank. 
After one year in that position, he was chosen 
Assistant Cashier of the bank, in which capacity 
he is now serving. He is a stockholder as well as 
one of the bank's most faithful officials. In 1892 
he was elected Treasurer of the Provident Build- 
ing and Loan Association, and on the 1st of Oc- 
tober, 1892, was appointed Secretary and Mana- 
ger of the Commercial Building Company, in 
which organization he is a prominent and large 
stockholder. Although his career as a traveling 
salesman has probably terminated, lie retains his 
connection with the I'nited Commercial Travel- 
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Council No. 2">. As are the other members of the 
King family, he is sincere and constant in his de- 
votion to the platform enunciated by the Demo- 
cratic party. He i> identified with the First Pres- 
byterian Church at St. Joseph, and is always will- 
in"; to respond to all calls for aid to its various 
enterprises. 



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^R. JOHN M. AUSTIN is a member of the 

leading dental firm in St. .Joseph, namely, 
Drs. Austin & Darby, who have been lo- 
cated since 1890 in their present fine suite 
of office rooms, which were especially designed for 
them in the German-American Bank Building. 
These rooms arc situated in the front of the third 
lloor of the building, three of them being used as 
operating-rooms and the others as reception, lab- 
oratory and private offices. Such a fine location 
and equipment are hardly to he found elsewhere in 
tin' West. Dr. Austin is Demonstrator of Opera- 
tive Dentistry at Kansas City Dental College, of 
which he is V ice-President. 

Daniel Austin, our subject's father, was horn in 
Washington County, N. V., in the village of White- 
hall. His father was one of the settlers in 
I '•• hi verneur, St. Lawrence County, locating there 
in 1807, and was a veteran of the War of 1812. 
The family came to New England from western 
England. About the middle of the seventeenth cen- 
tury, three brothers crossed the Atlantic. Dur- 
ing the Revolutionary War one was in sympathy 
with the Tories, and after the Revolutionary War 
settled in Canada, while the other brothers were 
Whigs and loyal Americans. It is from one of the 
latter that our subject's descent is traced. 

Daniel Austin was brought up in St. Lawrence 
County, and on arriving at manhood he located on a 
farm in De Peyster, where he became the owner of 
four hundred acres. He was a Republican until 
the time of his death, in 18M'.). when he was nearly 
eighty-six years of age. His wife, whose maiden 
name Was Amanda llerlhert. was born in I )e l\\- 



ster, N. V. Her father, who was a native of Con- 
necticut, was one of the earliest settlers there. II. 
was a millwright, and put up one of the first saw- 
lii i lis in De Peyster. Mrs. Austin died in the fall 
of 1884, in the faith of the Methodic Episcopal 
Church. Of her twelve children, two are de- 
ceased. One son, Daniel, enlisted in the Sixteenth 
New York Infantry and served for nearly two 
j-ears, being discharged on account of disability; 
Henry, a member of tin; Fourteenth New York 
Heavy Artillery, served from 1868 until the close 
of the war. 

Another patriot in the Austin family was our 
subject, who was one of the first to respond to the 
call for defenders of the Union. lie was born 
July 8, 1843, in DcPeyster, St. Lawrence County, 
N. Y., and on account of his youth was rejected. 
For a year, therefore, he worked at the carpenter's 
trade. In the fall of 1862 he went to Washing- 
ton to join the One Hundred and Forty-second 
New Y"ork, under Col. Curtis, but when he arrived 
the Construction Corps were being organized and 
he joined their ranks. His headquarters were in 
Alexandria, Va., where, with his company, he was 
engaged in keeping the Orange A- Alexandria Rail- 
road and bridges in repair. At this he continued 
until the battle of the Wilderness when, on ac- 
count of sickness, he was sent to the hospital and 
advised by the physician to go North. 

After his recovery, in the fall of 1864, Dr. Aus- 
tin began the study of dentistry in Ogdensburgh, 
N. Y., and at that time cast his first Presidential 
ballot. For the next three years he continued 
studying with his uncle, John Austin. In 1867 
he first located in St. Joseph ami stepped into the 
practice of Dr. Maekey, a pioneer dentist, whose 
office was at the corner of Third and Felix Street-. 
Dr. Austin continued alone until 1877, when he 
became connected with his present partner. Their 
office was for a while on Francis between Third and 
Fourth Streets, where the R. I.. McDonald Building 
now stands. From there they went to the Kcedy 
Building, on Francis Street, and since 1890, as 

previously stated, the firm ha\ icu pied the offices 

they have at present. 

When the Kansas City Dental School was or- 
ganized, Dr. Austin became a stockholder, and in 



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1893 lie accepted the Chair of Demonstrator of 
Operative Dentistry. In 1893 he was made Vice- 
President of the College Association, and in order 
to fill his duties as a lecturer spends one day in 
every week at the college. ( )ur subject is a true- 
hlue Republican, and for two terms has been Al- 
derman from the old Second Ward. He is a mem- 
ber of the Missouri and Kansas State Dental Asso- 
ciations, and is ex-member of the American Dental 
Association. He belongs to Charity Lodge, A. F. 
& A. M., and to St. Joseph Chapter, R. A. M., and 
the Commandery, K. T. He belongs to Moila 
Temple, Mystic Shrine, and is its present Treas- 
urer, and past officer in all the bodies except the 
latter. 

The Doctor's home is pleasantly located on Fred- 
erick Avenue, between Eleventh and Twelfth 
Streets, where he owns about three-quarters of an 
acre. In the spring of 1875 he was married in St. 
Joseph to Miss Anna E. Nash, who was born in 
Louisville, Ky., and acquired her education in 
Chicago. Her father, John M., deceased, was a 
large contractor, and her grandfather was also in 
the same line of business in the Garden City. 
Doctor and Mrs. Austin are the parents of eight 
children, the eldest of whom, Milton, is a clerk in 
the Kansas City, St. Joseph <fc Council Bluffs Rail- 
road Ticket Auditor's office, and the others are as 
follows: Ruby, John, Eddine, Orrine, Florence, 
Deedic and Kate. The family are members of the 
First Presbyterian Church. 



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W";1LLIAM GERNANDT, a very highly-re- 
spected citizen of St. Joseph, Buchanan 
County, was for many years successfully 
engaged in business in this place, but is now liv- 
ing a retired life in the enjoyment of the comfort- 
able fortune he has accumulated. His home has 
been made in this Western city since 1859, and 
during the years that have elapsed he has been a 
witness of and participant in her marvelous growth 
and prosperity. 



Mr. Gernandt was born in Guntersblum, Hesse- 
Darmstadt, Germany, on the 18th of June, 1833. 
His father, Jacob, who was also born in the same 
locality, was a harness-maker and upholsterer. 
His death occurred when our subject was only six 
years old, or in 1839. He was a member of the 
Lutheran Church. His wife, who died in 1834, 
was in her maidenhood Miss Loos. William Ger- 
nandt is the youngest of four sons, who are all 
living. Fred is an upholsterer in Rochester, N. Y.; 
Jacob runs an hotel m Auburn, N. Y., and George 
is a farmer near the town of Jordan, N. Y. 

William Gernandt was brought up on a farm, 
and as he was orphaned at so early an age, he was 
adopted by Adam Loos, who later became his fa- 
ther-in-law. The boyhood of our subject was 
passed in the usual pursuits and studies of the 
average farmer lad and when he was fourteen 
years old he was apprenticed to a barber in the ad- 
joining city of Gempshein. When his three years 
of service were up he continued to work for one 
year more for his employer. In 1852 he went to 
Bremen and thence to Liverpool, England, where 
he embarked on a sailing-vessel for the United 
States and after a voyage of eighteen days landed 
in New York. 

Mr. Gernandt's brother Jacob had crossed the 
Atlantic some three years previous and had set- 
tled in Auburn, N. Y., where he ran a barber shop. 
With him our subject found employment for ten 
months after his arrival, after which he went to 
Binghamton, where he started a shop of his own, 
which he carried on for a year or two and then 
went to Syracuse. There he opened a similar es- 
tablishment and made that city his home for two 
years. We next find him in Indianapolis, Ind., 
where he located until the spring of 1859. At 
that time lie went by way of St. Louis in the 
steamboat "War Eagle" to Leavenworth, Kan., 
but only remained there a few weeks, and in March, 
1859, landed in St. Joseph. He started a shop on 
Market Square, buying out Philip Arnholt, to 
whom he sold it back again at the expiration of a 
few years. 

In the fall of 1861 William Gernandt returned 
to the land of his birth by way of New York and 
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united in marriage on June 11, 1862, with Miss 
Charlotte Loos, who was, like him. a native of 
G-untersblum. Her grandfather, Adam Loos, was 

a farmer, and her father, who bore tin' same Chris- 
tian name, followed the same peaceful calling and 

was a wealthy agriculturist. Her mother. Katrina 
(Rothaniel) Loos, was the daughter of a wealthy 
land-owner, who at one time occupied the import- 
ant position of High Sheriff. Mrs. Loos died in 
1873 and of her four living children, Mrs. Ger- 
nandt is the youngest. 

Mr. Gernandt and his bride returned to Amer- 
ica in 1862, being passengers on the "Great East- 
ern." On his arrival in St. Joseph he bought out 
Mr. Arnholt again and carried on the business un- 
til 1869, when he started a tannery, which fell to 
him on a mortgage. This business was located on 
the coiner of Frederick Avenue and Twenty- 
third Street. He took in a partner, W. R. Knight, 
and continued to run the tannery until 1872, man- 
ufacturing collar and harness leathers, and such as 
are used in various blanches of the trade. Some 
time previous to closing up the tannery he had be- 
come interested in a leather and shoe-findings 
store at No. 212 North Second Street. Here he 
engaged in wholesale and retail leathers, keeping 
three men traveling in Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska 
and Missouri. Our subject bought a brick store 
and built one adjoining, 40xK(l feet. He was act- 
ively engaged in merchandising until 188(1, when 
he sold out to Bragg A- Company, since which 
time he has been retired. 

Mr. Gernandt has been and is interested in var- 
ious business enterprises. He owns stock in a 
jewelry concern at Pomona, C'al. In 188',( he went 
out there and started a young man, Charles 
Chi lies, in business, which has proven a good ven- 
ture from a commercial point of view. With his 
wife, our subject spends several months every 
winter in that delightful semi-tropical land. 
They are the parents of two children: William F., 
a bookkeeper in the German-American Lank; 
and George <>.. who is foreman in the Wyeth 
Hani ware Company. 

A line tract of forty-eight acres adjoining the 
Lake Contrary Club House is owned by Mr. Ger- 
nandt, who also owns a good residence at the 



corner of Seventeenth and .lule Streets, where he 
has resided since 1H7<>. During the war he was 
a member of Company D, Twenty-fifth Missouri 
Infantry, under Capt Mast, In politics he is a 
member of the Republican party, and religiously 
is a member of the German Evangelical Lutheran 
Church. He belongs to the German Turnvercin. 



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LBERT DERGE. Loth in his business 
success anil the position he occupies in the 
community, Mr. Derge is an example of 
what a man can accomplish, providing he 
possesses energy, pluck, good judgment and hon- 
esty of purpose, coupled with a respect for the 
confidence of the people among whom he ma\ live. 
He is one of the largest merchants in De Kalb, the 
business being conducted under the linn name of 
A. Derge & Son. lie possesses excellent judgment 
and good business qualifications, both of which 
are necessary for a successful and prosperous ca- 
reer. 

As his name indicates, Mr. Derge is of German 
birth, his native place being Grueneberg, Province 
of Brandenburg. Prussia, and the date thereof 
November 21, 1833. He was educated in the 
model schools of that country, prosecuting Ids 
studies at Berlin until nineteen years of age. In 
1852 he determined to try his fortunes in the New 
World and, when landing on American shores, 
made his way directly to Watertown, Wis. II. 
only remained in this country a few months, how- 
ever, and, returning to Germany, he lived on his 
father's farm until his return to America. 

In 1855 Mr. Derge again came to Wisconsin, this 
time engaging as clerk in a mercantile establish- 
ment Three years later he journeyed to southern 
Kansas, where he pre-empted a claim in Lyon 
County, but as he was entirely without means to 
carry on his farm he was obliged to hunt work, and 
m .Inly. 1858, came to St. Joseph, where he was 
variously employed until December of that year, 
which was the date of his advent into De Kalb. 



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His first employment in this now nourishing city 
was as clerk in a hotel, and later in a general 
store. 

In 1861, Mr. Derge again journeyed West and at 
Atchison, Kan., launched out in business for him- 
self, which he conducted with fair success until 
1864, when he disposed of his interests and clerked 
for other parties for the three following years. 
Then making his way back to De Kalb he entered 
into partnership with a Mr. F. W. Hagenstein and 
established a general store on the north side of the 
square. This connection existed until 1881, when 
the partnership was dissolved, Mr. Derge conduct- 
ing affairs on 1 i Is own account. Owing to the 
good judgment and keen foresight which he dis- 
played in all his transactions, he did a prosperous 
business, and in 1844 removed into his present 
commodious quarters. He now has associated with 
him his younger son, William G., the firm being 
known as A. Derge it Son. 

In 1887 Mr. Derge branched out in his line of 
trade and established a fine store at Salem, Kan., 
which later was transferred to Lebanon, Smith 
County, that State, and which is known to the 
community as A. Derge & Company, consisting of 
A. Derge, his eldest son, Fred II., and his nephew, 
Ernest T. Derge. To say that he exhibited wise 
foresight in this venture is evidenced by the fact 
that his yearly sales from his Kansas house amount 
to $67,000 per year, while the store at De Kalb 
does an annual business amounting to $25,000. 

In 1860 Mr. Derge was united in marriage to 
Miss Amanda Bretz, who was born in Ohio in 
1842. The parents of Mrs. Derge came to this 
State about 1844, and, locating in De Kalb, here 
passed the remainder of their lives. The family 
of our subject comprises four children, viz: Alice 
M., Fred II., William O. and Bertha L. The par- 
ents are active and devoted members of the Bap- 
tist Church, in which body Mr. Derge is Deacon. 
He lias been liberal in his means in contributing 
to church work and aided very materially in the 
erection of the building at this place. 

Socially, Mr. Derge is a prominent Mason and is 
the present Treasurer of Wellington Lodge No. 22, 
which he has also served in the capacity of Secre- 
tary. He is likewise an Odd Fellow and holds the 



position of Scribe in the Encampment. In politics 
our subject has always taken great interest and 
never fails to cast his vote in favor of Democratic 
candidates. He has served as a member of the 
School Board and from 1871 to 1888, held the po- 
sition of Postmaster of De Kalb. 

In addition to carrying on the important busi- 
ness of dry-goods merchant, Mr. Derge is also a 
prominent stockholder in the Derge it Campbell 
Banking Company, of this place, of which organi- 
zation he is President. The company was incor- 
porated under the State law in 181(0, with a 
capital of $10,000, and now does the largest 
banking business of this section. During the late 
war, Mr. Derge entered the Kansas militia service, 
becoming a member of Col. Quigg's regiment, and 
was made Second Lieutenant under Capt. Higby. 

Mr. Derge, who has been a resident of this 
place for the past thirty-five 3 r ears, has accumulated 
an abundance of this world's goods, and has the 
satisfaction of knowing that he has performed no 
unimportant part in the growth and development 
of this county. He is of a benevolent, generous 
and kind]}' disposition, and those who seek his aid 
or counsel are given sound advice and substantial 
assistance. 



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E. FIELD, capitalist, isa Director of Gow- 
\jj er Bank, in Gower, Clinton County. He 
is a native son of Missouri, having been 
born in Platte County in July, 1859. lie 
is of Scotch-Irish ancestry, and is the third in or- 
der of birth of a family of eight children born to 
George W. and Lucy E. (Duncan) Field. 

The boyhood and youth of Mr. Field were 
passed in his native county, where he acquired his 
education in the common schools. He afterward 
attended and was graduated from the Daughters 
College, which is located in Platte City, in that 
county. In November of 1883 he was united in 
marriage with Miss Anna Carrington, a daughter 
of .lames C. Carrington, of Gower, and of their 




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mi ion have been born four children, three daugh- 
ters and a son: Mary- W., James E., Lucy 1>. and 
Linnie K. 

In 1881 Mr. Field went into partnership with 
.lames M. Bohart They organized a bank at Ed- 
gerton, Platte County, where they conducted a 
general hanking business for three years. In Au- 
gust. 1887, Mr. Field removed to Gower, where he 
became one of the Directors of the Gower Hank, 
which position he still occupies. He is also largely 
interested in general fanning. 

In his political affiliations Mr. Field is a pro- 
nounced Democrat, and does all in his power to 
forward the interest* of his party. Socially, he is 

c eeted with Edgerton Lodge No. 355, A. F. A 

A. M. Mrs. Field is an active member and worker 
in the Christian Church. The family move in the 
best social circles, and arc held in the highest es- 
teem by their many friends and fellow-citizens. 
In his business dealings Mr. Fields' career has al- 
ways been marked with strict integrity and fair- 
ness. He is considered a leading and influential 
man in business circles, and well merits the high 
esteem in which he is held. 



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ACOB MADINGER, a retired merchant of 
St. Joseph, is one of the early and honored 
settlers of the place, having resided here 
since the fall of 1850. lie was very success- 
ful with his vineyard, which was the first one laid 
out in the county. Two years after his arrival he 
had four hundred vines set out, having brought 
the plants from Cincinnati by boat. They were 
mostly varieties of the Isabella and Catawba 
grapes. Afterward he obtained every new variety 
that came into market and propagated others him- 
self, so that in time he had sixty different varieties 
in his vineyard, which covered eight acres, lie 
continued actively engaged in business until the 
war interfered with his plans. In the early days, 
our subject - fruit farm was a great attraction, and 
people coining to this locality always visited the 
plaee a- a point of interest, for it was complete in 



every particular. There were reservoirs of water, 
fountains in different places, and the ureen- 
house. 

In the spring of 1852 Mr. Madinger purchased a 

fro it farm of twenty acres, only two miles from St. 
Joseph, and laid out a vineyard and three acres of 
orchard. lie built a vault and wine-cellar for the 
manufacture and storage of port wine. In 1891, our 
subject laid out ten acres of his place in lots, which 
are called Madinger's First Addition to St. Joseph. 
He helped to get the St. Joseph A Hannibal 
Railroad, and has always been active in everj thing 
pertaining to the city's welfare. He formerly be- 
longed to the Buchanan Agricultural and Horti- 
cultural Society, of which he was a Director for 
years. He helped buy the grounds for the Fair 
and was Vice-president of the association. He al- 
ways took the first premiums on the fruit which lie 
exhibited. He also belonged to the State Horti- 
cultural Society, of which he was the founder, and 
was Vice-President of the same for a number of 
years. 

Mr. Madinger has a beautiful home at the corn- 
er of Scott and Twentieth Streets, his residence be- 
ing one of the oldest in the city, as it was built in 
1856. For a number of years he had a contract 
for supplying the best river boats with meats; he 

also put up the first ice-house in this region. S 

after his arrival in St. Joseph he bu.lt a small 
10x16 shop on Market Square, which was the third 
building put up near ths Square, bringing the 
lumber for it from Savanna. When the city built 

a market-bouse Mr. Madinger look the Mist I th, 

which he occupied until selling out t<. Benjamin 
Tillman. 

Mr. Madinger was born in Stuttgart, Wurtem- 
berg, February 10, 1822. His father, Jacob, was a 
farmer and fruit-grower, and was in the German 
army in theWarof 1812-1.'). for his valiant service 
in which he received a medal. He died at the ex- 
treme old age of ninety-six years. Our subject's 
mother also died in Germany, and of her four 
children he is the eldest. He was reared in the 
Fatherland until 1834, when he decided to come to 
America with his uncle, who had been making his 
German relatives a visit. A- Mi. Madinger could 
not obtain a passport, he came ostensibly to make 



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a visit, and has never returned. At Louisville, 
Ky., lie was apprenticed to learn the butcher's 
business, and for two years received $60 per year. 

On May 15, 1848, Mr. Madinger and Miss Ros- 
ina Yant were united in marriage in Louisville. 
The lady's father, whose Christian name was Jacob, 
was born in Switzerland, and came to America in 
1817, locating in Pittsburgh, where he followed his 
trade of cabinet-maker. About the year 1834 he 
engaged in the cooperage trade in Louisville. In 
1850 he remov.cd to St. Joseph, where he died at 
the age of eighty-four years. Mrs. Madinger is 
the second of eight children. One of her broth- 
ers, Jacob, was in the Civil War in the Eightieth 
Regiment oi Illinois, as a Sergeant. He was a pris- 
oner at Andersonville, but made his escape. He 
was wounded at the battle of Lookout Mountain, 
and died July 3, 1864, in the hospital at Nash- 
ville. 

It was only a year after Mr. Madinger's marriage 
that he made a trip out West, and, hearing such 
good reports of the northwestern part of the State, 
and St. Joseph in particular, came to that deter- 
mination which has so largely affected his happi- 
ness and fortune, namely, to cast in his lot with 
the people of this region. There were more Indi- 
ans then in the county than white people, and 
the power of civilization had only just begun to 
be manifested in this, the then far West. During 
the war Mr. Madinger served all through it in the 
Slate militia, and was a member of the first com- 
pany from St. Joseph. He has been a stanch Re- 
publican since the organization of the party. He 
and his worthy wife are members of the German 
Lutheran Church. He was formerly a Druid, and 
helped start the first lodge in Masonry in St. 
Joseph, but has now retired from both societies. 




jILLIAM BUECHELE. There are no 
V classes of American citizens more enter- 



prising in their business dealings or more 
marked for the success which they achieve through 
their perseverance and close attention to their 



own affairs than are the Germans who have left 
the Fatherland believing that the New World is 
a wider field and affords greater promise of ad- 
vancement. Among the popular and highly es- 
teemed citizens of St. Joseph is Mr. William Buech- 
ele, who is widely known and owes his success in 
the commercial field largely to his tenacity of pur- 
pose, frugality and correct methods. After many 
years of hard work, he has now retired, and passes 
his daya in the enjoyment of a well-earned repose 
at his pleasant home No. 221 South Nineteenth 
Street. 

He of whom we write was born in Wurtemberg, 
Germany, November 17, 1829, and received a 
good education in his mother tongue. He became 
a farmer and gardener in his native land, and at 
the age of twenty-four 3*ears crossed the broad At- 
lantic to seek his fortune in the United States. 
Soon after his arrival in 1853, he went to Louis- 
ville, Ky., where he remained for a year and then 
returned to Germany, spending the winter among 
his friends and relatives. Our subject had also 
another object in making this journey, for while 
there his marriage with Miss Christiana Alteniann 
was celebrated. In the spring of 1856 Mr. Bueeh- 
ele returned to the United States with his young 
wife, coming to St. Joseph, where he took a posi- 
tion with Jacob Madinger as gardener. He took 
charge of the hot beds that year, and was the lirst 
professional gardener in these parts. 

In the year 1858, the gentleman of whom we 
write located on his own place in Walker's Addi- 
tion, then called New Ulm, being the first to set- 
tle in that portion of the town. He owned twen- 
ty-eight and a-half acres which was formerly a 
cornfield, and made a specialty of market garden- 
ing. To start with he had $1,500, which he had care- 
fully saved, and which he invested at this time in 
his business. He is truly a self-made man, and it is 
entirely through his own efforts, industry and at- 
tention to business, through success or adversity, 
that he has reached the competence which is now 
his for the remaining days of his life. He was 
actively engaged in his business undertakings un- 
til 1886, since which time he has discontinued his 
investments and is now retired. In 1887 he built 
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During the war he served in (apt. Louis Hax' 
company of militia. Politically, lie is :i Republi- 
can and is greatly interested in .ill elections and 
moyements inaugurated by thai party. 11*' is a 
member of the Lutheran Church, and is highly rc- 
spected by one and all. 

To Mr. and Mrs. Buectiele have been born the 
following children: John Jacob, who is in the 
store in this city; William L., in the savings de- 
partment of the State National Bank; Lena, now 
Mrs. John F. Klick, of St. Louis; Annie Minnie, 
wife of Frank P. Wenz. who is clerking in a shoe 
store; Millie; Louisa Amelia; Bertha Frederiea 
and Rosa Magdalena. The last-mentioned young 
ladies are bright and intelligent, having had good 
school advantages, and move in the best social 
circles in the city. 



ellAKI.KS WEST is an old and respected 
citizen of St. Joseph, who has retired from 
active business life, and is now enjoying 
with case the fruits of his labor, tie was formerly 
a wholesale grocer, owning the lirst establishment 
ever set up in this city. He came to Missouri in 
1846. and located in Brunswick, where he remained 
about seven years, and then settled in St. Joseph, 
where he has resided ever since. 

Mi. West was born on Fort Hill, Boston, Mass., 
February 12, \h\x. His father, Thomast West, 
was born in Haverhill, Mass., to Henry West, a na- 
tive of the Bay State, where he was engaged in 
fanning and passed his days. Henry West was 
married to Joanna Kast, who was born in Massa- 
chusetts to Doctor Kast, who was the tirst German 
physician engaged in practice in Boston. After 
his marriage the father of our subject was in the 
grocery business al No. 11 Central Wharf, where 
he continued Until 1830, when he returned to his 
former residence in Haverhill. He was elected 
President of the Boston & Maine Railway Com- 
pany after its completion to Portland. He was 
one of the promoters of the road and the second 



President, holding tin- office until within om- year 

of his death, lie erected the passenger depot on 
Hay market Square, and was a man of remarkable 

business tact. lie died al the age of seventy-nine 
years. The mother of our subject was known be- 
fore her marriage as Mary Williams, and was h\ 

birth a native of Boston, where she died in 1819, 
leaving four children, of whom our subject is the 
only surviving one. 

Mr. West was reared on the homestead and at- 
tended the Haverhill Academy, being a Student in 
the very first session, and having John <■. Whit- 
tier for a schoolmate. Subsequently, he attended 
Lancaster Private Academy, and when seventeen 
years of age went to Nashville, Tenn., December 
15, 1835, traveling by stage a portion of the way, 
and then boarded a steamer that plied the Cumber- 
land River. He engaged as a clerk in a dry-goods 
store in Nashville for one year, and then returned 
to Boston, where he remained until 1839, when he 
accepted a position in his brother (Jeorge's whole- 
sale establishment in Louisville, Ky. Here the two 
brothers conducted a profitable business until the 
time when the cholera broke out. and in 1 S 1 ( I our 
subject moved the stock to Boonville, Mo., where 
he remained for four years. In 1846 Mr. West 
located in the small town of Brunswick, where he 
did an excellent business, getting goods from 
New York by the river, via New Orleans and St. 
Louis. 

In the spring of 1853 Mr. West moved his stock 
to St. Joseph, and opened up his business close to the 
bank of the river, but remained there but a short 
time on account of the rising of the water in June, 
when he located on higher grounds. In 1858 he 
closed out his stock of goods, and retired from 
business. During the late war, our subject was 
Commissioner and Adjutant of the Eighty-first 
Regiment of the Enrolled Missouri Militia. He 
was enrolled for active service October 28, 1863, 
for the Eighty-first Missouri Militia, where he re- 
mained until the close of the war. In 1*.">3 he 
purchased his present home of six and one-half 
acres, which he improved, building on it a brick 
house, now known as Engleside. 

In ihii Mr. Wot was united in marriage to 
Miss Mary Merrell, of Boonville, Mo. she was 



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born in Lexington, Ky., and was a member of the 
Episcopal Church until the time of her death, 
which occurred January 8, 1893. She was the 
mother of five children: Sally, now Mrs. Millan, 
whose husband is deceased; John H., of the 
Turner-Frazier Mercantile Company, grocers of St. 
Joe; Kate, the widow of the late Mr. Richardson; 
Charles, Jr., who lives in Bonne Terre, Mo.; and 
Ida, wife of Thomas West, of Denver, Colo. 

Mr. West is always ready to give his earnest at- 
tention and hearty support to local progress and 
improvement, and is a thoroughly upright, con- 
scientious and public-spirited citizen. 




Ill LIP ARNIIOLT, one of the earliest set- 
tlers of St. Joseph, Mo., is a veteran of the 
,_ S late war, and at one time was Postmaster 

J \ here. He was a railway postal clerk for 
twelve years between St. Joseph and Creston, Iowa, 
having been appointed in 1880 under the Hayes 
administration, and having held the place in spite 
of the various changes in political circles. 

Mr. Arnholt was born February 1, 1841, in Ba- 
varia, Germany. His father, Philip Arnholt, was 
also a native of the same province, while the 
grandfather, Nicholas Arnholt, who followed the 
occupation of a stone and brick contractor in Ger- 
many, came to America early in the '40s, and died 
in St. Louis. Our subject's father, likewise a con- 
tractor for stone and brick masonry, was married in 
the Fatherland, and in 1852 crossed the broad At- 
lantic with his wife and family of eight children. 
After a voyage of fifty-six days from Havre to 
New Orleans, they came up the river to St. Louis, 
and a few months later, in June, 1852, settled in 
St. Joseph. Here Mr. Arnholt, Si'., obtained con- 
tacts for buildings, and made this city his home 
until his death in 1876, at the age of sixty-eight 
years. He was a member of the Lutheran Church, 
to which faith his wife also belonged. Her maiden 
name was Caroline Klaus. Her death occurred in 



St. Joseph January 18, 1892, at the good old age of 
eighty-two years. 

Our subject is one of eight children, only four 
of whom are living, and three of whom were in 
the army. Frederick was in the Sixteenth Illi- 
nois Infantry, having enlisted in 18fil,and at 
the end of thirteen months was taken prisoner 
at Lexington. He was exchanged, and served un- 
til killed in the battle near Goldsboro in 1865, af- 
ter Lee's surrender. George, who was in the 
Forty-fourth Missouri, resides in this city. In 
April, 1861, Philip Arnholt was one of the first to 
enlist, becoming a member of Company B, Second 
Missouri Infantry, in Burnstein's regiment, for 
three-months service. He was mustered in at the 
arsenal at St. Louis, and was present at the taking 
of Camp Jackson. When his term of service had 
expired he enlisted in Company B, Fremont's 
Body Guard, for three years, and served in Mis- 
souri and Arkansas. Out of one hundred and 
fifty men, fourteen were killed, twenty-seven 
wounded, and ten were taken prisoners. In 1862 
he was mustered out by special order of Gen. 
Thomas. Returning to St. Joseph, he was commis- 
sioned Second Lieutenant of Company C, Twen- 
ty-fifth Missouri Regiment, and was soon promoted 
to be First Lieutenant. He was later com mis- 
sioned Captain by Gov. Gletcher, and in the fall 
of 1864 was mustered out of the service. 

After his arrival in the United States and prior 
to the war, Mr. Arnholt learned the barber's trade, 
and in 1858 went to New Orleans, where he ran a 
shop for two years. In the fall of 1860 he went 
to St. Louis on one of the last boats which ven- 
tured to make the trip. On returning from the 
service our subject followed his trade for a while, 
and in March, 1871, was appointed Postmaster by 
President Grant, which position he held for four 
years and eleven days. In 1876 he was appointed 
United States Pension Agent for the district of 
Missouri and Kansas b}' President Grant, but 
failed to assume the duties, as the politicians pre- 
vented his taking the position. For a short time 
our subject engaged in the wholesale liquor busi- 
ness with Mr. Audriano. When he was appointed 
postal clerk in 1880, he first ran on the Wabash 
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next route was by way of the Kansas c it\ line, 
between Kansas City and Council Bluffs. In 1888 

he was placed on Ins present mute, between M. 
Joseph and Creston, and has the honor of being 
the olde>t postal clerk in the .service in this locality. 
both in years and service. 

In this city, in 18<;.">, Mr. Arnholt married Miss 
Elizabeth Lobrneau, who was horn in Germany. 
Ten children have come to bless this union. Eight 
are living, their names being as follows: Charles, 
engaged in the wholesale millinery business in 
Portland, Ore.; Katie, wife of Grant Harris, of 
Kansas City; Frank I... now with the American 
Biscuit Company, of Chicago; Edith, a graduate 
of the public school, and now a teacher here; 
Philip, Jr., Benjamin Logan, Jessie and Clara, who 
complete the number. 

In manner Mr. Arnholt is genial and of agood- 
natured disposition, which valuable qualities make 
him many friends, lie is a member of the Ancient 
Free A- Accepted Masons, a Royal Arch Mason 
and belongs to the Scottish Kite. He is also a 
member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, 
and in 1867 was District Deputy Grand Master. 
Mr. Arnholt is independent in politics. He be- 
longs to Chester Harding Post, (i. A. K. 



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Missouri, and since 18G6 has been one of the hon- 
ored residents of Plattsburgh, Clinton County. He 

was horn in County Fermanagh, Ireland, February 
5, 1828, and received a fair education in the com- 
mon schools of his native land. He came to the 
United States in 1K">:>, landing in New York, from 
which metropolis he journeyed to Carroll County. 
Ohio, where he remained four years, visiting nu- 
merous relatives. In March. lH.jT, he journeyed 
to Kansas by way of the river, anil after reaching 

Leavenworth proceeded to Topeka, where in- re- 



mained one year working at the carpenter's trade, 
and finally bought land two miles southwest of 
Topeka. For a time he fellow-shipped with Jim 
Lane, who was making speeches and rousing the 

enthusiasm of the people. 

In November, 1857, Judge Phillips came to Clin- 
ton County, Mo., and purchasing land two miles 
west of Plattsburgh, in company with a brother-in- 
law, George R Shepard, now of Plattsburgh. located 
one year later upon a thiec hundred and ninety- 
five acre farm, partly improved, and a valuable 
piece of property. Important business had de- 
tained him in Kansas a twelvemonth, but from 
this time until 1886 Judge Phillips remained con- 
stant to the pursuit of agriculture. After eight 
years patiently devoted to the tilling of the soil, 
Mr. Phillips was elected Sheriff of the county upon 
the Republican ticket, in 1866, and also tilled the 
position of Collector, and from this period resided 
with his family in Plattsburgh. After a two-year 
term as Sheriff, in which time he ably discharged 
the duties entrusted to his care, he was defeated in 
18G8 by one vote, this small minority proving his 
popularity in a county largely Democratic. M. 
M. MeFettredge was the fortunate man whose ma- 
jority of one vote gave him the coveted position. 

Judge Phillips is a man of strong convictions 
and earnest purpose. During the Civil War he in 
1861 entered the Stale militia, leaving his farm 
temporarily and bringing his family to Plattsburgh. 
Although a strong Republican now, he then held 
that the Southern people had the legal right toown 
slaves the same as other property, but was opposed 
to slavery as being a detriment to moral ami re- 
ligious growth and prosperity. Judge Phillips 
served in the county militia with headquarters at 
Plattsburgh, under (apt. I'.. F. Poe, who Organized 
the company, which later was under Capt. George 
McCullough. ('apt. John W. Turiicy, witli a small 
sipiad of men, went out three-ipiarters of a mile 
cast of the court house to intercept some guerril- 
las that were coming, and was shot and instantly 
killed by them, he being the only man injured. 
Our subject was with the Company when called out 
and was kept in the camp the entire time. 

From 1868 to 1873 Judge Phillips again resumed 
farming duties, but at the latter date President 



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Grant a [) pointed Mm Postmaster of Plattsburgh, a 
position he held for fourteen years, and it is safe 
to say Plattsburgh will never enjoy the services of 
a more popular, genial and efficient care-taker of 
the mails than he proved himself to be. At the 
expiration of his term he was succeeded by Mr. 
Rinkle, under Cleveland's administration. Judge 
Phillips was elected to fill the unexpired term of 
County .Judge, and presided upon the bench with 
dignified ability. The two hundred thousand rail- 
way bonds were issued while he held the position 
of County Judge. 

In 1869 Judge Phillips was for a time in the 
lumber trade, but since 1885 has devoted himself 
exclusively and prosperously to the culture and 
improvement of his valuable homestead of three 
hundred and twenty-five acres, one of the finest 
pieces of farming property in this section of the 
State. Stock-raising is one of the main features of 
the farm, and only the best grades of sheep, cattle 
and horses are handled by our subject. 

Judge Phillips entered into the marriage rela- 
tion May 25, 1858, with Miss Mary E. Atwell, a 
native of Ireland, who was born in the same county 
as was her husband, but at the time of her mar- 
riage her home was in Carroll County, Ohio. The 
pleasant home of Judge Phillips and his estimable 
wife has been blessed by the birth of a large fam- 
ily, of whom Maggie J., the eldest, died when she 
was eight years old; Luella B. is Mrs. W. N. Pitt- 
man, of Kansas City; Ida 0. is Mrs. William Pugs- 
ley, of Plattsburgh; Mary Alice died when fourteen 
years old; Prank is a merchant of Kansas City; 
Cordia is Mrs. William B. Hiatt, of Plattsburgh; 
Ilattie and Charlie, the two youngest of the broth- 
ers and sisters, are still at home with their parents. 

Our subject has been a consistent member of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church since he was sixteen 
years old, and is a Trustee and a Steward in the 
church. Fraternally Judge Phillips is a member 
of the Ancient Free & Accepted Masons, affiliating 
with the lodge at Plattsburgh. Socially, he and all 
the members of his family occupy positions of use- 
fulness and influence, and in all matters of benev- 
olent enterprise our subject is ever an important 
factor. A man of energetic ability, upright in 
Character and faithful in duty, Judge Phillips 



worthily ranks with the most loyal and public-spir- 
ited citizens of his home locality and the State of 
Missouri. As a public official he is faithful in the 
performance of every accepted duty. Sheriff Phil- 
lips executed April 30, 1866, Abner Hughes, a col- 
ored lad, who had murdered an old man in Platts- 
buru'h. 



To ' .. . 



/#§ >\1JNNU>W TUR1NEK. Fori 

(l( r score years this brilliant lawyer wf 
^^7/ ored resident of Plattsburgh, and 



OL. WINSLOW ' JRNER. For over two- 
was an hon- 
held with 

distinguished ability various important State and 
county positions. He entered into rest March 5, 
1874, and although nearly twenty years have 
passed since his death, his memory is as green in 
the hearts of a multitude of frieuds as though it 
were only yesterday he had left the busy throng, 
blessed for so many years by his kindly presence. 
Col. Turner was a native of Massachusetts, and 
was born in Plymouth County, December 12, 1802. 
His ancestors were of Puritan stock, and at a very 
early day came to New England, where the}' and 
their descendants took high place among the in- 
fluential citizens of our Republic. 

Col. Turner was one of the pioneers of western 
Missouri, having located in Clay County about 
the year 1833. In 1840 he was appointed Circuit 
Clerk, Clerk of the County Court, and ex-officio 
Recorder, and for sixteen years conducted the 
affairs of his office with ability and honor. So 
great was his popularity that his name upon a 
ticket seemed the important factor in securing its 
certain victory. In 1857 he was appointed Reg- 
istrar of the Land Office, which position he re- 
signed after two years of faithful work in the dis- 
charge of the duties involved. President Pierce 
in J 854 placed our subject upon the Hoard of Ex- 
aminers of cadets for West Point, and about the 
same time he was a Representative to the Grand 
Division of the Sons of Temperance, in which 
order he was a well-known and valued worker. 
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in the Legislature, where, a- :i member of the most 

important committees, lie was an ellieient worker, 
and ably fulfilled the trust reposed in him by his 
constituents. Politically, he was a stanch Demo- 
crat and a life-long adherent of the principles of 
the immortal Thomas Jefferson. 

After his retirement from public office in I860, 
Col. Turner devoted himself successfully to the 
practice of the law, and in business relations, as in 
public office, made a host of friends, who thor- 
oughly appreciated his sterling integrity of char- 
acter. At the time of his death, the brilliant 
journalist. .John M. McMichael, said of him in the 
Plattsburgh Leoter of March 18, 1874: "lie was a 
man of the purest honor, and scorned everything 
that partook of the false or unreal. Of a pointed 
and emphatic nature, he pronounced his senti- 
ments freely and emphatically at all times and 
under all circumstances. Not even in politics 
would he dissemble or prevaricate, but in all things 
he was equally honest, sincere and pronounced. 
To friend or foe he was manly, bold and un- 
equivocal. When he believed, his belief was gen- 
uine, earnest and unwavering, lie was guided by 
principle?, and no questions of policy could inter- 
vene to abate his advocacy of what he deemed 
right, lie was lirm in his convictions, and clung 
to them with persistent pertinacity. He had but 
little admiration for expediencies, but loved and 
practiced consistency in all things. When Wins- 
low Turner announced his support of a principle 
or person he was ever found upon the right side, 
lie was humane and liberal, and from his door the 
pom and needy never went without receiving 
beneficial alms. Many a poor widow, orphan and 
sufferer has felt the kindness of his Liberality. His 
heart would melt at the sight of miser}', and his 
impulse led him to the exercise of generosity, 
which was a praiseworthy and a commendable 
trait in his character." 

To so exhaustive and eloquent a tribute to Col. 
'Turner but little can lie added, lie was an car- 
nest advocate of a broad and thorough education 
tor the youth of America. As a public official and 
as a private citizen he had but few equals and no 
superiors. With the keen sagacity which distin- 
guished his able efforts in his profession, he com- 



bined the sterling integrity of character and the 
geniality of a sincere and sunshiny nature, and, all 
in all. possessed the highest attributes of a scholar, 
friend and statesman. Hi- death was a public 
loss, but in the home circle, where he Sustained as 
a loving father and husband the tendercsl rela- 
tions, the bereavement was doubly afflicting. 

The wife of Col. Turner was Mi>s Emily Pol- 
lard, of Vermont. Her mother bore the maiden 
name of Waterman, and traced her ancestry back 
to Edward, Earl of Clarendon. 'The union of 
Col. and Mrs. 'Turner was blessed by the birth 
of four children, two of whom now survive, the 
Hon. Edward Turner, and Florence M., wife of 
Judge Virgil R. Porter, who, richly endowed with 
a goodly heritage of distinguished paternal and 
maternal ancestors, occupy positions of honor and 
influence in the city which for SO many years was 
the home of their revered father. 



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ON. THOMAS ERSKINE TURNEY, an 
influential lawyer at Cameron, was born 
in Paris, Bourbon County, Ivy., February 
28, 1831, the son of Morgan and Tryphosa 
(Birch) Turney. Grandfather Daniel Turney was 
one of Morgan's riflemen. In 18:i7, when our 
Subject was six years old, his father settled in 
Shelby County, 111., and became one of the pio- 
neers of Shelbyville, where 'Thomas E. grew to 
manhood. Meanwhile he acquired a common- 
school education and spent the intervening vaca- 
tions aiding in the farm work and clerking in 
a store. 

At the age of twenty Mr. 'Turney commenced 
thi' study of the law under the tutelage of An- 
thony Thornton, who afterward became judge of 
the Illinois Supreme Court. After reading law 
for one year in Shelbyville, he removed to I'latts- 
burgli. Mo., where a maternal uncle. Judge .lames 
II. Birch, an attorney-at-law. was at thai lime re- 
siding, lie entered the oilier of that gentleman 

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of his birth. In May, 1853, he was admitted to 
the Bar and at once opened an office at Pitts- 
burgh, where lie remained until 1865. 

For a time Mr. Turney had as partner a younger 
brother, John \V., who was admitted to the Bar at 
Plattsburgh, and who was killed by bushwhackers 
near that city in 18t!4, being at that time Cap- 
tain of a company of provisional militia stationed 
at Plattsburgh. In 1865 our subject removed to 
a farm which was located between Cameron and 
Plattsburgh, and upon which his parents were mak- 
ing their home. After the death of the mother, 
in 1881, the father removed to Cameron, where 
he departed this life in 1885, at the age of eighty 
years. 

After living on the farm until 1870, Mr. Turney 
located at Cameron, although in the meanwhile he 
had continued his practice in connection with agri- 
cultural duties. In 1866 the Court of Common Pleas 
was created and he became its Judge, but re- 
sinned after occupying the position for one year. 
His services in that capacity were such as to win 
universal commendation, and his decisions were 
notably impartial and just. In 1856-57 he served 
in the Missouri Legislature, to which he was 
elected by the Know Nothing part}'. 

Since 1872 Mr. Turney has been in continuous 
practice, and his reputation has long been estab- 
lished as a successful practitioner. His practice 
is general, although he has never taken a criminal 
case. In early days his attention was given prin- 
cipally to collections and foreclosures of mort- 
gages; from 1876 until 1879 his work was largely 
that of a railway lawyer, aud while thus engaged 
he was successful in settling various important 
railroad litigations. His law library is one of 
the best in the count}' and includes about six 
hundred books by standard authors on the sub- 
jects which thej' respectively treat; also the only 
complete set of American Decisions, American Re- 
ports and State Reports, besides full reports of the 
I'lnted States Supreme Court, the Missouri Su- 
preme Court and the Court of Appeals. During 
the late war he took a decided stand for the Union, 
and since about 1876 has been a stanch adherent 
of Democratic principles, but is not a politician. 

At Plattsburgh, Mo., May 4, 1H59, Mr. Turney 



was united iu marriage with Miss Lina, daughter 
of Abraham Funkhouser, and a native of Clinton 
County, Mo. Mrs. Turney died December 29, 
1887. Their children are as follows: Thomas E., 
Jr., a resident of Greene County, Mo.; Lina 
Olivia, Mrs. II. II. Ilinkle, of Staunton, Va.; 
Osie, who died in 1878 at Faribault, Minn., where 
she was a student in St. Mary's Hall; Loula, who 
married James A. Franklin. M. D., and died June 
3, 1892; Mary, who was educated at St. Mary's 
Hall and at Topeka, Kan., aud is now at home; 
and John, who died when six years old. In his 
religious belief the Judge is an Episcopalian, and 
has been quite active in that church since joining 
it in 1876. 



Cj\ E. PACKARD, Cashier of the Farmers' 
p Bank at Cameron, was born in Hampshire 
/' County, Mass., March 19, 1838. His boy- 
hood was somewhat uneventfully passed on a 
farm in that county, where he attended the com- 
mon schools and gained a good practical educa- 
tion. In his early manhood he went as far West 
as Clinton County, Ohio, his removal thither oc- 
curring in the year 1858, and he followed the pro- 
fession of teacher in that county. 

In 1863 Mr. Packard came to Missouri and be- 
came the telegraph operator and station agent for 
the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad at Cameron, 
a position which he filled satisfactorily for four 
years, and he also engaged in the lumber business 
in the meantime. In 1867 he settled on a farm 
one and one-half miles from the city of Cameron, 
where lie developed a finely improved estate, and 
made a specialty of the dairy business, keeping 
from forty to seventy-five cows. His home is 
still on this place, where he has surrounded him- 
self and family with all the comforts and many of 
the luxuries of life. 

The lady who in 1867 became the wife of Mr. 
Packard was known in maidenhood as Araminta 
Utter, and was born in Ohio, March 13. IS 12. 
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arc Still Living: William. Clark, Eva, Martha. 
Bessie and Laura. Mr. and Mrs. Packard are ac- 
tive members of the Christian ( lunch at Cameron, 
which he serves as Elder. In all public affairs 
Mr. Packard maintains a deep interest, and is an 
especial Friend of schools and colleges, which he 
fosters in every way possible. He assisted in de- 
fending Cincinnati when it was threatened by 
Kirby Smith in 1862, and after coming to 
Missouri was enrolled in the state militia in 1864. 
He i- a man of practical mind and keen business 
traits, and has aided to no small extent in raising 
the financial standing <>f the institution with 
which he is connected. 



i — FRANCIS WILLIAM LEWIS, one of the 
\—(S) prominent business men of St. Joseph, mak- 
1 in"; a specialty of stair-building and own- 

ing a planing-mill at No.816 South Eighth Street, 
has been identified with the history of this place 
for the past twenty year-, and may well pride 
himself upon the interest he has taken in the 
city's welfare. He turns out good work and al- 
ways endeavors to produce the best results pos- 
sible, giving his customers the benefit of his years 
Of experience. Fortune has dealt kindly with 
him since his arrival in St. Joseph, and in his 
business dealings he has been successful beyond 
hi- expectations. In hi- planing-mill he has about 
$15,000 invested, and pays special attention to 
Office and interior finishings. 

Mr. Lewis was born in Parkerville, Parke 
County, 1 1 1 <1 . , February _'.s. 1842, ami received 
common-school privileges. At the age of nine- 
teen he began i" serve an apprentice-hip to a pro- 
fessional stair-builder at La Fayette, and at the 
end of four year- commenced working as a jour- 
ney man. For -even \ ear- he was employed in many 

of the leading cities, among these being Chicago, 

Cincinnati. St. Louis, Memphi- anil Calveston. 

In 1868 he visited St Joseph, and, on ac< t of 

plea-ant ac.| ua i n t-aiue- made here and hi- I'avor- 

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able impressions of the city, he returned in 1872, 

with the intention id' making a permanent loca- 
tion here, lie was at the foot of the hill leading 
to success at that time, as he bad but $2 in his 
pocket on landing here. However, undaunted 
and with courage he set out to make an honest 
living, and was soon given a contract, which he 
BUCCe88fully carried out. and from that day his 
business has constantly increased until it has 
reached its present large proportions. There are 
now in his employ from twelve to fifteen men. 
who are engaged solely on finishing work. 

Our subject started in business in the same 
block he now occupies, his held being in the neiL, r h- 
boring States of Kansas. Nebra-ka and Iowa, in 
addition to Missouri. He owns two line brick 
houses, which wen- erected at a eo-t of $5,000 
each, and also has a plea-ant home. Mr. Lewis i- 
very fond of tine horse-, and is said to have as 
good a team as can be found in St. Joseph. He 
has never SOUghtOr desired public office, his tastes 

being of a dome-tic nature. He is intelligent and 
has had a wide experience while knocking about 
the world, learning through this varied life many 
a bard lesson. In religious belief he is liberal. In- 
spirit of toleration being founded upon a close 
observation of his fellow-men. He is genial and 
popular and well worthy to lie numbered among 
the substantial citizens of St. Joseph. 



v Ti'OIIN W. DOUGLASS is one of the most 
successful and prosperous farmer- and stock - 
raisers in Clinton County, lie resides on 

5! / section 36, township 55, range 31, which 

has been hi- home for the past four year-. His 
great-grandfather, William Douglass, left his na- 
tive land, Ireland, in 1790, to seek his fortune in 
the New World. He settled in York County, Pa., 

where he passed the relnai in. lei of his life. Hi- -on. 

Patrick Douglass, about the year 1802 settled in 
Clinton County, Ohio, where In- followed the oc- 
cupation of a farmer. He became the father of 



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seven children, who are as follows: James, Will- 
iam, Eliza, John, Martha, Mary A. and A. P. The 

father was a member of the Presbyterian Church, 
and is numbered among the early pioneers who 
paved the way to the present greatness and pros- 
perity of what was then the far West. 

John Douglass, the father of our subject, was a 
native of Clinton County, Ohio, having been born 
in August, 1823. lie received but limited educa- 
tional advantages. In 1837, previous to which 
date his father had departed this life, with his 
mother and family he came to this section of the 
State and located on section 34, township 55, 
range 30, where he entered one hundred and sixty 
acres of land. Though he had .started in life a 
poor boy, by his indomitable energy and perse- 
verance he acquired a valuable property. In 1850 
he crossed the plains, going to California, from 
which El Dorado he returned with a few hundred 
dollars. At the time of his death, in 1882, he was 
the owner of one thousand acres of arable and 
valuable farm land, which was the result of his 
many years of well-directed efforts. 

John Douglass was a zealous and influential 
member of the Christian Church, and on his own 
farm erected a church, to the cost of which he was 
the principal contributor. During the war he was 
a member of the State militia, and participated in 
several more or less important engagements. His 
life work was marked with success, and he was 
held in the highest esteem by the people of this 
vicinity. His wife, who bore the maiden name 
of Mary Brown, is yet living in Clinton County, 
being now sixty-eight years of age. By her mar- 
riage she became the mother of the following chil- 
dren, who yet survive: Jesse B., John W., Jemi- 
mah E., James A., Thompson, Stephen A., George 
B., Sherman and Permelia A. Mollie is deceased. 

John W. Douglass was born in this county on 
December 7, 1841), and spent his early years in the 
usual work and play of a farmer's boy. He attend- 
ed the district school of the neighborhood, and in 
later years entered the State University. He em- 
barked in the business of life for himself at the age 
of twenty-three. On June 18. 1874, he was united 
in matrimony with Susan E. Cooper, who is like- 
wise a native of this count}'. She is the daughter 



of Emsley W. and Ann (Piercy) Cooper, who 
came from North Carolina to Missouri about 1840. 
The father is a farmer by occupation and served 
during the war in the Missouri State Militia. The 
family of Mr. and Mrs. Douglass consists of three 
children: Dorsey B., Elgia A. and William. 

Subsequent to his marriage Mr. Douglass settled 
on eighty acres of land south of Lathrop, which 
he improved and cultivated for three years, after 
which he sold the property and became the owner 
of two hundred and forty acres situated south- 
west of Lathrop. He now owns one thousand 
acres in two farms. In 1888 he erected a fine res- 
idence on land adjoining Lathrop on the south, 
and he has since made it his place of abode. His 
wife is a member of the Christian Church, and so- 
cially Mr. Douglass is a member of the Masonic 
fraternity. As a farmer he has shown a marked 
talent from the first, and year by year has added 
more property to his already extensive possessions. 
His premises are well kept and thrifty, showing 
the good management and attention of the own- 
er. He uses the latest improvements and devices 
in carrying on his farm, and is thoroughly pro- 
gressive in all bis ideas. 



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S. COCHRANE is one of those thorough 
business men of integrity and honest prin- 
ciples who occupy responsible and lucra- 
tive positions in St. Joseph, Mo. Mr. 
Cochrane is at the present time manager for Sco- 
fleld, Simmer A- Teagle, refiners of illuminating 
and lubricating oils and gasoline. 

Mr. Cochrane was born in Durham, Province of 
Ontario, Canada, November 29, 1856. His father, 
whose given name was Adam, was of Scotch ori- 
gin, being born in Glasgow in the year 1830. The 
grandfather of our subject, John B. Cochrane, was 
also born in Glasgow, and was a man of leisure, 
taking life in as easy a manner as possible. He 
married previous to his locating in Ontario, where 
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the ripe old age of ninety-three years. He was a 
faithful member of the Presbyterian Church. The 
father of our subjecl was reared in Canada, where 
be was engaged in agricultural pursuits in Dur- 
ham until 1878, when he located in St. Thomas. 
There with others he engaged in a wholesale and 
retail trade, doing business under the name of 
Cochrane Bros. During his lifetime he was a 
greal reformer of mankind, and proved a blessing 
and benefit to his fellow-men. His wife, known as 
Grace Haggart in her maiden days, was also a na- 
tive of (Slasgow, and went to Ontario with her 
parents when bul a mere child. To Mr. and Mrs. 
Cochrane were born ten children, eight of whom 
still survive and are scattered over various parts 
of the globe, the seventh from the youngest being 
the niily one in the United states. 

Our subject was reared in Canada until he at- 
tained his twelfth year, at which time he went to 
St. Thomas, where he attended High School, and in 
1884 graduated with honor. One year after leav- 
ing school he went to Omaha, Neb., where he was 
employed as bookkeeper in the Union Pacific 
Railway office, remaining with them one year. He 
was then teller in the hank of Omaha of that < • i t y 
for eighteen months, and was promoted to the 
position of acting cashier, which he held for twelve 
months. For the next live 01 six months we ti ml 
him in Dubuque, Iowa, where he was employed by 
the Excelsior (til Company in the capacity of 
cashier. 

Working his way northward Mr. Cochrane 
landed in Minneapolis, where he held the respon- 
sible position of cashier for tin' Excelsior Oil Com- 
pany of that city, and there remained for nine 
months. At this time he was transferred to Du- 
buque as manager of the company for which In- 
had previously labored, and continued there for 
-i\ months, when he was appointed Auditor of the 

same company and made his headquarters in 

Cleveland. For two years our subjecl traveled 
over Western territory in the interest of this 
business, or until the company discontinued the 
manufacturing of the product. After the closing 
of the business of the Excelsior Oil Company, he 
became connected « it h Scofield, Shurner <& Teagle, 
and was sent as their representative to St. Joseph, 



Mo., in July, 1892. This tirm i- located on 
Eleventh and Mitchell Streets, and is considered 

one of the largest and most independent firms Of 
refiners in the United states, having a large re- 
finery in Cleveland, Ohio, and agencies through- 
out the I 'nited State-. 
■ Politically, Mr. Cochraue is a stanch supporter 

of the Democratic nominees. I'm wl he has Cast 

his votes for many years, lie is a thorough busi- 
ness man. and his success in life may he attributed 
to his perseverance, untiring efforts and good 
judgment, qualities which almost invariably bring 

fortune to their possessor. 



1 ACOB II. WISHERD is a wholesale and re- 
tail dealer in fresh oysters, celery, li-h. 
game. etc.. at No. llo South Sixth Street, 
between Felix and Edmund Streets. His 
business is growing rapidly and he has the largest 
wholesale trade in the city. He supplies the hotels 
and boarding-houses of the city, and he often 
ships to Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa, as well a- to 
different parts of this State, packing and selling 
thousands of gallons during the oyster season, and 
often one hundred and fifty gallon- per day. The 
buyers for the tirm obtain the supplies in Balti- 
more and New York, selecting the finest to be had. 
They have large refrigerators and are in evci \ 
way as well and thoroughly equipped as the large 
exclusive Ssh and oyster houses of Eastern cities. 
Mr. Wisherd was born near lhishnell. Mc- 
Donough County, III., .May 11. 1857. His father. 
Jacob Wisherd. was horn in the northern part of 
Pennsylvania, and was a farmer and stock-dealer. 
lie went to Illinois in the early day- and was one 
of the pioneers of McDonough County, lie im- 
proved a large farm and built one of the lb-t 
houses in the locality. Ili- death occurred on the 
old homestead in 1*77. lie was a member of the 

Christian Church, and a man of sterling worth and 
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Bushnell, was formerly Miss Catherine Stahl, a 
native of Pennsylvania. She still owns the old 
farm of two hundred and forty acres. 

J. II. Wisherd of this sketch is one of ten chil- 
dren, of whom five survive, and lived until his 
twenty-third year on a farm. lie went to the 
district school during the three months' winter 
term, and when sixteen years of age took charge 
of the farm, which he operated with very good 
success for seven years. In 1880, tiring of the 
monotonous routine of farm life, he went to 
Quincy, where he obtained employment with his 
brother D. N., who was engaged there in the 
oyster business. After two years' connection with 
the linn he came to St. Joseph, about 1887, and in 
the fall of 1890 started in business with his brother, 
continuing in partnership with him for oneseason, 
and then bought out his interest. 

In Illinois, in 1878, Mr. Wisherd wedded Miss 
Eveline Blanehard, who was born in Fulton 
County, and is a lady of much culture and talent. 
Four children grace the union of our worthy sub- 
ject and his estimable wife: Louis, Seldon, Earl 
and Chester. The pleasant home over which Mrs. 
Wisherd presides with womanly dignity is at No. 
2G(il LaFayette Street. 

In politics, Mr. Wisherd is a firm Democrat, and 
fraternally, is an Ancient Free & Accepted Ma- 
son and a Royal Arch Mason. lie has made for 
himself an enviable reputation as a business man 
of solid worth and merit, and has many friends in 
the best circles of the city. 



ft" AMES CLEM R1TCHEY, M. D., whose office 
is at No. 711 North Main Street, St. Joseph, 
is one of the best-known physicians of this 
city, and one who has as extensive a practice 
as any in this locality. lie has also for many 3 r ears 
been an active politician, and was a member of 
the Central Committee of the Democratic party 
for a number of years in DeKalb County, having 
also been a delegate to the State convention which 



nominated Charles Hardin for Governor. When 
F. M. Cockrell was a candidate for Governor he 
stood firmly by him and was of great assistance to 
that gentleman. 

The Doctor was born in Somerset, Ohio, the 
home of Gen. Phil Sheridan. His father, the Hon. 
Thomas Ritchey, was a member of the Thirtieth 
and Thirty-third Congresses, and was prominent 
in all public affairs in that State, his opponent 
during the election being Dr. P. B. Johnson, on 
the Whig ticket. Mr. Ritchey was elected by 
twenty-seven votes, and four years lateu, being a 
candidate, he was elected by twenty-eight hun- 
dred votes. He declined further honor. He was 
a colleague of many of the noted men of that day, 
among them being Webster; Calhoun; Millard P. 
Hall, of St. Joseph; Mordecai Oliver, who after- 
ward removed to this city; and Sain (Jreen, also 
of Missouri. Mr. Ritchey secured the appointment 
of Phil Sheridan as a cadet to West Point, and 
lived to see him raised to the rank of Brigadier- 
General, lie departed this life in March, 1863, a 
man well esteemed and having a host of .friends. 

Our subject was reared and educated in the 
place of his birth, where he attended the Somerset 
Institute. Ill-health compelled him to seek a 
change of climate, and going West he located in 
Omaha for a time, there beginning the study of 
medicine with Drs. McElwee & Thrall, the latter 
one of the surgeons sent out by the United States 
Government to the seat of the Crimean War. In 
1858 Congressman Valentine B. Horton secured 
for Dr. Ritchey the appointment to West Point, 
where he entered and remained for several months, 
but on account of the weakness of his ankle he was 
compelled to give up a militar}' career, as it was 
found he could not stand the severe physical strain 
necessary to that life. Therefore, in October, 
1859, he continued his medical studies at Hagers- 
town, Wayne County, Iud., for a time, after which 
he entered the Ohio Medical College at Cincin- 
nati. On the completion of his studies he en- 
gaged in practice at Hagerstown, and in 1800 emi- 
grated to Missouri, practicing in Stewartsville for 
a period of twenty-one years. 

In 1887 Dr. Ritchey came to St. Joseph, and has 
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i- a member of the Buchanan Count] Medical So- 
ciety, .- l 1 1 • 1 is justly ranked among the leading 
brethren of the medical profession in these parts. 
On October 20, 1869, in Stewartsville, Mo., the 
Doctor married Mi>s Sue Logan, who was born iu 
Shelbj County, Ky., and whose father, the Hon. 
Robert W. Logan, came to this state in 1857, and 
was srni as a member to the Legislature from De- 
Kalb County, dying while in office. He was a 
nephew of Robert Anderson, of Ft. Sumter notori- 
ety; of Gov. Charles Anderson, of Ohio; and of 
Richard Clongb Anderson, who was in Congress 
for many years, and afterward was sent as United 
states Minister to Bogota; A recent correspond- 
ent said of the Anderson family, "The name of 
Anderson in Kentucky is surrounded with historic 
memories, than which none are prouder nor of 
greater historic interest." Mrs. Ritchey is a great- 
great-niece of i^en. George Rodgers Clark, and 
Hon. William Clark, who was Governor of Mis- 
souri for nine years, while it was yet a Territory. 
She is also related to the llardins and Wickliffes, 
of Kentucky, besides many of the besl and most 
worthy families of that grand old Stale. The Doc- 
tor has three children, Thomas. Clara R. and Jennie 
(J., who are all at home. In religious faith, the Doc- 
tor is a Presbyterian, while hi* wife is a member of 
the Baptist Church. 




'RANK CHAMBERS comes from a promi- 
nent pioneer family of Buchanan County. 
/As He is in charge of the freight department 

Of the R. Douglass Crockery Company in St. Joseph 
and is a young man of business ability. He has 
been identified with the citj 's best interests since 
his birth, which occurred here January 27, INKS. 
His father, Dr. John Alexander Chambers, was 
horn in Harper's Ferry. Ya. His father, in turn, 
was in the Government employ as inspector of 
the armory at Harper's Ferry. 

Dr. Chambers graduated from the Washington 



University-, now the Johns Hopkins College, of 

Baltimore. He engaged in practice m ins native 
Slate until 1852, when he came to St. Joseph, where 
he was one of the first physicians to locate. He 
practiced for a time while ill partner-hip with Dr. 
Cram. The latter went to California, after which 
Dr. Cham hers continued in the practice alone. He 
ranked high in his profession, was an active mem- 
ber of the st. Joseph's Medical Society, and was its 
President at one time. During the war he was 
molested considerably, and being a Southern sym- 
pathizer was several times placed under arrest. 
On account of this annoyance he went to Nevada 
m 1864, and was there engaged in practice for 
nearly a year. 

In St. Joseph was celebrated the marriage of Dr 
Chambers and Miss Helen Gingry, in 185 I. She was 
horn in Nashville, Teiin.. and was the daughter of 
Joseph Gingry, a native of Lancaster ( ounty, Pa. 
He was an architect and builder in Tennessei . 
hut in 1850 removed to this county with his fam- 
ily, coming all the distance in the boaf'St. Paul." 
He bought and improved a farm four miles from 
this city. At the time of his death, in 1879, he 
was eighty-five years of age. His wife, whose 
maiden name was Ann Shrewsbury, was horn in 
Hardin County. Ky., and was a distant relative of 
Robert E. Lee. She died at the age of sixty-four. 
Dr. Chambers, who was a member of the Method- 
ist Episcopal Church South, died in 18t;'.), aged 
forty-seven years. His wife, who is still living. 
was reared and educated in Kentucky, and atten- 
ded the St. Mary's Academy. As she came to this 
city in 1850, she is now among the oldest surviv- 
ing settlers. Her residence is at No. 509 South 
Ninth Street. 

Our subject is the third of three children. His 
elder brother, Allen, who was born in St. Joseph. 
is bookkeeper in the Saxton National Rank. 
Ettie. the second of the family, is now the wife Ol 
!■'.. M. Sweney, Treasurer of the Van Natta Lynds 
Drug Company. Frank Chambers was bom Janu- 
ary 27, 18G8, and received good public and high 
school privileges. When sixteen years old, he be- 
came a clerk in the Stationery business of Wool- 
worth & MePherson. with whom he remained a year. 
He was afterward a clerk in a local freight office 



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of the Missouri Pacific Railroad. For the three 
succeeding years he was in the employ of the Kn- 
giebart, Whining & Davison Company. In January, 
1891, he entered the employ of the R. Douglass 
Crockery Company, with which firm he is still con- 
nected. He is an enterprising young business 
man, and has those qualities of perseverance and 
push that will without doubt in time place him 
among the foremost commercial men of the West. 
Our subject is greatly interested in all kinds of 
athletic and military matters. He is one of the 
charter members of the Wickham Rities, which have 
not only a local but a wide reputation as one of 
the best companies in the State, and he is also a 
member of the Crescent Athletic Association. He 
deposits his ballot in favor of the Democratic nom- 
inees. In manner, he is pleasant and affable, and 
as a consequence numbers many friends. 



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<| felLLIAM KRUMM. St. Joseph has its full 
\rJ// quota of vigorous, enterprising, thorough- 
W%' going business men, whose popularity is 
based upon both their social qualities and their 
well-known integrity and business activity. None 
among these is better liked by those who have 
dealings with them than is he who is the subject 
of our sketch. He is the most popular florist in 
Buchanan County, carrying on a wholesale and 
retail business. He deals extensively in cut flow- 
ers, budding plants, vegetables and vegetable 
plants, his place of business being at the corner of 
Twenty-eighth and Hickory Streets. 

As his name indicates, Mr. Krumm is a native 
of Germany, and the success which he has attained 
is only another example of what industry and 
perseverance can accomplish upon American soil. 
His birth occurred in Prussia, November 5, 1833. 
He remained in bis native land until reaching his 
fifteenth year, then, in IS is, be came to America, 
taking up his residence in Cincinnati, Ohio. He 
bad been finely educated in the German tongue, 
and in Erfurt, Prussia, learned the trade of an 



architect. He followed that branch of business in 
Cincinnati for a few months, but later, finding that 
a brick mason acquired larger pay, learned that 
trade, which he plied in the above city and also in 
Indianapolis and St. Louis. In 1856 he went to 
Quincy, 111., and for seven years was engaged as a 
contractor, builder and manufacturer of brick. 

When establishing a home of his own in 1857, 
Mr. Krumm was married to Miss Margaret Ruff, a 
native of France. She was a daughter of Casper 
Puff, who migrated to America when she was quite 
young. Of their union have been born seven 
children: Casper William, Ada (the wife of Fred 
Lesleir), John William, William II.. Henry W., 
Fred W. and Maggie. 

During the war the original of this sketch went 
to Leavenworth, Kan., and for two years was en- 
gaged as butcher for the soldiers at the fort. In 
the spring of 1866, coming to St. Joseph, he fol- 
lowed his occupation as contractor and builder un- 
til 1870, when he located upon his present beauti- 
ful place. It consisted of twenty-five acres of 
wild land, for the purchase of which "he had to go 
in debt. He was obliged to labor very bard in 
order to support his growing family and pay off 
his indebtedness, but being persevering industri- 
ous and honest, he l*as gained through Ins unaided 
exertions a handsome competence, which shows 
what may be accomplished by energy when coupled 
with a determination to succeed. 

Mr. Krumm is the possessor of the largest and 
best equipped greenhouses and nursery which have 
ever been in the city. He has nine large build- 
ings eighty feet in length and covering over an 
acre of ground. The nursery includes grape vines 
to the amount of two thousand, four thousand 
raspberry bushes, the same number of blackberry 
plants, and two and one-quarter acres of straw- 
berries. The remainder of the estate is devoted to 
raising vegetables, of which he has every known 
variety. He disposes of his products in the St. 
Joseph markets and shipping points within reach. 
His greenhouses are heated by steam and were 
erected at a cost of $12,000. He gives his personal 
attention to the carrying on of this large business 
and keeps in his employ six or seven men. 

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iculture, and in this branch of his business Ik-is 
reaped handsome profits. His plants are :ill in a 
tine and healthy condition and are shipped at all 
seasons of the year to different portions of the 
United states. He makes a specialty of designs 
suitable for funerals, commencement exercises, 
etc., and in ever) instance gives entire satisfaction, 
both as to the quality of Ins flowers, first-class 
workmanship and low prices. 

Both Mr. and Mrs. Krumm are prominent mem- 
bers of the Christian Church, to the support of 
which they are liberal contributors. They have 
given their children an excellent education in the 
German and English tongues, which has fitted 
them to occupy honorable stations in life. So- 
cially, our subject is a Mason, belonging to the 
Blue Lodge, Chapter, Commandery and Mystic 
Shrine. He is also identified with the Independent 
Order of Odd Fellows, being Past Noble Grand in 
the Subordinate Lodge and High Priest of the 
Encampment. He has been a member of the 
Grand Lodge five times, and is also connected with 
the Druids and Knights of Honor, in which latter 
organization he served as Treasurer for two years. 
In politics he votes for Republican candidates. 



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¥MLLIS M. SHERWOOD, Ex-Justice of 
the Peace in St. Joseph, is now retired 
from active business. He was formerly a 
member of the firm of Sherwood & Wade, who 

were engaged in the insurance business with great 
success for many years. lie has held many im- 
portant positions within the gift of the people, and 
has been influential in all things having for their 
object the betterment and growth of this vicin- 
ity. 

Mr. Sherwood was born in Geneva, N. Y., No- 
vember lf>, 1H1H. He isoneof nine children who 
grew to maturity, but four of whom are now liv- 
ing. He was reared in the Empire State on a farm, 

and after attending the Millville Academy en- 



gaged in teaching, after which he took up the 
study of medicine under His. Hill and lord, al 
Medina. N. V. In the fall of 1889, he went to 
Augusta, s. ('., where he taught school for one 
year, and then returned to New York. In 1st I. 
he was married in Broad way 'label naclc. New York 
( ity, to Miss Charlotte C. Hall, who was born in 
Connecticut. After this event. Mr. Sherwood re- 
turned to the South, anil for aboul twelve years 
engaged in medical practice in Duplin County. N. 
C. His next venture was to embark in the whole- 
sale grocery and commission business in Wilming- 
ton. 

In 1857, Mr. Sherwood removed to the West, 
and for one year engaged in general nierehand; 
at Otoe City, Otoe County, Neb. The following 
year he came to St. Joseph, and before he had been 
here a year he was made .Justice of the Peace, 
which position he held for one year. In 
1861, he was Quartermaster of the first troops 
raised in northwestern Missouri, and then entered 
the State militia, and was stationed mosl of the 
time on detached service. In 1868, he was elected 
Clerk of the County Court, and as such served for 
six years, during the most hazardous and troub- 
lous times in the history of the county. lie was a 
decided Onion man. and that fad made it neces- 
sary for him to use great discretion. 

About this time Mr. Sherwood made a study of 
law. and in 1 .M 7 ;i was admitted to the Bar, though 
he did not practice. For a few years he traveled 
as commission man, and then, as previously Stated, 
embarked in the insurance business. ( hi ac- 
count of poor health he was obliged to withdraw 
and travel for a time in California. Since that 
time he has not returned to business circles, lb- 
was Alderman from the First Ward for two years, 
and. in addition to being Cleric of the County 
Court for six years, also filled the position of Clerk 

of the Probate Court for two years. Mr. Sherw 1 

has five living children. M. K. is traveling for 
Taf t & Howland, of Chicago; W. II. is engaged in 
the insurance business in St. Joseph; Mary. Mis. 
McNicl. resides in San Francisco, Cal.; Dr. David 
H.,a graduate of the Fnsworlh Medical College, i> 
practicing in San Francisco; and Ella is a teacher 
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Mr. Sherwood is a Ruling Elder in the West- 
minster Presbyterian Church, which he helped to 
organize in 1853. lie is active in the Sunday- 
school work and has been a teacher and superin- 
tendent in the same. In 1881, the beautiful city 
fountains of St. Joseph were first thought of, and 
Mr. Sherwood was earnest in the advocacy of the 
plan. The Humane Society was also organized in 
this city largely through our subject's labors. He 
was requested to accept the Presidency of the 
same, but. refusing that honor, has nevertheless 
been its Vice-president up to the present time. 

In politics, Mr. Sherwood is a loyal Republican 
and has been a delegate to many County Conven- 
tions. He belongs to Custer Post, G. A. R., of 
which he was formerly Chaplain. In a sketch of 
Ins brother. Rev. E. B. Sherwood, which appears in 
another part of this work, will be found the ances- 
tral history of the family. The parents of our sub- 
ject are John and Lucy (Barber) Sherwood, na- 
tives of Connecticut and Vermont, respectively. 
The father of the former took part in the War of 
1812, and followed agricultural pursuits. Mis. 
Sherwood's father. Judge Norman Barber, was a 
native of New England, and an Attorney and 
Judge of Vermont. John Sherwood was a large 
contractor on the Erie Canal, and was a successful 
business man. Both he and his wife lived to be 
over four-score years of age. 






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^ EREMIAH LA FOLLETT is a leading far- 
mer and stock-raiser of Agency Township, 
Buchanan County. He owns a farm of one 
hundred and twenty-six acres, situated on 
section 4. He is rapidly converting this property 
into a fruit farm, for which it seems specially 
adapted, and has over one thousand apple trees 
alone, and probably the finest varieties of this use- 
ful fruit to lie found in the county. He is recog- 
nized as one of the progressive and energetic men 
of the community with which he has been identi- 
fied for about twenty years. 



The birth of Mr. La Follett occurred in Putnam 
Count}-, Ind., in 1833. He was the seventh in 
order of birth in a family of ten children born to 
Joseph and Hester (Uinton) La Follett, who were 
natives of Kentucky, where they grew to mature 
years and were married. In 1826 they removed 
to Indiana, where they spent the remainder of 
their lives. The father became quite well-to-do 
and was a highly respected citizen of Putnam 
Count}-. Our subject's paternal grandfather. Usual 
La Follett, was a native Kentiickian, but his an- 
cestors originally came from France. 

Mr. La Follett's youth and early manhood were 
passed in his native State and county, where he 
was given a good general education. When he 
was twenty years old he went overland to Cali- 
fornia, driving an ox-team. He remained over 
two years in the Golden State, where he had good 
success, but was unfortunate in losing his property 
by a tire. He returned home via the Isthmus of 
Panama and New York. Again leaving home in 
1862, he removed to Iowa, where he resided for 
about two years, and then removed to Holt Count}-, 
Mo., from where, after a three-years residence, 
he emigrated to Oregon. He there engaged in 
farming and stock-raising for four years, return- 
ing in 1871 to Missouri. He concluded to try his 
fortunes in Buchanan Count} and therefore loca- 
ted on the farm where he still resides. He has 
made many improvements on this place, having 
erected a substantial residence and barns and in. 
other ways increased its value. 

In 1862, before finally leaving his native State, 
Mr. La Follett married Miss Sarah Fairish, who 
was born in Indiana, but whose parents were from 
Kentucky. Nine children have blessed this union. 
Sarah L. died at the age of three years, and the 
other members of the family are as follows: Hester 
A.. Gertrude, Leonora. Charles II., Jessie S.. Dora 
1... < trover C. and Ellsworth. As were most of his 
people before him, our subject is a stanch Demo- 
crat. Socially he is a Mason, having been a mem- 
ber of the fraternity for many years. The cause 
of education has always found in him a warm 
supporter and friend. Both he and his amiable 
wife are members of the Missionary Baptist Church. 
All movements tending to benefit the community 




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or the public at huge Bnd in him an able advo- 
cate, for, as every true American citizen should be, 
he is keenly alive to whatever may affect bfs 
country's interests. 



ACOB KESSLER is the owner of a farm 
I comprising two hundred and tour acres, 
: about half of which he cultivates, lie keeps 
\~_y a good grade of stock, and is engaged in 
mixed fanning. In 187S he built a residence at a 
cost of $2,000, and has erected other good farm 
buildings. His tine orchard, comprising one hun- 
dred and twenty tree-, he set out. himself. These, 
among many others, are the improvements he has 
placed upon the farm, and altogether he is justly 
esteemed one of the best agriculturists of town- 
ship .")7, range 38, Buchanan County, his farm be- 
ing on section 5. 

Sebastian Kessler, the father of the gentleman 
whose name heads this sketch, was horn in 1795, 
in Wurtemberg, Germany, and was a farmer by 
occupation. Our subject's mother, whose maiden 
name was Solastica Kutz, was also born in Wur- 
temberg, in the year 1805. They were married in 
the Fatherland, emigrating to America in 1831 
and settling on a farm in Mark County, Ohio. 
Seven years later they came fo Missouri, settling 
on section (1 of this township, and taking up a 
Government claim of wild land. There were few 
settlers in the region at the time, and the family 
led a regular pioneer life. The father built a log 
house, which is still standing, the oldest building 
in the township, and so substantially was it con- 
structed that it has been occupied up to the pres- 
ent day. Mr. Kessler, who died in 1845, was a 
member of the Catholic Church, as was also his 
wife, who departed this life in L870. They had a 
family of eleven children, six of whom still Bur- 
vive, our subject being the eldest son now living. 

Jacob Kessler was born .May 2 1 , 1882, in Stark 
County, Ohio, and was consequently only seven 
years of age when he first landed in Missouri. 



The journex was made h\ boat down the Ohio and 

up the Mississippi River to si. Louis, from which 
point they proceeded up the Missouri to Liberty, 
making the remainder of the distance with ox- 
teams. At lirst two families lived in tin' same log 

cabin, the other being Widow Boyer's family, com- 
prising seven members, there being eight of the 

Kessler family. For a number of year- the pioneers 
of that township went as far as WestOD to mill, and 
also to Rochester, selling wheat at thirty-five < cuts 
a bushel, bill tci for two cents a pound cash, anil 
oats at five cents a bushel. Our subject had verj 
meagre opportunities for an education, and learned 
the blacksmith trade under William Cartel', of St. 
Joseph, for whom he worked three years. In 1858 
he crossed the plains to California by OX- team, 
helping to drive the cattle, and was four months 
on the wa\ to his destination, Hangtown, Cal. lb' 
commenced mining, and steadily worked at the 
business for four years, being fairly successful, lie 
came home by way of the Isthmus of Panama, and 
then engaged in farming for a while. 

It was in the year 1858 that the marriage of Mi'. 
Kessler with Margaret Beck was celebrated. Her 
parents, Wolfgang and Catherine (Charioux) Beck, 
were natives of Wurtemberg and Sarrbruck, Ger- 
many, respectively. They had both come to Amer- 
ica before their marriage, which took place about 
the year 1833, in Canton, Ohio, and in 1845 they 
removed to Missouri, settling on section 19, this 
township. The father died in 1881, but his wife 
is still living. They were the parents of seven 
children, three of whom are deceased. .Mis. Kess- 
ler was born September .'Kb 1888, in Stark County, 
Ohio. 

After his marriage our subject settled on his 
present farm, which was then all wild land, and 
for about thirty-five years has given his time and 
attention to its cultivation. Five children, two of 
Whom arc living, came to bless the home of Mr. 
and Mrs. Kessler. Mary, deceased, was the wife of 
Alexander Fischer, and the mother of two chil- 
dren ; Josephine and Catherine, both deceased, were 
the wives of Joseph Sleigher and Joseph Weipert, 
respectively; Celestia is the wife of Jacob Wei- 
pert; and Rosanna Amelia completes the family. 
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Kessler has been a member of the School Board, 
building three schoolhouses here. During the 
Civil War he was one of the Enrolled Militia for 
eight months in 18G2, and again in 1864heserved 
in the same branch for two months. He easts his 
ballot in favor of the representatives of the Re- 
publican party. Beginning in life with nothing, 
he has worked his way steadily upward by honest 
industry and perseverance. 



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TEPHEN D. REYNOLDS, M. D., is Coro- 
ner of Buchanan County, and makes his 
home in St. Joseph. He is a man of firm 
convictions as to the manner in which a 
public trust or office should be filled, and in the 
discharge of his duties is thoroughly conscientious 
and sincere. It is his main object to give the 
people the best service of which he is capable, and, 
while strong and decided on any question, he is 
like the world-famed and heroic doctor who in 
1892 fought the cholera at New York, regardless 
of personal risk, putting his theoretical belief into 
practical action. Though a young man, young in 
years, if not in experience, Dr. Reynolds has al- 
ready gained a large practice, and may be proud 
of the prominence to which he has attained in the 
ranks of his profession. 

The gentleman whose name heads this sketch 
was born in the town of Agenc}', Buchanan 
County, July 3, 1869, his parents being James J. 
and Eliza (Gibson) Reynolds, the former a native 
of Tennessee, who came to this State in his boy- 
hood, and was one of the pioneers of this locality. 
He is still living on his original farm, where he 
located so many years ago, and is now approach- 
ing four-score years. Our subject was reared 
On the farm and received his rudimentary educa- 
tion in the district schools. When only seventeen 
he began reading medicine with Dr. C. R. Wood- 
son, later taking a medical course in the Knsworth 
Medical College, in St. Joseph, graduating in the 
Class of 'DO. He then took a course of lectures 



in the St. Louis Medical College, since which time 
he has been engaged in active practice, and in 
November, 1892, was elected Coroner as a nomi- 
nee of the Democratic party. It is entirely owing 
to his merits as a man and the position he had at- 
tained as a physician, that he was accorded this 
high honor, as he is not a politician in any sense 
of the term, and yielded rather to the wishes of 
his friends. 

At her mother's old homestead on December 9, 
1890, a marriage ceremony was performed which 
united the fortunes of Dr. Reynolds and Miss 
Hilah L. Floyd, who is a daughter of Merrill 
Floyd, who for many years was a farmer and 
miller at Rushville, but is now deceased. At that 
town occurred the birth of Mrs. Reynolds, who is 
a well-educated and cultured lad)-. In the Doc- 
tor's pleasant home at No. 2617 Petit Street, 
Mrs. Reynolds presides, making a graceful and 
charming hostess, one whose greatest pleasure it 
is to give a cordial welcome and hospitable greet- 
ing to their many friends. The Doctor is a mem- 
ber of Agency Lodge No. 10, of which he has been 
Senior Warden. It is safe to predict that this 
bright and active young doctor has a career before 
him full of great promise and growing usefulness. 
He is active and alert, it being his full intention 
to keep thorough^' posted on every discovery of 
scienoe and practice in regard to the best methods 
of treating and combating disease, and to this 
may be attributed in a large measure the success 
which attends his efforts. 




E. MARSHALL. Among the many en- 
terprising contractors and builders of St. 
Joseph, where some of the finest structures 
to be found in Western cities have been 
erected as monuments to the noticeable commer- 
cial spirit, is the gentleman whose life record we 
will proceed to briefly sketch. He was born in 
Lewes, Sussex County, Del., September is, 1856, 
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run id in the village of Milton, of the same county. 
Our subject's paternal grandfather, who bore the 
Christian name of Aaron, was of Scotch descent, 
and was owner of :i vessel engaged in the coasting 
trade. 

John P. Marshall was also interested in marine 
matters, and owned a vessel, of which he was cap- 
tain. In later life he engaged in running a stage 
line from I. ewes to Milford. He is now in his 
sixty-sixth year, and is living retired from busi- 
ness cares at Lewes, Del. During the laic Civil 
War be was in the Union service, being stationed 
at Ft. Delaware. He was an active worker in the 
Presbyterian Church. His wife, whose maiden 
name was Margaret Hall, was born in Lewes. She 
was the daughter of Dr. Henry Hall, a physician 
who controlled a large practice during his entire 
life, lie was a member of an old and respected 
Delaware family, and during the early part of the 
war was in the service. .Mrs. Marshall became the 
mother of eight children, six of the number still 
surviving. She was called from the shores of 
time in 1871, leaving many who deeply mourned 
her loss. 

I). K. Marshall passed his youth on the Atlantic 
Coast and remained at home attending the common 
schools until his sixteenth year. He then went to 
Philadelphia, where he was apprenticed as a brick- 
layer for four years. He afterward for two years 
engaged in the same business in the Quaker City, 
and then returned to his native village, where he 
engaged in contracting and building for a year 
and a-half. Believing that the West was a better 
field for advancement, he removed to Kansas. 
He obtained a clerkship with a lumber linn in 
Frankfort, Marshall County, and remained with 
them about two years. 

In the spring of 1881, Mr. Marshall arrived in 
St. Joseph. For three years he engaged in work- 
ing at his trade, until he obtained a foothold and 

became acquainted with the business men of the 
city. He then returned to contract work .and has 
been very successful, having secured a large share 
Of the work recently done in this vicinity. Among 
the buildings on which he Secured contracts are 
the following: that of Richardson, Roberts, Byrne 
a- Co.. wholesale house; that of the Wood Manu- 



facturing Co.; and of the German- American Bank. 
In addition to these we could name many others — 
schoolhouses and residences or well-known citi- 
zens — that are monuments to his handiwork. In 
1889 the Builders' & Traders' Exchange was or- 
ganized, and among the most interested of its 
members has always been Mr. Marshall, who was 
its Secretary for two years. 

Our subject built a pleasant residence at Nos. 
1104 and 1106 North Eighteenth street. The 
lady who graciously presides over this home was 
formerly Miss Adeliza Shindle. of La Fayette, hid., 
in which city she was married to our subject in 
1882. She is a native of Indiana, and by her 
marriage has become the mother of two children, 
Jennie and Delia. 

In local Republican circles Mr. Marshall is quite 
prominent, and has been a member of both city 
and county Republican committees. He served 
for one year as an Alderman of the First Ward. 
and for a like period of time as Alderman of the 
Second Ward. Fraternally, he is connected with 
Charity Lodge No. 331, A. F. A- A. M.. and with 
Invincible Lodge No. 470, I. ( >. 0. F. lleis :i 
Trustee and a member in good standing of the 
Westminster Presbyterian Church. 



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^pSsLIVEU PERRY NEWBERRY. Thereisno 

I J] name more intimately connected with the 
*^/' grandest accomplishments in American his- 
tory than that of Newberry. To bear the name 
may well be deemed an honor by any man, and to 
devote a few pages to the biography of one of its 
members adds to the value of any book. 1 1 i* 
therefore with pleasure that we record the princi- 
pal events in the life of the gentleman whose name 

introduces this sketch, and who, although now de- 
parted from this life, still lives in the affection of 
descendants and friends. 

The name of Newberry has become especially 

well known among the American people through 

the gifl to the city of Chicago of the famous New- 



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benv Library, which now occupies a splendid 
building on the North Side. This was the dona- 
tion of Gen. Walter C. Newberry, Member of Con- 
gress, who came to Chicago at an early day and 
accumulated a fine property through judicious in- 
vestments. A man of philanthropic nature and 
generous disposition, he gave liberally of his means 
throughout his life to aid all worthy enterprises 
and to relieve the suffering, but, not content with 
doing good to that limited extent, he crowned all 
former gifts by the well-known library which is 
named in his honor. Mis wife and two daughters 
died in Europe, and he started across the ocean, 
but died en route. Ilis will bequeathed his prop- 
erty to his wife's relatives and to the Newberry 
family, the latter receiving one third of the 
estate. 

The only brother of Gen. Newbefry above 
named was Oliver Perry Newbeny (deceased), 
the subject of this sketch. He was born in Water- 
ville, Oneida County, N. Y.. May 8, 1836, and was 
the son of Amasa S. and Cornelia C. Newberry. 
After graduating from a school at Itica, N. Y., he 
came to Missouri in company with Col. Osborne, 
and as he was a civil engineer by occupation, found 
employment in surveying the Hannibal & St. 
Joseph Railroad, and had charge of the work of 
leveling the road. That contract filled, he re- 
turned to New York and spent one year, after 
which he again sought this State, making it his 
permanent home. 

June 10, 1860, Mr. Newberry was united in 
marriage with Elizabeth L., daughter of Samuel 
and Melinda (Cameron) McCorkle. Her mother 
was born in Tennessee, May 17,. 1807, and when 
five years old accompanied her parents to Mis- 
souri, settling in Clay County. There, in Decem- 
ber. 1825, she became the wife of Samuel Mc- 
Corkle. with whom ten years later she went to 
De Kalb County, about one mile north of what is 
now the city of Cameron, but then an open prairie. 
They wcii' virtually the first settlers there, but 
others Minn followed and became neighbors. In 
the fall of 1855 the present town was hud out by 
Mr. McCorkle, who owned fine thousand acres of 
these lands, and the new village was called Cam- 
eron in I of his wife. Samuel McCorkle died 



in 1856; his wife, who survived him many years, 
passed away February 12, 1888. Three of their 
children still live, namely: A. J., who resides in 
Jamestown, Colo.; Mrs. Susan Harris, and Mrs. 
Newberry, of Cameron. 

Mrs. Newberry was born at Liberty, Mo., -Oc- 
tober 3, 1834, and on the Christmas following the 
family went to DeKalb County and moved into 
a shanty one mile northeast of the present site of 
Cameron. The father, who had removed to Clay 
County from Howard County, Ky., when only 
seventeen years old, developed a fine farm from 
the new land and became the owner of consider- 
able property, including from twenty to thirty 
slaves. He served for several years as County 
Judge, and in man}' ways was prominently identi- 
fied with this section of Missouri. The names of 
Samuel and Melinda McCorkle are worthy to be 
perpetuated in a volume dedicated to the pioneers 
of the community, toward the development of 
which they contributed so effectively. They pos- 
sessed kindly traits of character and made friends 
among all classes of people. 

After marriage, Oliver P. Newberry settled on 
land inherited by his wife. Of the two hundred 
acres which she owned, fifteen acres were in the 
city of Cameron, and upon that property they 
erected a substantial residence. During the Civil 
War, Mr. Newberry organized a company and was 
the first man to raise troops here. His company, 
which was mustered into service at St. Joseph, was 
with Col. Peabody, and marched to Vicksburg, 
thence to St. Louis, and our subject was detached 
on provost duty at Rolla, Mo. For fidelity in the 
service he was breveted Major, and during the 
famous Price raid was sent with troops after that 
General. At the time of the Vicksburg campaign 
he was on Gen. Grant's staff, and while serving 
under him participated in the battle of Shiloh. 
His widow has in her possession a letter from him, 
dated "'Camp Prentiss, after battle, April 8, 1862, 
ten o'clock a. m.," in which he gives Maj. Baubic 
an accurate account of the battle and of the death 
of Gen. Peabody. The letter is signed "O. 1'. New- 
berry, A. R. G. M., Twenty-fifth Regiment Mis- 
souri Volunteers. 

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covered a period of four years and more, Mr. 
Newberry returned to Cameron and resumed the 
practice of law, which be continued until three 
months before bis decease. He passed away June 
in, 1874, mourned by his many friends. Active 
in all public matters as :i Democrat of do uncer- 
tain tone, he served as the first Clerk of Cameron, 
ami iii many other ways contributed to the welfare 
of the city. He and his wife were the parents of 
three children: Walter F.. who is the owner of a 
storage warehouse in Chicago; Ella L'., wife of 
Frank E. Darby, of Cameron; and Samuel A., also 
a residenl of Cameron. Mrs. Newberry has reared 
a boy named Arthur F. Musselman, who is now 
(ls'j:!) nineteen years "hi and is at present em- 
ployed as clerk in a shoe store in Cameron, lie 
has been with her for seven years, meanwhile re- 
ceiving the same care and affection which had been 
bestowed upon her own children in their child- 

1 1. He was graduated from the Cameron High 

School at the age of seventeen, and enjoys the 
distinction of being the youngest hoy ever grad- 
uated from the school. 




ATHER SERAPHIM KUNKLER,* member 

of the C. P. P. S., is the well-educated and 
popular pastor of St. Francis Xavier's 
Church in St. Joseph. He was horn in Baden, 
Germany, near Friberg, August 28, 1851, and is a 
son of George Kunkler, also a native of Baden, 
who was in the German army during the Revolu- 
tion Of 1X10, and was a weaver of fancy goods. 
His death occurred in his native land about the 
year 1880. He was t Mice married, the mother of 
our subject being before her marriage .Miss Cath- 
erine Furtwangler, who was born in Baden and 
died in the Fatherland in 1865. Our subject was 
the only child, and was reared in Baden, receiving 
a good education in the public schools until attain- 
ing the age of fifteen years, when he was appren- 
ticed to learn the weaver's business with his father. 



and continued in that line Of occupation for two 
years, when became to America. His uncle, the 
Vcr\ Rev. Father Andrew Kunkler, was the Pro- 
vincial of the congregation of the Pro ions Blood, 
being located at .Minster. Auglaize County, Ohio. 
In 1868 be returned to Germany on a visit, and on 
his return to America brought our subject with 
him. They left Hamburg, October lb. 1868, in the 
steanier "Simbria," landing in New York City No- 
vember 13. They at once set out for Ohio, u 
the nephew was placed in the Seminary ol s !. 
Charles liorromco. at Cathaevna. After attending 
that institution for ten years, pursuing both a class- 
ical and theological course of study, our subject 
was graduated in the spring of 1879, and was or- 
dained in Ft. Wayne, Ind.. by Bishop Joseph 
Dwenger, now deceased. 

Father Kunkler. on commencing his duties in 
the ministry, was for about One year Deacon in Ft. 
Wayne, and assisted the Brothers at Huntington, 
Ohio. He was for six months pastor in Clandorf, 
Putnam County, then going to Ft. Recovery he 
was there tor six months, thence being transferred 
to Nashville, Tenn., where he was for four years 
Pastor of the Church of the Assumption of the 
Blessed Virgin. In 1885 he was sent west, being 
located in Beloit, Kan., as pastor of the Church of 
St. John the Baptist, and while there stationed :i 
good school building was erected, which was con- 
ducted under his supervision. At the end of three 
years of faithful service there he was -cut nearly 
to the Colorado line, in Ilerndon. Kan., where he 
had about five churches to overlook, and traveled 
to Rawlins, ( Iheyenne, Thomas and Sherman Coun- 
ties, holding meetings and having mass in private 
houses. 

At the end of about one year and a-half Father 
Kunkler was transferred to Montrose, Mo., where 
he remained for about eighteen months, or until 
May, 1891, when he came to st. Joseph and com- 
pleted his present church, which was only built a 
portion of it> present height. The congregation 
he has through his ministry largely increased, and 
under his management the building has been nearly 
paid for. The congregation numbers aboul eight} 
families, anil in 1891 a school in connection with 
the church was started, which is also doing »ell. 



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The church was dedicated June 14, 1891, and the 
following Sunday a regular meeting was held in the 
edilice. In 1892 was erected a substantial parson- 
age, and thus in the various work and enterprises 
of the church can be plainly seen the influence and 
enthusiasm of the young pastor. 

Politically he casts his ballot in favor of Demo- 
cratic nominees and measures. 






'.|£_ KNliY M. COOPER,a prominent contractor 

and builder of Cameron, has engaged in 
?y business here since September, 1881, and 
v|P has acquired a recognized position as a 
skillful and enterprising business man, who 
thoroughly understands all the details of his occu- 
pation. He takes contracts to erect houses and 
business blocks, and has charge of the entire work, 
from the labor of excavation and putting in of 
the foundation to the completion of the building. 
All the business and residence structures erected 
under his supervision combine artistic elegance 
with practical adaptation to the purposes for which 
they are designed, and the entire satisfaction 
given by his professional services is attested by 
his large and steadily growing patronage, which 
keeps him constantly busy and also requires the 
employment of several men. 

The early years of Mr. Cooper were passed on 
a farm about nine miles from Steubeuville, Ohio, 
where he was born May 8, 1849. After the ac- 
quirement of a common-school education, he served 
an apprenticeship of two years at the trade of a 
contractor and builder. For a time he followed 
that occupation in Iowa, and in the fall of 1869 
came to Missouri, where he located near Mirabile, 
Caldwell County. He remained in that place un- 
til, as above stated, he came to Cameron in 1881, 
and has since made his home in this city. He has 
followed his trade for twenty-two years, and 
such has been his material success, that, although 
he came West entirely without means, he has at- 
tained a comfortable competence by the exercise 



of good judgment, and by his unremitting 
labor and sterling integrity. 

December 1, 1871, Mr. Cooper married Miss 
Sarah .1. Smith, the marriage ceremony taking 
place in Caldwell Count}-, Mo. Mrs. Cooper was 
born in Coshocton County, Ohio, and at the age 
of fourteen came to Missouri, at the same time that 
Mr. Cooper removed to Iowa, the two meeting en 
route for the first time. The acquaintance thus 
begun ripened into friendship and resulted in their 
congenial union for life. They have been be- 
reaved by the death of three children in infancy, 
and the only surviving child is Louie, who was 
born June 30, 1880. 

In his political sympathies Mr. Cooper is a Re- 
publican, and is steadfast in his adherence to the 
principles of that party. However, he has never 
been active in his partisanship, and is not a poli- 
tician in the ordinary acceptation of that word. 
For nine years he served as Councilman, and 
for six years was a member of the School Board, 
to which he was elected as the unanimous choice 
of the people of his ward, and without solicita- 
tion on his part. Financially, he is well-to-do, 
and is the owner of three neat and comfortable 
residences in Cameron. He and his wife are mem- 
bers of the Presbyterian Church, and are highly 
esteemed in the city where they have so long re- 
sided. His social connections are with the Inde- 
pendent Order of Odd Fellows, and he has exerted 
considerable influence as a prominent factor in its 
success. 



\Y/()HN F. McCALE is a successful engineer 
on the Kansas City Line, running between 
^ St. Joseph and Kansas City. He was born 
(vjg/' in Iiichford, Vt., on the 6th of November. 
1843, and is a son of Patrick McCale, who was of 
Scotch-Irish descent. He was a farmer by occupa- 
tion and died when our subject was only a babe. 
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was born in Massachusetts and is still living, 
though will along in yours, in Gaysville, Yt. (if 
her three children, only two are now Living. 

Mr. McCale, who was next to the eldest child of 
his parents, passed las early days on the farm be- 
longing to his father. As is usual in the life of 
the farmer's hoy, little of importance occurred 
during the peaceful routine of those years. He at- 
tended the common schools in the neighborhood, 
and when fourteen years old went to New Hamp- 
shire, where he worked for farmers during the 
sumnier season, and in the winter went to school, 
in this manner paying his own way for three years. 

Mr. McCale was about eighteen years old when 
he fust engaged in railroading, entering the em- 
ploy of a railroad in New Hampshire as a brake- 
man in 1861. In the spring of 1862 he went to 
Massachusetts, working as a fireman on the Fitch- 
burg Railroad, and at the expiration of two or 
three years was made an engineer with the same 
company. He was next employed by the Central 
Vermont Railroad Company, first as fireman and 
then as engineer, running out of st. Albans for six 
years. Later Mr. McCale took the southeastern 
run between Newport, Vt., and Montreal. For 
three years thereafter he was foreman of the round- 
house. 

Mr. McCale came West in 1881, entered the em- 
ploy of the Denver it Rio Grande Railroad, where 
he served as an engineer for over one year, and 
then went to Leavenworth, occupying a similar 
position with the Leavenworth, Topeka A- South- 
western Railroad for a year and a-half. He was 
next a switch-engineer with the Missouri Pacific, 
and afterward an engineer on the Kansas Central 
Line between Leavenworth and Garrison. 

About this time Mr. McCale concluded to leave 
the railroad business, and for eight or nine months 
following was Superintendent of Bridge Construc- 
tion for the Missouri Valley Bridge and Iron 
Works. For three years lie was foreman of the 
gas works which were elected in Ottawa, Kan. 
Going to Kansas City on September5, 1888, he 
was made an engineer of the company with which 
he is still connected and runs both passenger and 
freight train'-, lie has been so long iii this parti- 
cular branch of business that his superiors feci 



they may safely place -real confidence m his judg- 
ment and integrity. 

The first marriage of our subject was celebrated 
in Vermont with Miss Malvina L. Johnson, who 
was burn in Canada and died in Kansas, in 1871. 
she was the mother of two boy-. Leonard E. and 
A. I-!., who are both enterprising young business 
men of Leadville, Colo., and are members of the 
Order Of Red Men. In Ottawa. Kan.. Mr. McCale 
married Mrs. Mary A. Boyd, who was bom in 
Iowa. 

In politics Mr. McCale is a stanch Republican, 
and fraternally is a member of the Knights of 
Pythias, lie is personally very popular, and well 
merits the high esteem in which he is held by all 
who have the pleasure of his acquaintance. 



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<fl fr F. STARRS, M. D., is the leading and pop- 

\/jJ/l ul;u l' n . v " u '' au ot Gower, Clinton County. 
^)fj He was born in Scotland County, Mo., in 
March, 18:57, and is a son of Price Starks, who was 
a native of Kentucky, and one of the early settlers 
of Scotland County. The father in his early man- 
hood married Miss Kmeline Ellis, of Kentucky, 
and by their union were born ten children, of 
whom our subject is the eldest living. 

The boyhood days of Doctor Starks were passed 
on his father's farm in Scotland County, and his 
education was obtained in the common school- of 

the neighbor!; 1. When sixteen years of age he 

entered St. Francis College, where lie pursued his 
studies for one year. He early determined to adopt 
the profession of medicine*, and at that time com- 
menced reading with Dr. T.M.L. Thorn, of Platte 
County. His first course of lecture- was taken in 
Louisville, Ky., after which he attended the Pope 
School, from which institution he was graduated 
in L861. He commenced to practice in Buchanan 
County. Mo., where he remained for about fifteen 
years. In 1876 he located in (lower, where he has 
been engaged in practice up to the presenl time. 
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keeps well abreast of the limes in his reading and 
study. He owns two hundred and twenty acres of 
desirable farm, land, all of which is under cultiva- 
tion and well improved. 

In 1868 Doctor Starks was united in marriage 
with Miss Anna E. Stamper, who is a native of 
Missouri. Two children grace their union: Charles 
and Josephine. Doctor Starks uses his right of 
franchise in favor of the Democratic party, and 
takes an active part in all movements tending to- 
ward the welfare of his fellow-citizens. Both Mr. 
and Mrs. Starks are members of the Christian 
Church of Gower, and are highly respected in 
church and social circles. 



^■55, EORGK M. GOOD. Among the very pop- 
III ular veiling men of St. Joseph, Buchanan 

V V^JJ(! County, is he of whom we write, who is 
doing a lucrative and successful business in his 
pharmacy at the corner of Eighth and Locust 
Streets, lie is a member of the City Pharmaceuti- 
cal Association, and belongs to the State Associa- 
tion as well. 

The birth of Mr. Good occurred in Adair Coun- 
ty, Mo., April 29, 1863, and when he was three 
years old his parents, Joseph and Hannah Good, 
both natives of Pennsylvania, removed to St. Jo- 
seph. Our subject was educated in the public and 
high schools until sixteen years of age, when he 
began to clerk in Samuel I. Smith & Company's 
wholesale drug house, afterward becoming the 
city salesman of that linn, which was finally 
changed to Smith, Van Notta & Co., druggists. 

At the expiration of live years, Mr. Good en- 
tered the emploj of the retail druggis.t, Orson 
Brokaw, as a clerk, and continued with him for 
the two years following. In 188.5 he bought out 
o. Brokaw, and has since conducted the business 
just across the street from its former location. The 
linn is now George M. Good & Co. In 1890 Mr. 
Good took an examination and was registered as 



a pharmacist. He derives his custom particularly 
from the railroads. 

In political circles Mr. Good takes a leading- 
part. In the spring of 1892 lie was nominated 
and elected on the Democratic ticket as Alderman 
of the Fifth Ward. He is Chairman of the Fi- 
nance Committee, a member of the Board of 
Health, and also Chairman of the Ordinance Com- 
mittee. He belongs to the Jefferson Club. 

In Atchison, Kan., October 23, 1888, occurred 
the wedding of Mr. Good and Miss Donna Clark, 
who was born in Brooklield, Mo., and who is a 
daughter of T. N. Clark, an old conductor on the 
Chicago, Burlington & Kansas City Railroad. Mr. 
and Mrs. Good have one child, a little daughter, 
Grace, who is the life of their home. Mrs. Good, 
who is a cultured and estimable lady, makes a 
charming hostess, and takes great pleasure in en- 
tertaining the many friends of herself and hus- 
band at their cozy home, located at No. 408 South 
Ninth Street. Mr. Good is deeply interested in the 
cause of education, and during the years of 1887 
and 1888 was a member of the City School Board, 
on which he did cilicient service. He is courteous 
and obliging, and his patrons speedily become his 
warm personal friends. Having passed nearly his 
entire life in St. Joseph, he has become so greatly 
interested in her future, that in every possible way 
he strives to contribute to her success. 



\fpT^RANCLS ARMSTRONG SIMMONS, M. I)., 
N was one of the organizers of the North- 




western Medical College, of which he was 
chosen President and Professor of the Theory and 
Practice of Medicine, positions which he has filled 
with credit to himself and to the school. He has 
for years been a member of the prominent medical 
organizations, local. State and National, and is a 
writer of ability, having been for the greater por- 
tion of his professional life a contributor to the 
medical and secular press, and was one of the 
founders of the Western Medical and Surgical Be- 



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porter, of which he is now associate editor. As a 
physician, be is considered one of the best, and has 
a large practice in this locality. 

Our subjeet is a native of Surry County, N. <'., 
born March 17, 1880. Ili.s parents, Peter Pruetl 
and Nancy (Armstrong) Simmons, were in affluent 
circumstances in their Southern homo, the father 
being engaged in the manufacture of iron and also 
in mercantile pursuits. The family removed to 
Missouri in the spring of 1841, settling for a time 
in Platte County, near the town of Weston. The 
children, six sons and four daughters, were de- 
prived of their parents soon after landing in their 
new home, as the father died in August, 1841, and 
the mother in April, of the following- year. The 
children exercised wise judgment in keeping to- 
gether and did not scatter, as so many families do 
under like circumstances. The older ones supported 
and educated the younger members of the family. 

In 1850 we find our subject attending Chapel 
Hill College, in La Fayette County, Mo., where he 
pursued a literary course and then at once com- 
menced the Studj of medicine, foi which he had a 
special inclination. lie commenced the practice 
of medicine in 1856, in Cass County. Neb., where 
he resided during all the troublous period of the 
war. A company was raised in that locality, and 
he wa- elected Captain, but resigned to attend to 
his professional duties. In imgi he removed to 

Rochester, Andrew County, .Mo., where he became 
very popular and was the first Mayor of the place. 
He had the honor of drafting the constitution and 
by-laws and staitcd the machinery of municipal 
government. It was largely to his tact and excel- 
lent judgment that a union of discordant elements 
of the neighborhood was effected, which was 
a thing of lasting good to the whole people. What 
had been a section of strife and sanguinary combat 
between neighbors politically antagonistic became 
peaceful, quiet ami law-abiding. 

In Platte County, on May 12, 1853, Dr. Sim- 
mon-married Mis- Lucy A. Ilolbert. a native of 
si. Louis, where -he was educated. To them have 
been bom four daughters. Flora I... wife of Joseph 
s. Blount, dieil in si. Joseph in is<s:; ; Mary !•'.. is 

the wife of Dr. C. F. Davis, of I niOU, Neb ; Nan- 
nie A. became the wife of Dr. G. L. Sherman, of 



this city; and Clara l.avinia is the wife of F/.ekial 

Pratt Davis, her h e being in Union, Neb. 

Mr. Simmons has been engaged in the real-estate 
business somewhat since 1889, having laid out 
Missouri Park Addition, a tract of ten acres, and 
having bought, -old and built residences in differ- 
ent parts of the city. During the late war he was 
on the Union side, and though now alliliated with 
the Democratic party, is not radical in his belief, 
lie was one of the founders <if the Andrew County 
Medical Society, of which he was made President. 
and was atone time Vice-President Of the District 
Medical Association, of northwestern Missouri, also 
being a member of the State Medical and Ameri- 
can Medical Associations. 



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^HO.MAS JEFFERSON BURGESS, Presi- 

//S\ dent ..)' the Purge— ,V Fraser Iron and Ilard- 
NSg^ ware Company at NOS. 210 to 211 South 
Fourth Street, st. Joseph, is a prominent and in- 
fluential citizen, and for many years has been ac- 
tively engaged in promoting the best interests and 
welfare of this beautiful and wonderfully growing 
Western city. 

Mr. Hinges- was born in May's Lick. Mason 
County, Ky., June L5, 1*2*. His father, John D., 

a native Of Maryland, went to Kentucky when a 
boy, and when grown wedded Miss l.ydia M. Wise, 
of Mason County. Our subject remained in his 
native Stale until reaching his majority, when In' 
came to St. Joseph, arriving here in March. 1850. 
He fitted out a team in company with his brother- 
in-law, Walker G. Peed, of this city, for the pur- 
pose of going to California. They also titled out 

-e\ era! other team-, taking men with them to work 
in the mine-. (In their arrival in Nevada City. 
1 1 1 1 ■ \ engaged in mining near that point. While 
there Mr. BurgeSS commenced studying law, and 
later taking a course at GraSS Valley, Was II af- 
ter admitted to llie Par in Nevada < it.\ b\ .bulge 

William T. Barber,of the District Court. Later he 
became Associate Count) Judge, and as such dia- 



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posed of many criminal and civil cases. In 1851 
lie made the face for Sheriff of Nevada County, 
his opponent being William M. Stewart (now Uni- 
ted States Senator), and he had intimate relations 
with many other prominent men. Practicing in 
California until 1858, he then returned to St. 
.Joseph, where his father had previously settled on 
a place about one mile east of the city. He died 
here in the fall of 1874, aged seventy-seven years. 
His wife had passed away ten years previously. 

After his return to Missouri, Mr. Burgess did 
not practice his profession for some time, but set- 
tled on a farm and devoted himself to breeding 
and raising fine stock. Each year he visited the 
Kentucky State Fair, and purchased his tine stock 
in that State. At the end of ten years, he came 
to this city, and about two years since was organ- 
ized the present company, of which he is a member 
and which succeeded the St. Joseph Iain Company. 
The capital stock of the present firm is $60,000, 
and our subject attends principally to that busi- 
ness. 

Though he has tnven up farming, Mr. Burgess 
still owns a fine farm of nearly three bundled 
acres, with a number of fine Shorthorn cattle and 
excellent horses. The fine Commercial Block, on 
the corner of Sixth and Edmunds Streets, was 
erected at a cost of $60,000, and is now occupied 
by the Central Savings Hank, of which he is Presi- 
dent. In the enterprise of erecting this building, 
Mr. Burgess was prominently identified. In com- 
pany with a few other leading men, our subject 
purchased the stock of the Merchants' Bank, in- 
creasing the capital stock, and later sold out at 
&130 a share. He is a Director in the syndicate 
that bought the Brookdale Addition, just outside 
the city limits on the east. Mr. Burgess had owned 
the most of the land previously; it was platted by 
the organization, and as the city is growing in all 
directions it is increasing greatly in value. 

Mr. Burgess and Martha P. Owens were united 
in marriage December 22, L859. Mrs. Burgess is a 
native of Maryland, and is a daughter of Benja- 
min Owens, at the time of their marriage of An- 
drew County, but since deceased. Mrs. Burgess 
was reared in her native State and came with her 
parents to Missouri in her girlhood. By her mar- 



riage she has become the mother of the following 
living children: Abbie E., wife of James H. Berry, 
Vice-President of the Burgess & Eraser Iron and 
Hardware Company; Mattie W., Ida Lee and 
Thomas J., Jr. For many years Mr. Burgess has 
been a member of the Democratic party, though 
his father was an old-line Whig. He and his 
worthy wife are members of the Christian Church, 
and he is a Knight Templar. At Brooklyn, Nevada 
Count}', Cal., he was made a Mason in 1852. 
Every year Mr. Burgess returns to his old home in 
Kentucky to attend the fairs at Lexington and 
Paris, as he is quite an admirer of fine horses, lie 
also takes great delight in fishing, and every sum- 
mer takes his family to northern Minnesota. He 
has a tine steam-yacht, the "Naptha Launch." 



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EWIS F. STUART, M. D., a well-known 
j£ physician of Gower, is a native of Missouri^ 
his birth having occurred in St. Louis 
County in November, 1852. He was the third 
from the youngest in a family of nine children 
whose father was Samuel Stuait, a native of Ken- 
tucky and one of the early settlers of St. Louis 
County. The mother of our subject, who bore 
the maiden name of Adeline Shepherd, was born 
in Philadelphia, Pa. On the paternal side, our 
subject was of Scotch descent, while his mother 
was of Irish extraction. 

Until arriving at mature years, Dr. Stuart re- 
sided on his father's farm in the county of his 
birth. lie acquired his early education in the dis- 
trict schools of the neigborhood and supplement- 
ed his studies by a two-years course at Stuarts- 
ville College, De Kalb Count}'. Me determined 
to adopt the medical profession as his occupation 
in Life, and accordingly for some time read medi- 
cine with Dr. J. C. By n urn, of Stuartsville. In 
1880 he entered the Missouri Medical College, 
which is located at St. Louis, and there he re- 
mained for a year. He afterward took a second 
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lege, from which well-known institution he was 
graduated in 1883. Dr. Stuart commenced prac- 
ticing medicine in Stuartsville, where he remained 
for a year. Then,*emoving to Starfield, in Clin- 
ton County, li«' practiced for some four years in 
that city with good success. In the year 1885 
h« unit in New York City, when' be pursued a 
post-graduate course with great benefit. In Feb- 
ruary, of 1888, the Doctor located in Gower, 
where he h:is built up a large and lucrative prac- 
tice. June 21, L888, Dr. Stuart married .Miss 
Fannie II. Swope. who is a daughter of .loh n Swope, 
a native of Kentucky. To the Doctoi and his es- 
timable wife has been born one daughter, Laura 
M., who is the joy ami pride of her parents. 

As every true American should he. Dr. Stuart 
is much interested in political affairs, and is a stanch 
Democrat, lie is active in public affairs, and is 
an earnest friend to the cause of education. Both 
he and his wife arc members of the Baptist Church 
of this city, and are held in the highest respect by 
all with whom they come in contact. 



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F. ISLAUB, is engaged in general mer- 
i chandising in St. Joseph. Buchanan Coun- 

t \ . and carries the largest Stock Of goods to 
be found in any Store on St. Joseph Avenue. 
His store is in a good location and commands an 
extensi \ e t rade. i hir subject is accommodating and 

enterprising as a business man, and readily makes 

his patrons la me his friends, on account of his 

endeavor to please them and meet their wants. 
Mr. Islaub is a native of this city and was born 

February 2, 1861. His father, Frederick islaub, 

was horn in < brmany and was a hotel-keeper. When 
quite young hi' learned the cooper's trade, and 
came to America In make his fortune, lie was 
Bret located at Philadelphia, from where he went 

lii Louisville. Ky.. where he was for a short time 

employed in a brewery, lie then wenl to St. 
Louis, where he worked at his trade for a while, 
and then went down the Mississippi and obtained 



employment in cutting wood for the steamboat at 
points between Memphis and New Orleans. At 

the latter place he worked as :i rooper, and finally 

came to St. Joseph, Landing here in the latter part 

of the '.'hi-, when the place mi- a tradi ng-pOSt 
known as Ulacksuake Hills. Mr. Islaub went on 
to Atchison County, Mo., and took up a claim, 
which he entered and partly improved. lie re- 
turned to St. Louis, but after a short time he 

again came to St. Joseph. lb' started a cooperage 

shop on the corner of l.evee and Mitchell Streets, 
but when a few years had elapsed he sold out and 
started a brewery, which he afterwards »a> ob- 
liged to enlarge on account of his extensive trade. 
He made quite a comfortable fortune, which was 
all swept away about tin- time of the war. lie 

then resumed work at his trade, at which he con- 
tinued more or less until 1886, when his death oc- 
curred at the age of seventy-five years, lb' was a 
Protestant, and a popular citizen. 

The mother of our subject, whose maiden name 
was Barbara Werner, was born in Germany and was 
only three years old when hei parents emigrated to 
America. They settled first in Indiana, and later 
removed in wagons to Andrew County. Mo., where 
they lived for some years, and finally settled in 
Hi ley County, Kan., where the father died. Mrs. 
Islaub is Still living, a resident of St. Joseph. Of 
her nine children, seven grew to mature years. 

A. F. Islaub was reared in this city with common- 
school advantages. When fourteen years old he 
obtained employment in a photograph gallery for 
about a year, and then entered his brother's store, 
clerking for him during a period of about eight 
years. In 1886 lie went on a farm in Andrew 
County, but at the end of a year returned to St. 
Joseph. For a year he was clerk in the shoe de- 
partment of the large house of rootle. I losca & 
Company. In 1888 he went to Kearney County, 

Kan., where he leased a ranch, and ran it for two 

years. At the end of this time he disposed of it 
and again engaged in general merchandising with 
his brother. In May, 1891, he bought the interest 
of the latter, and has since continued the busi- 
ness alone, under the linn name of A. F. Islaub, 
his store being located at No. 1902 s t. Joseph 

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A marriage ceremony was performed in Hia- 
watha, Brown County, Kan., in the year 1885 
which united the fortunes of Mr. Islaub and Miss 
Rosa, daughter of John Meisenheimer, an early 
settler in Brown County, and a prominent farmer. 
Two bright little ones have come to bless the home 
of our subject and his estimable wife, namely: 
Fred J. and Fay L. Mr. Islaub is an active Re- 
publican, and is much interested in the welfare 
and prosperity of the city of his birth. 



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/*kSa ALVIN P. KINGSBURY, a veteran of the 
flf ^_ late war, a prominent Mason and Knight 
^^(7 Templar, is the oldest job printer and book- 
binder in St. Joseph, Buchanan County. He was 
bom in Boston. Mass., September 2G, 1841, and is 
a son of Calvin and Mary (Blake) Kingsbury. 
The family dates its origin in America from the 
middle of the last century, when six brothers emi- 
grated from England. Two of them settled in 
Massachusetts, three in Connecticut, while the re- 
maining one after a short time returned to his na- 
tive land. Grandfather Moses Kingsbury took 
part in the War for Independence. He was born 
in Massachusetts, and was the owner of a farm on 
Dedham Island, on the Charles River. There the 
birth of our subject's father occurred. He was a 
hatter by trade and worked at that vocation in 
Boston and later in Norfolk, Mass., where he died 
in 1851. His brother Henry died after an arduous 
service in the Mexican War. The wife of Cal- 
vin Kingsbury, Sr., was a daughter of Samuel 
Blake, who traced his lineage from the English 
nobility. Mrs. Kingsbury died in Massachusetts 
in 1883, having attained four-score years. 

The subject of this sketch is one of three chil- 
dren, one of whom is deceased. A sister, Abbie, 
who became the wife of S. G. Miller, is now a 
widow. The time of our subject until his thir- 
teenth year was passed in Boston and Norfolk, 
and in 1855 he removed to Keuosha, Wis., where 
lie went into a printing-office. He was in the 



employ of the Kenosha Tribune and Telegraph 
for a number of, months, and then returned to the 
Bay State, completing his trade in Lawrence. For 
some time thereafter he was employed in the 
Pemberton Mill, at Lawrence, Mass., which col- 
lapsed January 10, 18G0, causing great destruction 
of life and property. He was fortunately not in 
the building at the time, but his wife was 
crushed and had six ribs broken. In March, 
1860, Mr. Kingsbury went to Dover, N. H., 
where he became fireman of the Dover Enquirer 
office, which position he held until he went into 
the army. 

In August, 1862, Mr. Kingsbury enlisted in 
Company K, Eleventh New Hampshire Regiment, 
and was mustered in at Concord. He was placed 
in Col. Harriman's regiment and sent to Virginia. 
He took part in the battle of Fredericksburg, and 
on December 13, 1862, was wounded, a ball splint- 
ering his left leg. He crawled off the battlefield, 
and managed to make his way to the hospital, and 
was afterward transferred to Campbell Hospital, in 
Washington, and in February was sent home, lie 
was discharged April 22, 1863, by Sergt-Gen. Dale, 
of Massachusetts. By fall he was barely able to 
return to his work, doing to Boston, he was em- 
ployed in the State printing-office as assistant fore- 
man about a year. 

In the year 1865 Mr. Kingsbury went to Chicago 
and for about four years was assistant foreman in 
the Republican job-office. He came to St. Joseph 
in 1869 as foreman of the Herald job-office. In 
1870, in company with Posegate, Hail & Muel- 
heisen, he started the St. Joseph Steam Printing 
Companj r , of which he was Superintendent for two 
years. He then sold out and entered into partner- 
ship with Thomas H. Hail. In 18711 he purchased 
his partner's interest, since which time he has car- 
ried on the business alone. The office is at No. 
408 Felix Street, and occupies a space of 40x80 
feet. The firm employs from fifteen to twenty men. 

In the year 1859, Mr. Kingsbury wedded Miss 
Lizzie L. Mooers, who was born in Wallingford, 
Vt., and was a daughter of Silas K. Mooers, a man- 
ufacturer of sash, doors and blinds. Mrs. Kings- 
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President of the Woman's Relief Corps; Pasl Chief 
of Honor of Unchurch Lodge. Degree of Honor, 
A. ( ). U. W.; and is a member of the Baptist 
Church, to which our subject also belongs 1 . 

Few citizens of St. Joseph are more active in 
tlio fraternities than is Mr. Kingsbury. He is 
Past Commander of Custer Post No. 7, G. A. R.. 
and was for two years Assistant Department In- 
spector, lie is Past Master of St. Joseph Lodge 
No. 78. A. F. & A. M.; Past High Priest of Mitch- 
ell Chapter No. 89, R. A. M.; Past Commander of 
si. Joseph Commandery No. I. K. T. He is also a 
Thirty-second Degree Mason, lie is Past Chan- 
cellor of St. Joseph Lodge No. 22, K. P., and was 
for two years Grand Prelate of the Grand Lodge. 
He belongs to Pride of the West Lodge No. 42, 
A. 0. U. W. and is Past President of Typographi- 
cal Union No. 19, of St Joseph. In his political 
faith he isa Democrat. 



\|'AMFS C. CORINGTON, President of the 
(lower Bank, was born in Bourbon County, 
Ky., December 5, 18;io, and was the youngest 
' of eight children in the family of Joel and 
Eleanor (Nichols) Corington, natives respectively 
of Kentucky and Tennessee. The paternal grand- 
father, Stephen Coring ton, was born in 1769, and 
passed his entire life in the State of Kentucky. 
At the age of four years our subject was taken 
by his parents to Morgan County, 111., where he 
passed his boyhood years on a farm. His educa- 
tional advantages were such as could be obtained 
in the common schools of his district, but the lim- 
ited information there obtained has been added to 
by observation and reading, and he is now a man 
of broad knowledge and culture. 

In iki;7. Mr. Corington removed from Illinois to 
Missouri, and located in Buchanan County, where 
he purchased a farm and engaged in general farm- 
ing and stock-raising, lie availed himself of the 



latest improved machinery with which to cultivate 

his place, and as time passed by embellished the 

farm with substantial barns and other outbuildings. 
As a tiller of the soil he endeavored to keep abreast 
with the times, and every acre was made to produce 
Us ut most, as a result of the proper methods of fer- 
tilization. 

After remaining on his farm for nineteen \ cars. 
Mr. Corington removed to Cower in the fall of 
1 8811, at which time he accepted the position of 
President of the Gower Bank, and he still presides 
over the finances and business Of thai institution 
with efficiency and success. Although retired 
from agriculture, he is still interested extensively 
in stock-raising, and is the owner of eleven hun- 
dred acres of fertile and well-cultivated land, from 
the rental of which he derives a handsome income. 

December -'id, 1853, occurred the marriage of 
.lames C. Corington to Miss Mary A., daughter of 
Humphrey F. Fitch, a native of Champaign County, 
Ohio. Of the eleven children born to Mess the 
union of Mr. and Mrs. Corington, eight are now 
living, of whom the following is recorded: Em- 
ily F. is the wife of John Gibson, of Atchison 
County, Mo.; John W. is engaged in farming in 
Buchanan County Mo.; Fannie J., wife of I!. F. 
Johnson, resides in Platte County, Mo.; James ('.. 
Jr., resides in Buchanan County; Mary E. married 
John F. Boydston, and now makes her home in 
Platte County; Anna E., Mrs. p. K. Field, resides 
in Gower; Rosie C. is the wife of Curtis Poe. 
Cashier of Cower Bank; and Inez P. is carrying on 
her studies in the schools of Cower. 

Mr. Corington is one of the most popular citi- 
zens of ( lower, both socially and in business circles. 
His pleasant home is known for the hospitality of 
its inmates, and beneath his roof have gathered 
from time to time the cultured, refined ami weal- 
thy people of this section of Missouri. Provi- 
dence has been beneficent in its dealings with Mr. 
Corington. who possesses the happy faculties of ob- 
servation, thought and concentration, and from 
the elements of life aioimd him, whether under 
prosperous or adverse circumstances, he has been 
enabled to extract much good out of life, and view 
with the spirit of philosophy its solier phases. 
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liau Church, t<> the support of which they con- 
tribute with characteristic generosity. 

Politically, Mr. Corington is a pronounced Dem- 
ocrat, but has never been inclined to office-seeking, 
.•is his private affairs occupy his entire attention. 
In business matters, he is a man of unusual push 
and energy, and can always be found identified 
with every movement looking toward the ad- 
vancement of the village of (lower. Of a kind and 
sympathetic nature, he has always been a liberal 
contributor to worthy objects, and no one in dis- 
tress was ever turned away unassisted by him. 



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KV. DENIS KEILY, the efficient pastor of 
the Catholic Church at Plattsburgh, is a 
C*^ \V hard worker in the good cause, and a ful- 
fil! ished scholar. Although a native of the 
Old Country, Father Keily is thoroughly in sym- 
pathy with the prominent institutions of his 
adopted land, and by his upright and manly 
course as a progressive citizen of the United States 
has won the esteem and confidence of the general 
public. He was born in Tipperary, Ireland, Janu- 
ary 21, lis.">.">, and at the age of fifteen commenced 
his preparatory studies for the priesthood at a 
classical school near his home. In January, 1873, 
he matriculated in the ecclesiastical college at 
Carlow, Ireland, and having completed the usual 
courses of rhetoric, physics, logic, ethics, meta- 
physics and theology, was ordained sub-deacon in 
I.H77, deacon in 1878, and priest June 7, 187'.t 

In November of the same year, Father Keily 
was sent by Archbishop Ken rick to the Annuncia- 
tion Church, Kansas City, as assistant priest; 
thence in 1881 he was sent to St. Teresa's Church, 
St. Louis, and later to the Annunciation Church, 
in the same city. During the same year, he was 
appointed by Bishop Hogan rector of St. Agnes 
Church, near Talmage, Newton County, in the 
newly organized diocese of Kansas City. Under 
Father Keily's administration at St. Agnes the 
church was blessed with abundant prosperity, a 



handsome addition to the church proper was 
erected, and a parochial school established. 

For three years Father Keily remained in full 
charge of this parish, and also was busily engaged 
in the missionary field of the surrounding coun- 
try. Transferred in 1881 to his present charge, 
Father Keily entered with ardor into the work of 
progress which awaited his helping hand. The 
Catholic Church of Plattsburgh was established in 
1866 by Father Linnenkamp, of Weston, now 
Vicar-General at St. Joseph, who at first held ser- 
vices in private homes at regular intervals until 
1867, when the old church building, recently aban- 
doned, was erected at a cost of $2,000. 

Father Abel, also from St. Joseph, had charge 
of this parish one year, and in 1868 was succeeded 
by Father O'Reilly, who continued in charge until 
1876, when he went to New York, where he now 
resides. Father Ahem came next, remaining for 
one year; he was succeeded by Father Ilanley, the 
predecessor of Father Keily. Aside from the daily 
and frequently arduous labors connected with a 
membership of five hundred souls in Plattsburgh, 
our subject ministers to the wants of the missions 
of Lathrop, (lower, Frazer and Grayson. Soon 
after -his arrival in Plattsburgh. Father Keily 
entered with characteristic energy into the build- 
ing of a new house of worship, to be in full keep- 
ing with the demands of the day. Four years of 
incessant and vigilant toil accomplished the desired 
result, and in 1888 our subject had the proud satis- 
faction of gathering his parishioners together in 
the substantial and commodious church whose 
erection was mainly due to the determined effort 
of its enterprising pastor. 

Father Keily is a member of the Examining 
Committee of the Parochial Schools, and takes a 
leading part in all the public affairs of the parish, 
his keen intelligence and undoubted business 
ability being most important factors in the success 
of the various enterprises of the church. The 
true and never-failing benevolence of Father Keily 
is widely known, and at the bedside of the sick 
and dying, with his genial, sympathetic and com- 
manding presence, he is a welcome, as also a daily, 
visitor, bringing peace and comfort to the depart- 
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which has so well prospered under his faithful 
care may long enjoy his efficient ministrations is 
the hearty wish of the entire community, in which 
Father Kcily has now pasted nine years of his use- 
ful and unselfish life. 

The reader will bo interested in learning some- 
thing with reference to the histon of the I'latts- 
bnrgfa Catholic Church. It was erected in 1867, 
Rev. C. Linnenkamp, now Vicar-General of the 
Diocese of St. Joseph, in charge. Prior to that 
year the few Catholics lived west of Plattsburgh 
(none within several miles of the city), and were 
attended from Weston by Rev. C. Lhmenkamp, 
later by Rev. Father Phillips. The oldest member 
of the congregation settled near Edgerton in 
1857. The others (numbering six families), who 
came before 1864, attended religious services in St. 
Joseph. 

In 1868 Rev. Father Abel was sent to care for 
the congregation. lie was the first resident priest 
of Plattsburgh, and during his pastorate the par- 
sonage was erected. Rev. Father O'Reilly, who 
was appointed priest August I, 1869, completed 
the church and parsonage. He was succeeded in 
October, 187G, by Rev. J. Ahem. Rev. Thos. 
Ilanley received charge in November. 1*77, and 
the present rector. Rev. Denis Keily.came January 
■>■>, 1884. 

In 1887 the congregation purchased a site for a 
new church. This building, which was constructed 
of brick, cruciform, of English-Gothic style, was 
dedicated December 18, 1888. Its interior walls 
and ceiling are painted in artistic fresco, symbol- 
izing several religious truths and facts of history. 
On the 1st of September, 1890, fourteen large 
basso-relievos, representing scenes in our Lord's 
passion, beautiful works of art, wire placed on 
the walls. In March, 1891, life-size statues of the 
crucifixion, Christ manifesting his love for man. 
the mother of the Redeemer, and her mother in- 
structing her in her childhood, were unveiled. 
The last-mentioned statue stands outside on the 
porch. 

On Faster Sunday, 1892, the people found 
stained glass window-, each having a religious 
Bymbol, shutting out worldly distractions, and 

aiding them to turn their thoughts to a better 



world. The interior of this church is such a gem 
of beauty that the citizens of Plattsburgh, regard- 
less of creed, bring their visiting friends to see it. 
In May. 1891, the house adjoining the church 
was purchased for a parsonage. The property, 
consisting of an entire square in the "est of the 
town, is fenced and planted with trees. Two 
lines of trees form an avenue around it for reli- 
gious procession-, and the grounds will BOOH be a 
beautiful park. 



'tp5vROF. JOHN D. WILSON, Superintendent of 
Jl) the Cameron schools, is entitled to a high 

^ place among the educators of western Mis- 
, \ souri. Fnder his able supervision the grade 
Of the schools has been advanced and the facilities 
for acquiring knowledge greatly increased. Dur- 
ing a residence of six years in this city — three 
having been spent as Principal of the High School, 
and three as Superintendent — he has become well 
known to the citizens of the place, who entertain 
the highest regard for his ability and repose the 
deepest confidence in his resources. 

Prof. Wilson belongs to a family whose mem- 
bers have been distinguished for talent anil skill 
in their varied professions. His grandfather, John 
Wilson, was a general in the War of 1812. and 
followed the profession of a lawyer. He was ap- 
pointed by President Tyler to a position in Cali- 
fornia, and at the advanced age of seventy years 
had charge for the heirs of the famous Spanish 
Grant, known as the Valier Claims, affecting sev- 
eral counties in Missouri anil Arkansas. This is 
considered one of the greatest land cases ever 
tried in the United Mate-. Learning that the pa- 
pers had been carried to Cuba, he hastened thither 
and, notwithstanding his age, studied the Spanish 
language there, (hi finding the documents in an 
old tobacco barn, he succeeded in purchasing them 
for -^ i. oi hi. While the case was -till pending he 
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by all to whom be was known. His home had 
been in San Francisco from the parly days of its 
history, and he was attorney in some of the great- 
est law suits of the time. 

The following, taken from a newspaper pub- 
lished a day or two after his death, gives more 
fully an account of his career and shows the opin- 
ion held of him by those who knew him: 
General John Wilson. 



A MAX ok MARK, ABILITY, COURAGE AND TRUE WORTH 
com. lei HIS HONORED RE8T. 



All our readers and the public generally will 
learn with much regret of the death of Gen. 
John Wilson, who died after a short illness, at 
Suisun, on Thursday evening, of congestion of 
the lungs. The deceased gentleman in his life- 
time had passed through a long and eventful ca- 
reer. In early life, he was one of the very first 
settlers of Howard County, Mo., where he for 
years edited and published a newspaper at Fay- 
ette, the county seal. He became a very promi- 
nent and influential member of the Whig organi- 
zation, by the leaders of which party he was held 
in deserved esteem and respect. He was on terms 
of great intimacy with President Tyler, though 
on the refusal of the latter to sign the Bank Bill 
a rupture took place, which was never healed. 
He was also an intimate friend of President Tay- 
lor, by whose desire (Jen. Wilson came to Califor- 
nia. 

Nearly, if not quite, forty years since, Gen. 
Wilson visited Louisiana and Florida for the pur- 
pose of examining into the peculiar and intricate 
system of land grants made by the Spanish Gov- 
ernment to settlers in Louisiana, Mississippi, etc. 
He devoted several years to this business. 

The General was among the pioneers of Cali- 
fornia. He came hither by the wish of President 
Taylor, but before he reached this coast the Presi- 
dent died, and whatever plans the General was 
intending to carry into effect fell to the ground. 
The General then devoted his attention to the 
practice of his profession, in the course of which 
he visited Havana for the purpose of consulting 
the old Spanish records of Louisiana, which, in 
spite of treaty obligations to the contrary, had 
been taken to Havana. During this period the 
General purchased some bona Bde grants, which 
covered an immense area, extending to over a 
million acres, more especially that branch of if 
which related to land law. lie was a man of 
marked ability, of untiring energy, and of sterling 



worth — religious without bigotry, generous in giv- 
ing and in thought, and, all in all, a bright example 
of the true worth of manhood. His every faculty 
was clear and strong up to the hour of his death; 
and although so near his eighty-seventh birthday, 
he died as he had lived — in harness. Gen. Wil- 
son leaves behind him an aged widow, a son and 
a daughter, and a host of mourning friends. 

The father of our subject, Hon. David Wilson, 
was an attorney -at-law, and also followed the. 
profession of a teacher for some years. He was a 
man of talent and rendered efficient service as 
Judge of the Court. Our subject was born in 
Howard County, Mo., near Fayette, August 22, 
1862, and was reared on his father's farm, where 
he remained until he was eighteen. He then bor- 
rowed $75, with which to pay his tuition for one 
term in the State Normal School, and later paid 
his expenses by teaching. He was graduated from 
that institution, after having completed the nor- 
mal course, in the Class of '86, with the degree of 
Bachelor of Science. 

While still a student, Prof. John Wilson was 
called temporarily to the principalship of the High 
School of Cameron, and one year later was ten- 
dered the position without solicitation. After two 
years thus occupied, he entered the University of 
Michigan, at Ann Arbor, where he took a special 
course in Latin and Greek. Although a man of 
wide knowledge, he has aspirations for higher and 
broader culture, and anticipates further pursuit 
of his studies at Eastern, and possibly European, 
universities. He has taught for nine years, receiv- 
ing an increase of salary each year, and in addi- 
tion to this he has conducted institutes every 
summer, and enjoys an enviable reputation for 
his labors in that direction. He is a member of 
the District and State Teachers' Associations. 

June 18, 1890, in Ralls County, Mo., Prof. Wil- 
son and Miss Clara Carroll were united in mar- 
riage. Mrs. Wilson is a graduate of the State 
Normal School at Kirksville in the Class of '89, 
and after completing her studies engaged for one 
year in teaching. She is a lady of agreeable man- 
ners and takes a deep interest in the attainment 
of a high culture, and while never losing sight 
of the fact that the Brat duly of woman is in her 
home, she believes in addition that the acquire- 




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mint of a broad knowledge i* her duty no less 
than her privilege, and will walk band in band 
with her husband in bis future and further Btrug- 
gles up the slopes of Parnassus. The pleasant borne 
of the family is brightened by the presence of a 
daughter, Edna, who was born May 12, 1892. 
Prof, anil Mrs. Wilson are members of the Chris- 
tian Church, ami he is active in Sunday-school 
work. On national issues he is a Republican in 
polities, but in local mailers is independent. 



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\/\ AIII.ON ASHBROOK, proprietor of the 
AshbrooU House of St. Joseph, was horn 
in Rushville, Fairfield County, Ohio, Jan- 
uary 2ft. 181.'!. lie is descended from 
English ancestors who were early settlers of Vir- 
ginia. His grandfather, Rev. Levi Ashbrook, was 
born in the Old Dominion and served as a private 
in the Revolutionary War. For many years he 
was a minister in the Baptist denomination, and 
in addition to that profession, followed the oc- 
cupation of a farmer. 

The father of our subject, William Ashbrook, 
was born in Virginia, and soon after his marriage 
removed to Ohio, where be settled on Rush Creek 
and improved a farm. About 1817 he located in 
Amanda Township, Fairfield County, Ohio, where 
he remained, engaged in agricultural pursuits, un- 
til he was called from earth. He had served in 
the War of 1812 and always affiliated with the 
Whigs. His wife, Perraelia (Peters) Ashbrook, 
was born in Virginia, whither her father emigrated 
from New Jersey. They were the parents of eight 
Children, of whom Mahlon was the second in order 
of birth. He passed his childhood in Amanda 
Township, where he attended the common schools. 
After the death of his father, our subject, then 
a youth of eighteen, assumed the management of 
the home farm, which he continued to operate for 
some years. When he started out in life for him- 
self, he was in debt for land to the amount of 
$4,000 or more, his neighbors being his bondsmen. 



Finally, after several years of arduous exertions, 
he cleared the indebtedness, and at the am' of twen- 
ty-four paid the lasl dollar of the amount. Sub- 
sequently he went to Pickaway County, Ohio, 
where ho purchased a tract of land and improved 
two farms. These, together with a mill and dis- 
tillery, be had purchased for $13,000. lie cleared 
the debt and became the sole owner of the unin- 
cumbered farms, comprising respectively one hun- 
dred and forty acres, and one hundred and sixty 
acres. 

In 1845 Ml*. Ashbrook laid out the village of 
Ashville and there erected twenty-five houses for 
his workmen, lie inanfact ured barrels for the mill 
anil distillery, and also had some outside trade in 
that line. Being the owner <>f various packets "n 
the canal, lie did the largest business of anyone in 
the county and became wealthy. The endorsement 
of a note for a friend caused his failure, and when 
he had paid the entire amount of the note, -x |u. Olill, 
the failure of two Eastern firms for $1 1,500 a few 
days afterward forced him to make an assignment 
to his creditors. 

Coming West in the fall of 1859, Air. Ashbrook 
located in St. .Joseph, where he purchased block 
7 in Highley's Addition to the city and two lots 
on Frederick Avenue. At, the latter place he 
built a store and embarked in business, but during 
tin- Civil War the Confederates took his entire 
stock of goods and threatened his life, so that he 
was obliged to llee to Kansas in the night. After 
remaining in Doniphan County for several week-. 
he returned home. He then volunteered in a 
company of Silver Grays for the protection of the 
city, and maintained that connection until the 
close of the war. Resuming his business, he con- 
ducted a general store so successfully that his trade 
outgrew the dimensions of his establishment so 
much that he was obliged to enlarge Ins quarters. 
Ill 1871 the place was burned down, proving a 
total loss, as there was no insurance. Mr. Ash- 
brook then retired from the mercantile business 
and gave his entire attention to his hotel, the Asll- 

1 k House. This building was erected in I860, 

and six years later was enlarged to provide suit- 
able ae< dations for the increasing number of 

guests. It ha- been conducted by our subject 



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since its erection, and has gained great popularity 
with the traveling public. 

The first marriage of Mr. Ashbrook united him 
with Miss Fannie Demorcst, who was born in Ohio 
:uid died in Ashville. Four children were born of 
this union, three of whom grew to maturity. John 
enlisted in the Tenth Ohio Infantry, and for meri- 
torious conduct at the battle of Murfreesboro was 
promoted to the rank of Lieutenant; he was serv- 
ing in that capacity at the time of his death in 
Tennessee. Mrs. Jane Brady resides in St. Joseph. 
Mrs. Melissa Kilso resides in Atchison County. 
Mo. Our subject was married a second time, 
choosing as his wife Miss Mary A. Chambers, who 
was born in Tarleton, Ohio, and is the daughter of 
James Chambers, a prominent farmer of that place. 
Three children have blessed this union: Thomas, 
who is clerk in the City Engineer's ottice; James, a 
resident of St. Joseph ; and Uelle, the wife of C. 
W. Ilarter. of Liberty, Mo. 

While a resident of Ohio, Mr. Ashbrook served 
as Township Trustee for seventeen years, and also 
filled the position of School Director. He is one 
of the charter members of the Republican part}', 
with which he has been identified from its organ- 
ization until the present time. A public-spirited 
citizen, he takes an active interest in every meas- 
ure which has for its object the promotion of the 
best interests of the city, and he is highly regarded 
throughout the community. 



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I^AXS NIELSON is the proprietor of the 
y, largest greenhouse in Buchanan County, 
his plant being located at No. 2320 Si. 
Joseph Avenue. St. Joseph. He has ten 
distinct green-houses, all heated by the hot water 
system, and through untiring energy and perse- 
vering zeal he has built up an extremely large 
trade throughout the West, having customers in 
Texas. Arizona. Utah and .Minneapolis as well. 
Mr. Nielson is a man of great enterprise and is a 



thorough believer in the efficacy of judicious ad- 
vertising. Therefore he has placed this line of his 
work in the hands of George P. Rowell's Adver- 
tising Agency, of this city, and thus his catalogues- 
find their way into manj T homes in all portions of 
the country. 

Mr. Nielson is an example of the self-made men 
to whom so much credit is due on account of their 
manner of surmounting obstacles and difficulties, 
caused by very limited means and various other 
disadvantages. When he first landed in St. Joseph 
he entered the employ of Capts. C'laggett and 
Munger, but now in his turn he affords employ- 
ment to five men, and has completely paid for his 
large place and all improvements upon it. The 
business requires an annual investment of about 
$15,000, and he now probably clears in the neigh- 
borhood of $3,500. He is master of everything 
pertaining to floriculture, and carries on a gen- 
eral business, dealing in cut flowers, palms and 
plants particularly. He has two acres of land, with 
sixteen hundred square feet of glass covering. 

Near the city of Odensi, Denmark, Hans Niel- 
son was born on the 10th of June, 1840, and at 
the age of fifteen commenced serving a three 
years' and a-half apprenticeship to a florist, with- 
out any compensation except his board. In 18G4 
he entered the service of his country in the war 
between Denmark, Prussia and Austria. lie took 
part in several important battles, the severest one 
being Deppel. He was discharged at the end of a 
year, and in 1866 emigrated to New York, where 
he remained onl}' one week, and then went west to 
Chicago. Going to Cincinnati, he remained in 
that city and vicinit\' until 1871, working for 
other parties, and in that year first found himself 
in St. Joseph. 

On the 9th of March, 1875, Mr. Nielson was mar- 
ried to Mrs. Mary G., widow of Dr. Crawford 
Adams, of this city. Her maiden name was Penny, 
and she was a native of Kentucky, but was reared 
in Caldwell County, Mo., to which State she came 
with her parents at the age of five years. Her former 
husband, Dr. Adams, was a well-known oculist. 
and by that union she had one son, Edward C, 
who is engaged in the practice of the medical pro- 
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Northwestern Medical College, of St. Joseph. He 
completed his studies in Paris and London, and 
has since heen engaged in practise in the Empire 
state. To our subject and wife has been born one 
boh, Hans, Jr., now sixteen years of age, and a 
student of the Business University, and bookkeep- 
er for his father. Mr. Nielson is an ally <>f the 
Republican party, and has served for two years as 
:i member of the City Council from the First Ward. 
He is numbered among the enterprising business 
men and public-spirited citizens of St. Joseph, and 
in all Ins financial and other relations be has been 
honorable and upright to a commendable degree. 






f ACHARY T. MARTIN, M. I)., is one of the 
leading men of liis profession in Clinton 

County.- For the past twelve years he has 
been engaged in practice at Lathrop. He is Presi- 
dent of the Clinton County Medical Society, and 
a member of the state Missouri Medical Associa- 
tion, and belongs to the National Association of 
Railway Surgeons. 

About the IT'.to the great-grandfather of our 
subject, Willis Martin, left his home in Virginia, 
going West to Kentucky, where he settled in the 
southern portion of the state, near Bowling Green. 
After the expiration of a couple of years, he finally 
located in Clark County, where lie engaged in 
agricultural pursuits until his death. His wife 
bore the maiden name of Elk in, and to them were 
horn two sons, John and Robert E., and two 
daughters, Rachael and Millie, both of whom lived 
to be over ninety years of age, while their brothers 
attained the advanced age of eighty years. The 
father was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and 
a loyal patriot. 

The grandfather of our subject, Robert K.. was 
horn in Roanoke County, Va., and went with his 
parents from his native State to Kentucky. lie 
was in tie- War of 1812, and participated in the 
battle of Lundy's Lane, under Dick Johnson. He 
Was politically a Whig until the late Civil War. 



after which he became a Democrat. His death oc- 
curred in 1878. He was a member of tin- Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church, and was a large and pro- 
gressive farmer. His family consisted of twelve 
children, eight of whom grew to mature years: 
.John W'.. Mary Curry, Willis I', (who served in 
the Mexican War), Eliza Southerland. Sail ic Soulh- 
erland. Bush Smith, Robert E., Asa K. and Freeman 
T. The mother of these children passed awaj 
many years ago. 

Our subject's father, John W. Martin, is a na- 
tive of Clark County, Ky., his birth having oc- 
curred in June, 1825. His entire life was s|>ent in 
that county, where he was engaged in agricultural 
pursuits. In 1861 he enlisted in the Twentieth 
Kentucky Federal Regulars as Major but resigned 
his position after the battle of Shiloh. When a 
young man he served as Deputy Circuit Clerk for 
six years and was County Surveyor several years. 
In early life he was a Whig, but later became affili- 
ated with the Democratic party. He was thrice 
married, his first wife being Frances Duvall m her 
maidenhood. She was a daughter of Capf. John 
Duvall, who rose to that rank in the War of 1812. 
Of their marriage were born four children, tun ol 
whom lived to mature years: Zachary T. and Fan- 
nie E. The mother died in the faith of the Baptist 
Church in 1859. For his second wife Mr. Martin 
married Amelia Xeal, of Harrodsburg. After her 
demise he married Mrs. Allen, nee Duvall. lie de- 
parted this life February 6, 1*88. 

Our subject was born in Winchester, Ky., on the 

1 tli of October, 1847. He was reared to man I d 

upon the home farm, and when twelve years of 
age commenced his academic education. In 1864, 
with Dr. A. S. Allen, of Winchester, he began the 
study of medicine. Three years later he was 
graduated from the Jefferson Medical College and 
at first located in his native town. Thence he 
went to Louisville, where he took a course of lec- 
tures in the Louisville Medical College, lb' next 
settled in I'.eattyville. Ky.. where he remained un- 
til 1 87<I. after which he took a post-graduate course 
in the Jefferson Medical College. 

Iii 1879 Dr. Martin went to Hamilton, Ohio, but 
remained there only a short time, and in Decem- 
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since been his field of operations. On the 1st of 
January, 1892, Dr. Martin purchased an interest 
in a drug business in this city, which he has since 
conducted. It has always been his purpose to keep 
thoroughly posted on the latest discoveries in the 
science of medicine, and in addition to his judici- 
ously selected reading on the subject, in the winter 
of 1890 he took a post-graduate course at St. Louis. 

The Doctor has been twice married, his first wife 
having been Miss Mattie, a daughter of Maj. H. B. 
and Rebecca (Flanery) Hampton, of South Caro- 
lina, who were relatives of Senator Hampton. Mrs. 
Martin was a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church and was called to her final home July 12, 
1884. In 1892 Miss Minnie Bristol became the 
wife of our subject. Mrs. Martin is a daughter of 
Lemon and Sarah (McClure) Bristol, natives of 
New York and Pennsylvania, respectively. 

Socially Dr. Martin lias taken a leading part in 
civic societies and has held all the positions in the 
Masonic orders of the Knights of Pythias and the 
Knights of Honor. He is identified with the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church of Lathrop, which he has 
served as Steward. He is an active Democrat and 
has been a member of the County Committee. For 
four years he belonged to the Town Board, and 
lias ever shown himself devoted to the best inter- 
ests of his fellow-townsmen. 



JfOSEPH ROBIDOUX, the son of Joseph and 
Catherine Robidoux, was born in St. Louis, 
Mo., August 10, 1783. He was the eldest 
in a family consisting of six sons and one 
daughter, namely: Joseph, Antoine, [sadore, Fran- 
cis, Michel, Palagie, and Louis, the second son, 
who died in California, whither he had removed 
from St. Louis. Joseph, Antoine, Isadore and 
Francis were buried in St. Joseph. The father of 
this family was a French-Canadian, and came 
from Montreal, Canada, to St. Louis, where he lo- 
cated shortly after the settlement of that city by 
the French. Being a shrewd business man and 



possessing great energy, he accumulated a fortune. 
His wealth, his business qualifications and his gen- 
ial disposition made him many friends among the 
leading merchants and influential men of that city. 

The family residence, a large mansion on the 
corner of Walnut and Elm Streets, contained every 
comfort and convenience. There Mr. Robidoux 
entertained his friends in royal style, and so 
noted was his hospitality that the first General As- 
sembly of Missouri did him the honor of holding 
its first session at his house, on the 7th of Decem- 
ber, 1812. His children entered school at an early 
age and carried on their studies in the best institu- 
tions of learning that were to be found in St. Louis. 
Joseph, the eldest of the boys, was only eighteen 
when he married Eugenia Delslille, the daughter 
of a wealthy citizen of St. Louis. Of their union 
one child was born, Joseph E. Four years after 
their marriage, his wife died, and after her death 
young Robidoux, then in the twenty-third year of 
his age, traveled widely. 

New Orleans and different points on the Missis- 
sippi River were visited by Mr. Robidoux while 
searching for a favorable location for a trading-post. 
Finding none on the Mississippi River that offered 
the advantages desired by him, he finally located 
on the present site of the city of Chicago, where 
he was robbed by the Indians of his goods and 
merchandise within a few days after his arrival. 
He returned to St. Louis and soon afterward made 
a voyage up the Missouri River in company with 
one of the partners of the American Fur Company. 
During the journey their attention was attracted 
to "Blacksnake Hills" by the presence of the con- 
gregated tribes of the Sac, Fox and Iowa Indians, 
who assembled there at stated seasons of the year, 
preparatory to crossing the river, either on a visit 
to other tribes further West, or for the purpose of 
hunting. 

Seeing the Indians here in large numbers, the 
little party of whites disembarked, and after look- 
ing at the place and its advantages as a probable 
future trading-post, they proceeded on their way 
to Council Bluffs, Iowa, the original place of their 
destination. At that time the Bluffs constituted 
the most important trading-post on the Missouri 
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Omaha, Panka and other Indian tribes, Dumbering 
about forty thousand. Being favorably impressed 
with Council Bluffs as a trading-post, Mr. Robidoux 
returned to St Louis and purchased a stock ol 
goods, which he transported up the .Missouri by a 
keel-boat, arriving at the Bluffs in the fall of l8o£ 
There he remained for thirteen years, supplying 
the Indians with goods and taking in exchange 
therefor money and such commodities as they hail 
to barter, meantime making occasional visits to St. 
I. on is. 

While residing in Council Hluffs, in 1818, Mi. 
Robidoux married Angelique Vaudry,of St. Louis, 
who died in the city of St. Joseph, January 17, 
l,s.'i7. Of this union were bom six sons and one 
daughter: Faraon, Julius C, Francis B., Felix, 
Kdiuond, Charles and Mrs. S. P.Beauvis. Charles, 
being the youngest, readily adapted himself to the 
habits and customs Of the Indians, and spoke with 
considerable fluency the dialects of the tribes by 
whom he was surrounded. Mr. Robidoux became 
an expert Indian trader. The American Fur Com- 
pany was also in business at Council 1!1 uft's, and 
had enjoyed a monopoly of the entire Indian trade 
for some time prior to the location of Mr. Robidoux 
in the place. Soon, however, he began to divide 
the trade, and finally became so popular with the 
Indians that he controlled a large portion of their 
trade, to the great detriment of the Fur Company. 
The latter, wishing no further opposition from Mr. 
Robidoux. finally purchased his stock of goods. 
giving him fifty per cent, on the original cost, and 
in addition thereto the sum of 1 1,000 annually for 
a period of three years, conditional upon his leav- 
ing the Hluffs. 

Returning to St. Louis, Mr. Robidoux remained 
with his family and conducted the business of 
baker and confectioner until the expiration of 
three years, the time agreed upon between himself 
and the American Fur Company. Although the 
business of a fur-trader had not been entirely con- 
genial to his tMstes, it had at least been profitable, 
and he concluded to embark once more in the Same 
pursuit. Making known his intention to the Fur 
Company, it at once offered him the post just 
above Blacksnakc Hills at a salary of 11,800 per 
year, provided he would in no wise interfere with 



the business at Council I Hulls. This proposition he 
accepted, and having been furnished with a Stock 

of goods, he landed at the mouth of Kay's Branch 
in the fall of 1826. Shortly afterward he moved 
to the mouth of Blacksnake Creek, where be con- 
tinued to work for the Fur Company until 1880. 
lie then purchased their entire interest in the 
goods in his possession and became sole proprietor 

of the post at lllack-uakc Hills. 

To those living in this, the closing decade of the 
nineteenth century, surrounded with the blessings 
of civilization, the < iforts of home, and the com- 
panionship of genial friends, such a vent ure as that 
of Mr. Robidoux would be fraught with too man j 
dangers and privations to be undertaken single- 
handed and alone. The desert waste, the forest 
gloom, and the contiguity of savages, seemed, how- 
ever, to have possessed no terrors for the solitary 
and undaunted Frenchman, who in 1826 pitched 
his tent upon the present site of the city iif St. 
Joseph. He came not as a pioneer conscious of the 
future populous city, nor as a missionary to min- 
ister to the spiritual wants of the red men, but like 
thousands of others before and after him, he came 
seeking new and broader fields of labor, where by 
honest toil he could the more successfully increase 
his possessions. 

With a fortitude unsurpassed in the annals of 
this country, and with a tenacity ot purpose which 
knew no defeat, Mr. Robidoux patiently bided his 
time, never dreaming in the early years of his vol- 
untary exile that he was the destined found el 
of a prosperous city. For many years the Solitary 
log cabin Of Joe Robidoux was the only evidence 
Of the presence of civilized man within a radius of 
fifty miles. Time rolled on. With every puffing 
steamer that ascended the turbid waters of the 
Missouri came the emigrant and the adventurer, 
seeking homo in the wilds of the far West. Em- 
bryo settlements had been made along the banks 
of the great river in Jackson, ( lay and other coun- 
ties of northwestern Missouri, including what was 
afterward known as the Platte Purchase. Favor- 
able reports had been made of its great beauty, rich 
prairies, fertile valleys, bountiful supply of timber 
and numerous water courses. 

A few families from Franklin County, Mo., ven- 



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tured hither between 1834 and 1836, and located 
near the post. The only building that stood upon 
the present town site of St. Joseph at that time 
was the log house of -loe Robidoux, which was lo- 
cated on what is now the northwest corner of Jule 
and Second Streets. It was a story and a-half in 
height ami contained nine rooms, three above and 
six below. A covered porch was built on the south 
side extending the entire length of the building. 
On the north side was a shed divided into three 
rooms, the west room being used by Mr. Robidoux 
as a sleeping apartment. His store was in the mid- 
dle room of the main building, the entrance to 
which was through a door at the east end, first 
passing through an outer room to reach it. 

At that time Mr. Robidoux had in his employ 
about fifteen or twenty Frenchmen, whom lie regu- 
larly sent East to Grand River or West beyond the 
Missouri for the purpose of trading with the In- 
dians and bringing in furs. Just below Francis 
Street Mr. Robidoux opened a private ferry for 
transporting the Indians and his employes. In 
1 8 13 he laid out the original town, the site of which 
was covered with a luxuriant- growth of hemp. 
The more civilized appellative of St. Joseph was 
substituted for that of Blacksnake Hills. The first 
sale of lots was in the fall of 1843, at which time 
the corner lots were sold for $150, and the middle 
lots for $l(ii). About one hundred and fifty lots 
were sold at this sale. 



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Ijps^ AMUEL MITCHELL CARSON since 1882 

^&5 has been Deputy Circuit Clerk of Bu- 

(l£_Jll chanan County. He is a fine penman and 

keeps the records in a legible and beautiful 

lie has been Deputy now for over eleven 

having been confirmed by three different 

judges to that position, and having discharged his 

duties to the full satisfaction of all concerned. 

Mr. Carson was born in Washington Township, 

only seven miles from the city of St. Joseph, on 

July 10, I860. His father, William (arson, was a 



band. 

years, 



native of Pulaski County, Ky. The latter married 
Miss Dysart. Campbell Carson, William's father, 
was a large farmer in the Blue Grass region and 
dealt quite extensivel}' in live-stock. He partici- 
pated in the War of 1812, and came to this county 
about 1854, locating just south of this city with 
his three sons, William, James and Johnson. The 
last-named is the only one living and makes his 
home in Andrew County. Grandfather Carson 
was an extensive hemp-raiser after coming to Mis- 
souri, and died here before the war. 

William Carson was married in Kentucky and 
removed to Missouri in 1854, bringing his family 
of six children. He purchased a farm of about 
two hundred and forty acres, which he improved 
and brought under thorough cultivation. In 1869 
he removed to a place near Elmwood, Saline 
County, where he also engaged in farming for 
about two years, then returning to Buchanan 
County, where he engaged in farming near Gar- 
rettsburg. In 1873 he was appointed Superin- 
tendent of the County Poor Farm, which position 
he held for eight years. During that time it was 
greatly improved; a large asylum of brick and 
stone was erected on the place, and everything 
was in good condition when he retired. Buying 
a small farm of about forty-six acres near this city, 
he resided there until his death, in June, 1885. 
The mother of our subject, who before her mar- 
riage was Miss Louisa M. Dysart, was born in 
Kentucky and is a sister of Col. James Dysart, of 
this county. She is now making her home with 
our subject. 

Mr. Carson is one of eight children, of whom 
only six are now living, and was reared in this 
county with the exception of two years, when, 
with his parents, he resided in Saline County. 
His early education was thatof the district schools, 
which was supplemented b3' a course of study in the 
Christian Brothers College at St. Joseph. About the 
year 1873 he engaged as a clerk for John Lysart, 
later entering the employ of the dry-goods firm 
of Bailey, Farleigh it Weil, wholesale merchants; 
he remained with that firm until 1882, when he 
was appointed to the present responsible position 
he now holds, as Deputy Circuit Clerk, his appoint- 
ment being made by Judge S. 1). Cowan. He was 



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commissioned by Judge Grubb, re-commissioned 
by .indue o. M. Spencer, and later by A. M. Wood- 
son. Our subject is a member of the Ancient 
Free & Accepted Masons, and in politics is a 
supporter of the Democracy, having served as a 
member of tbe I democratic City Central Committee. 
He is also a charter member of the Jefferson Club, 

and merits the high respect in which he is held by 
the many friends he has in this locality. 



EREM1AH 1 >I INN is a conductor on the St. 
Joseph, Kansas City & Council Bluffs Bail- 
way and IS one of the oldest employes of the 

J company. In consideration of his many 
years Of faithful service, he has recently been given 
a very easy trip, his run being between Kansas 
City and St. Joseph. The time necessary for mak- 
ing this distance is two hours and twenty minutes, 
and though his home is in Kansas City, about half 
of his time is spent in St. Joseph, where he is very 
well known and very popular. 

Michael Quinn, our subject's father, was also a 
railroad man in Illinois, and was engaged in gen- 
eral contract work in that State until 1807, when 
he removed to Kansas City. For twenty years he 
there made his home, continuing as a contractor. 
His wife, formerly Margaret Connor, died in Kan- 
sas City in 1890. They were the parents of two 
children: Kate, wife of Daniel McCarty, a resident 
of Kansas City; and our subject, who was born in 
La Salle, on .Inly 1, 1858. 

Jeremiah Quinn was a lad of only eleven years 
when lie removed to the West with his parents and 
he passed his youth in Kansas City, which when 
the family settled there was a town of only seven 
thousand inhabitants. In his thirteenth year Mr. 
Quiun began the Study of telegraphy, and after- 
Ward came to Si. Joseph, accepting a position as 
Operator on the Kansas City line. 

At the end of t bice years of faithful aervice as a 

telegraph operator, Mr. Quinn was offered a posi- 



tion as conductor of a freight train on the St. Jo- 
seph, Kansas ( 'it \ & Council Bluffs Railroad, which 
place he held for about two years. lie was then 
promoted to be a passenger conductor, and is well 
known to commercial travelers and patrons of 

the road as a most genial and pleasant gentleman. 
lie has been very fortunate while on the road. :i- 
the trains on which he has run have escaped acci- 
dent or injury of any kind. 

In his political faith Mr. Quinn is a strong advo- 
cate of the principles set forth by the Democratic 
party and is an active worker in the cause. Dur- 
ing the quarterof a century that has elapsed since 
he first came to the West, Mr. Quinn has been a 
witness of vast and marvelous changes in the 
country. On the boundless prairies, where even 
then the Indians and buffaloes roamed, villages 
have sprung up on every hand and are the centers 
of prosperous industries. The land has been 
brought under cultivation, and what was supposed 
to be almost worthless soil now brings forth abun- 
dant harvests of golden grain. 






KV. FATHER ANDREW NEWMAN, who 

has been in charge of the Cathedral at SI. 
Joseph for the past ten years, is an able 
\£)' speaker and is considered a young man of 
great promise. He is devoted to the advancement 
of the interests of Ins church, is very popular, and 
though it is but little more than a decade since he 
was ordained, he has already risen to an enviable 
position in the esteem in which he is held both by 
his flock and superiors in office. 

Mr. Newman was born in Ireland, and educated 
at si. Finian's Seminary, Navan, County Bleath. 
Afterwards he pursued a theological course at St. 
Patrick's College, in Carlow. On the 2 1st of De- 
cember, 1881, he was 1 rdained by Bishop Lynch, of 
Kildare, and the following year came to the Tin- 
ted States. For over ten years he was chaplain of 
the Sacred I lent Convent in this city, and in 
whatever capacity he has served he has eudeav- 




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died conscientiously to perform the duties pertain- 
ing to the position. 

The Rev. Father Augustine Stooker is the able 
assistant of the Rev. Father Newman at the Cathe- 
dral of St. Joseph, this being his first service. He 

was ordained by Bishop Fitz Gerald, at Subico, 
Ark., December 20, 1891, and has been in St. 
Joseph since March, 1892. He was educated in 
Finsiedeln, Switzerland, in the Academical and 
Philosophical course. Coming to the United 
States in the fall of 1887, he entered the Subiaco 
Monastery in Arkansas, a Benedictine institute, 
where he took the theological course. Father 
Siocker was born December 7, 1868, at Abt Wich, 
Switzerland. He has always been an able scholar, 
possessing a fine memory, and early concluding 
to devote himself to the ministry, he came to 
America to become a member of the Benedictine 
cider. He is a brilliant young priest and has un- 
doubtedly great prospects in store. 



vp^UOFNK Di. STEIGUER was for many years 
|— < line <>f Cameron's ablest business men and 
I J financiers, and was widely known and hon- 
ored for his high personal standing, for the value 
of his citizenship and for the generous, progressive 
and far-seeing public spirit that exercised such a 
powerful influence in the development of his 
adopted city. His strong business qualifications, 
aptitude for affairs and executive talent, combined 
witli his personal attributes, gave him prominence 
throughout Clinton County, and consequently his 
death was regarded as a public loss. 

Our subject was born in Athens, Alliens County, 
Ohio, September 2, 1844, and passed his boyhood 
thereuntil he reached the age of fourteen. By na- 
ture he possessed a noble disposition, which was his 
heritage from a long line of wealthy and aristo- 
cratic French ancestors. The first records of the 
family indicate that they were people of influence 



in Berne, Switzerland, and one of their ancestors, 
Francis De Steiguer, was President of Switzerland 
as early as 1662. A portrait of him painted in 
that country is now in the possession of Mrs. De 
Steiguer and is a valued heirloom in the family. 
She also has portraits of another ancestor, Gov. 
Grandson, of Switzerland, painted in 1703, and of 
Great-grandfather John Rodolph De Steiguer, the 
latter picture having been painted at Paris in 
177G, when the original of it was thirty-three. 
Another priceless heirloom is an old sword, carried 
by our subject's great-grandfather. Our subject's 
father, John Rodolph De Steiguer, came to Amer- 
ica in 1819 with his father and settled in Athens 
County, Ohio. 

At the age of fourteen Eugene De Steiguer be- 
came self-supporting, and prior to the Civil War 
spent two years in Indianapolis, Ind. When seven- 
teen years old he enlisted for service in defense of 
the Union, but was rejected on account of his age. 
Afterward he again applied for admission, and 
by representing himself to be somewhat older than 
he really was, succeeded in securing entrance. 
Notwithstanding his 3'outh, he served in Company 
D, Fifty-fifth Indiana Regiment, with a valor and 
fidelity which many a veteran might well have 
emulated, and when duty called was never found 
wanting. At the close of the war he returned to 
Ohio, and for the three years ensuiug was engaged 
in studying medicine. 

At Maryville, Mo., the young Doctor opened an 
office for the practice of his profession, in which 
work he was engaged for one year. Of an ex- 
tremely sensitive disposition, kind-hearted and 
sympathetic to an unusual extent, he was illy fitted 
for the arduous labors of a physician, since his 
anxiety on behalf of his patients was injurious to 
himself. He therefore abandoned the profession 
and entered upon a business career, in which 
great success met his efforts. He came to Cameron 
and engaged in the lumber business with his brother 
Lewis, whom he succeeded in 1880. 

In additiou to his extensive business interests at 
Cameron, Mr. l)c Steiguer owned lumber-yards at 
Jamesport, Mo., and What Cheer, Iowa, to each of 
which he gave personal supervision, lie was also 
interested in real estate in San Diego, Cal., where 




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he spent ten months, and owned valuable farming 
lands near Cameron. He was a Director in the 
First National Bank of Cameron, and of the First 
National Bank of Seattle, Wash.. <>f which his 
nephew is cashier. Although a strong Republican, 
he was never active in his partisanship. He was 
identified with the Grand Army of the Republic, 
hi which lie was the youngest member in the 
State. 

The lady who for ten years was the devoted 
helpmate <>f Mr. De Steiguer bore the maiden 
name of Eunice Gattsarjd was a native nf Belmont 
County, Ohio. Their marriage was solemnized at 
Clarington, December 14, 1881. They became the 
pan nts of four children, three of whom are living 
with their mother: Walter E., Eunice and Virginia. 
Mr. De Steiguer always enjoyed robust health, 
with the exception of attacks of indigestion, to 
which he was subject, and attended to his business 
until shortly before his death. That sad event 
occurred February 16, 1891, and was a great shock 
to the community where he was so well known and 
universally honored. 







A.I. ALBERT T. BAUBIE. The biography 
of this gentleman is to a large degree the 
history of Cameron, with which he was 
identified from the time he aided m its in- 
corporation until, his life work ended, he passed 
away, mourned by its entire population. He was 
of French descent, and his ancestors were people 
of wealth in their native land across the waters. 
He was burn in Windsor. ( anada. April .'!. 1829, 
and was orphaned by the death of his parents 
when he was only five years old. His home was 
thereafter with his grandparents until he was 

twelve, when he entered an uncle's store at Wind- 
sor, and was there employed asaclerk until he was 
sixteen. 

• oming from Canada to Missouri, Mr. Baubie 

engaged as clerk in a St. Louis dry-g Is store 

for five years, and meanwhile boarded at the old 

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Planters' House. We next find him employed as 
clerk cm the '-Lucy Bertram," a magnificent 

steamer that plied the waters of the . Mississippi 
between New Orleans and St. Louis. After a short 
time thus spent, he entered the employ of the 
American Fur Company, and for two years en- 
gaged in trading with the Pottawattomie Indians 
in Nebraska, lie abandoned that occupation in 
order to enter the mercantile business with a 
cousin, T. I), s. McDonald, at St. Joseph, Mo. The 
partnership lasted but one year, and was dissolved 
in 18-1'.), when the business was closed out. 

The next occupation which engrossed the atten- 
tion of .Mr. Baubie was thai of l kkeeper for 

the linn of Ray & Somerville, at St Joseph. Dur- 
ing the time of the "gold fever." when California 
was the El Dorado of thousands of Argonauts, he 
found the business of freighting a remunerative 
occupation. In company with Hen Holliday, 
about L850, he embarked in that business and had 
charge of the eonveying of goods to Salt Lake 
City, lie was married in that city .July 4, 1853, 
to Miss Anna A. Hamilton. This lady is a daugh- 
ter of Capt. James Hamilton, of the United States 
Army, who died in St. Augustine. Ha., when she 
was but three years old. After the father's death, 
her mother returned to Missouri, where -he resided 
at Liberty and later in St. Joseph. Mis. Baubie 
received a practical education, which prepared her 
for the duties of after life, in the Convent of the 
Sacred Heart, of St. Louis. Mo., where she gradua- 
ted in 184'.). 

After his marriage, Maj. Banbie made two trips 
to Salt Lake, but the Indians were troublesome, 
and his wife urged him to discontinue the expedi- 
tions. Accordingly, he returned to his former 
position as bookkeeper for Lay A- Someiv ille. and 
continued with them in a clerical capacity until 
the spring of 1856, when he purchased the store. 
About that time, the cit\ of Cameron was laid out 
one mile further we-i. and he moved hi> store to 

the new town, where he embarked in business op- 
posite to the present site of the Cameron House. 

( >n the lot where the po-tolliee liou Stands, he eive- 
led a house, now One Of the landmarks of the place, 
and Incited on the lot adjacent to the Catholic 
Church. 



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In addition to having the first store in Cameron, 
Mr. Baubie also served as the first Postmaster, in 
which capacity he continued until the opening of 
the Civil War. He was the agent of the Hannibal 
& St. Joseph Railroad at Cameron until the war, 
and in 1861 was elected Judge of the Court of 
Common Pleas, but did not accept the position. 
He enlisted in Col. Catherwood's company, of 
which he was First Lieutenant, and with his regi- 
ment he participated in the engagements at Lex- 
ington, Lone Jack, Wilson's Creek, Pea Ridge, and 
other battles of minor importance, but of no less 
danger to the participants. He was made Post 
Quartermaster at Springfield, Mo., where he re- 
mained until the close of the war. His appoint- 
ment as Major was made after he had commanded 
a regiment for Gen. John McNeil, and he was 
mustered out of service in that capacity. 

Returning to Cameron, Maj. Baubie inaugurated 
a real-estate and insurance business, which he con- 
ducted until his death. That event occurred at 
his home, June 18, 18 ( J0, when his age was but 
little more than three-score years. His demise 
was regarded as a public misfortune, and his fel- 
low-citizens joined with the immediate relatives 
in deploring the loss of one who in every relation 
of life had been so steadfast and loyal. Surviv- 
ing him are his widow and their two children, 
Frank H., of Chicago, and Anna Hilda, wife of C. 
II. Paddock, of St. Joseph, Mo. There is also an 
adopted daughter, Miss Maggie Fitzgerald, who 
has been a loved inmate of the home since she 
was eleven years old, and who assisted the Major 
in his business. She now conducts it unaided, 
and is successfully engaged as an insurance agent. 

Although it was not his policy to take an active 
part in political matters, Maj. Baubie was an ar- 
dent Democrat, and never failed to vote when the 
occasion offered. In religion, he was reared a 
Catholic, and Mrs. Baubie is a devoted communi- 
cant in that church. For years before his death, 
he had been active as a Royal Arch Mason, and 
the funeral services were conducted by that frater- 
nity with their imposing and impressive cere- 
monies. It matters naught to the dead whether 
praise or censure is their meed, and the honest 
tribute of gratitude which we would fain render 



to Maj. Baubie avails nothing now. In justice, 
however, to the friends who revere his memory, 
and to those dear ones whose welfare was ever his 
own, it behooves us in this simple record of 
his life work to make mention of the fact that in 
all things he was characterized by unflinching in- 
tegrity, unwavering fidelity and tireless energy, 
that in generous deeds he was unwearied, nor did 
his unnumbered kindnesses cease until deatb 
stilled the noble impulses of his heart. 



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JOSEPH A. CAVIEZEL is the senior member 
of the firm of J. A. Caviezel & Son, the 
pioneer broom manufacturers of St. Joseph, 
their plant being located at No. 2107 South 
Fifth Street. He is pre-eminently a self-made 
man, being the architect of his own- fortunes and 
having risen to a position of importance among 
the commercial and active business men of the 
West entirely through the exercise of his native 
qualities of perseverance, industry and strict atten- 
tion to business. He understands broom-making 
thoroughly in all its details, having made that 
his principal business since his boyhood. 

The gentleman of whom we write was born in 
Switzerland, in the village of Laos, in the Alps, 
the date being July 8, 1836. He came of an old 
and respected Swiss family of Roman descent. 
His father, Anton, was born in that locality and 
spent his life as a farmer. The given name of his 
wife was Margaret, and of that place she was also 
a native. They were both members of the Catholic 
Church, and reared a family of thirteen children, 
only three of whom yet survive. Our subject's 
boyhood was passed in the world-famed, grand Al- 
pine legion, and many a time has he wandered 
through the almost inaccessible and dangerous 
heights. His education was limited to the advan- 
tages offered by the common schools, but he also 
spent some time in the study of the languages. 

Leaving home at the age of eighteen with three 
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the spring Of 18.">1 mi a sailing-vessel. After a 
voyage of thirty-ODO days they landed safely at 
their destination, New York, and proceeded t<> 
Toledo, Ohio, when they obtained work and re- 
mained until 18.it;. At thai time oar subject came 
as far Wesl as St. Louis, Mo., where for two rears 
be served an apprenticeship as a broom-maker. 
The war coming on aboul that time he went to 
New Orleans, working as a carpenter in the New 
Orleans & Jackson Railroad ear shops until he was 
forced to enter the Confederate army in 18(12. 
He became a member Of Company A. Seventh 
Regular Louisiana Infantry, and participated in 
the battles of Baton Rouge and Ft. Hudson. He 
was taken prisoner, hut paroled. Remaining still 
for some time in the smith, he then returned to 
St. Louis, working at his trade, and in 1866 came 
to St. Joseph. For thirteen years following lie 
was an employe, and during the latter part of the 
tune was foreman for Kane & Danckmyer, lnooin 
manufacturers at the corner of Sixth and Mes- 
sanie Streets. 

In 187H Mr. Caviezel embarked in a business of 
his own on a small scale. He purchased a machine, 
which he still owns, in Cincinnati during the war, 
and though it has gone through three or four tires 
it is about as good as ever. From the small be- 
ginning his business lias constantly grown, and in 
1882 he was enabled to build a good shop, which 
ten years later he increased in dimensions. His 
place is :i0.\5(i feet, having two storage rooms and 
manufacturing departments. The firm is now 
running six machines with a capacity of five hun- 
dred dozen brooms a month. Their sales are 
mainly local, but are very extensive-. Our subject 
has invested somewhat in city real estate, and owns 
One-half Of a block of eighty feet, with frontage 

on three streets, iu the business portion of the 
place. 

While iu St. Louis, in I860, Mr. Caviezel was 
united in marriage with Miss Mary I'.. Lusk, a na- 
tive of Roekford, 111. Her father, Solomon l.u-k. 
Was an Eastern man and a contractor, residing in 
St. Louis. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Caviezel have been 
born eight children, only four of whom lived to 
maturity. Tin- eldest, Solomon .1.. was born in 
Emmet City, La., and is a harness-maker by trade. 



Berving his apprenticeship with the Weyth Hard- 
ware Company of St. Joseph, and having worked 
for them since. He was married to Miss Alice 

Miller, of this city, by whom he has four children. 
Annie, now Mrs. Nobles, makes her home in Atch- 
ison. Kan., and Miss Marian C. is at home. Ed- 
ward Sylvester, the second son, who was born in 
Zeleska, Ross County, Ohio, on the 18th of Jan- 
uary, 1865, was reared in SI. Joseph, and educated 
in the Christian Brothers' College. When a boy 
he learned the broom-making trade out of school 
hours, was a clerk for some time, was later a 
printer and then a collector. In August, 1891, 
his father took him in as a member of the linn, 
and he has since been actively engaged in the 
business. At Beloit, Wis., he married Miss Anna 
Dorn, who was born in Germany, and to them 
have been born two children. Crystal and Cathe- 
rine. 

In 1886 our subject went to Switzerland and 
had a very pleasant voyage and visit, being -one 
about four months, lb' was a Trustee in the 
Church of the Holy Rosary, to which his son and 
other members of the family also belong. Both 
father and son are stanch Republicans. 



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<T«1 >I1.I.IA.M J. EWING, the eldest son of 
\/\l/l J° snua !'• Ewing, together with his broth- 
^Sp ers and sisters, Frank A., David ('.. Annie 
B. and Lucy K., owns a large estate comprising 
three hundred and twenty-live aires of valuable 
land, lie has won honorable rank in the farming 
Community of Washington Township, ami is es- 
teemed by all who know him as an honorable and 
wide-awake citizen. 

The father of our subject, who was born in 
Lee County, Va., March 12, 1882, was a son of 
William S. Ewing, who was also born in that State 
and county, on September 6, 1802. The great- 
grandparents of our subject, Joshua and Rachel 
(Craig) Ewing, were descended from prominent 

families in Pennsylvania and Virginia, Rachel 



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Ewing was born November 26, 1765, in the Key- 
stone State, aDd was the daughter of Robert and 

Margaret ( Whiteliill) Craig, the former born in 
1714. Her father, Robert Craig, was the son of 
David and Margaret Craig, natives also of Penn- 
sylvania. 

The maiden name of our subject's mother was 
Lucy Elizabeth Armstrong. She was born De- 
cember 24, 1836, in North Carolina, and was the 
daughter of Frank K. and Jerusha (Belt) Arm- 
strong, natives also of that State. Her parents in 
early life came to St. Joseph, this State, and later 
took up their abode in Doniphan County, Kan. 

'I'll'' first of the Ewing family to settle on the 
Platte Purchase was David C. Ewing, an uncle of 
the father of our subject. He came hither as earl3' 
as 1832, and claimed to be the third white man to 
locate on that tract. Renting land from the Indi- 
ans in what is now Agency Township, David C. 
Ewing continued to reside there until 1837, when 
he removed to Center Township. Later he became 
the owner of the farm now in the possession of 
Col. James Dysart, where he made his home until 
1850. On the above date Mr. Ewing purchased 
the estate now owned by Isaac Lower in Washing- 
ton Township, upon which he erected a good resi- 
dence and made his home for the three succeeding 
years, or until he moved upon the northwest quar- 
ter of section 25, Washington Township, where his 
decease occurred March 23, 1872, at the age of 
sixty-seven years, four months and twenty days. 
1 le never married. He was a member of the Presby- 
terian Church and was a man possessing a good edu- 
cation. lie was one of the largest land-owners in 
the State at the time of his death, possessing five 
thousand acres in Atchison County, this State, 
nine hundred acres in Buchanan County, besides 
property in Lee County. He was also a prominent 
stockholder in the State National Bank in St. Jo- 
seph, in which institution lie was a Director. His 
political affiliation was with the Democratic party. 
Honorable and upright in all his business dealings, 
a true friend and kind neighbor, he had a large 
circle of warm friends throughout the Slate. 

In 1854, the father of our subject came to this 
M:it<> and made his home on the farm of his uncle, 
David Ewing. His marriage with Miss Lucy Arm- 



strong occurred September 30, 1861. They spent 
their entire life on the above farm, the mother dy- 
ing on Christmas Day, 1871, and the father June 
28, 1885. They reared a family of six children, of 
whom five are now living, and whose names are 
mentioned at the opening of this sketch. They 
were devoted members of the Presbyterian Church, 
and their influence was ever given toward those 
measures which are calculated to promote the in- 
terests of the community along moral, rcligtous 
and educational lines. 

Joshua Ewing was an active and progressive 
farmer, and erected on his place in 1873 a beauti- 
ful residence, which cost $3,000. His estate was 
further improved with good buildings of every 
description, which provided ample accommodation 
for the quantities of grain and stock which he 
raised. He served many years as a member of the 
School Board, and occupied a high place among 
the best residents of the farming community. In 
politics he was a Democrat, and socially was a 
Master Mason. 

The five children of Joshua Ewing are all single 
and are joint heirs to the valuable estate of three 
hundred and twenty-five acres which he left at his 
death. They have all been given excellent educa- 
tions, Miss Annie being a graduate of the Christian 
Female College, at Camden Point. Lucy E. is con- 
ducting her studies at the La Salle Female Sem- 
inary at Auburndale, Mass., while our subject was 
educated at Westminster College, of Fulton, this 
State. Frank and David completed their studies 
at the Christian Brothers' College, at St. Joseph. 
Their births are recorded in the following order: 
William J., born July 17, 1862; Frank A., born 
January 21, 1864; David O, born March 18, 1866; 
Annie, born August 5, 1870; and Lucy E., born 
December 17, 1871. Thomas <;., who was born 
May 2, 1868, died November 26, 1871. The 
mother of these children lies buried in the ceme- 
tery at Agency, where they expect to remove the 
body of their father, which now occupies a solitary 
grave on the old farm. 

David C. Ewing. a younger brother of our sub- 
ject, is a prominent Mason socially, and takes great 
interest in the workings of the Democratic party, 
being at the present time a member of the Execu- 



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live Committee of li is county. The three brothers 
are stockholders in the State National Bank :ci St. 
Joseph, and. judging from themanner in which 
they are conducting affairs, they arc bound to make 
their mark in the world. 



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JOHN L. LEONARD, our mbject, is one of 
those progressive Farmers who have left, the 
old methods behind and have adopted such 
improvements in farming and stock-raising 
as will make Buchanan County the garden of the 
State, if his example is generally followed. His 
home farm, which comprises three hundred and 
twenty acres, is pleasantly located on the west half 
of section 24. In addition to that property Mr. 
Leonard owns fifty-two acres in township 57^ 
range 34, a quarter-section of land in De Kalb 
County, this State, and one thousand acres in 
Texas. He is quite extensively engaged in stock- 
raising, being the owner of some well-bred horses. 
Solomon L. Leonard, the father of our subject. 
was born in 1811 in Ohio. He was a very tine 
Greek and Latin scholar, and in his youth was a 
school teacher, although in later life he became 
well known as a lawyer. He was reared to man's 
estate in the Blue Crass region. His parents died 
when he was very young, and early in life he was 
thrown upon his own resources. The mother of 
our subject, who was born August 12, 1818, was. 
prior to her marriage, Miss Leanna Hall. She was 
born August 12, 1818, and after her marriage to 
Solomon Leonard came with him in 18,'S!I to Mis- 
souri, locating in Platte County. There Mr. Leon- 
ard was engaged in the practice of law, in which 
profession lie was more than ordinarily successful. 
In 1 K4 1 he removed with his family to the north- 
east quartet of section 21, which property is at 

present in the possession of our subject. 

Solomon Leonard continued the practice of law 
in this and adjoining counties until 1843, when he 
was appointed one of the commissioners to select 
live hundred thousand acres of land for the State 



of Missouri. In 1844-45 he was appointed J 

of the Circuit Court to lill a vacancy, and so well 

did he perform the duties which the office involved 

that he was his own SUCCe880r until 1852, at which 
time he declined a re-election. Later lie was asso- 
ciated in partnership with Gen. Bela M. Hughes 

in the practice of law, which connection was dis- 
solved solely on account of the great, linancial 
interests to which Mr. Leonard was obliged to 
give his personal attention. He was one of the 
foremost men in the state, and his death, which 
occurred in October. 1861, near Ft. Gibson, I. T.. 
was greatly felt by all who knew him. I lis widow, 
who survives him at (he age of seventy-four years, 
makes her home with her children. 

Of the parental family of ten children, only 
four survive, those besides our subject being Mrs. 
Perrilla Connett, Mrs. Sarah E. Brown and Will- 
iam Henry. Mrs. Leonard was a member in good 
standing of the Christian Church. In his political 
relations the father was a life-long Democrat, and 
at one time was that party's candidate for Con- 
gress, but was defeated by a small majority in the 
convention. 

He of whom we write was born May 2. 1853, in 
the house where he makes his home at the presenl 
time. He was given an excellent education, com- 
pleting his Studies ill the high school of St Joseph. 
and was thus fitted to embark in life on his own 
responsibility. In 1871 he assumed tin' manage- 
ment of the home farm for his mother, where he 
has continued to reside since. 

August 29, 1870, Mr. Leonard and Miss America 
.1.. daughter of James J. and Ruth A. (Monroe) 
Patterson, were united m marriage. The father 
was born in Pennsylvania in 1815, while the 
mother was born April 27. 1825, in Pike County. 
Ohio. They were married in Piatt County. III.. 
in 1851, and in I860 removed Wist i,, Kansas, 
locating on a farm in Atchison County. There 
t hey continued to reside until 1866, when thej came 
to Buchanan County, and in IsT.'i became indent 
ilied with the interests of De Kalb County, where 

the father died Dcecmhei I. 1891. The mother, 
who still Survives, makes her home with her chil- 
dren. Mrs. Leonard was inun November 13, 1853, 
in Piatt County, 111., receiving a g 1 education 



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and being trained in those household duties which 
are necessary in order to make a home neat and 
attractive. Her parents were members of the 
Presbyterian and Baptist Churches respectively. 
Mr. Patterson was a strong Republican in politics 
and in 18C2 was a member of the Kansas Legisla- 
ture. He later served as Postmaster of Union 
Star, De Kalb County, Mo., and while residing in 
Illinois occupied the same position in Monticello, 
Piatt County. 

Mr. and Mrs. Leonard of this sketch have had 
five children, one having died. They bear the 
respective names of Solomon L, Euphora May, 
Perilla L. and Ruth A. Agnes V. died young, 
Religiousl}' they are members of the Second Pres- 
byterian Church in St. Joseph, among whose mem- 
bers they occupy a prominent place, being active 
in all good works and generous in their contribu- 
tions. Mr. Leonard is greatly interested in educa- 
tional affairs and has seen to it that his children 
received good school advantages. He is a member 
of the School Board, acting in the capacity of 
Clerk, and is the working member of that body. 
In politics he is a stanch Democrat and has been 
frequently sent as delegate to the various conven- 
tions. 



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^ffoHN S. BRYAN, the energetic and efficient 
Sheriff of Clinton County, with headquar- 
ters at Plattsburgh, is a long-time resident of 
his present locality, and for many years a 
prominent agriculturist of the county. Elected to 
his responsible office m 1890, he was re-elected in 
1892, at the close of the term. He has given uni- 
versal satisfaction, discharging the various duties 
of the position with marked ability and faithful 
fidelity. Our subject is a native Missourian, and 
during his entire lifetime has been intimately asso- 
ciated with the growth and progress of the State. 
He was burn near Madison, Monroe C'OU 11 ty, March 
5, 18 1 Land is the son of David and Mary (Waller) 
Bryan, both natives of Kentucky, but early pioneers 
of Missouri, where they reared their family, and 



steadily won their way upward through the 
changing scenes of their comparatively brief mar- 
ried life. 

When John S. Bryan was about two years old 
his father died, and some time after his mother 
married Ambrose Crutcher, of Monroe County. 
Mr. Bryan was reared in Paris, and there received 
his education, and at eighteen years of age enlisted 
under Joe Porter in the Confederate service, being 
actively engaged in military duty from the early 
part of the year 1862 until 1865, when the war 
terminated. It was upon the field at Newark that 
our brave young volunteer first participated in a 
battle, later taking part in the fight at Kirksville. 
Immediately following this latter engagement, Mr. 
Bryan joined Price, and served in Marmaduke's 
brigade, remaining three months under the com- 
mand of John A. Burbage, and continuing with 
Mannaduke and .Shelby, being actively engaged in 
Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas and Missouri. 

Surrendering with the command at Shreveport, 
La., Mr. Bryan returned to Paris, and made his 
home in Monroe County until 1873, when he set- 
tled in Clinton County, six miles from Plattsburgh, 
and there devoted himself to the pursuit of agri- 
culture. In 1875 Mr. Bryan bought a fine farm, 
two and one-half miles south of Plattsburgh, 
and prosperously engaged in the culture of the 
soil until he was elected to the office of Sheriff. 
Since 1890 Mr. Bryan and his family have resided 
in a pleasant home in Plattsburgh. The estimable 
wife, with whom Mr. Bryan was united in marriage 
January 16, 1871, was Miss Mary L. McCann, a 
daughter of Pleasant McCann, of Monroe County. 
She was born in this latter county, where she was 
also reared and educated. Four children blessed 
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bryan, the eldest, George 
C, now serving as Deputy Sheriff under his father. 
Charles A., Clara A., and Allie L., who complete 
the list of this family group of bright, attractive 
young people, are social favorites with a large 
circle of friends. 

Mr. Bryan is a valued member of the Christian 
Church, and active in the extension of the good 
works of that religious organization. Politically, 
lie is a strong Democrat. From early manhood he 
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ami advancement of prominent and leading inter- 
ests of liis native State, and has most worthily won 
the esteem and confidence of the general public, 

which lie now firmly holds in his dual capacity of 
private citizen ard county official. 




J. KLINE, a prominent young business 
man of St. Joseph, Buchanan County, is 
Secretary of the St. Joseph Fair Associa- 
tion, which is one of the most popular 
places of entertainment in this part of the State. 
Its existence is largely owing to our subject, who 
was from the first very active and enthusiastic in 
its promotion. The grounds were leased, and the 
company at once built a fine race track of the 
regulation mile length at an expense of $18,000. 
They spell t on various improvements altogether 
$67,000, and that the Fair proved to he a great 
attraction is shown by the fact that fully double 
the number of people ever assembled at a fair in 
the Missouri Valley were present during the one- 
week fair held in September, 1892. On Thursday 
there were $53,000 paid in admission, the charge for 
which was at the rate of fifty cents a ticket. This 
was the day that Nancy Hanks trotted a mile in 
2.07.L the fastest time ever made in the West out- 
side of Minneapolis and Independence, and the 
gate receipts were $26,500. When the meeting 
closed, this track held twenty-one world's records 
for harness contests. The fair was a notable suc- 
cess in every way, and the Association is now at 
work upon methods of improvement, having re- 
cently spent more than $15,000 on it. 

Mr. Kline was bo in in Roekville, Parke County, 
Ind.. January HI, 1861, and is a son of F. C. and 
Emily ( Paker) Kline. His paternal grandfather 
was an early settler of Tippecanoe County, bid., 
and met his death in one of the bitter early politi- 
cal campaigns between the Whigs and Democrats, 
being a strong advocate of the former party. Our 
subject's father, who was horn in Winchester, Ya., 



was a printer by trade and established the Roek- 
ville Republican, ot which he was one-half owner. 
Ill 1862 he volunteered as a private soldier in an 

Indiana regiment, serving until the close of the 
war. At the battle of Winchester he fought on 
the old farm where he was born. He returned in 
1865 to Roekville, where he resumed his work as 
a printer, and he continued in that occupation 
until 1870, when he was appointed postal agent 
on the Evansville &Terre Haute Railroad. Later, 
he served as mail agent on the Yandalia line until 
L887, when he was removed on account of a change 
of administration. He then went to Kent, Wash., 
where he worked on the Kent Journal. His wife 
was born near Louisville of that State, and is a 
daughter of James Baker, an early settler in Parke 
County, Ind. 

II. J. Kline is one of five children, four of whom 
are living. Until his twelfth year he lived in his 
native county, when he became a resident of 
Logansport, Ind., attending the High School of 
that place. He afterward entered the book and 
stationery business in the same city, becoming 
quite experienced in that branch of work. It was 
in 1885 that he removed to St. Joseph, accepting 
a position as head book-salesman for Ernest & 
Brill. At the end of a year he became city editor 
of the Daily Xeirs, of which Jacob Spencer was 
proprietor and editor, and retained that position 
for one year. He was then called to the city edi- 
torship of the Gazette, in the service of which he 
spent four years, resigning in June. 1890. For 
the succeeding six months he was reporter on the 
Herald, and then became its city editor. 

In the fall of L891 Mr. Kline began his work 
upon the journal known as the Western Resources, 
published at Lincoln, Neb. This paper is devoted 
to the subject of trotting horses, and Mr. Kline 
became an editorial writer on the staff. In Jan- 
ury, 1892, returning to St. Joseph, he resumed 
his position as city editor of the Herald, and 
is now editor of the Western Breeder, a weekly 
publication devoted exclusively to trotting horses. 
This paper was started in 1890 as a general 
stock journal, but after Mr. Kline became its 
editor, in 1892, he, in company with several 
others, bought the paper and changed it- name to 



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the one it now bears. He is Secretary and mana- 
ger of the same. 

In Logan sport, Lnd., in the year 1881, Mr. Kline 
and Rose Williamson were united in marriage. Two 
children have graced their union, Tedd and Mamie. 
Mrs. Kline was born in Cass County, lnd., and is 
a lady of education and refinement. Mr. Kline 
belongs to Lincoln Camp No 17, S. V., of which he 
was Captain for four years. He was also com- 
mander of the Division of Missouri in the year 
1890, when the National Encampment was held in 
this city. In politics he is a stanch Republican. 




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CADEMY OF THE SACRED HEART. 

This institution for young ladies is one of 
the points of interest in St. Joseph, and is 
so situated that the metallic summit which 
reflects the sunlight can be seen like a beacon for a 
radius of many miles. The value of the property 
now exceeds $100,000. The building, which was 
completed in 1857, is 120x60 feet in dimensions, 
and three stories high, with a mansard roof, sur- 
mounted in the center by a tower of elegant de- 
sign. The building is divided into thirty-eight 
departments, all models of neatness and arrange- 
ment. The course of instruction embraces the 
whole range of subjects now considered necessary 
in the education of the modern young lady of cul- 
ture. 

The Academy of the Sacred Heart is the oldest 
educational institution in northern Missouri. The 
order to which the Sisters conducting the same be- 
long was founded in France by Madam Sophie 
Barat in the first years of this century, which fol- 
lowed the 3 r ears of war and revolution which had 
swept away education and religion to a large ex- 
tent. From this nucleus the work has grown until 
there are now one hundred and thirty-two con- 
vents of the order, widely scattered in all parts of 
the civilized world. Madam Duchesne came to the 
United States in 1818 with the firstcolony of nuns 
to establish a convent of the order. In June, 



1 853, four of the Religieuse came to St. Joseph from 
St. Louis, and though they were frequently subject 
to peculiar treatment by the people, who many of 
them had never before seen any of the black-robed 
Sisters, the latter found friends who supplied their 
needs. They at once established a school, and dur- 
ing the first month enrolled about one hundred 
pupils. In 1856 the foundations of the present 
building were laid, and since its completion the 
Sisters have carried on a large boarding and day 
school, and through all the years the number of 
scholars has averaged over one hundred and fifty. 

Mother Niederkorn. the present Superior of the 
Convent, was formerly Vicar of the Western Yic- 
arate, in which the Convent of the Sacred Heart 
exists. The environments of the pupils are ex- 
tremely pleasant and favorable, and the grounds are 
well-kept and shaded by giant trees. The build- 
ing, a stately brick structure, has long wings at 
each end, in one of which is the beautiful chapel, 
a gem of artistic beauty. Madam Shannon, the 
foundress of the school, was a novice of Madam 
Duchesne, and is still living, although eighty-four 
years of age. She was succeeded in turn by Madam 
Berry, Madam Boyle, Madam Wall and Madam 
Hamilton. Madam Niederkorn, who was Superior 
in Chicago for several years — during which time 
the otlice was held by Madam Keating and Madam 
Du Mont — returned in 1888, and is at the present 
time in charge. 

As to the method of education, on which the or- 
der justly prides itself, we will sa3' that it is 011I3' 
the practical and consistent carrying out of the 
truth voiced by the great German educator, Froebel, 
"The nature of the child is three-fold — in its rela- 
tion to nature, to man and to God." In other 
words, there must be attained a harmonious devel- 
opment of the body, mind and soul. This is the 
ideal striven for by these teachers of long experi- 
ence and wise training. The physical well-being 
of their charges is successfully sought by fulfilling 
all the conditions of hygiene and perfect regularity 
of life, supplementing them with abundant exer- 
cise. The study of foreign languages is carried on 
by teachers recruited from the European houses of 
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foreign tongue. The musical department is a <l i>- 
tinctive feature, and the home orchestra gives most 
creditable performances. One musicale each year 
consists of selections composed by the students, 
win. are fitted for the task by a course of harmony. 
Lastly, though considered the supreme work of 
this institution, great attention is given to char- 
acter-building — the subjugation of all things to 
duty, self-control, and the sacrifice of individual 
to general interests, fur, as Kroebel says: "All edu- 
cation that is not founded mi religion isone-sided 
and useless." 



JOHN ANDREW FRENCH, M. I)., is Profes- 
sor of Diseases of Children, Skin, and Clin- 
ical Medicine in the Northwestern Medical 
College, of St. Joseph. He was a student in 
the New York Polyclinic and Hospital, and is 
Assistant Surgeon, with the rank of Captain, on 
the staff of Col. J. Hansen, National Guards of 
Missouri, his commission being dated July 12, 1882, 
and signed by Thomas T. Crittenden, Governor. 
The Doctor has one of the most extensive prac- 
tices in the city. and stands among the very highest 
of his professional brethren in this portion of the 
Mate. lie is a line lecturer and is one of the most 
valued professors in the college. 

Doctor French was horn in Gentryville, Gentry 
County, Mo., November 8, 1858, his parents being 
William L. and Sophia 0. (Reedl French, both 
natives of Kentucky, who emigrated to this State 
soon after their marriage. When our subject was 
about, eighteen years of age his parents removed 
to Randolph County. The father died while in 
the Confederate army. The mother is still living, 
making her home with our subject. Doctor French 
was educated in the common schools, and when 
eighteen years of age entered a drug store at Mo- 
berly, and while in that position found time to 
read medicine. Doctor John T. Cox gave him 
valuable assistance and directed his studies. In the 



winter of 1878-79 he entered the Keokuk Medical 
College, and in the spring went to st. Louis, Mo., 
where he pursued hi- studies in the Missouri Med- 
ical College, and was graduated in the Class of 'HO 

from the St. Joseph Medical College. He at once 
began practice in this city, and has from the Bret 
met with great success. He lias obtained consid- 
erable reputation as a lecturer, and for the past 
four years has been a member of the faculty of 
the justly celebrated Northwestern Medical Col- 
lege of this city, and for the same length of time 
has been on the Hoard of Directors. It was due 
to his efforts that the college building on the cor- 
ner of Eighth and Sylvania Streets was erected at 
a cost of $30,000. He also built and is the entire 
owner of the St. Joseph Private Hospital. For 
two terms Doctor French was City Health Officer, 
and he has always been very anxious to promote 
the general welfare of his fellow-citi/.ens. 

On the 12th of February, 1884, the Doctor was 
married, four miles north of this city, to Miss 
Kate V., daughter of Hugh Lewis, an extensive 
farmer of Andrew County. Mrs. French, who was 
educated in Martin's Female Seminary in St. .Jo- 
seph, is a lady of exceptional culture ami womanly 
attainments. By her marriage she has become the 
mother of two sons: Lewis Andrew and Valient 
1). D. Melvin. The latter was named after the 
Knights of Pythias Lodge of which the Doctor is 
a Trustee. Mrs. French is a member of the Chris- 
tian Church, and owing to her amiable and charm- 
ing qualities has made a host of friends, who es- 
teem her highly. 

Doctor French has always taken an active part 
in politics, being a firm Democrat When he 
started in practice he had not a dollar in the world, 
and while still a boy, he, with an older brother, 
supported his mother and a large family of brothers 
and sisters. He is a member of the Knights of 
Pythias, of the Ancient Order of United Work- 
men, the Modem Woodmen, and the Woodmen of 
the World. He has passed the honorable degree 
of the Ancient Order of United Workmen ( the part 
including ladies) the Fraternal Aid. the Order of 
Redmen, and has been Medical Examiner of all 
these insurance orders, himself carrying a policy 
"i (13,000. The Doctor is the editor .old proprie- 



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tor of the St. Joseph Medical Journal and was for- 
merly one of the editors of the Western Medical and 
Surgical Reporter of this city. He is also a mem- 
ber of the Buchanan County Medical Association 
and of the District Medical Association of North- 
western Missouri, also of the State Medical Asso- 
ciation and the Missouri Valley Medical Associa- 
tion, and in 1893, at Moberly, Mo., was elected 
Chairman of the North Missouri Medical Associa- 
tion. 



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r/ATHER DOMONICK WAGNER, a mem- 
ber of the O. S. 1!., Pastor of the Church of 
St. Mary's, on the corner of Cherry and N. 
Main Streets, St. Joseph, is a clever, cultured and 
learned gentleman. He was born in Chicago, in 
November, 1861, and is a son of Joseph Wagner, of 
German descent, who was reared in Ottawa, 111., was 
a shoemaker by trade, and located in Chicago, where 
he engaged in the retail business, meeting with 
severe losses in 1871, as he was burned out twice. 
He is now retired from business affairs, his residence 
being near the "Phoenix City," at Washington 
Heights. His wife, formerly Theresa Brown, was 
born in Maryland, and died in Chicago in 1870. 
Of her three children Father Wagner is the eld- 
est and only son. He was reared in Chicago, liv- 
ing on the North Side, near Lincoln Park, and 
attended the parochial schools until twelve years 
of age, working also at the shoemaker's trade. 
He then started to college at St. Vincent's, Pa., 
remaining there for three years, and then returned 
to Chicago, for a time engaging in the plumbing 
business with E. Baggott and Kelly Bros. 

At the end of four years Father Wagner took up 
the printing business in Chicago for a year. This 
was in order to enable him to make sufficient 
money to pay for his college education. In Feb- 
ruary, 1852, he entered the New Engelberg Col- 
lege at Conception, Mo., being graduated from 
the classical course in the fall of 1883. The in- 
stitution had but recently started, and for a time 



he taught physics, English and chemistry in the 
school, and organized the laboratory there. He 
is a genius and a skilled mechanic, and at that 
time made a number of machines from beginning 
to end. He put in a printing-press complete, and 
many other appointments which were marks of 
his inventive genius. For two years he then 
took up the study of philosophy, and graduated 
from the course in the fall of 1885, after which he 
took the theological studies. He was graduated 
from that department and was ordained in 1888 
at Kansas City, by Bishop Hogan, of the St. Joseph 
Diocese. 

For some months Father Wagner was stationed 
at Savannah, in the northwestern part of Missouri, 
and at Burlington Junction, Atchison County, 
also continuing to teach in the college at Con- 
ception, Mo. In 1890 Father Wagner came to 
St. Joseph to take the place of Father Ignatius at 
the Cathedral, while the latter was in Europe, and 
was then assistant of St. Patrick's for a while. In 
June, 1891, our subject received orders from the 
Bishop to found a new parish, and this he started 
out to do without a dollar. So earnest and ener- 
getic was he, however, that through his personal 
and interested work he was soon enabled to pur- 
chase a site for $4,000, and then had plans drawn, 
letting the contract for the building. On August 
28, 1891, the foundations were begun. 

Father Wagner, having taxed his congregation 
to the utmost to raise what he had already secured, 
and having no money to proceed, started a fair, 
which was a great success,the proceeds netting about 
$1,820. From that time things went smoothly 
forward and all has gone well. They own three 
lots facing on Second Street, and five lots back of 
this property, facing on Main Street, the whole 
being worth about $13,000. In December the 
ohurch was dedicated, and from January, 1892, 
regular services have been held. Soon after this 
a school was also started, to which about seventy 
children go regularly, four teachers being in 
charge. The church numbers over sixty-five 
families in its membership, and has been truly at- 
tended with great success. While stationed at 
Conception, Mo., Father Wagner joined the (). S. 
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A man of scientific research and wide reading, lie 
is not pledged to support any patty, but prefers 
Hither to be independent, politically. 



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W, II. LI AM M. GRILL. In the musical cir- 
cles of St. Joseph our subject is well 
known, as he is a member of the Winkler 
Orchestra, and is one of the finest clarionet play- 
ers in the State. He is of German birth, the place 
of his nativity being Grosses Rhuden, in the Pro- 
vince of Hanover. The date of the occurrence was 
July 12, 1828. His father, Ludwig Grill, also of 
Hanover, was reared as a mechanic and nail-maker. 
In those days nails were hammered out by hand 
and then polished off. He was proprietor of a 
large establishment and made considerable mone}'. 
He was in the German army and was with Napol- 
eon I. on his march to Russia. He died in the 
faith of the Lutheran denomination in 1840. His 
wife, a native of the same province, was before her 
marriage Wilhelmina Ilundrudmark. 

Mr. Grill, of this sketch, is the youngest of nine 
children, and the only survivor. He received a 
good education in his mother tongue, and when 
fourteen years of age began the study of music at 
Naun. Germany, under Prof. Otto Smith, teacher 
of the clarionet and French horn. He was his pu- 
pil for five years and then continued in his em- 
ploy for five years longer. He became a line clar- 
ionet player and was also proficient upon differ- 
ent musical instruments in the hand. He traveled 
with the First Marine Hand in Germany and was 
its leader for three years. 

In 1855 Mr. Grill brought this band of fourteen 
players to America, leaving Hamburg for Liver- 
pool, where it was his intention to embark for 
Australia. His mind, however, was changed on 
account of various circumstances, and instead he 
came to the United States with the company. 
During the first, winter he played in New York, 
and then enlisted in the Government service, on 



the steam frigate "Merrimac." He was -one- for 
one year. The vessel touched at the points of 
Hull, Brest (France), Lisbon (Portugal) and Cadiz 

(Spain ), and then proceeded to the West Indies. 
Later he was transferred with his band to the 
"Roanoke," which voyaged to Panama and thence 
returned to New York, where he was discharged 
from the service. In the spring of 1858 Mr. Grill 
came to St. Louis and played with Vogle's Or- 
chestra until the opening of the war. 

In 18(51 our subject enlisted in Company C, 
Third Missouri Regiment, as a musician, in the 
company of Gen. Zeigler. At the end of three 
months he re-enlisted in the First Missouri, with 
the rank of Second Lieutenant, Col. Rombauer 
being leader of his regiment. He served in 
Missouri until the order came to dispense with the 
military band, when he was mustered out and re- 
turned to St. Louis, where lie continued to play 
with Vogel's Orchestra. In November, 1865, Mr. 
Grill came to St. Joseph, where the only hand was 
Rosenblatt's, of which he took charge, after which 
event together the band and leader achieved a 
distinct success. 

Mr. Grill, shortly after his arrival in St. Joseph 
in 1865, started a store of general notions on the 
corner of Eleventh Street and Frederick Avenue. 
He erected two stores and continued to carry on 
his business until 1887, when he sold out and 
bought lots on the corner of Seventeenth and 
Calhoun Streets, where he built three dwellings, 
two of them being double houses. Our subject 
continued as a member of Winkler's Orchestra 
from the time he took charge of Rosenblatt's 
Band. Until the fall of lH'.tll he played in the 
opera house, and the hand still furnishes line nni-ir 
for the city. 

Mr. Grill was first married in St. Louis to Miss 
Amelia Martin, a native of the Fatherland, who 
died while on a trip to St. Louis from St. Joseph. 
The present wife of our subject, formerly Eliza- 
beth Knoth, was born in Hesse-Cassel, Germany. 
Mr. and Mrs. Grill have five living children: Min- 
nie. Mrs. Conrad Wilmes, of St. Joseph; John II., 
Henrietta, Wilhelmina and Christina Martha. 
John II. was born in St. Joseph in ls;7o and 
learned the carpenter's trade. He studied cornet 



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and violin playing under Prof. Winkler and lias 
since been a cornet player in the band, taking solo 
parts. lie was married in Mound City, Mo., to 
Miss Cornelia Marrs, who was horn there and is the 
mother of one child, William. Mr. Grill is a 
member of the Independent Order of Odd Fel- 
lows. In politics he is a Republican, but votes 
for the best man, irrespective of party. He re- 
ceives a pension of *12 per month. 









O. K. GANT, M. 1).. a prominent and 
highly successful medical practitioner of 
Plattsburgh, Clinton County, Mo., located 
in his present home some eighteen years 
ago, and, arriving a stranger in the city, has by Ins 
ability, professional skill and unfailing courtesy 
won a large practice and the good wishes of a host 
of friends. A man of infinite tenderness and of a 
deeply sympathetic nature, our subject is not only 
the family physician, but the tried and trusted 
friend and counselor, whose presence brings relief 
from suffering and gives to each individual hope 
of speedy restoration to the longed-for health. 

Dr. Gant was born in Orange County, N. C, 
February 17, 1842. His parents were James II. 
and Mary (Stewart) Gant, the mother being a sis- 
ter of ex-Oov. Stewart, of Mississippi. In 184 :? 
the father and mother located with their family in 
Kay County, Mo., settling upon a farm nine miles 
from Richmond. Here the family remained until 
our subject was twelve years old, when his parents 
removed to Liberty, where the father died in 1873, 
aged eighty-four, and the mother survived about 
two years, passing away in 1875. 

Up to the time of the war, the parents were in 
excellent circumstances, and considered wealthy, 
but in common with thousands of the residents of 
the Sunny South, they lost heavily by the Civil 
War. Grandfather Stewart was a native of France, 
and came to this country with La Fayette, serving 
with gallant ardor in the struggles of the Revolu- 
tionary War. His son afterward became the Gov- 



ernor of Mississippi, and both the father and 
mother of our subject were natives of North 
Carolina. The paternal ancestors were English- 
men, the Gants having occupied positions of dis- 
tinction in the dominions of the Queen. En- 
tering William Jewell College at Liberty when 
about twelve years of age, our subject completed 
a course of study in 1858, and then, beginning his 
medical preparation, attended lectures during the 
winter season in St. Louis Medical College. In the 
summer of 1861, Dr. Gant abandoned his studies 
and joined Col. Harris, actively participating in 
the fight at Lexington, and in 1862-63 was sent 
by Gen. Shelb}' to Iowa with orders. 

The main business of Dr. Gant during the war was 
as a surgeon, with an office at Barnesville, where 
he was ready 7 to attend all military calls. At the 
same time he was given the privilege of attending 
the lectures at the St. Louis Medical College, and was 
thus enabled to graduate with honor in the Class 
of '65. A. M. Dockery, Member of Congress, also 
completed a course of instruction at the same time. 
For the next two years Dr. Gant remained in the 
practice of his profession in Uarnesville, then re- 
moved to Lathrop, and in 1875 located perma- 
nently in Plattsburgh. In 1872-73 he enjoyed the 
benefit of a general course at Bellevue Hospital, and 
in 1870-77 attended the College of Physicians and 
Surgeons at New York. Our subject is a valued 
member of the State Medical Association, Missis- 
sippi Valley Association, and Kansas City District 
Association, and usually attends the National As- 
sociation, and reports only specially important 
cases that are not favorable to miscellaneous re- 
porting. At the conventions of the various medi- 
cal associations, Dr. Gant prefers to listen rather 
than to talk, but as a speaker is able and fluent, 
expressing himself with conciseness, tempered with 
dignified affability. 

An excellent and valuable library is one of the 
cherished possessions of our subject, and is a source 
of extended and reliable information. Charles W. 
Chastain, M. D., a fine scholar and accomplished 
physician, is the partner of Dr. Gant, and shares 
with him the favor of a rapidly increasing circle 
of patients. Dr. Chastain took his first medical 
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was graduated in 1881 from the College <>f Physi- 
cians and Surgeons, or the medical department of 
Columbia College, New York. 

Dr. Ganl was united in marriage, October 17, 
1867, in Clinton County, with Miss Irettie II. 
Simpson, who died in 1*77, in Pittsburgh. Oc- 
tober .">. 1881, our subject married Miss Lizzie 
Garner, daughter of Col. C. T. Garner, of Rich- 
mond, in which city Mrs. Gantwas born and edu- 
cated, graduating from the Richmond Academy. 
Dr. Gant is the father of three children by his first 
marriage, and one little one has blessed his second 
union. Mary Elizabeth, the only daughter, is 
about seven years of age. Fraternally, Dr. Gant 
is connected with the Ancient Free & Accepted 
Masons, and became a member of the lodge at 
Claysville, Clay County, in I8(i2, and belongs to 
Lathrop Chapter and Liberty Commandery, and is 
Past Master of the Lathrop Lodge. Politically, our 
subject is a Democrat, and although he takes a 
deep interest in local and National affairs, never 
actively engages in politics. His pleasant home in 
the southern part of Plattsburgh is desirably lo- 
cated, and is the scene of many asocial gathering, 
both the Doctor and his wife being prominent fac- 
tors in the leading social and benevolent enter- 
prises of the city. 



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AT1IKR FRANCIS W. GRAHAM, Pastor 

of St. Patrick's Church, of St. Joseph, on 
the corner of Twelfth Street and Doniphan 
Avenue, is one of the most earnest workers in the 
Catholic Church and is pastor of about the strong- 
est parish in this part of Missouri. He has en- 
gaged in editorial work and has become ac- 
quainted with the prominent and leading men in 
all parts Of the State, ruder his espionage the 

church has flourished wonderfully, until it now 

numbers over two hundred families. He built the 
convent and parochial school for girls ; it a C08l of 
(6,000, which ha- a good attendance, and also the 
St. Patrick School, under the charge of the Chris- 



tian Brothers. The old chinch has been remod- 
eled and greatly improved, and in many other 
ways has this popular priest built up the Catholic 
cause in Missouri. 

Father Graham was bom in Dublin, Ireland, on 
the 1th of July, 1837, and is a sou of William 
Graham, who was a large contractor and builder 
in that city. He owned the Kilmainham Lime 
Works in a prominent part of Dublin. In 1866 
he came to America, locating at Etolla, Mo., and 
engaging in agricultural pursuit- there for two 
years. Later he moved to southwestern Missouri, 
near Springfield, where he remained a while, and 
then engaged in fanning in Lawrence County 
near Pierce City. Returning to Brooklyn later 
in life, his death occurred in that city. 

Our subject '8 grandfather, whose name was 
also William, was born in the city of Armagh, Ire- 
land, and built the lime works in Mt. Maria, lie 
also erected a large dwelling-house in that vicin- 
ity and owned tracts of land in various place-, 
being qnite wealthy. The Graham family emi- 
grated from Scotland to Ireland at an early day 
and were all Protestants until about the time of 
our subject's birth, when his father, and later his 
mother, joined the Catholic Church. An uncle. :i 
contractor, married a Catholic lady and then be- 
came a convert to that faith, erecting a Catholic 
Church and later building St. Paul's. He was 
Superintendent of (ilasnevin Cemetery until his 
death, in the year 1850. Our subject's mother before 
her marriage was Miss Elizabeth Mason, a native 
of Dublin and daughter of a prominent wine mer- 
chant of Love Lane. She wa- orphaned in early 
life and was reared by her grandparent-. Her 
death occurred in Kolla. Mo., in 1868. 

Father Graham is one of a family of two BOHS 
and three daughters who li ved to maturity. John 
died near Brooklyn, N. V.; Richard, whose fam- 
ily lived in SI. Joseph, was called from this life 
at Atchison. Kan.: Mary A. is the wife of .1. 1'. 
Freeman, of this city; Catherine, now Mrs. Ncvin, 

makes her I ie here; and Mi— lie-sic completes 

the family. <>m subject pas-ed his boyhood in 
his native city, attending Henry Moran's Acad- 
emy, on .lames Street, Dublin, where he studied 
the classics. In 1864 he crossed the Atlantic 



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with a cousin, going to Chicago, anil thence to 
Ottawa, 111. He made the voyage to the United 
States in the steamship "Glasgow," from the city 
of the same name, which ill-fated vessel was lost 
some years later at sea. 

Father Graham was for some time a clerk in 
the lumber and grain business with his cousin 
.lames, and in 18y'J, proceeding to St. Louis, was 
there a bookkeeper for John Byrne, Jr., a real- 
estate dealer. In the fall of that year our sub- 
ject, through the medium of Father Feehan, now 
Archbishop of Chicago, was accepted by the Most 
Rev. P. R. Kenrick, and sent to the seminary at 
Cape Girardeau, where he spent six years in hard 
stud}' and received the minor orders of the church. 
September 23, 1865, he was ordained in the old 
Cathedral at St. Louis, and was first appointed 
as an assistant for a short time at St. John's 
Church, in that city. 

Next being stationed at Rolla, Father Gra- 
ham was there for two and a-half years, and had 
under his supervision a large part of southwest- 
ern Missouri, starting a church at Lebanon, one 
at Pierce City, others at Sarcoxie, and a number 
at various points. He looks back to those days of 
active and aiduous work with great pleasure, as 
his parishioners were honest and sincere in their 
reception of him, and though he traveled many a 
mile on horseback, in stages and on foot, riding 
often two or three nights at a time, he still re- 
members these days as the happiest of his past 
life. When lie was at Springfield there were but 
twenty-five Catholic men in the place, twenty- 
two of them being Masons, but nevertheless he 
started a church and made good friends in that 
city. Though he had worked there since March, 
1866, he was not regularly located there until the 
spring of 1868. He erected a convent, bought 
and rebuilt Kelso College, and built up a church 
while there. In 1873 Father Graham was placed 
in charge of St. Vincent's Parish, at Sedalia, 
where he built the present church and instituted 
the convent there. He also built a church at 
Coal Spring Fork Camp, ten miles south of Se- 
dalia, and was active in church work throughout 
that region until December, 1881, when he came 
to M, Joseph, 



Father Graham was given charge of St. Patrick's 
Church on New Year's Day, 1882, and at once set 
himself to remodeling, enlarging and refurnish- 
ing the same. The church and parsonage are sit- 
uated in a fine location and are valuable and 
modern. In 1883 he purchased the Catholic Trib- 
une, of whioh he was editor and proprietor until 
1891, when he sold out. This journal attained a 
large circulation in Catholic families and was 
ably conducted. In his church are the following 
societies: St. Patrick's Catholic Knights, the An- 
cient Order of Hibernians, Knights of Father 
Mathew, St. Joseph Sodality, and the Ladies' So- 
ciety. In politics Father Graham casts his vote 
with the Democracv. 



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ffioilN A. BORING, who is acceptably filling 
the position of Postmaster in Latbrop, and 
^ | who is also a real-estate dealer, was born 
l x2/ ; six miles north of Logansport, Ind., on 
August 5, 1841. His grandfather, William Bor- 
ing, who was born in Ireland, left his native land 
and crossed the Atlantic, locating in Baltimore 
County, Md. In 1821) he settled in Clinton Coun- 
ty, Ohio, where he died in 1863, at the advanced 
age of eight3'-seven jears. He was an active 
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and 
was a stanch Whig in his political connections. 
His family of three children, William, La Fayette 
and Rebecca, all married and reared families of 
their own. 

Absalom Boring, the father of our subject, was 
born in Baltimore County, Md., in 1807. He 
went to Harrison County, Va., where he married 
Miss Isabella Williams. After remaining in the 
Old Dominion for a short time he went to west- 
ern Ohio, where he made his home for a period of 
two years. In 1832, going to Cass County, hid., 
when but one house, owned by Maj. Bell, had 
been erected in the now prosperous and thriving 
city of Logansport, he decided to locate in that 
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few miles north of the city. In 1884 lie settled 
on Bell's Prairie, to the southeast of Logans) nut, 
where he resided until his death, at the age of 
eighty-three years. He was a Whig and later a 
Republican, in politics, and was Justice of the 
Peace for several years. His wife, who "as a na- 
tive of Harrison County, Ya.. was called to her 
final rest in 1863. 

Of Mr. and Mrs. Absalom Boring's ten children 
the following-named grew to maturity: Thomas, 
who served in the Ninth Indiana Infantry, was 
wounded at Lookout Mountain, and died some 
three years after the close of the war; La Fayette, 
who served over three years in the Fourth Wis- 
consin Infantry, rose to the rank of Orderly, and 
was wounded at Ft. Gibson; and Fli, who was a 
members of the Eighth Indiana Cavalry and was 
wounded in the battle of Carrollton, Ga., taken 
prisoner, and was in both Millon and Anderson- 
ville Prisons. The other members of the family 
were John A., Jesse, Harrison, Eliza, Elizabeth 
and Sarah. 

John A. Boring received the benefits of a good 
common-school education, and was in attendance 
at the Kokomo (Ind.) schools at the breaking 
out of the late war. On the Lath of April, 1861, 
responding to his patriotic impulses, he enlisted 
in the Sixth Indiana, which was the first regiment 
raised in that Stale. He became a member of 
Company 1), under Thomas Harrison. He par- 
ticipated in the battles of Phillipi and Beverly, 
and also in minor skirmishes. At the end of three 
months' service he was discharged, and in August 
of 1861 he became a member of Company D, 
Thirty-ninth Indiana, holding the rank of First 
Sergeant. 

With his regiment Mr. Boring took part in the 
battles of Shiloh and Stone River, being wounded 
in the latter engagement. A ball struck his watch, 
which directed it downward and it entered his right 
thigh. He was in the hospital and on the invalid 
list for three months. At the battle of Xicka 
Jack Gap he was wounded in the left leg. He 
was in the battles of Chickamanga and Lovejoy 
Station. After the battle of Stone River the com- 
pany was re-organized as the Eighth Indiana 
Cavalry. His last service was during the McCook 



raid, and on January II, 1865, he was honorabh, 

discharged from the hospital at Lookout Moun- 
tain as Second Lieutenant, to which position he 
was promoted May 7. 1864. 

On leaving the service of his country Mr. Bor- 
ing rejoined his family in the North, and in the 
spring of 1866, COming to Missouri, located on 
one hundred and twenty acres of unbroken land, 
one mile cast of Lathrop, to the cultivation of 
which he at once turned his undivided attention. 
After living the life of a farmer for twelve years, 
he entered the grocery business in Lathrop. In 
1880 he started the first marble shop in the town. 
and at the expiration of two years took charge of 
an hotel, which he carried on for the same length 
of time. Recently he has largely turned his at- 
tention to real estate, and has been quite success- 
ful in this line. 

In Miami County, Ind.. occurred the wedding 
of Mr. Boring and Miss Theresa J. Swafford, a 
daughter of William and Man' (Shortridge) Swaf- 
ford. The former was a native of North Carolina, 
while his wife was born in Kentucky. Mr. Swaf- 
ford was the son of Jacob and Abigail (Hammer) 
Swafford, who emigrated to Indiana between the 
years 1825 and 1830. In 1872 Mrs. Boring's fa- 
ther removed to Mcl'herson County. Kan., where 
he lived for some years. His wife having died in 
Missouri in 1892, he is now making his home in 
Topeka, Kan. Mrs. Boring is one of a family of 
seven children, of whom two were sons: Lyeurgiis 
E., and William W., whose death occurred i al the 
age of twenty-two years. Of the others three are 
now deceased: Julius S., Esther L. and Myrtle. 
Those living are Belle, Minnie and Theresa. To 
Mr. and Mrs. Boring four children have been 
born. But two are living: William A. and Ethel B. 

Mr. Boring, who is an ardent Republican, ran 
as a candidate for Sheriff on his ticket in 1882, 
carried his own township solidly, and was defeated 
by a majority of only two hundred votes. He 
has served on both the town and school boards, 
and is a warm champion of our public-school sys- 
tem, or, the lth of July, 1889, he received the 
appointment as Postmaster of Lathrop. and has 
proved an efficient and able officer, lie is one of 
the charter Masons of Lathrop, and a member of 



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the Grand Army of the Republic. He was a loyal 
and true patriot, and was one of the first to re- 
spond to the call of his country for assistance in 
her time of trouble. He was brave and ever 
found at the post of duty, being a participant in 
no less than sixty-two engagements. He is iden- 
tified with the Baptist Church, while his wife be- 
longs to the Christian denomination. 




,1 LFRED B. SOW DON is Secretary and 
JSS/LjI Cashier of the People's Home and Savings 
Association, one of the prominent enter- 
prises of St. Joseph. It has a capital stock 
of $2,000,000, and was organized April 19, 1892. 
The office is at the corner of Fourth and Felix 
Streets, under the State National Bank, and since 
the company was organized it has loaned more 
money in St. Joseph than any other association. 
The profits are divided and dividends declared 
every six months. 

The subject of this sketch was born in London, 
England, September 20, 1848, and is one of five 
children born to Henry and Mary A. (Scale) Sow- 
don. His boyhood was passed in the great metrop- 
olis, and his education was acquired in Doctor Ellis' 
School, and in the City of London College. On 
completing a course at the age of eighteen, he went 
into the employ of I. Bunford Samuel, of the 
Stuck Exchange, and a large broker of that city. 
With him he continued until 1871, when he con- 
cluded to try his fortune in America, and in May 
left Liverpool in a Cunard steamer. Landing in 
New York, he resided there until September, thence 
going to Columbus, Miss., where he engaged in the 
insurance business. He then represented three 
insurance companies in Arkansas, Louisiana and 
Texas, traveling for three years, from 1876 to 1879. 
In the latter year Mr. Sowdon arrived in St. 
Joseph, and for one year was Clerk of the Finance 
Committee. The following year he was made head 



bookkeeper of the State Saving Bank, and con- 
tinued there until 1887, when he took a trip to 
England. In that 3'ear and the one following he 
made six voyages to and from his native land, 
largely on account of business interests. He thinks 
nothing of a trip across the Atlantic, as he has cov- 
ered the distance twelve times. In the fall of 
1888, on his return, he went to Denver, Colo., St. 
Louis, and other western cities. In April, 1892, 
the People's Home and Savings Association having 
been incorporated, he was given the responsible 
position of Secretary and Cashier, and has been 
an important factor in its success, as he understands 
and is master of the best business methods, and ex- 
ercises that good judgment which is only ac- 
quired after years of preparation in commercial 
lines. 

A marriage ceremony performed in St. Joseph 
on the 15th of November, 1882, united the fortunes 
of A. B. Sowdon and Miss Belle Branch, one of St. 
Joseph's most accomplished daughters. The lady 
is a daughter of Col. Harrison Branch, a native 
Virginian and early settler of St. Joseph. He was 
a prominent attorney, and during the war acquired 
the rank of Colonel in the Union Army. At one 
time he was Indian Agent and Postmaster of Kan- 
sas City. He was called to his final rest in 1892. 
A bright little son, Alfred Harrison, graces the un- 
ion of Mr. and Mrs. Sowdon, who are both mem- 
bers of the Episcopal Church. 

Our subject is a Master Mason, belonging to 
Grosvenor Lodge of London. lie is also a mem- 
ber of the Knights of Pythias. His right of fran- 
chise he uses in favor of the nominees and meas- 
ures of the Democratic party. Personally he is 
favorably known and enjoys the higli regard and 
friendship of one and all. 

Henry Sowdon, fatherof our subject, was a man- 
ufacturer in England and was a civil engineer and 
surveyor. He was also a land-valuer in London, 
where his death occurred in 1888. He was a mem- 
ber of the Episcopal Church, and traced his ances- 
tors back to the days of William the Conqueror. 
His wife, who was born at Witham, Essex County, 
was the daughter of Ilev. Bernard Scale, a promi- 
nent clergyman in the English Church and a de- 
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OSEPB ANDRIANO. Probably there is no 
more popular man in Buchanan County 
than this gentleman, who has been twice 
elected to county offices on the Republican 
ticket when no other nominee has ever succeeded 
in attaining the same result. He is also one of 
the well-known land-owners of the city, as he has 
resided here for over forty years, having Brat set 
fool in the place in 1K;">0. He lias occupied the 
positions of County Treasurer, County Sheriff and 
City Collector, discharging the duties incident to 
eacli with fidelity and a realizing sense of the 
trust bestowed upon him. 

Mr. Andriano was borp in Heidelberg, Baden, 
Germany, October 15, 1841, and is a son of Al- 
bert, a native of Manheim, Germany. The father 
of the latter, Joseph K.. a native of Karlsruhe, 
Germany, was the first man to establish the oil 
mills in that place, in which business he contin- 
ued until his death. The great-grandfather of 
our subject, Count Andriano, was from LagO Mag- 
giore, which is a beautiful lake in Italy. He cum 
of an old and prominent family in the nobility of 
that country, his brother being a bishop and a 
member of Parliament. The great-grandfather of 
our subject removed to Germany and was the 
first to establish the manufacture of line porcelain 
ware in the province, receiving a medal from the 
crown for line products. He was also given a 
title by the German Government on account of 
his business industry. 

Our subject's father was educated at Manheim 
and became a merchant at Frankfort, lie was for 
a time in the Government employ as Treasurer at 
Heidelberg, and in the Revolution of 1848 took 
an active part. His house was guarded and he 
had to flee, leaving everything, and only then es- 
caped by the aid of friends in the regular army, 
lie finally reached Havre in the fall of 1848, and 
at once took passage in a sailing-vessel l ml for 

New Orleans, where he arrived at the end of six 

weeks. Coming up the Mississippi as far as St. 
Louis, he resided thereuntil the spring of 1850, 
then bringing his family to St. Joseph, where he 
kept a boarding-house. lie later became a manu- 
facturer and bottler of soda and mineral waters. 
In later life he retired from active business and 

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invested somewhat in real estate. He was Presi- 
dent of the City Council and was an active Re- 
publican during the war. being, however, more 

liberal than the majority and in favor of enfranchis- 
ing the rebels. At one lime he was one of four 
hundred citizens who went to the polls in a body. 
His death occurred in September, i sh.".. ai the age 
of seventy-three years. His wife, formerly Miss 
Elizabeth Meyer, was born in Dantzic, Germany, 
and died in 1877, leaving but two children, our 
Subject and Lena, who is now Mrs. Dr. Hlldebraiid. 
of San Francisco, < !al. 

Joseph Andriano was reared to maturity in 
Heidelberg, and in the fall of 1848 came with his 
father to St. Louis, and later to St. Joseph. This 
place in 1850 was only a small Indian trading- 
point, and for a time he attended tin' old-fashioned 
log schoolhouses of the period, afterward attend- 
ing institutions of a better grade until about 
twenty years of age. when he engaged as a clerk 
in a wholesale grocery business, working for about 
four years for the linn of Koch A- Borngesser, later 
entering the employ of the latter, who continued 
in the business alone for some time. With him 
our subject had charge of the buying of good-. 

During the war Mr. Andriano became a mem- 
ber of Company C, State Militia, under ('apt. 
Lovering, to protect the State against the enemy, 
and for about a year engaged in guard duty and 
took part in a number of skirmishes. Then, join- 
ing Maj. Ilartwig's company, he was commis- 
sioned Captain by Gov. Fletcher when the Major 
was promoted, and n- such he served until the 
close of the war. For months business was at a 
standstill, and on the day known to history as 
"Black Friday" he drove the rebels out and 
fought the bushwhackers. Alter the close of the 
war he purchased his father's business, engaging 
in the manufacture of soda and mineral waters. 
After carrying this on for two years, he then took 
into the firm Louis Feulling and ran the busi- 
ness until 1871, when he SOld it to his partner, 
who is still engaged in the same business. 

(iiiing to Chicago in 1871, Mr. Andriano en- 
gaged in the Omnibus business with his father-in- 
law. William II. Young, the line of vehicles being 
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Slate Streets. They were very successful and kept 
twenty-four omnibuses constantly going. They 
were burned out in the great fire, but started again, 
running a line on Wabash Avenue between Twen- 
ty-second and Washington Streets, continuing in 
that until the panic of 1873, when our subject 
returned to St. Joseph. 

F. M. Posegate had just been appointed Post- 
master, and our subject was made Chief of the 
stamp and registiy department. In 1880 he was 
nominated and elected City Collector, serving 
for two years, and then being re-elected for a 
like length of office. Later he became President 
of the St. Joseph Brewery and remained with that 
company until 1886, when he was elected Sheriff 
on the Republican ticket. He carried the county 
by a majority of two hundred and ninety-five, 
although his party were in the minority by four- 
teen hundred and fifty votes. He was the first 
man ever elected to a county office since the en- 
franchisement. 

The Sheriff then occupying the position made 
a strong contest, assisted by Democratic friends, 
.lis principal argument being that Mr. Andriano 
was not an American citizen. However, the courts 
had recognized him and accepted his bond, but 
Sheriff John Cory refused to surrender the jail, 
on account of which our subject brought suit 
against him, and Circuit Judge Spencer decided 
that he was not a citizen. Thus he lost the case, 
but carried it to the Supreme Court in 1887, which 
August body reversed the decision and announced 
that he was not only a citizen of the United 
States, but also Sheriff of Buchanan County. The 
news was celebrated by the booming of cannon 
and other tokens of jubilation. He was therefore 
installed in office and served until January, 1889. 

Mr. Andriano ran again for the position, but 
was defeated by one hundred and twenty-six 
votes. While in that office he was compelled to 
perform a hanging, which was the first since be- 
fore the war in the county. He also had several 
skirmishes with horse thieves and succeeded in 
driving them out of this region. During this 
time he had retained his interest in the brewery 
and had it incorporated with a capital stock of 
$35,000, being made President and Manager, and 



held it for a year, retiring in the fall of 1890, 
when lie was nominated by the Republicans for 
County Treasurer. He ran against his former op- 
ponent, gaining the victory by a majority of three 
bundled and ninety-five. He served in that po- 
sition from January, 1891, to January, 1893, and 
then declined renomination. 

Mr. Andriano was married in Chicago, in 1869, 
to Miss Isabella, daughter of William II. Young, 
of New Jersey, where her birth also occurred. To 
our subject and his estimable wife were born 
two children: Gracie, a graduate of the Ursuline 
Sisters' School, of St. Louis, and now Mrs. J. I). 
Martin, of St. Joseph; and William A., who died 
in infancy. Our subject is a member of the Odd 
Fellows, and is a demitted member of the Knights 
of Pythias. He is an active member of the Re- 
publican parly, and was temporary chairman of 
the Centra! Committee and Secretary of the County 
Committee. Personally, he is much liked and 
has a host of friends, both in political, social and 
financial circles. 



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<4l illAAAM l\. SrBAH, a y 

\rJ// man of St. Joseph, Ruchanai 
Wy for several years a clerk in 



WILLIAM K. SPRATT, a young business 

lan County, was 
the employ of 
John F. Tyler, and is now a junior member of the 
firm of John F. Tyler & Co., dealers in real estate, 
loans and insurance. Among the insurance compa- 
nies which they lepresent are the following: The 
Continental, of New York; the Hartford, of Con- 
necticut; the Commercial Union and Guardian, of 
London; the Phenix, of Brooklyn; the Newark, 
of Newark, N. .1.; the Citizens'-, of St. Louis; and 
the Hamburg-Bremen, of Germany. 

In Lexington, La Fayette County, Mo., April 9, 
1867, occurred the birth of him of whom we write. 
His father, John F. Spratt, was born in the same 
city, while his grandfather, Maj. William Spratt, 
was a native of Virginia, When young, the latter 
came to the old trading-post of Lexington, where 
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ried in his native State. He became Circuit ami 
County Clerk of La Fayette County, the two 
offices being then filled by one incumbent, hold- 
ing this position fur years. During the war lie 
was mi tin' Advisory Board of the State militia, 
wiili tin- rank of Major. After the storm clouds 
of the conflict bad rolled away, lie Located in St. 
Joseph, ami then, going to Caldwell County, he 
there resided until his death at the good old age 
of eighty-five years. His wife, formerly Matilda 
Fulkerson, born in the Old Dominion, is still liv- 
ing in St. Joseph. 

John Fulkerson Spratt was reared in I.a Fayette 
County to man's estate, was married in Howard 
County, and settled on the Platte Purchase in 
the county of that name at an early day. For a 
number of years he was Deputy Sheriff. He en- 
tered land, which he improved, and later engaged 
in merchandising.' He then started in the banking 
business at Hamilton, Caldwell County, which oc- 
cupation he is still pursuing. He succeeded A. C. 
Cochran, the bank being known as .1. F. Spruit V, 
later a> the Huston & Spratt Bank, and the firm is 
now known as Huston, Spratt & Menefce. The 
Spratt family is of Scotch-Irish descent. 

In her maidenhood our subject's mother bore 
the name of Martha -I. Elliott. She was born 
in Howard County, and was a daughter of Col. 
Newton Glasgow Elliott, who was born in the 
East and was one of the early settlers and far- 
mer- in Howard County. At one time he was a 
railroad constructor and was one of the promoters 
in the building of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas 
Railroad, in the branch from Boon vi lie. Olas- 
gOW, Mo., was named for him, as was also the town 
of Elliott. He was a very wealthy man, and one 
<>t hi- -ons, John Elliott, is now a prominent man 
in Boonville. 

Our subject is the eldest son in a family of three 
children and was brought up by his paternal grand- 
mother in this city. After leaving the common 
school- he entered the St. Joseph Military Acad- 
emy at Macon City, Mo., from which institution 
he graduated in 1 .s<s<;. Since that time. a> stated 
at the beginning of this sketch, he has been con- 
nected with the firm to which he now belong-. 

In Caldwell County, in the year 1890, William 



E. Spratt and Mi— Effie Cowgill were united in 

marriage. Mr-. Spratt is the daughter of Judge 
James Cowgill. who i- at present one of the Rail- 
mad ( i IlissiOnerS of tin- Slate. Mrs. Spratt was 

born in Caldwell County, and is a graduate of 

Hardin College, of Mexico, Mo. She is au intel- 
lectual, cultured and refined lady, who possesses 

considerable talent and is genial and plea-ant to 
meet. Our subject is a supporter of the Democratic 
party and is numbered among the best citizens 
and most influential business men of St. Joseph. 



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j SAAC LOWER. Could tin' biographies of the 
best residents of Buchanan County be written 

i in detail, a large and most interesting volume 
might be compiled. It is our pleasure, however. 
t" -elect the principal facts in their lives, and 
record them for the perusal of coming generations. 
The gentleman with whose name we introduce this 
sketch is at present residing on his magnificent 
estate of four hundred acres, located on section 36, 
Washington Township. He is now retired from 
active wink of any kind and is enjoying the 
fruits of his early toil. 

Jacob Lower, the father of our subject, was 
born in Knox County, Tenn., where he pursued 
the vocation of a farmer. During the War of 
L812 he did very effect i ve service and was well 
liked by all his comrades. The mother of our 
subject. Mrs. Sally (Cline) Lower, had her birth in 
Pennsylvania. After his marriage. Jacob Lower 
continued to reside ill Tennessee until 1886, when 
he came to Jack-on County , th is State, and lived 
upon rented land until the fall of 1837. In that 
pear he visited the Platte Purchase and wasso fav- 
orably impressed with the inducements which the 
country held out, that he located a claim in 
Bloomington Town-hip. lie was accompanied on 
the journey by our subject and a brother, and 
together the t rio erect cd a log house, which was to 
be the future home of the family. The following 

spring the_\ ••tramped it" back to Jackson County, 



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where they remained only long enough to pack 
their household goods preparatory to the trip to 

their new home. It was on that farm that the 
parents passed away in 1852. They had reared a 
family of eight children, only live of whom are 
now living. Jacob Lower was actively interested 
in public affairs, and at the time of his death had 
become the owner of a valuable estate. 

He of whom we write was born June 18, 1820, 
in Roane County, Tenn., and remained at home, 
aiding his father in carrying on the farm, until 
reaching his twentieth year, when he determined 
to battle with the world on his own account. His 
educational privileges were very limited, but be- 
ing ambitious to learn he made the best of his op- 
portunities and is to-day a well-read and intelligent 
gentleman. 

In 1810 Isaac Lower was united in marriage 
with Miss Rebecca Nash, a native of Tennessee. 
After a happy married life of eight years, Mrs. 
Lower departed this life, greatly mourned by all 
who knew her. She had become the mother of one 
child, a daughter, Louisa Jane, now Mrs. John 
Sandy. She resides in Doniphan County, Kan., 
and has a family of eight children. 

The lady whom Mr. Lower chose as his second 
wife was Matilda, daughter of John and Sallie 
(Elsburg) Riley, natives of North Carolina, and 
numbered among the earl}' settlers of Kentucky. 
They made their advent into Buchanan County, 
this State, in 1818, and located in Bloomingtou 
Township, where the father's decease occurred in 
1855, and the mother's in 1858. Of their large 
family of twelve children, only two are living: 
Mrs. Lower and her sister Louisa. The former was 
born in Clark County, Ky., September 29, 1820, 
and by her union with our subject has been the 
mother of six children, one of whom is deceased. 
Those living are Sarah R., Mrs. L. Mann, who re- 
sides in Doniphan County, Kan., and has eight 
children; James K., the husband of Mary E. Rob- 
erts, who makes his home in this township and has 
a family of three children; Stephen A. D., who 
married Mary V. McG-ihi, lives in this township, 
and is the parent of one child; Henry R, who 
married Katie North, has three children, and also 
makes his home in this township; and William R., 



who married AdelinaFogg, lives in this township, 
and has one child. 

After various removals, Mr. Lower took up his 
abode on his present farm in 1865. As before 
stated, it comprises four hundred acres of ex- 
cellently tilled land, and his name is classed among 
the respected and wealthy agriculturists of Bu- 
chanan County. Mr. Lower, socially, is a Mason, 
and during the late war was pressed into the 
service of the Union, his duty being to haul 
goods from St. Joseph to Jackson County. Al- 
though in early life a Democrat, he now votes 
independently, reserving the right to cast his 
ballot for the man whom bethinks will best fill the 
office, Mr. Lower has been a resident of this 
State for over fifty-five years, and thus can relate 
many an interesting tale of life in a new country. 
As a farmer, he is considered a man of enter- 
prise and ability, and has acquired a handsome 
competency through years of industry and hard 
labor. 



OX. EI) W. TURNER, the well-known and 
highly honored representative of Clinton 
County, who for four terms ably served 
his constituents in the Legislature of the 
State of Missouri, is a man of superior attainments 
and exceptional character, and as a public-spirited 
and progressive citizen commands the regard and 
confidence of a host of friends and a numerous 
acquaintance, extending throughout the county 
and farthest borders of his native State. He was 
born in Plattsburgh, and is the son of Colonel 
Winslovv and Emil}' (Pollard) Turner. His father, 
one of the most distinguished men of Missouri, 
served bravely in the Missouri Stale Guards, under 
General Price, and was Division Inspector with 
the rank of Colonel when he was severely wounded 
in the shoulder at the battle of Lexington. Col. 
Winslow Turner passed away, deeply mourned, in 
1874. The mother of our subject survived her 
husband's death but six weeks. 

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Kul it >n. Mo., one year, then studied law in the office 
tif his father, and was admitted to the Bar in 1869. 
The succeeding year, 1870, on the wave of a politi- 
cal revolution, he was nominated to lead what 
many considered a forlorn hope, bat was elected 
by a triumphant majority to the Missouri Legisla- 
ture, and although the youngesl member of the 
Assembly, was a material and prominent factor in 
restoring the franchise, and, young as lie was, 
made for himself a reputation for fidelity to his 
constituents which has ever since clung to him. 

In 1ST I Mr. Turner was elected to the office of 
Circuit Clerk, and for four years gave hisattention 

in the tliitics of this position, and in 1878 resui I 

the practice of his profession. Deeply interested 
in both the local and national issues of the day, 
Mr. Turner was an acknowledged leader of his 
party, and was again in 1886 elected to the Legis- 
lature, Thirty-fourth General Assembly, the pro- 
hibition question being the one of submitting an 
amendment to the Constitution. 

Mr. Turner was a member of the Committee on 
Internal improvements, and supported Governor 
Marmaduke in his tight with the railroads, which 
he had endeavored to bring within the provisions 
of the law. The famous House Kill No. 620 was 
brought in by this committee, but was defeated, and 
a compromise, called the "Swamp Angel," substi- 
tuted in its place. Returned to the Legislature in 
Ixkk, and again in 1S1KI, Mr. Turner acquired the 
reputation of being a '• worker " and an eloquent, 
concise and forcible speaker, strong in argument 
and clear in logic. lie was placed upon many of 
the most important committees, and was during 
both the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth Assem- 
blies Chairman of the Committee on Elections. 
lie reported the bill of the Australian ballot sys- 
tem, which found ready and numerous advocates. 

in 18'.(0 Mr. Turner was made Chairman of the 
Committee on lit districting the Slate into Con- 
gressional, Senatorial and Representative Districts, 
and presented a bill to the committee, which was 
mainly accepted. He was then appointed Chair- 
man of a joint committee from the House and 
Senate, and the commiltee bill was adopted by 
Caucus ami passed successfully. This was one of 

the most important political questions of the ses- 



sion, ami fully occupied Mr. Turner's time for 

some weeks. He and his committee were -cverch 

criticized by the opposite party, who charged the 
committee with having gerrymandered the state in 
the interests of the dominant party. This bill oc- 
cupied a portion of the time, of the special session 
of February, 1892. Our subject also took a decided 
stand in favor of locating the state University at 
Columbia. 

Mr. Turner was not a candidate for re-election 
in 1892. He devotes much of his time to attend- 
ing to his property interests, and, being largely a 
gentleman of leisure, finds great enjoyment iii 
the use of his magnificent library, which contains 
many rare books, scientific and historical, ami also 
comprises the standard works of prose and poetry 
ami the essays of eminent authors, lie is admit- 
tedly one of the best-read men in the State, and is 
known as a line literary critic ami a close -Indent 
of Shakespeare. 

Having very early in life solved many practical 
problems of the day. .Mr. Turner is now deeply in- 
terested in the enlargement of individual action, 
and is authority upon all constitutional questions 
affecting industrial progress. lit; takes an active 
interest in local advancement, and is intimately 
associated in the leading social anil benevolent 
enterprises of Plattsburgh, whose every citizen 
may almost literally be said to lie his very good 
friend and well-wisher. Our subject has never 
married, but finds a pleasant home and luxurious 
accommodations at the Laclede House, and distrib- 
utes with a generous hand many a lavish gift to 
the poor and suffering. 



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I I.I.I A M E. GIBSON is a contractor and 
well-known business man of St. Joseph. 
1 Ie has been a resident of Buchanan County 
since I s : ; 7 . and has consequently been a witness 
of the vast changes in this region. He used to 

come to St. Joseph when there were only three 

stores in the place, then called Blacksnake Hills. 




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Since 1873 lie has made his home in St. Joseph, 
first being engager! in contracting for grading, 
and afterward drifting into eon tracting for sewers, 
concrete work, etc. Mr. Gibson is the largest con- 
tractor of the kind in this city, and in 1883 formed 
a partnership with his cousin, Henry E. Gibson, 
under the firm name of (Tibson & Gibson. They 
employ from twenty-five to fifty men, and at times 
have as many as one hundred on the force. The 
firm buys sewer pipe in carload lots and has curb- 
stone also shipped in. They paved Olive Street 
to Fa3 r ette Street and did most of the macadam- 
izing. 

George Gibson, our subject's grandfather, was 
born in the Emerald Isle, and when only three 
years old was brought by his parents to America. 
They located in Augusta, Conn., and though only 
seventeen years old when the War of the Revolu- 
tion broke out, George Gibson enlisted as a pri- 
vate soldier, being gradually promoted to the rank 
of Major. On arriving at man's estate lie went 
to Lee County, Va., where he was one of the early 
settlers, and there he engaged in farming. 

Our subject's father, James Gibson, was born in 
Lee County, and though he obeyed his patriotic 
impulses and enlisted in the War of 1812, his ser- 
vices were never called into requisition. Like his 
ancestors, he was also an agriculturist. He removed 
to the southern part of Tennessee, where he en- 
gaged in the stock business, driving stock back and 
forth to Virginia, where he finally returned to 
settle permanently. However, he bad become im- 
bued with the Western spirit, and finally set out 
with his family and household effects for Missouri, 
driving in wagons through West Virginia, Ken- 
tucky, Indiana, Illinois, and a part of this State. 
He located a-half mile east of the old Dixon Mill 
site on the Platte River, Buchanan County, in 
what is now Tremont Township. There he en- 
tered a claim of one hundred and sixty acres and 
continued in the stock business, pasturing his cat- 
tle during the winter for years on the bulrushes 
that grew in abundance from the mouth of the 
Blacksnake Creek to Lake Contrary. 

The family experienced a great deal of hard- 
ship and privation in their pioneer life, and at 
various times Mr. Gibson lost heavily. His herds 



of cattle he sometimes drove as far as Harrisburg, 
Pa. In 1844 he entered a new farm in the same 
township, which he improved and carried on until 
his death in 1866. He was a member of the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church. His wife, Hannah Proc- 
tor before her marriage, was born and wedded in 
Middle Tennessee. She died in 1872, aged seventy- 
six years. 

Our subject is one in a family of seventeen chil- 
dren, and though thirteen lived to adult years, 
only four of the circle now survive. James A., 
brother of Mr. (iibson, was in the same company 
and regiment for eighteen months. His death 
occurred in Oregon. Our subject received such 
limited school advantages as could be obtained in 
the primitive log schoolhouse of those frontier 
days. His marriage was celebrated November 10, 
185!), with Miss Mary Poe, a native of Buchanan 
County. Her parents were from Virginia and 
Tennessee and early settlers of this region. Until 
the war broke out Mr. (iibson worked for his 
father, raising hemp and managing the farm. 

On the 12th of June, 1861, William Gibson 
enlisted in the Confederate service, becoming a 
member of Company A, First. Missouri Cavalry, 
commanded by Colonel Gates. The company de- 
parted from home June 1 1, and did not return 
until the 14th of June, 1865. Mr. (iibson was a 
Sergeant when he left St. Joseph. He fought in 
the battles of Carthage, Springfield and Lexing- 
ton, Mo., and after Price's return from Spring- 
field went to Cross Hollow, where he fought for 
three days. He afterward took part in the skir- 
mish after Shiloh, and was in the battles of Iuka, 
Corinth, Champion Hills and the siege of Yicks- 
burg. Suffering from an illness that well nigh 
proved fatal in the hospital, he went on sick leave 
to Virginia. Later he became a member of the 
Twenty-fifth Virginia Regiment and went on skir- 
mishes up and down the valley. After the battle 
of Jonesville, he went to Smithfield and Win- 
chester, taking part in those engagements. In the 
charge on the works of Franklin he was wounded, 
being shot in the right leg and having the bone 
shattered. He would not allow them to amputate 
the member, but was captured and sent to the hos- 
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months .-i.it < 1 then transferred to Camp Chase, Ohio, 
and later to Point Lookout Being paroled, he 

came home on crutches. (550 in debt, and when 
he returned to farm duties found be could not 
work at sue!) arduous labor. It was then that he 
concluded to come to St. Joseph. 

Mr. and Mrs. Gibson have five living children: 
James A. and William P. who are foremen in their 
father's business; Isabella A., wife of S. A. Stew- 
art; Maggie, wife of Geo. T. Smith; and John L. 
Mr. Gibson is a member of the Methodist Episco- 
pal Church South, and a Class-leader, Steward and 
Trustee of the same. He is President of the Build- 
ing Committee and superintended the erection of 
the church edifice. In politics Mr. Gibson is a 
Democrat, has been a delegate to county conven- 
tions, and has been a member of the City Demo- 
cratic Committee. 



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'Tr-^j T.WALKER, President of the Park Bank, 

tis one of Cameron's most eminent citizens. 
i whom she delights to honor. This bank, 
which is a private institution, was organized May 
1, 1871, by Capt. J. S. Rogers, the original capital 
being 15,000. Four years after its organization, 
Mr. Walker became its President, a position which 
lie continues to fill with the greatest efficiency and 
success, while (apt. Rogers is Cashier. The bank 
has always kept open doors, even during those 
dark days when financial panics were crushing 
many of the most solid enterprises. It has there- 
fore gained the conlidence of the community and 
a high Btanding among other corporations. 

Mr. Walker is now in the prime of life, having 
been born January 1, 1 m 14. lie was reared in Clin- 
ton County, Ohio, hia birthplace, and in his boy- 
hood attended school at an intitule, spending the 
Vacations as clerk in a store. The education ac- 
quired at his home was supplemented by a course 
of studj in liartlett's Commercial College, < Cincin- 
nati, where he availed himself of every opportu- 
nity for increasing his knowledge of historical. 



scientific and classical subjects. I d 1*6.'. In- came to 
Missouri and accepted a position as agent for the 
Hannibal A- St. Joseph Railroad at Cameron, which 

responsible office he tilled for four years, or until 
1869. He then resigned and entered into the ag- 
ricultural implement business as a member of 

the firm of C. E. Packard .V Co. The firm s 

was merged into that of Walker A' Shaw, and 
as such conducted a lucrative trade until about 
1872. 

In addition to other duties. Mr. Walker has al- 
ways been interested in agricultural pursuits, and 
for a time superintended the management of his 
finely improved place of eighty acres, lie now 
owns sixty acres, which he ha- platted as an addi- 
tion to the city of Cameron, and on this property 
his commodious residence is located, it being on 
the line of De Kalb County. His marriage, which 
occurred June 1.1, 1869, united him with Miss 
Cornelia A. Caldwell, of Vermilion County, 111., 
a lady of great worth of character and fine educa- 
tion. They arc the parents of one child, Jennie 
R., now the wife of A. S. Newberry, of Cameron. 

Politically, Mr. Walker has always been firm in 
his adherence to the principles of the Republican 
party. In 1868 he was appointed County Judge 
by Gov. MfcClurg, and served in that office for one 
year. He was made a Mason in 1867, and is a 
member of Yineil Lodge No. 62. A. F. A- A. M., 
Chapter No. 67, H. A. M., Cameron: Signet Coun- 
cil No. 19, R. A- S. M.; Kadosh Commandery No. 
21, K. T.; Consistory of Western Missouri No. 2, 
of Kansas City. Mo.; and he has recently taken the 
Thirty-second Degree of Scottish Kile. He is Past 
( Irand < Mficer in each of the first four named lodges 
and was High Priest in the chapter for nearly 
twelve years. He highly prizes a line High Priest's 
jewel, which was presented to him by the Chapter. 

lie attended the Conclaves at Cleveland, Chicago, 

St. Louis and Denver, and is prominently known 
ill the fraternity. 

A whole-souled, genial gentleman and accom- 
modating in business, it is not strange that Mr. 
Walker is one of the most popular citizens of 
Cameron. For many years he has done conspic- 
uous service in promoting the progress of the city. 

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cial life. He numbers among his friends people 
in all walks of life, among whom he is respected 
and esteemed. His progressive spirit, practical 
mind, critical knowledge of men and executive 
ability have gained for him a well-merited distinc- 
tion among the bankers of Missouri. 




ATRICK MORLEY, of St. Joseph, is a 
wholesale and retail coal dealer, his oilice 
^ being at the corner of Sixth and Patee 
Streets. He is also a general contractor 
for excavating and sewer work, having really the 
largest business in that line of any in the city, and 
having contracts given to him for cutting down the 
deepest grades. Since 1864 he has been interested 
in the real-estate business, buying property and 
erecting buildings, and is now the owner of a 
number of fine residences and vacant property in 
this locality. He is deserving of great credit for 
his success in business life, as he was one of the 
many in this country who have been obliged to 
begin at the lowest round of the ladder»of success, 
and perseveringly work their way upward. Our 
subject is Vice-President of the Williams Coal 
Company, operating a mine at Swanwick, Ray 
County, of which J. R. Williams is the President, 
and which is a rapidly increasing and remunerative 
investment. 

Mr. Morley was born in County Mayo, Ireland, 
March 8, 1842, and is the son of Anthon} - and 
Mary (.Ionian) Moi ley, who were also natives of 
the Emerald Isle. The father was engaged in con- 
tracting and farming, being quite a successful 
man in the business world. Our subject is the 
youngest of five children, of whom four are now 
living, and is the only one who is now in America, 
lie was reared on his father's farm, and in 1859 
came to America on the sailing-vessel "Collodion," 
bound from Liverpool to New ( Irleans. After a voy- 
age of fifty flays our subject arrived at his desti- 

nati and at once proceeded up the Mississippi 

River to St. Louis, and thence by rail to St. Joseph. 



Mr. Morley was in the employ at first, of the city 
in the river improvement, under Mayor Jefferson 
Thomas, next entering the employ of the packet 
line of steamers called the Hannibal & St. Joseph, 
between the cities of Omaha and Kansas City, both 
of which were new and had but a small population 
or promise of the future opening before them. 
During the war, the packet boats went into the 
Government employ as transports on the Missis- 
sippi, and Mr. Morley was on one of them during 
the siege of Vicksburg, and was also at the battles of 
Columbus, Corinth, Island No. 10 and New Mad- 
rid, Mo. The transport on which he was running 
was the "Emily," under Capt. Joseph La Barge. 
After two years' service on the Mississippi, the 
boat went up the Missouri to its headwaters, in 
charge of Capt. La Large. They were attacked by 
the Sioux Indians, at the mouth of the Milk River, 
and had quite an exciting engagement there, after 
which the}' proceeded eighteen miles above Ft. 
Lenton, nearly to the Falls of the Missouri, which 
was a point further than any steamer had ever be- 
'fore ventured up the river. Mr. Morley was on 
the "Denver" when it took fire in the docks of 
St. Joseph, and has had many narrow escapes and 
exciting incidents during his life on the river. 

In 1861 and the following year, our subject en- 
gaged in farming where the race track is now lo- 
cated, and in the summer of 1866 he made a trip 
to the Rocky Mountains, hauling produce and 
freight, and taking sixty-two days going to and re- 
turning from Denver. The party was at one lime 
held at one of the forts until their number was 
reinforced, when they were allowed to proceed. 

In 1869, our subject finally left the river, en- 
gaging in teaming and contracting; at the latter 
business doing more or less up to the present time. 
He has met with marked success in his commercial 
undertakings, and has developed into a clever and 
sagacious man of business. 

The pleasant home of Mr. Morley is located at 
the corner of Fourteenth and Olive Streets, his 
home being presided over by his amiable wife, 
who was formerly Miss Elizabeth Dolaghanty, to 
whom he was married in 1869. Their union has 
been blessed with three children, Mary, Nellie and 
Laurina J., who were all given good school privi- 




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leges, and are influential young people in the so- 
ciety in which they move. Our subject and his 
family are members of St. Patrick's Catholic 
Church, and. socially, he belongs to the Knights 
of Honor, of which he is a charter member. For 
eight years he was a member of the County Dem- 
ocratic Committee, and was once the nominee of 
his party for County Judge of the second District, 
being defeated by only a few votes. 



AMES II. WILLIAMS, one Of the Old resi- 
dents of Jackson Township, Buchanan 

County, was born in Lincoln County. Ivy., 
'JJ§^/ on January 8, 1829, being the eldest in a 
family of ten children, all of whom grew to man- 
hood and womanhood, and seven of whom are 
still living. The parents were Lewis L. and Mary 
K. (Abraham) Williams, who were natives of Lin- 
coln County, Ky., and Virginia, respectively. Our 
Subject's paternal grandfather, John Williams, a 
native of the Emerald Isle, early came to America, 
locating in the Blue Grass region, where he reared 
his family. 

Lewis L. Williams, our subject's father, came to 
Buchanan County in the fall of 1851, and began 
improving a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, 
to which he afterward added an additional eighty- 
acre tract, lie developed this farm from a wild* r- 
aeSS to one which "blossomed as the rose." He 
was an honest Christian man, and one who was re- 
spected by all who knew him. He never aspired 
to public office, but devoted all his time and en- 
ergy to the development of his farm. He was 
called from this life in March, 18!U, in his eighty- 
seventh year. His wife is still living. aged eighty- 
four years. 

Since 1851 -lames II. Williams lias been a rasi- 
deiii of Buchanan County, and with his parents 
lived on the old homestead which his father had 
purchased the previous fall. In Lincoln County, 
Ky., in the year 18.J2 he was united in marriage 
with Mis- Armanda Moorehead, and at once re- 



turned ta Buchanan County. Two children were 
born to them: Mary J., wife of T. J. McKinney, 
who resides in Holt County, Mo.; and Sophia B., 
wife of \V. T. Clark, who lives in Smith County, 

Kan. 

In 1856, Mr. Williams went to Holt County, 
where he remained until 1890, when, losing his 
loving wife, and his children being married, lie 
returned to the old home to care for his aged par- 
ents, which he has since done manfully. His par- 
ents were both members of the Baptist Church, 
and much respected in the neighborhood of the 
home where they hail lived 80 long. Mr. Will- 
iams' farm in Holt County is a well-cultivated one 
of one hundred and eighty acres, while the place 
belonging to his mother, which he is now manag- 
ing, comprises two hundred and forty acres. Po- 
litically, Mr. Williams is a Democrat. His pater- 
nal grandfather emigrated to Kentucky from Ire- 
land at an early day, where he married Elizabeth 
Brassfield. On the maternal side, the Abraham 
family is of French descent. 



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/=\ APTAIN TolJIAs E. WEAVER, Justice of 

(If the Peace of St. .Joseph, Buchanan County, 

^^^/ is one of the old Missouri River captains, 
and ran back and forth on the river for many 
years, going char to the headwaters. He had 
many thrilling experiences and passed through 
many great dangers. He started in as a pilot 
and was probably in that capacity on one hundred 
different boats. 1'ntil 1856 he made St. Louis his 
headquarters, but after that year St. Joseph was his 
home until 1858, when he returned to the former 
city, living there for several years. If is now 
over thirty-five years, however, since he made a 

permanent local ion in this city. 

The Captain was born in Fauquier County. 

Va the farm where the battle of P.ull Run was 

fought many years later. The date of his birth 
was September 25, 1825- His boyhood waspassed 
in the city of Washington, where he lived until 



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his fourteenth year, when he removed with his 
father to St. Louis. The latter, whose Christian 
name was John, was born in Baltimore, and fol- 
lowed the calling of a painter. AVhen he arrived 
in St. Louis in 1839 it had only twenty thousand 
inhabitants. He became a contractor and was quite 
well-to-do before his death in 1857. He was of 
German descent, and was married in Baltimore to 
Rebecca Stinchcombe, a native of that city. They 
were parents of six children, only two of whom 
are now living. 

Our subject received private school training in 
both Washington and St. Louis. He first started 
to learn his father's trade, but finally became a 
ship-carpenter. In 1*45 he went as a carpenter on 
a boat plying the river, and by 1847 had complet- 
ed his trade. The following two years he devoted 
himself to learning the intricacies and windings of 
the river as a pilot, and in 1851 found himself a 
full-fledged captain and pilot on the Missouri 
River. He passed through two sieges of cholera, 
and carried hosts of California gold-seekers, who 
were called ''pilgrims," to Western points. Dur- 
ing the many years he was on the river, in which 
time he had charge of perhaps five-score boats, two 
were sunk. He often went as far as Ft. Benton, 
thirty-three hundred miles from St. Louis, Mo. 
He has also traveled up the Missouri River to 
the mouth of the Yellowstone, the Yellowstoue 
being navigable for a distance of five hundred 
miles. With much of the West he was thoroughl}- 
acquainted, and often saw great herds of buffalo, 
as well as Indians, both being so numerous on 
the plains that they attracted little attention. 

About 1874 the Captain left his active life on 
the river. For six or seven years he was employed 
on the building of the Grand Island Railroad 
Bridge. For the following five years he was a 
collector, and in 1886 was elected Justice of the 
Peace on the Democratic ticket, being re-elected to 
that position in 1890. He is a stanch Democrat 
and a member of the Jefferson Club. Fraternally, 
he belongs to the Masonic and Odd Fellows' socie- 
ties. 

In Andrew County, eight miles north of St. Jo- 
seph, the Captain and Miss Elizabeth Owen were 
united in marriage in 18(!(i. The lady was born 



in Maryland, and is the mother of two children: 
James II., who is a conductor on the Grand Island 
Railroad; and Maggie, Mrs. Clarence Kirby. resid- 
ing in St. Louis. Captain Weaver and wife have 
long been members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church South. 



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GID WAGNER is a prominent citizen of 
St. Joseph, and since his arrival in the 
71 United States in 1859 has made his home in 
this city. He has ever taken an active part in public 
enterprises, and few men have as much influence in 
the political circles of this locality as he. He is a 
strong Republican and has been sent as a delegate 
to a number of county and State conventions of the 
part)'. Whenever he has been particularly inter- 
ested in the result of an election, the returns 
have plainly manifested the influence he has ex- 
erted, for he is a logical reasoner and has a way 
of impressing men with the side of the question 
he adopts. For four years he served his fellow- 
citizens as Alderman from the Fourth Ward, and 
during that time was on the Finance Committee. 
Until recently Mr. Wagner was proprietor of the 
Atlantic Hotel, which he operated for twelve 
years. 

John Wagner, the father of our subject, was a 
farmer in Bavaria, and was also a carpenter by 
trade. His death occurred in his native land when 
he had attained the age of fifty-two years. His 
wife, formerly Josephine Herbert, was also born in 
Bavaria, and came to America in 1859 with her 
son of whom this sketch is a brief record, and 
died at his home in October, 1890, at the age of 
eighty-two years. She was a devoted member of 
the Catholic Church, and was the mother of four 
children who lived to mature years. Two of these 
are since deceased, and our subject and his sister 
Caroline, now Mrs. Prinz, of St. Joseph, are the 
only survivors. 

Mr. Wagner was reared until his sixteenth year 
on the old farm in Bavaria, Germany, near 
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1.843. An older brother of his camu to America 
in 1855, settling in St. Joseph, and in the frill of 
185'.', Egid Wagner, with hi* mother and sister, 
also made the journey, leaving Bremen in the 
steamer "City of Bremen." After seventeen days 
on the Atlantic, they arrived in New York City 
an rl came on to St. Joseph. Our subject learned 
the Inker's trade and at the end of three years he 
and his two brothers bought the business of .Mr. 
Moretz Siegi, on Second Street, on the western 
Bide "f the square. This they carried on until the 
spring of 1864, when our subjeel made a trip to 
the mountains, driving a team across the plains, 
lie was gone about six months and ran a bakery 
in Virginia City. Mont., for a short time. 

On Mr. Wagner's return to St. Joseph he again 
embarked in the bakery business with his brothers, 
lie bore the reputation ot a practical and capable 
business man and one who was thoroughly master 
of bis trade. This bakery he ran for twenty years, 
during much of the time being the sole proprie- 
tor, lie enlarged it several times and had the 
largest bakery in the city. In 1H7.S he built a 
brick building, No. 625 Eighth Street, which he 
rented out for a meat market. At about this time 
he became the proprietor and owner of the At- 
lantic Hotel, which is at Xos. (121 and 623, a saloon 
at No. HIT. and a bakery atNo. 619 Eighth Street. 
The bakery Mr. Wagner carried on until 1891, 
since which time his sons have taken charge of it. 
In 1890 he rented the hotel, which has a frontage 
of one hundred and two feet, and is now practi- 
cally retired from business, though he has consider- 
able money invested, which brings in a good in- 
come. Among his possessions are two brick resi- 
dences On Messanie Street, two frame residences. 
a double tenement at Xos. 606 and 608 South 
Ninth Street, and a brick block, 50x125 feet. In 
May, 1890, be built his fine large brick residence 
<m Seventeenth and LoCUSt Streets, where he owns 
half of the block. The dwelling co-t upward of 
$10,000. Our subject is a stockholder and Di- 
rer! or of the Commercial Bank of St. Joseph. He 
was Assistant Chief of the Fire Department for 
one year and was Chief for a like period of time. 
Previous to this he was B volunteer fireman for 
ten years. 



An important event in the lib- of Mr. Wagnei 
occurred in 1866, when he was united in marriage 
with Miss Theressa Vonarx, who was born in 
Switzerland, and came to St. Joseph in I860. The 
worthy cod pie have eight living children: August, 
who is in the bakery business here: Josephine, 
widow of Matt Diet/.; Mary, Mrs. S. Have-; flora. 
Emma, Agnes, Rosa and Egid, Jr. The family are 
members of the Immaculate Conception Catholic 
Church, which Mr. Wagner helped to build. He 
has been a Trustee for years and has been Treas- 
urer of it for fifteen years. For some time he was 
President of the German Benevolent Society, for 
eight years was President of the St. l-'rancis \av ier, 
and now holds a like position with the Bavarian 
Society. 



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DOODLE, LEMON & COMPANY, Hankers 
of St. Joseph, Mo. This prominent and 

reliable firm, which has been one of activ- 
ity, but which has passed through many trials and 
reverses, has been successful, both in securing a 
competency and establishing itself in the respect 
and confidence of the citizens of St. .Joseph. This 
firm was organized in July, 1889, with a capital of 
$100,0(11) and a general unlimited partnership. 
composed of the following members: Thomas E. 
Tootle, formerly President of the Merchants' Hank 
in this city; John s. Lemon, of the lluell Manufac- 
turing Company; James McCord, of the Nave a 
McCord Mercantile Company; Samuel N. Nave, of 
the Mokaska Manufacturing Company : and Gra- 
ham 6. Lacy, Cashier. The business has steadily in- 
creased until it now has a deposit of $500,000, 
and is also correspondent for a number of country 
banks strictly in a conservative line of business. 

The members of this linn are responsible, with- 
out limit, for the indebtedness of this bank, and 
their business is in such a healthy condition, made 
SO by the excellent conduct of financial affairs and 
by the fidelity and proficiency of the members, 
that they feel perfectly secure in soliciting the pat- 



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ronage of the people. This establishment is thor- 
ough in all business transactions and neglects noth- 
ing that conduces to the advancement of itself and 
patrons; it is also an active factor in the local 
growth and prosperity, contributing liberally to 
anything that serves the city in its upward prog- 
ress. 



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jr^OBERT S. CARPENTER is a member 
Ls^f and stockholder in the Townsend & 
\ Wyatt Dry Goods Company, of St. Joseph, 
\§}) and is in charge of the clothing depart- 
ment as manager. He is a successful salesman and 
thoroughly understands his business. He comes 
from a highly respected Virginia family, his father, 
Judge L. F. Carpenter, being an influential and 
talented gentleman. 

Mr. Carpenter was born in Luray, Page Count}-, 
Va., March 2, 1852, and was only a child of three 
years when his parents brought him to this city. 
His educational advantages were of the best, and 
in September, 1873, he went to Illinois, where he 
pursued a course of study in the commercial depart- 
ment of St. Francis' College. For nearly three 
years after leaving that institution he represented 
the firm of A. Wickey & Company, manufacturers 
of agricultural implements. He then came to St. 
Joseph and traveled for the firm of B. D. Buford 
& Company, being principally in Kansas, Nebras- 
ka, Iowa and Missouri. He was their salesman for 
two years and nine months. 

In 1878, our subject embarked in the clothing 
business with Gus Levy and continued success- 
fully for eleven years. When the firm to which 
he now belongs started their new business, he be- 
came connected with the concern, and was made 
manager and buyer of the clothing department. 
lie is thoroughly competent tofill this position, as 
he has had fifteen years' experience and is well ac- 
quainted with the demands of the trade. This 
dry-goods house carries a very large stock of cloth- 
ing, hats, and gentlemen's furnishing goods. The 
department occupies 40x80 feet on the main 



floor. Mr. Carpenter goes to New York twice a 
year to buy stock, and is careful to select not only 
the latest novelties, but the standard and well- 
tried styles. The trunk and valise department, 
which covers a space of 40x120 feet on the fourth 
floor, is also under Mr. Carpenter's supervision. 

The pleasant home of Mr. Carpenter, which is 
situated at the corner of Sixteenth and Edmond 
Streets, was erected by him, and in addition to 
this he owns two other good residences. The lady 
who so graciously presides over Mr. Carpenter's 
home became his wife March 2, 1876, in Forrest 
City, Mo. Her maiden name was Anna Sedgwick, 
and Virginia was her birthplace. She was educa- 
ted in St. Joseph and was a student in Dr. Martin's 
Female Academy. 

When Mr. Carpenter came to St. Joseph, it was 
a small river town of only fifteen hundred inhab- 
itants. In politics Mr. Carpenter is a Democrat. 
He belongs to Lodge No. 189, A. F. & A. M., and 
to Enterprise Lodge No. 232, 1. O. O. F., and the 
Encampment, in both of which he has filled all the 
honorary positions. 



A folLLIAM DAWSON is a locomotive fore- 

\f\j/l man at ®*' J° se P n f° r tue Chicago & Great 
W§{/ Western Railroad, usually known as the 
Maple Leaf. He has charge of the wrecking train, 
also of all repair and mechanical work in the city, 
and gives steady employment to about sixteen 
men. A mau of practical mind and keen discrim- 
ination, he is peculiarly adapted to the position 
which he fills with efficiency and success. While 
his attention is very closely occupied with the de- 
tails of his business, nevertheless his sympathies 
are always enlisted on behalf of public improve- 
ments, and he aids as far as possible all measures 
originated for the promotion of the welfare of his 
fellow-citizens. 

A native of England, our subject was born in 
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and Elizabeth (Marr) Dawson. His boybood days 
were passed in the city where he was born, and he 
gained a practical education in the common 
schools. At the age of sixteen he was apprenticed 

to Irani the trade of a machinist in the Liver] I 

shipyards, and remained in that position until he 
was twenty-two, when he emigrated to the United 
States. At once after landing, he went direct to 
St. Paul. Minn., and seemed a position in the 
shopsof the Manitoba & Great Northwestern Rail- 
road of that place. Alter remaining for two years 
in St. Paul, he removed to Minneapolis and worked 
in the shops there for two years. Thence he 
went t" Winnipeg, where-he was in the employ of 
the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. His next 
position was that of Assistant Foreman in the 
shops of the Chicago & Great Northern Railroad 
at Des Moines, which he resigned to accept the po- 
sition he now occupies. 

The marriage of William Dawson occurred at St. 
Joseph, November 26, 1889, and united him with 
Mis> Fannie Hill, of Plattsburgh, Mo., and a native 
of this state. Mr.and Mis. Dawson are the parents 
of one child, a daughter, Lizzie. 



FDW'ARD T. MOORE, M.D. To attain dis- 
tinction in any of the learned professions 

'I' — £) is the proud ambition of many a struggling 
man, who looks forward to the prize to lie gained 
toward the end of the race, and which, when 
gained, is accounted as having been worth 
the struggle. The results attained by Dr. Moore 
in his practice of surgery and medicine in I he 
beautiful city of DeKalb have been highly grati- 
fying, and he deservedly ranks high in the esti- 
mation of bis fellow- townsmen, who regard him as 
one of the best and most prominent physicians in 

the place. 
A native of Fillmore. Andover County, Mo.. 

Dr. Moore is the son of Dr. W. 1*. M <-. who had 

his birth in Kentucky, in which State his mother, 

Mis. Margaret C. (Dysart) Moore, was also born. 



The paicni- came to Missouri in 1850, locating at 
Fillmore, where they were residing on the out- 
break of the Civil War. Moving south with his 
family, Dr. M e did g 1 Bervice in the South- 
ern Army, remaining until 1867, when, returning 

to Missouri, he made his h e in Newmarket, 

Platte County. lie is at present engaged in the 
practice of his profession in Mary ville, where he 
removed in 1H7'.». 

Dr. W. P. Moore was educated in the Univer- 
sity of Georgetown, Ky., and later, when deter- 
mining to enter the medical profession, followed 
the course of study laid down in the McDowell 
Medical College, of St. Louis. He was a surgeon 
in the Confederate Arm] during the war. and in 
all has been engaged in practice for a period of 
forty years. In politics he is a Democrat, and dur- 
ing Cleveland's first term of Office was appointed 
United States Examining Surgeon. In 1888-89 he 
held the position of County Physician of Noda- 
way County, and was President of the .Medical 
Society of that county for a number of years. 
With his wife, he is a devoted member of the Chris- 
tian Church, and the efforts which have crowned 
his success as a physician have won him the good 
opinion of all. 

Of the parental family of thirteen children. 
three are deceased. Dr. Edward T. Moore, who 
was the third in order of birth, was born December 
:!, 1856, in Fillmore. Completing his studies in 
the Missouri State University at Columbia with 
the Class of '75,yOung Moore, desirous of follow- 
ing the profession in which his father had become 
so prominent, entered the Missouri Medical Col- 
lege at St. Louis, and was graduated therefrom in 
1879. After receiving his degree as Doctor of 
Medicine, he entered the otliee of his father, with 

whom he remained until 1884, when he came to 
De Kalb. which place has since been his home. 

Dr. Edward T. Moore and Miss Mary E., daugh- 
ter of Dr.Preston Ramsey, were united in marriage 
June 9, 1886. Mrs. Moore was married in the same 
house where her birth occurred April 8, 1868. Sin- 
is a lady possessing many accomplishments, and is 
a devoted member of the Christian Church. Of 

her union with our Bllbject one SOU has been horn, 
Paul ( iervais. 



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Dr. Moore takes an active part in polities, and 
always casts his vote for the Democratic candi- 
dates. Socially he is a member of the Indepen- 
dent Order of Odd Fe I lows, which organization he 
has served as Recording Secretary of his lodge, 
lie is also a member of the State Medical Society. 
He enjoys so large a patronage that it is very dif- 
ficult for him to answer all the demands made upon 
his time and skill. 



4pssa J. CARSON occupies a responsible and lu- 
^^4 crative position in St. Joseph as general 
ill// Jj) agent for the William Deering A' Com- 
pany harvesting machines. lie has trav- 
eled over every township in his territory several 
times, the route comprising about thirty counties 
in northwestern Missouri and northeastern Kan- 
sas. His office and headquarters are at Nos. 31(! 
and 318 Sylvan le Street, where he has been estab- 
lished since January, 1892. Mr. Carson was born 
in Washington Township, Buchanan County, Aug- 
ust 9, 1857. His paternal grandfather, Camp- 
bell Carson, was a native of Virginia, and an early 
settler in Kentucky, where our subject's father, 
James I)., and his mother, formerly MissSallie A. 
Woodson, were born. The father of Mrs. Carson, 
whose name was Jefferson, died on his way to Cal- 
ifornia from Kentuck}', on the Little Blue, in Kan- 
sas. 

Mr. Carson of this sketch is of Scotch-Irish 
descent, and is the youngest in a family of three 
children, one of whom is now deceased. His bro- 
ther, Thomas A., was Deputy-Sheriff, and died in 
St. Joseph in 1890. Charles W. Carson, his other 
brother, is now Sheriff of Buchanan County. His 
father having removed to this county in the 
'50s, our subject was reared to man's estate on the 
farm, first attending the common schools, and 
later the Christian Brothers' School in St. Joseph. 
Afterwards Mr. Carson carried on his father's 
farm, and engaged in stock-raising and dealing in 



cattle in company with his brother, Thomas A., 
until 1883. At that time he entered the employ 
of William Deering A: Company as bookkeeper, 
occupying that position for a year. A short time 
after this he entered the employ of the same firm 
as a traveling salesman, having much the same 
territory as he now supervises, and continued on 
the road until January, 1892. In addition to 
making sales, he had charge of a branch house in 
St. Joseph. In 1892, Mr. Carson established a gen- 
eral agency, and has since had charge of this wide 
and important field. He still owns the old home- 
stead of one hundred and sixty acres, which is 
valuable and well improved, located only four 
miles from the city. As a business man Mr. Car- 
son has made a marked success, as he attends faith- 
fully to his employer's interests and in every way 
possible tries to advance the same. He is a good 
conversationalist and readily makes himself popu- 
lar with business men by his affable ways and cor- 
rect business methods. Thus he has built up for 
the firm an extensive trade, which fact they thor- 
oughly recognize. 

In 1892,in Kansas City was performed the mar- 
riage ceremony which united the hearts and hands 
of Mr. Carson and Miss Carrie Gamble, who was 
born in this State. She is an educated, refined 
and cultured lady, and has made man}' friends. 
Our subject is a Democrat in his political affilia- 
tions, is a Knight-Templar Mason, and a member 
of Moila Shrine of this city. 






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^AMKS HILL is the popular Cashier of the 
Commercial Bank of St. Joseph, Mo., with 
which he lias been connected since the 1st 
' of June, 1892, succeeding John T. Johnson. 
Our subject is one of the most agreeable business 
men of the fit}', and it was a fine stroke of policy 
on the part of the directors when they selected 
him as Cashier. He is widely known, and few 
who have held public office in the county have 
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a ess man and a thorough bookkeeper. In 1876 
Mi. Hull was elected County Treasurer, serving in 
that capacity for four years, and was re-elected to 
th? t very responsible office in 1882 for another 
term of four years. In 1888 he was chosen County 
Collector, his term expiring in the spring of 1898. 
It is said that his books, when turned over to his 
successor, balanced, and everything was in the 
most systematic and exact shape. 

The gentleman of whom this is a brief record 
was born in Wheeling. W. Va., December 24, 1839. 
His father, David Hull, was a brother of Joseph C. 
Hull, of St. Joseph. Roth of our subject's parents 

were descendants of the Zane family, who were 
early settlers of Wheeling. Col. Zane being com- 
mander of the old fort at that point. After this 
family was named the city of Zanesville, Ohio. 
In 1857 our subject came to St. Joseph and entered 
the Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank, which was run 
by his uncle. Joseph C. Hull. He remained as 
clerk in the institution until 1862, when he re- 
turned to his birthplace. Prior to assuming his 
position in the St. Joseph Rank, he had taken a 
course in a commercial college at Wheeling. 

Going to Zanesville, Ohio, Mr. Hull was for one 
year and a-half bookkeeper and paying teller in 
a bank of that city. In December, 18G3, return- 
ing to this city, he entered the bank of A. Beattie 
St Co., remaining as a clerk, cashier and partner 
until the death of Mr. Beattie in 1878. This 
bank, which at the time was the largest in the city, 
was for twenty-three years managed by Maj. Arm- 
strong Reattie, who was a Provost-Marshal for one 
year, and a leading politician, lie was a brother- 
in-law of Senator Wilson, of Missouri. Our sub- 
ject was a member of the firm for three years. 
The bank stood on the east side of Third Street, 
between Felix and Kdmond Streets. The business 
was closed up by R. L. McDonald as executor 
without Mr. Hull's receiving a cent. 

Twenty years ago our subject began working 
up a Bre-inSUTance agency, and he does the largest 
business in this line in the city. The linn is 
known as James Hull 4 Co., his brother George 
being a partner. They are agents for many of 
the leading companies, among which arc the .Etna; 
the Rlnenix.of Hartford; and the Home Insurance 



and German-American of New Xork City. In 

this line of occupation. a8 well as in even Other, 
Mr. Hull has carried a large percentage of the peo- 
ple with him. 

In Burlington, on the 28d of May, 1877. Mr. 
Hull was united in marriage with Clara V. Robin- 
son, of Burlington, Iowa. Three children, a -on and 
two daughters, have come to bless their home and 
fireside, their names being as follows: Elizabeth 
Zane, James Clark and Mabel C. 

Mr. Hull is a Vestryman in Christ Church, to 
which he has belonged for twenty years, and is 
also Treasurer of the same. In politics he is a 
Democrat, and socially is a Knight-Templar Mason. 
The prosperity of a community depends in a great 
measure upon its business men, who come in con- 
tact with the public daily, and therefore create 
prejudice either for or against the place in which 
they live. In our Subject is found one of the 
most valued citizens of this thriving Western city, 
for he is public-spirited and has the best interests 
of the place thoroughly at heart. His sterling 
worth is recognized by his large circle of friends 
and acquaintances, who speak of him in terms of 
highest praise. 



<& fclNFlELD SCO IT MORRISON, M.D. The 

\/\l/i nK ' ( li'' ;l '' profession has ever attracted the 
Wy leading minds of all ages and those who 
have most desired to alleviate the evils to which 
flesh is heir. Among the well-known physicians 
of Buchanan County, perhaps none occupies a 
more enviable position in the confidence of the 
people than does Dr. Morrison. His practice is 
very extensive, indeed rather more than he can 
easily manage, for he has very little time for 
needed resl and recreation, having to ride almost 
continuously on his round.--, and being obliged to 
keep three horses to serve a- relays. 

In the beautiful Blue Grass region of Fleming 
County, Ky., Dr. Morrison was horn on the 28th 



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of April, 1852, his parents being David and Eliza 
(Ileyter) Morrison. The former was a native of 
Kentucky, while the mother came from Virginia. 
Both parents passed almost their entire lives in 
Kentucky, where the father was a prominent far- 
mer and an influential politician in the Republican 
party. His death occurred at the age of seventy- 
four years, his wife attaining the age of sixty- 
eight years. Of their nine children eight are liv- 
ing. One brother and one sister are residents of 
Oklahoma Territory, while the others, with the ex- 
ception of our subject, are still living in their na- 
tive State. Charles died of diphtheria at the age 
of six years. 

Winfield S. Morrison remained at home until 
seventeen years of age, working on his father's 
farm, and during the winter season going for three 
months to the district school, which was situated 
one and a-lialf miles from his home. In his eigh- 
teenth year he commenced teaching school in order 
to obtain money for his higher education. He 
then went to Madison, where he pursued his 
studies for one term, after which he taught school 
in Hillsboro, Ky., and then attended for a term at 
the Normal College in Lebanon. Ohio, there com- 
pleting a business course. Returning to Hillsboro, 
he taught in the high schools for a year, afterward 
going back to Lebanon for a 3 r ear's work in the 
sciences and classics. 

Being well prepared for bis further studies, Mr. 
Morrison concluded to adopt the medical profes- 
sion, and with that idea in view commenced read- 
ing under the guidance of Dr. James Thompson, 
of Lower Blue Lick, Ky., with whom he remained 
for three years, a portion of the time being spent 
in teaching school to enable him to complete his 
medical education. From there he entered the 
Medical College of Ohio, at Cincinnati, where he 
obtained a practical knowledge in the Good Sam- 
aritan Hospital. Having graduated in 1880 from 
that noted college, he went to Mt. Olivet^ Ky., 
where he remained for six months. 

On September 15, 1881, the Doctor and Miss 
Allie Lee Wells were united in matrimony. The 
lady is a daughter of ,1. M. and Eliza Wells, na- 
tives of Missouri and Tennessee, respectively, she 
being the only daughter in their family of four 



children. Five children have graced the union of 
this worthy couple, four of whom are living, a lit- 
tle daughter, Ruth, having died in infancy of the 
whooping-cough. Virgil was born July 25, 1882; 
Paul Seneca, July 11, 1881; Althea, April 29, 1887; 
and Hannibal, May 10. 1890. 

On the 16th of July, 1880, Dr. Morrison came 
to Rushville, and here commenced his piactice, 
also opening a drug store, which he yet carries on. 
For many years he has written for the standard 
medical journals, his articles being very attractive 
and considered as authorit3' on medicine and 
general surgery. He is often called in consulta- 
tion with the best physicians in St. Joseph and 
Atchison, as well as in other neighboring towns, 
and his practice extends over a large portion of 
the county. He is the owner of eighty acres of 
fine land on section 16, township 57, range 37, 
which he rents to a good advantage. He also 
owns a fine store and pleasant residence in the 
village. He is a Democrat of no uncertain stamp, 
and a member of Lodge No. 278, A. F. & A. M., of 
Rushville. Both he and his estimable lady are 
members of the Christian Church and devoted to 
its best interests. 



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ffijSs ASPER WECKERLE, a successful dealer in 
III groceries at St. Joseph, was born amid the 

^*~^ beautiful scenery of Switzerland, on the 
26th of February, 182'.». His father, Casper Week - 
erle, was a stock-dealer and farmer in Switzerland, 
where he was married. Our subject is the young- 
est of six children born to Casper and Anna 
Weckerle, four of whom are living. He was 
reared on his father's farm until 1852, when 
he emigrated to America from Havre, France, and 
landed in New York after a voyage of twenty- 
six days. He remained in Toledo, Ohio, for two 
months, and then came to Missouri and located 
at St. Joseph in 1852, where he was employed on 
the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad. 

Mr. Weckerle worked some at sawmilling and 



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:it Steam boa tin-; until 18">(i, when he engaged in 
tin- grocery business on his own account, in which 
he continued until the Civil War. During that 
struggle he enlisted in the State militia under 
Captain Hoax, and after peace was declared he 
resumed liis former occupation, soon after locat- 
ing in the place where he now conducts his bu<i- 

ness. In 1*7 l he erected a brick block, forty feet 
front and two stories bigb, in the quarter where 

he had been mi greatly prospered since IS.'ii;. lie 
also owns some real estate and resiliences on Thir- 
teenth Street, besides a large farm of one hundred 
acres in Washington Township, th is county. 

Mr. Wcckerlc was married in 1859 to Miss Caro- 
line Welty, a native of Ohio, born near Waynes- 
burg, where she was reared and educated. This 
lady became the mother of live children, all of 
whom grew to mature years. Anna is the widow 
of the late Mr. Kist. of St. Joseph; Emma, wife 
of Mr. E. Kist, died in St. Joseph at the age of 
thirty-seven years; and Henry passed away in 
lX'.U. Mr. and Mrs. YVeekerle are very popular 
in social circles, where they are very highly es- 
teemed for their genial qualities, then sympathy, 
and their intelligent grasp of the various subjects 
of interest to educated minds. Our subject is here 
profitably conducting his grocery store, fully sup- 
plied with all articles desirable in this line of 
trade, and is rapidly extending the limits of his 
business, which has under his able management 
been from the very tirsl an assured success. 



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INSl.ow I'. SNYDER, one of Buchanan 
County's oldest residents and a prominent 
citizen of Tremont Township, was horn in 
Washington County. Ind., On the 3d of January, 
1828. At the age of twelve years he accompanied 
In- parents to Buchanan County, where he has 
continued to reside, with the exception of eigh- 
teen months spenl in Joplin, Mo. His parents, 
Edward and Malinda (Sutherland) Snyder, were 
natives of l'ennyslvania and .NVw fork, respec- 

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lively, and in a very early da\ removed to Indi- 
ana, locating iii Washington County. Thence in 
I Hill they came to lluclianan County and settled 
on a farm near the east line of the county, the 
present home of our Subject. 

I ntil he was twenty year- of age, Mr. Snyder 
remained with Ins parents. April 18, L848, he 
was united in marriage with Miss Sarah Tower, a 
native of Indiana, who came to Missouri in L840. 
After his marriage Mr. Snyder studied medicine 
under his father-in-law, Dr. Tower, and after ac- 
quiring a thorough knowledge of his profession 
commenced its practice in Buchanan County and 
continued thus engaged for a number of years. 
lie was afterward obliged to abandon professional 
duties on account of failing health, and a^ he has 
never regained his former vigor, he has not re- 
sumed his practice. As a physician he had the 
confidence of the entire community and was a 
skillful and successful practitioner. 

Mr. Snyder was bereaved by the death of his 
wife, Februarj 20, L 870, at the age of thirty-six 
years. She was a lady who won the friendship of 
all who met her by her kindness of heart and 
sweetness of character. She was the mother of 
fourteen children, namely: John, Malinda, Ruth, 
Edward II., Joanna, Samuel. Margaret A., William 
R., Lizzie, Evans Augustus, Winslow I'., Jr., 
Thomas V. and Hiram King, all of whom are liv- 
ing. They reside in Missouri, with the exception 
of Edward, a carpenter of Chicago; Evans Aug- 
ustus and Thomas, residents of California, and 
Ruth, who lives in Kansas. Lizzie and Winslow 
P., Jr., are at borne with their father. One child 
died in infancy. 

The owner of the old Snyder home-lead i- the 
sister of our subject. Margaret A., who i- a lady of 
great benevolence and superintends with splendid 
executive ability the management of the farm. con- 
sisting of one hundred and eighty-eight acres. She 
was born in Washington County, Ind., November 
13, 1825, and remained with her parent- until they 
died, when she inherited the home farm. Since 
then -he ha- superintended the work connected 

with the place, and by the exercise of g 1 judg- 
ment and excellent busine8S tact she ha- become 

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elegant residences, which would do credit to St. 
Joseph or any city in the State. Although she 
has chosen to remain unmarried, her life has not 
been an idle or useless one; on the contrary, her 
time is fully occupied in the cares of the estate. 
In her beautiful home she is surrounded by the 
luxuries of life, while the loving attention of 
friends and relatives adds to her happiness. The 
readers of this volume are indebted to ber for a 
fine portrait of her father, Edward Snyder (de- 
ceased), who was one of the early and respected 
pioneers of this part of Missouri. 



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1TSTAVUS AUDRIANO, a well-to-do busi- 
ness man of St. Joseph, lias lived a retired 
| life for the past five years, previous to 
which he was engaged in the wholesale liquor 
business and in importing wines. Our subject 
was born in Manheim, Germany, August 15, 
1837, and is a son of Ludwig E. Audriano, a na- 
tive of the same province. Our subject's paternal 
grandfather was a porcelain manufacturer in Ger- 
many. 

Ludwig E. Audriano was a merchant in Man- 
heirn, where his death occurred. His wife, who was 
formerly Magdelene Neck, was the mother of six 
children, one of whom is now deceased. Gustavus 
Audriano is the eldest of the family and was 
brought up on the banks of the picturesque Rhine 
River. He attended the common school and ly- 
ceum, where he completed a course of stud} - . 

Mr. Audriano received some practical lessons in 
merchandising before leaving the Fatherland, and 
in 1866 came to America, leaving Hamburg on the 
steamer "Teutonia." After seventeen days the 
vessel arrived safely in New York City, and our 
subject came on west to St. Joseph, which was 
then a town of about twelve thousand inhabitants. 
He engaged with li is cousin, Theodore H. Boin- 
gesser, a wholesale and retail grocer by trade, 
and our subject entered his employ as his book- 
keeper, continuing with him until 1872. He then 



became traveling salesman for the firm of Koch, 
Chew & Co.. dealers in wholesale groceries and 
liquors, and canvassed the States of Missouri, Kan- 
sas, Nebraska and Iowa for two years. At the 
end of this time the firm left the business, and Mr. 
Audriano became the bookkeeper of the German 
Savings Bank, where he was employed for two 
years. 

In August. 1876, he of whom we write formed 
a partnership with Philip Arnholt, and embarked 
in the wholesale liquor and importing business at 
No. 118 North Second Street. The firm was 
known as G. Audriano & Company for a short 
time, and then Mr. Arnholt retiring, the former 
continued in business alone for three years, hav- 
ing the store at No. 112 South Second Street. In 
time he took into partnership with him two of his 
brothers-in-law, and the firm then became Audri- 
ano, Goelitz & Lollnck, continuing as such for 
three years. The style of the firm was next G. 
Audriano ifc Company, and thus remained until 
our subject retired from business in 1888. He 
started his trade by traveling himself at first, and 
later employing agents. 

In Marysville, Kan., Mr. Audriano and Miss 
Emma Goelitz were united in matrimony on Jan- 
uary 4, 1877. Mrs. Audriano was born in St. 
Louis, and her fattier was one of the early settlers 
and business men in Marysville. Our subject and 
wife have five children: William, George, Alma, 
Gustavus, Jr., and Olga. In politics our subject 
is a Republican. He owns a fine residence at the 
corner of Frederick Avenue and Twenty-fifth 
Street, also other residence property in the city, 
and several farms in Kansas. 



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l\\ ROF ' DAVID S - BRILHART for the past 
)JJ fifteen years has been engaged in the hard- 
s'^ ware business in Lathrop, Clinton County, 
\ under the firm name of Brilhart & Co. His 
grandfather, David Brilhart, was a soldier in the 
AVar of the Revolution, and was of German parent- 



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age. He was a farmer by occupation, and re- 
moved to Maryland at an early 'lay. where he 
lived until railed from this life, lie was a mem- 
ber of the German Reformed Church. By his firsl 

wife. I'm' he was twice married, he had two sons 
and six daughters, the suns, John and Isaac, be- 
ing both fanners. 

Our subjecl was a sun uf John and Elizabeth 
Brilhart. The former was born in Maryland in 
181(1. and was married m that State, lie reared 
to mature years a family of eight children, who 
are named as follows: Michael S., Anna (now de- 
ceased), DavidS., Sarah, Mary, Leah, Isaac and 
John. The mother of our subject, who was a 
daughter of Michael Stambach, was born in York 
County, l'a. Her father, who was a farmer by oc- 
cupation, was twice married, having one son anil 
two daughters by his flrst union, and two daugh- 
ters by the second marriage. John Brilhart was 
called from this life in the fall of 1890. His wife 
had died many years previously, about the year 
I860. The father was a Democrat politically, and 
both himself and wife were members of the Ger- 
man Reformed Church. 

The early education of David S. Brilhart was 
acquired in the common schools, after which he 
became a student in the Western Maryland Col- 
lege, from which he was graduated in the spring 
of 1864. He also attended for some time the 
Manchester Academy, in Maryland. Leaving 
home at the age of sixteen years, he was employed 
in a shoemaker's shop for .about two years, lie 
then began teaching school during the winter 
season and pursued his studies during the sum- 
mer term. In spite of all obstacles, he was deter- 
mined to obtain a good education and was inde- 
fatigable in the pursuit of wisdom. In 1866 he 
entered Shrewsbury Academy, in Pennsylvania, 
wlnrc he taughl for a period of four years. After- 
ward he assumed charge of the public schools at 
Keisterstown, Md. In 1872, coming Wot, out 
subject tooU charge of the public schools of Lath- 
rop, m which position he remained for five year.-. 
In 1*77. a- before stated, he embarked in the hard- 
ware business, in which occupation he ha- ever 
since been successfully engaged. 

()u December 7. 1881, the Professor was united 



in marriage with Miss Ella l'>. Stuckey, who was 

bom in Pennsylvania, and i» a daughter of Simon 
s. and Caroline (Border) Stuckey. now of Illinois. 
Mrs. Brilhaii was educated in Monmouth College. 

III., and before her marriage was a successful 

teacher. Three children blessed their union: Rena, 
Jessie and David G. Jessie died October 27, 
1891. 

For many years Mr. Brilhart has been an 
active member of the Presbyterian Church and 
served a- an Elder in the same. In local af- 
fairs he has endeavored to pr te the best in- 
terims of all concerned and for many years has 
been a member of the Town Council. The cause 
of education finds in him a champion and friend, 
and hi' is now the Presidenl of the Board of Edu- 
cation, lie is intelligent and well-read, keeping 
posted on all the leading issues and scientific dis- 
coveries of the day. lie is highly honored and 
ranks high in this community. 




=»HE VERY REV. FATHER CHRISTOPHER 

LINNENKAMP, Vicar-General of the Dio- 

~y cese of St. Joseph, is Pastor of the Church 

of the Immaculate Conception, at the corner of 
Tenth and Messanie streets in St. Joseph, lie was 
born in Westphalia, Germany, November 27, 1839, 
and went to Muscatine, Iowa, when fifteen years 
Of age. He secured a liberal academic education 
at si. \ incent's College at Cape Girardeau, Mo., 
and then entered St. Francis Seminary at Mil- 
waukee, Wis., completing a thorough theological 

and philosophical course in llStil. He was at ODCC 

called to the work in this State by Archhishop 
Kendrick, of St. Louis, from whose hands he re- 
ceived the rite of ordination March lit. 1864. 

The first work of Father Linnenkamp was as 
assistant to the Pastor of St. Peter and St. Paul's 
Church in St. Louis, where he served for a period 
Of t'U months. In the early part of 1865, he wa- 
assigned work at Weston, Platte County, where he 

remained for ahoui four years, being transferred 



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to this city in 1869, and given charge of the 
Church of the Immaculate Conception, which posi- 
tion lie still occupies. From the time of his as- 
suming charge, the church has grown from a mem- 
bership of two hundred and fifty to nearly two 
thousand. They own a fine property, which has 
been well improved, and on which is located a 
parochial school, to which Father Linnenkamp 
gives his personal attention. He was made Vicar- 
General upon coming here, and a great portion of 
the work of the Diocese has fallen upon him, as 
there has been no resident Bishop since the Dio- 
cese of Kansas City was formed and Bishop Ilogan 
was transferred from St. Joseph to that city. At 
two periods our subject served as Administrator 
of the Diocese, the first for about a year during 
the absence of the Bishop in Europe, and a second 
time for some months when the latter was visiting 
the Pope in 1878. 

Father Linnenkamp is a cultured gentleman, 
full of good common-sense and practical views of 
life. He is popular with all the citizens of St. 
Joseph, and is remarkably free from the bigotry 
which so frequently characterizes the cloth. A 
man of decided ability, without doubt the ablest 
priest in this city, and of tine physique, he attracts 
attention and commands respect. 



EDWARD H. NASH. Among the many com- 
mercial travelers in the West whose head- 
' quarters are in St. Joseph, Buchanan County, 

is this gentleman, whose birth occurred in this city, 
June 29, 1860. His education was here acquired, 
and with the history of this region his own is 
thoroughly identified. He has been very success- 
ful in business, and has been in the employ of one 
firm since branching out in his active career. This 
is the well-known house of Tootle, Ilosea & Com- 
pany, which was then the firm of Tootle, Craig <fr 
Company. He was first only an office-boy, but 
has steadily worked his way upward, until he ranks 



high among the best employes of this large whole- 
sale concern. lit is obliged to make but three 
trips a year, and then is out on the road for a 
period of not more than three weeks or thereabouts. 
The remainder of the time he is engaged in look- 
ing after the business interests of the wholesale 
house. 

John M. Nash, our subject's father, was born in 
Canton, Mass. His father, Harvey Nash, whose 
birth occurred in Maine, was a contractor on an 
Eastern railroad, but late in life removed to Chi- 
cago, in which city he pursued the same vocation- 
John Nash was also a railroad contractor, princi- 
pally in the South. He took contracts for the 
stone work on the Ohio River bridge -it Louisville, 
lie made his home in Nashville mainly, and there 
his death occurred in 1872. For a short time prior 
to the war, he was in St. Joseph, engaged in the pork- 
packing business, but the conflict soon obliged him 
to retire from that field of operation. ReligiousI}- 
he was a Universalis!. His wife, whose maiden 
name was Jane F. Carter, was born in Carlisle, Ky., 
where her father, Robert S. Carter, was a merchant. 
In 1856 he removed to St. Joseph, and here en- 
gaged in commercial pursuits for several years. 
He is now retired from business, and still resides 
in this city, being now nearly eighty-eight years 
of age. 

In a family of six children, our subject is the 
fourth in order of birth. His brothers and sisters 
are likewise living in St. Joseph. As previously 
stated, Mr. Nash was first an office-bo}', but at the 
end of eight months was promoted, becoming clerk 
of the bill books. When li ve years had passed, he was 
placed in charge of the order department, which 
position he held for a year, and then was made 
city salesman. At this he succeeded so well that 
the firm sent him out on the road. 

He was a charter member of St. Joseph Council 
of the Order of United Commercial Travelers of 
America, the second council organized in Missouri. 
From this all the Kansas councils have been estab- 
lished, and it is considered the banner council of 
the order. In Masonry, Mr. Nash is a leading 
member, belonging to Zeradetha Lodge No. 189, 
A. F. & A. M.. of which he is Past Master, and is 
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He is a Knight Templar, belonging to Hugh De- 
Payne Commandery No 7)1. and to Moila Tem- 
ple, Mystic Shrine. He uses bis righl of Franchise 
in favor of the Democratic party. 

In the city of S£ Joseph Mr. Nash ami Miss 
Martha A. Hold were united in wedlock, the cere- 
mony being performed Jnne 20, 1888. Mrs. Nash, 
who was born in Palmyra, Mo., was reared to 
womanhood and educated in this city. Onr sub- 
ject and wife have one child, whom they have 
named Arderv. 



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HRISTIAN T. GAUGH, who served in the 

late war with honor, is a contracting 
ifj painter and successful business man of St. 
.1 ph. Buchanan County. He was born in Fay- 
ette County, Pa., September 25, 1884. His pater- 
nal grandfather was a native of the Keystone 
Stale, and of Scotch descent. Our subject's fa- 
ther, .John Gaugh, was born in Washington Coun- 
ty, Pa., and was one of the pioneers of Crawford 
County, settling in the wilderness some three miles 
from the Ohio line, where he cleared one hundred 
and sixty acres and there resided until his death. 
lie was Justice of the Peace for twenty years and 
a member of the Presbyterian Church. He died 
in 1852, aged seventy-seven years. Our subject's 
mother, Esther (Given) Gaugh, was born in the 
northern part of Ireland, and was brought up as a 
Scotch-Presbyterian. Her death occurred in 1 8(57. 
at which time she had attained the good old age 
of eighty-five years. She was the mother of 
twelve children, of whom eight grew to mature 
years. Of this large circle, only three are now 
living. 

When only two years old our subject was taken 
to Crawford County and was brought up on the 
farm. He attended the pioneer log schoolhouse 
and there obtained a limited education. When 
sixteen years old Ik- was apprenticed as a painter 
and carriage-maker in Hart-town, Pa., for four 
years, and received an average of a shilling per 



daj and his board, but clothed himself for that 
length of lime. For a while lie worked by the 
piece for his old employer and then with a part- 
ner started a shop at .lame-town. Pa. For some 

year- he continued at his trade and then went to 
Newport. Ky., where he engaged in house-paint- 
ing, following that occupation for one year. His 
next move was to Rock Island, III., and in the 
fall of l«."it; he located in Sioux City. Iowa. 

Ill the spring of 1861 Mr. ( laugh enlisted in 
Company I. Seventh Iowa Cavalry, being sent out 
on the plains under Gen. Sully. The members of 
this company furnished their own horses and 
were honored in being selected by their general 
as his body-guard. Mr. Gaugh was soon made 
acting hospital steward, and after eighteen months 
of such service the old surgeon found out that he 
could bake, he having learned when a boy. Conse- 
quently he was detailed as baker at the Sioux City 
hospital, and afterward was removed to Laramie, 
lie remained in the service until his three years 
of enlistment were up. and he was then honorably 
discharged. 

Mr. Gaugh came to St. Joseph in the spring of 
1865, and purchased a lot, on which he built a 
house and commenced obtaining contracts for 
painting. About 1880 he took in hi- second -on 
as partner, the firm being known as C. T. Gaugh 
& Son. The Office is located at No. Ii<l7 Fran CIS 
Street, and they control a great part of the trade 
of the city. 

In July, 1847, in Crawford County, Pa., was 
celebrated tin- marriage of Mr. Gaugh and Sarah 
C. Henry. She died in this city in June. |ss7. 
after having been her husband's companion and 
helpmeet for forty years along the journey of 
life. She was the mother of the following chil- 
dren: Mary, who died at the age of four years; 
Dr. Marquis Alexander, a graduate of the St. Jo- 
seph Medical College and a practicing physician 
at Clearmont. Mo.; John <>.. our subject's partner; 
Dr. William 1 1., a graduate of St. Joseph Medical 
College, who is now practicing in Worthington. 
Minn.; and Ida (deceased), wife of A. M. Brown. 
Afterward Miss Carrie M. Paul became the wife 
of Mr. Gaugh. The lady was born in the Green 
Mountain State. 



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In the year 1 M .") 7 our subject had some trouble 
in regard to land in Bloomington, 111. He went 
there to see about it, and, as he was a stranger, 
inquired of various people what lawyer he should 
get to plead his case. As with one accord, they 
all replied: "If possible, secure the services of 
'Honest Old Abe.' " Mr. Gaugh followed their 
advice and employed him. From that time he 
was a personal friend of the lawyer, and when he 
was nominated for President it is needless to say 
he received the warm support of our subject. Mr. 
Gaugh belongs to Custer Post, G. A. R., and is a 
member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. 
He is a member of the Westminister Presbyterian 
Church, and at one time was an Elder. In politics 
he has always been identified with the Republican 
party since its organization. 



APT. MICHEAL M. KANE is Chief of 
_, the Fire Department and is deserving of 

iJ/J great credit for the fine system of protec- 
tion from fires which is so generally commended 
in St. Joseph. Since 1879 Mr. Kane has been con- 
nected in some capacity with this department, but 
at that time the city was furnished with only two 
stations. As the city has increased in population 
and building enterprises have been advanced in all 
portions, it lias been found necessary to have ad- 
ditional protection, and they now have nine well- 
equipped fire engine stations, employing forty-four 
men, twenty-three of whom have been added since 
our subject was made Chief. He has also two as- 
sistants and has a wide field of supervision. He 
keeps well posted on the modern methods of cop- 
ing with fire and has made a special study of Chi- 
cago's provisions for fire protection. 

Mr. Kane was born in Cole County, Mo., August 
15, 1855, and is a son of James and Mary (Burke) 
Kane. The parents were both natives of County 
Tipperary, Ireland, and emigrated to America 
when young. The former was foreman of the 



building of tunnels on the Missouri Pacific near 
Jefferson City for some time, and in the fall of 
1856 came to St. Joseph, where he engaged in 
steamboating on the Missouri River for some years, 
and later engaged in teaming and freighting until 
shortly before his death, which occurred in April, 
1888, he having reached the age of seventy-three 
years. Our subject's mother died in 1878, leav- 
ing a family of seven children, all but one of 
whom are yet surviving. 

Mr. Kane, who is the eldest- of the family, re- 
ceived a good education in the public schools and 
attended the Christian Brothers' College at St. 
Joseph. He early commenced to make his own 
way in the world, and worked in a brick-yard un- 
til 1871. He was apprenticed to Charles Sher- 
wood, Jr., to learn the drug business, but at the 
end of three years he found it too confining and 
therefore entered the employ of F. L. Sommers & 
Co., cracker manufacturers, continuing with that 
firm until April, 187'.», at which time he first be- 
came connected with the tire department, being 
engaged as a substitute. So faithfully did he per- 
form his duties that he was retained in service, 
and at the end of eighteen months was made fore- 
man of one of the two existing companies. In 
1882 he received an appointment as Assistant 
Chief from Capt. Posegate, who was Mayor at that 
time. In that capacity he acted for three years, 
and was then raised to the rank of Chief of the 
Department by II. R. W. Ilartwig. 

About this time it was considered, and justly 
too, that politics should not enter into the ques- 
tion of appointments, and since that time all has 
been left in the hands of the Chief, who is, of 
course, in a position to know better than the out- 
side public the men who are qualified to till 
higher positions. In 1885. when Mr. Kane as- 
sumed charge as Chief, there were four stations 
only in the city, since which time he has been ac- 
tive in securing much additional protection and 
has more than doubled the number of stations. 
lie takes great pride in the efficiency of this de- 
partment, which is so largely under his control, 
and which he has year by year drilled, until it has 
now become one of the best in the Western cities. 

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was formerly a Director and is still a stockholder. 
He also owns interest in different building and loan 
associations, is a member of the Ancient Order of 
United Workmen and of the Sherman Chili. 1 1 < • i - 
at present First Vice-president, and on the Execu- 
tive Committee, of the Association of Chief Engi- 
neers, anil attends the meetings of the associa- 
tions every year, in 1891 going to their conven- 
tion in Detroit, and the following year to Louis- 
ville, Ivy. Our subject is a Democrat, and is a 
member of the Catholic Chinch, attending the 
Cathedral. 



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SCAR MEYER, Chief Clerk in the office of 
the Ticket Auditor of the Burlington Route 
in Missouri, is a native of St. Joseph, where 
his entire life has thus far been passed. Although 
he occupies a position of honor and responsibility, 
he is still on the sunny side of life's prime, having 
been horn August 11, lKi!7. His paternal ances- 
tors for many generations were natives of Ger- 
many, where his father, Leopold Meyer, learned 
the trade of a carpenter. Emigrating from the 
Fatherland to the New World, he found here the 
prosperity for which he had hoped. 

While at Muscatine, Iowa, Mr. Meyer married 
Christine Aller, who, like himself, was a native of 
Germany. About 1 8. r >9 he came to St. Joseph and 
located in that part of the city known as Willow 
Grove. Most of his time was devoted to his trade. 
The price of his real estate advancing, he sold 
some lots at handsome prices, and upon other lots 
erected stuns and residences, from the rental of 
which he derives a large income. Now retired 
from active business cares, he makes his home in 
his pleasant residence at No. ">1 I Mitchell Avenue. 

The parental family consisted of six sons and 
four daughters, of whom there are now living live 
SOIIS and two daughters. Oscar, the lifth in order 
of birth, was reared in Willow Grove, now the site 
of the Union Depot in St. Joseph. He attended 
the common schools of the city and in the fall of 



1888, when sixteen years old, secured a position as 

clerk in the store-keeper's department of the Kan- 
sas City office. In November, 1885, he was made 

Clerk in the Ticket Auditor's office and retained 
that position after the consolidation of the Kansas 
City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs Railroad with the 
Hannibal & St. Joseph. In 1887 he accepted the 
position of Division Clerk, and three years after- 
ward was appointed Chief Clerk iii the office of 
the Ticket Auditor. Upon the consolidation of 
the Missouri Lines in May, 1*'.I2, he was asked to 
occupy the position hitherto held under the new 
administration. His services are valued by the 
company, and his honorable methods of transact- 
ing business, as well as his genial courtesy, have 
won for him the friendship of the general public. 
He has the general supervision of eighteen clerks 
in his department. 

While Mr. Meyer's interests are naturally cen- 
tered in his business, he nevertheless devotes eon- 
sideiable attention to matters pertaining to the 
public weal, and takes an intelligent interest in 
questions of general importance. In his political 
sympathies he is a Republican, and is unwavering 
in his allegiance to the principles for which that 
party stands. He is a welcome and honored guest 
in the best homes of St. Joseph, and prominent in 
the social circles of the community. 



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HARLES F. STROP. Among the prominent 
_ young attorneys of St. Joseph, Buchanan 
W County, is he whose name heads this sketch. 
He is a member of the firm of Spencer & Strop, is 
a graduate of the Department of Law in the Uni- 
versity Of Missouri, and also the Columbia Law 
College, in New York City. He is a bright and ag- 
gressive young lawyer, who is hound to achieve 
distinguished success in his profession, lie is 
prominent in Democratic political circles, having 

been Chairman of the County Central Committee for 

two years, prior to which time he was Secretary of 



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the City Committee. lie has had the honor of be- 
ing sent as a delegate to every city and county 
convention of late years, and has also attended the 
State conventions. In 1888 he was nominated for 
Representative to the State Legislature from the 
Second District, but was disqualified on account of 
his age. 

Charles Strop, who for one of his years has ac- 
complished so much, was born February 20, 1868, 
in St. Joseph. His boyhood and youth were spent 
in this city, where he received a good education, 
graduating from the High School at the age of six- 
teen years. He then pursued a course of study in 
the University of Missouri, graduating from the 
Law Department in 1886. He next read law with 
Green & Burnes, and believing that further thor- 
ough college work would be beneficial, he entered 
the famed Columbia College of Law in New York. 
In 1888 he received the degrecof LL. B., and since 
his return to St. Joseph has been engaged in active 
practice. He was first a member of the firm of 
Strop & Duncan. In 189(1 they dissolved partner- 
ship and our subject became a partner of R. L. 
Spencer. 

In November, 1891, Miss Mary Sampson became 
the wife of our subject. Mrs. Strop was born in 
( lentry County, Mo., received superior educational 
advantages in this city, and is a lady possessing 
those amiable qualities which endear her to all who 
have the pleasure of making her acquaintance. 
Fraternally Mr. Strop is a member of Eclipse 
Lodge No. 143, I. O. O. F.; of Hesperion En- 
campment, I. O. O. F.; and of the Ancient Order of 
United Workmen. He also belongs to the Knights 
of Pythias, and is a charter member of Missouri 
Lodge No. 189)!, Modern Woodmen of America. 



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II1LLIP IIEUSCIIELE is a florist, having his 
St. Joseph office at the corner of Fifteenth 
and Ilolman Streets. For some time past 
he has owned two blocks, Nos. 26 and 27, in 
Highly Addition. This is only a short distance 
north of Mt. Mora Cemetery. Here lie has five glass- 



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covered greenhouses, four of them being 16x75, 
and one 4(tx7"> feet in dimensions, thus making 
the buildings cover fifty-one hundred square feet. 
They are all heated with modern steam appliances, 
and arranged in the most practical manner. The 
trade in this branch of business is rapidly growing 
in this city, and each year our subject has found 
the demand much more than equal to the supply. 

Our subject was born in the southern part of 
Germany, May 20, 1832, and passed his boyhood 
and youth in his native land. He was well edu- 
cated in his mother tongue, and on reading ac- 
counts of the opportunities afforded to a young 
man of enterprise and ambition not onlj - to make 
a good livelihood, but oftentimes a fortune in the 
United States, he concluded to cast in his lot with 
the inhabitants of this favored land. Accordingly, 
he left home and sailed for the United States in 
1846, landing in New York City. His parents, 
who are both quite advanced in years, still live in 
their home in that metropolis. 

In 1865 our subject came to St. Joseph, and in 
1889 opened his present greenhouses, 'commencing 
business, however, on a small scale, with only a 
couple of hot beds. At the end of the 3'ear Mr. 
Heuschele's plant was entirely burned, and as the 
owner had no insurance upon it, he lost everything 
he had invested. This necessitated his beginning 
again at the bottom round of the ladder, but he 
was not easily discouraged, and it was not long ere 
he was again on his feet. He had owned for some 
time the property above mentioned in the Highly 
Addition, and on this he proceeded to construct 
greenhouses and carry on his business. 

Floriculture is peculiarly delightful and inviting 
to one who is a lover of nature, and it has been 
often remarked that there are few men who have 
not at least, this one touch of tenderness in their 
constitution — that they admire and love (lowers- 
Very often even the hardest eonvict is touched 
by the gift of a flower, and who can tell what 
pleasure comes to those on beds of pain from the 
beauty and fragrance of a few simple flowers? In 
short, the love of flowers and plants always be- 
speaks traces of the Divine Nature, ready for 
awakening in the most perverted soul. In Mr. 
Heuschele we see a gentleman who is enthusiastic 








RESIDENCE, TENANT-HOUSES AND GREEN-HOUSES OF PHILLIP HEU5CHELE,1S^&H0LMAN ST?. 

ST. JOSEPH , MO. 




RESIDENCE OF WILLIAM WIDMAN,KING HILL ROAD, ST. JOSEPH , MO. 



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in bis work. lit- is. however, ool onlj an enthu- 
siast, lnii a practical business man, who has Bhown 
great ability in successfully managing his enter- 
prises. His clone and constant attention i- given 
tn superintending the work, and In 1 also gives em- 
ployment to two men. 

When lie was twenty-two years old, Mr. Heu- 
schele married in New York ( ' i i \ Miss Erederika 
Unkel. To them have been born six children, five 
sons and a daughter. In the order of their birth 
they are as follows: Charles, who is a druggist of 
this city; William, who is in the employ of Van 
Natta a Co.; I >tto; Frank, who is a fireman on the 
Maple Leaf Railroad; Emma, who is a dressmaker 
in the employ of Townsend, Wyatt & Emery; and 
Oscar, who is attending school. 



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<« > 1I.I.1AM WIDMAX is beautifully and com- 
\rJ/l fortably located in St. Joseph, where he is 
yj^S engaged largely and profitably in fruit- 
growing and market-gardening on the King Hill 
road in this city. I lis grandfather, George G. 
Widman, was born in Germany, where he was a 
prominent wine-grower. The father of our sub- 
ject was also of German birth, bore the name of 
Gotleib, and, like his father, was a wine-grower, 
and came to America soon after the Revolutionary 
War. At the time gold was discovered in Cali- 
fornia and the people lost all thoughts of any- 
thing save the finding of that treasure, his busi- 
ness amounted to apparently nothing, so he went 
to Ohio, and located in Utopia, Clermont County, 
where he engaged in his former occupation of 
fruit-growing, and tried to make a home for his 
family. The cold hand of Death was laid upon 
him before he had accomplished his desire, and his 
wife, Caroline, died in Germany sume time after- 
ward, Leaving a large family of ten children, all 
of whom grew to mature years, and eight >>( whom 
are living. Out of this family of children, three 
brothers and two sisters have made America their 
home. 



William Widman was born in the Old Counlix 
at Stuttgart, Wurtemberg, December 16, 1848. 
When a lad he attended school a portion Of tin' 
time and assisted his father mi the farm, acquiring 
great knowledge and skill in the ait of fruit-grow- 
ing. When nineteen years of age he emigrated to 
America, leaving Hamburg in the fall of 1867 by 
the steamer "Germania." When half way oyer, an 
accident occurred which caused them tn lay overal 
Southampton for a little time, after which they re- 
sumed their voyage, arriving in New York Harbor 
just thirty-seven days after Starting. Immediately 
on landing in the United States, Mr. Widman went 
to Cincinnati. Ohio, thence to the home of his 
uncle in Clermont County, where he worked in a 
vineyard for two years, and in l«(i;t came to St. 
Joseph, where he was at once employed at his 
trade, although not so extensively as when with 
his uncle. His vineyard comprised thirty acre- of 
well-kept vines. 

After working for a time for other people, Mr. 
Widman found means of renting sonic land, and 
engaged in gardening, subsequently locating on 
Ballwin, between the lake and river-bottom, taking 
great precaution during the grasshopper year. To 
guard his fruit against the ravages of this trouble- 
some insect, he built a smooth, slanting light fence, 
which served him so well that his crops \ ielded him 
■Si ,500 clear. He continued renting until 1876, when 
he bought his present farm of twenty-six acres for 
12,300. Not being able to pay cash down fur this 
land, our subject labored hard and constantly in 
order to pay the interest that seemed to accumu- 
late very rapidly, but by skillful management and 
industry, he finally cleared the indebtedness, and 
has so improved the land as to make it one of the 
must valuable estates in Missouri. 

Mr. Widman devotes eight acres of his land to 
the cultivation of different varieties of grapes, some 
of which are manufactured into wine. He has also 
eight acres of apple orchard and s( raw bcii\ \ inc>. 
which produce in large quantities at all seasons of 
the year. He keeps in his employ five men, has a 
large windmill and tank with a capacity of one 
hundred and thirty barrels, with pipes thirty feet 
high, which enable him to keep his fruit well 
moistened and in line condition. Our subject has 



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lately built one of the finest residences in the city, 
and owns two of the most beautiful and valuable 
horses, for which he has been offered $600, and 
which mark the owner as the possessor of one of 
the most stylish outfits in the city. He is Vice- 
president and a stockholder in the King Hill Brick 
Manufacturing Company, in which he has dis- 
charged his duties faithfully and satisfactorily to 
all concerned. 

Mr. Widman was united in marriage, in this city, 
with Miss Barbara Ming, a native of Ruethanback, 
Wurtemberg, who came to St. Joseph with her par- 
ents when twelve years of age. This amiable lady 
has borne her husband one child, Reuben, who is 
at home. Socially, Mr. Widman is a member of 
the Red Men of the Minnehaha Tribe, and of the 
Druids of Wallahalla Grove, and is also Vice-pres- 
ident of the St. Joseph Schwabenvereins. Politi- 
cally, he is a stanch Republican. In 1881, Mr. 
and Mrs. Widman went on a trip to their native 
land, Germany, where they spent a happy three 
months or more, visiting relatives and friends, 
and in 1891 the former made a second voyage 
along with his brother to the scenes of his child- 
hood. 




KRT MARTIN, manager and treasurer of 
the Eden Musee Company in St. Joseph, is 
a bright and able business man, and has 
^^V made the Musee a success and a very popu- 
lar means of entertainment by introducing the 
lust talent and specialists he could secure. On 
Friday, which is called Ladies' Day, he makes it 
a point to give out pretty and useful souvenirs, 
and in other ways has won the good-will of the 
populace. Mr. Martin was born near Plymouth, 
Ind., on the banks of the Maxon Cucky, a beauti- 
ful resort. The date of that event was August 14, 
1859. His father, Samuel, and his grandfather, 
who also bore the same Christian name, were both 
natives of Lancaster, l'a., and of German descent. 
The grandfather died there when his son Samuel 
was only seven years of age, and some time after 



his wife brought the family to Ohio, where she 
reared her children. She afterward married Peter 
Dreibelbis and removed to a place near South Bend, 
Ind. By each union there were born four children. 

Our subject's father was a shoemaker by occupa- 
tion, and was united in marriage at Lake Maxon 
Cucky with Miss Margaret Blakely, a native of the 
place, and a daughter of Robert Blakely, who was 
one of the early settlers and farmers in Vienna. 
He was a general merchant, Postmaster and Justice 
of the Peace. In 1863 he removed to Iowa City, 
Iowa, and traveled for Borland Brothers until 1874, 
when, going to Bartlett, Iowa, he kept hotel for 
four years. In 1878 he settled at Tabor, in the 
same State, where he is still living and is a Justice 
of the Peace, though nearly ninety years of age. 

After his marriage Mr. Martin engaged in farm- 
ing for some time, and then, selling out, located at 
Plymouth, where he engaged in the retail shoe 
business until 1863, when he removed to Iowa City. 
Iowa, and there engaged in the same line of trade 
for five years, later representing the Borland 
Pump Factory and traveling through the State 
and vicinity. Leaving that occupation, he next 
entered the insurance business as an agent for 
both fire and life insurance companies. For eigh- 
teen years succeeding this he was a salesman on the 
road for (4. W. Marquardt, and in 1886 removed 
to Minneapolis, Minn., engaging as a salesman for 
a Minneapolis house. He is an expert as an agent, 
and a man of good business tact and ability. He 
is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 

Our subject is the eldest in a family comprising 
two sons and two daughters. William C. is now in 
Galveston, Tex., a dealer in real estate and a suc- 
cessful business man; Etta, Mrs. Blython, resides 
in Minneapolis; Lillie M.. who lives at home, is 
Secretary of the Minneapolis Library; and Mr. 
Martin, of this sketch, was reared in Iowa City. 
He attended the High School in his early youth, 
working on a farm and in his father's store. No- 
vember 16, 1875, he joined Daniel Morris Sulli- 
van's "Mirror of Ireland" as assistant advertising 
agent, and came to St. Joseph in November, trav- 
eling with the company until April of the follow- 
ing year, the season closing in Chicago. 

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Dreibelbis for two n ths and then returned to 

[owa City, where, m the fall, be joined Prof. Mar- 
ini". the magician, and traveled with him tor 
three months. Then returning home and remain- 
ing a \ear In Imvn City, he went toCouncil Bluffs 
in 1878 and worked in the Pacific Express office 
at the Union Depot for five months. Going to 
T:il>or he was there located for three months, when, 
on account of sickness, he returned home. In 
1870 he went to Luverne, Minn., being employed 
in an elevator for two months. About this time 
Daniel Morris Sullivan's company passed through 
the place, and Mr. Martin entered his emplo\ as 

assistant agent, going all through the West as fai- 
ns the Pacific Coast, where be spent six months. 

In October, 1881, Mr. Martin made his debut on 
the stage at Chico, Red Bluff County. Cal., in the 

character of simple Simon, his principal role being 
that of facial expression. He was also the stage 
machinist, and on closing out his engagement at 
Des Moines, Iowa, March 2, 1882, went home for 
a month's rest. In April he joined a company in 
Chicago, the season being opened in Hershey 
Music Hall. The company then proceeded to In- 
diana and Michigan, closing in Grand Haven July 
10. After a vacation of about two months, when 
he made a trip to his birthplace and viewed the 
scenes of his youth, lie joined this present, organi- 
zation in August, opening the season at Iiaum's 
Pavilion, Chicago, where he was for two weeks, and 
then proceeded to the Western states. Wisconsin, 
Minnesota. Dakota. Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and 
Missouri, closing the season in Joplin February 
18, 1883. Going to Kansas City he became an 
employe of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, 
and was a brakeman between Kansas City and 
Omaha for three months. He next went on the 
road with his father, traveling until September, 
1883, when he went to Chicago and joined Car- 
ter's "Mirror of Krin" and procemled East as far 
as Alloona. Pa., returning to Chicago in October 
Ol the same year. 

Soon after his arrival in the Garden City Mr. 
Martin was married to Miss Clara Drew, who was 
born in Concord. N. II.. and whose father. A si 1.., 
was professor of music in the schools of that place. 
Mrs. Martin was educated in her native town. anil 



was a favored pupil of Carlisle Petersilea, of Bos- 
ton, a wonderful performer on the piano, who wag 
with Mendelssohn and played his accompaniments. 

Alter his marriage, Mr. Martin, in company with 
Bryan 0* Lynn, started out with the "Mirror of 
Ireland" Company, going as far Wesl as Hast- 
ings. Neb., where the season was closed in .lanuar J 
of 1884. He proceeded to Kansas City and went 
to Keeler'S Museum, his wife playing on tin- piano 
and he acting as a lecturer. 

In July Mi-. Martin went to Concord. N. II.. 
and after a short vacation was for two weeks iii 
Paterson. N. J., in the Musee, thence going to 
Pittsburgh. Pa., where he was in the Museum. After 
two weeks spent in Steuben ville, Ohio, he joined 
Mrs. Tom Thumb and company at Newark, with 
whom he traveled until December. Returning to 
Concord, N. H., he opened a museum at the Aus- 
tin House, Boston, for a short time, then going to 
Providence, and in May joined Dr. Hartley's 
Medical Company in Buffalo. Returning to Chi- 
cago on November 1, 1XH.~>, he was lecturer in Ep- 
stein's Museum on Randolph Street, his wife be- 
ing pianist, until July, 1889, when he went to 
Minneapolis, and was for a year brakeman on the 
Minneapolis A- St. Louis Railroad, going from Lake 
Miniietonka. 

Returning to Chicago Mr. Martin was stage 
manager and lecturer at Epstein's Museum until 
1890, when he went out on the road with Dr. Bel- 
mont's circus, but at the end of four week- re- 
turned to the Garden City, joining Goress' Con- 
cert and Medicine Company, and was fifteen weeks 
in Chicago. Mr. Martin was both manager and 
performer, and took the company to South Omaha, 
where he Tilled an engagement of two weeks, ami 
then went to Denver. He played on the stage in 
J. Sackett 's Musee until January Hi. 1891, when 
he was appointed manager of the Eden Musee in 
St. Joseph, and has held that position ever since. 
In June of that year lie was made Treasurer, and 
has been responsible for much of the SUCCeSSOf the 
concern, lie has a large acquaintance in the the- 
atrical profession, and makes it a point to have 
better performers than are found in the large cities. 

In October, 1890, Mr. Martin was married for 
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his wife. She was born in Seymour, Wis., her fa- 
ther being a farmer and early settler of that State, 
and a veteran of the late war. Mrs. Martin is a 
member of the Catholic Church, and was reared 
to womanhood in her native town. Our subject 
is a member of John White Lodge, I. O. O. F., 
of Indianapolis; is a member of Damon Lodge No. 
3, K. P., of Minneapolis; and of Chicago Lodge 
No. 4, B. P. O. E. In politics he is a stanch Re- 
publican. 




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ISS MARIE SWENSON. The most fash- 
ionable boarding house in St. Joseph is 
" The Arlington," which is located at No. 
613 North Fifth Street, in the most aristo- 
cratic part of the city. Its guests are people of 
wealth and social standing, who find here all the 
comforts of home life and the pleasures to be de- 
rived from congenial society. The proprietor, 
Miss Marie Swenson, is one of the prominent resi- 
dents of the city, and is a lady who combines to 
an unusual degree a rare amount of executive 
ability with the utmost culture and cordiality. 

A native of Stockholm, Sweden, Miss Swenson 
is the daughter of Swen and Lizzie (Oleson) Swen- 
son, who were likewise born in Sweden. The 
paternal grandfather was a wealthy farmer and a 
man of influence in his community. Her father 
resided for a time in Stockholm, whence he emi- 
grated in 1872 to America, making the vo3 T age by 
steamer to Hull, thence to Liverpool, and from that 
city via the steamer " City of Washington " to 
New York. His wife having died previous to his 
departure from Sweden, he was accompanied on 
his trip to this country by his four daughters. 
After landing at New York, the family proceeded 
directly westward to .Missouri, and established a 
home in St. Joseph. The father still makes his 
home in this city, but some time since he retired 
from the cares incident to business, and now lives 
with his daughter, Miss Marie. 

The family of which Miss Swenson is a member 



consisted of six children, five of whom survived 
until maturity. The second in order of birth is 
Marie, who was reared in Stockholm, where she 
gained a practical common-school education. Later 
she learned the trade of a seamstress, at which she 
found employment for four years after coming to 
America. She then originated the idea which has 
found development in " The Arlington," as her 
home is usually called. Her friends are among the 
most select society people of St. Joseph, and she is 
everywhere honored for her perseverance and 
courage in spite of the adverse circumstances by 
which in former years she was surrounded. As 
the result of her efforts, she is now the owner of a 
fine residence block on the corner of Eighth and 
Robidoux Streets, and other valuable real estate. 
Her contributions to all charitable and worthy 
enterprises are liberal, and she is especially active 
and generous in the support of the First Presby- 
terian Church, of which she is a member. She is 
identified with the Ladies' Missionary Society in 
that denomination, and her efforts in behalf of 
that organization have been unceasing through 
the entire period of her connection with it. 



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ir^BADIAII MARTIN SPENCER. The biog- 
rapher is doing posterity a valuable service 
when he draws a faithful pen picture of such 
men as Obadiah Martin Spencer. The Spencer 
family were in the highest conception of the term 
the salt of the earth, and whilst a few of them yet 
survive, who, by their lofty character and worthy 
example to younger men, are an honor and bless- 
ing to mankind, the heroic class of which they are 
the lingering representatives will soon pass away 
altogether, to return no more. But so long as the 
New World retains its progressive spirit, its high 
civilization, and its admiration for all that is grand 
and exalted in human character, their memory will 
be enshrined in the hearts of a grateful people, 
and their tombs will be approached with reveren- 
tial respect. The era that produced such manly men , 



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having rounded out its predestined course in crea- 
tion 'a purpose, 1 1 1 > w belongs to the ages. The neces- 
sity no longer exists for men of indomitable will, 
exalted integrity and untiring energy to act as an 
advance guard for future generations into a prom- 
ised El Dorado, that abounds with innumerable 
dangers and almost insurmountable obstacles, 
wherein unceasing toil, privation and rigid self- 
denial are Hie inevitable consequences. 

In fact, it is almost impossible for the present 
generation to understand and appreciate the ardu- 
ous struggles and the great selt sacrifice their par- 
ents and grandparents endured in order that their 
children might enjoy the blessingsof their fruitful 
labor. The splendid manhood of these sturdy pi- 
oneers, and the lofty virtues of their wives, is in- 
deed an inspiring theme for the historian, and the 
poet as well, who perpetuates their memory in un- 
dying song. One hundred years hence, the histor- 
ian will pay them a higher tribute than the writer 
of the present day, for the great deeds they per- 
formed will have crystallized, as it were, into a 
healthful and soulful picture, and their memory 
will be surrounded with a bright halo. 

Mr. Spencer was a conspicuous representative of 
this remarkable class of men, now fast becoming 
extinct, and in his useful and eventful life the 
value of honesty, industry, perseverance and econ- 
omy was vividly illustrated. The battle he fought 
with poverty, which was then the common lot of 
nearly every young man, was long and tedious, 
but he emerged from the contest victorious. The 
experience he had gone through with gave him a 
clear and comprehensive insight into theabyssmal 
deeps of personality, and instead of rendering him 
skeptical and permeating his mind with a worldly 
cynicism, his character was broadened and soft- 
ened, challenging the profound respect of all with 
whom he came in contact. 

With such a man as Mr. Spencer, uncompromis- 
ing integrity, perfect truth and a love of justice 
were inherent and abiding characteristics. To use 
a somewhat hackneyed, but extremely forcible, 
phrase, his word was always as good as his bond or 
note of hand, and wherever lie was known his 
credit was as good as the Hank of England, lor he 
was not a man who ever involved himself heed- 



lessly or recklessly in any kind of an enterprise. 
In him kindness, hospitality, integrity, truth and 
unaffected manliness wereso happily blended as to 

constitute in the highest degree what we now term 
■•a gentleman of the old school." 

A native of North Carolina, Mr. Spencer wag 
born August 23, 1809. At the age of twenty-one, 
he removed to Kentucky and settled in Lawrence 
County, where he married Miss Nancy Williams, 
also a native of North Carolina. In 1837 he re- 
moved to Missouri, ami after a short residence in 
Clay County he removed to the Platte Purchase 
and located on the northwest quarter of section 
33, township 55, range 35, which afterward became 
a part of Buchanan County. Not long afterward 
he traded his farm lor one on section 19, where he 
accumulated his fortune and reared his family. 

In 1870 Mr. Spencer removed to Leavenworth 
County, Kan., where he resided until his death, in 
1SS7. Ten children were bom to Mr. and Mrs. 
Spencer, five daughters and five sons, all of whom 
are alive and doing well in the world. Mrs. Spen- 
cer is a member in the best of standing of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, and Mr. Spencer was 
a consistent member of the Christian Church. Al- 
though a man of great ability and energy, he owed 
much of his success in life to his admirable wife, 
who was as much of a womanly woman as he was 
a manly man. Her good sense and judgment, and, 
above all, her rare devotion to her husband and 
her children, made the home life of the family at- 
tractive and contented, and stimulated them to 
emulate the highest human virtues. She yet lives 
to bless and encourage those for whom she has 
done such a noble part. 

Mr. Spencer possessed a fair education for those 
times, which he obtained through his individual 
efforts. He attended school altogether about two 
years, and although his education was Limited, it 
proved of great assistance to him in his business 
affairs, and was the groundwork of the intellectual 
attainments he afterward acquired through good 
reading and the personal observation of a keen 
and well-balanced mind. He used to tell his friends 
that his entire worldly possessions "hen became 
to Missouri consisted of the wearing apparel 
which his wile, himself and his one child wore, a 



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feather bed and quilt, and $60 in money. But lie 
went to work with a will, and twelve years after 
coming to the State was considered one of the 
wealthiest farmers in Buchanan County, his re- 
sources being estimated at about $o0,000, which in 
those days was regarded as a large fortune, and 
which lie had accumulated by his energy, industry 
and business capacity. 

In the '50s Mr. Spencer erected an extensive saw- 
mill upon one of his farms, and operated it in con- 
nection therewith. At the commencement of the 
Civil War he was the owner of one thousand acres 
of fine land, over twenty slaves, aud a large 
amount of live stock of different varieties. One of 
his especial characteristics was his fondness for trad- 
ing in all descriptions of property, but he took most 
delight in swapping horses, as much for the great 
shrewdness and humor that were developed in such 
barter as for the prospective gain. He was a man 
of marked natural ability and sound common-sense. 
He was quiet and gentle in his manners, brave in 
deed, and universally prompt in his engagements, 
and kind and indulgent to those who had become 
indebted to him. All who knew him were his 
friends, but he was especially respected by the poor, 
whom lie treated with the utmost consideration. 

It is strange, but true, that in all of his business 
transactions Mr. Spencer never had a difference 
with any one, as his agreements were so just and 
liberal and made so plain as to never be objected 
to or misunderstood. In no single instance was 
he ever in court, either as complainant or respond- 
ent, and he always endeavored to impress the ne- 
cessity for prompt and just dealing upon the 
minds of his children. Being Southern born and 
reared, Mr. Spencer took a prompt stand at the out- 
break of the war. He could not bear to have any 
of his sons tight against the Union, and was equally 
opposed to them lighting against the Southern 
people. With such views dominating his mind, on 
account of the great love he inspired in his sons, 
he was enabled to send the elder ones to Colorado 
on a business venture, while the younger remained 
at home and assisted the father and mother during 
the trying ordeal they passed through. 

A characteristic anecdote is often told, vividh 
illustrating the high regard for truth Mr. Speucei 



possessed. The Federal soldiers apprehended him 
one day and made him take an oath that lie would 
not harbor enemies of the Government, and would 
report those who came around his premises. One 
morning a company of Confederates rode up to his 
house and he at once ordered one of his negroes 
to saddle his horse. Upon being asked by a Con- 
federate where he was going, he replied that he 
was going to St. Joseph, where his oath required 
him to report on them. Both threats and expos- 
tulations were useless, aud report upon them he did 
as soon as he could reach the Union headquarters, 
although the pill was a bitter one for "Uncle 
Mart." An old friend of his used to say that there 
were not soldiers enough in both armies to make 
him violate the oath he had taken. 

Mr. Spencer left a race of sturdy men and wo- 
men behind him who have well sustained the envi- 
able reputation of their illustrious sire. He left 
an indelible impress upon the community wherein 
his life work was accomplished. 



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OBERT WILSON REA, M. D., a prosperous 
and highly successful physician and surgeon 
4i \V of Plattsburgh, Mo., is a native of the Stale, 
and is widely known as a skillful medical 
practitioner of superior ability and extended ex- 
perience. He was born in Savannah, Andrew 
County, Mo., December 16, 1860, and is a son of 
Hon. David Rea, an ex-member of Congress, the 
district he represented then including Clinton 
County. The father of our subject was elected 
to Congress first in 1874, and then in 1876, and 
was defeated in 1878 by the Hon. Nicholson Ford. 
The Hon. David Rea still makes his home in Sa- 
vannah, and though sixty-one years of age, is yet 
a practicing attorney. He came when a boy from 
Indiana to Platte County, and his father, Jona- 
than Rea, dying soon after the family located in 
Missouri, he became at a very youthful age the 
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and able man. he never enjoj'ed the benefit of a 
college course, but, mainly self-educated, won his 
w:iv stead ilj upward. 

Dr. Rea attended the University three and one- 
half years, being in the junior class, and then l >o- 
gan to teach in Andrew County, and was assist- 
ant in the High School Of Savannah before he was 
nineteen years old. lie road medicine with Dr. 
W. II. Bryant, <>ni' of the oldest and most experi- 
enced physicians in this part of the State, and 
graduated from the Missouri Medical College 
March 1. 1885. Soon after completing his studies, 
he received from President Cleveland the appoint- 
ment of Superintendent of the Medical Depart- 
ment of the Northwest Indian Agencies, and was 
thi' United States Indian Doctor to the Chippewas 
of northern Minnesota, with headquarters at 
White Earth. For three and a-half years Dr. Rea 
visited all the Indian reservations in the district 
and had general supervision of medical stores. 
In April. 1889 Dr. Rea resigned his position, and 
tin' Indian chiefs sent a petition to the Secretary 
Of the Interior asking him to re-appoint our sub- 
ject to his former duties, clearly demonstrating 
their full confidence in his ability as a physician 
and surgeon. But Dr. Rea had become dissatis- 
fied ami desired to settle down. He was physician 
for the Drexel sisters, of Philadelphia, and Bishop 
O'Connor at Red Lake, and together with them he 
made the town of the Chippewas, when they es- 
tablished the schools at the Red Lake reservation. 
During his sojourn in the Northwest. Dr. Rea 
learned the Chippewa language, and sometimes 
made long trips of one hundred miles in a day. 
He lived one winter in a tepee on the north shore 
of the Lake of the Woods, and made his profes- 
sional trips traveling by dog-teams. 1 n the early 
part of 1889 Dr. Rea returned to the home of his 
father, and upon June 19 of the same year was 
united in marriage to Miss Lulu Do Berry, sister 
of Dr. De Berry, and a native of Platte County. 
Dr. Rea and his wife located in Plattsburgh in 1890, 
since which time our subject has devoted himself 
to professional duties, and has already acquired an 
excellent and rapidly increasing practice. Dr. 
Rea is a valued member of the Knights of Pythias, 
being Past Chancellor Commander of Lilly Lodge 



No. 144, and is District Deputy. As a native Missou- 

rian. he possesses nn extended acquaintance 
throughout this portion of the Stale, and has 
from early youth been closely identified with the 
best interests of his home neighborhood and local- 
ity. In Plattsburgh he is recognized as a progress- 
ive citizen of talent and ability. 



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OlIN ('. KNEER is junior member of the 
firm of William Kneer. manufacturing con- 
fectioners of st. Joseph, Buchanan County, 

\i/' Then' is no country in the world when so 
much confectionery is consumed as in the United 
Stales, and there is no house in this city which en- 
joys so en viable a reputation for superior g Is 

as the one we have just mentioned. The business 
was established twenty years ago by our subject's 
father. The latter was born in Germany, and 
when twenty years of age he crossed the Atlantic 
and proceeded to St. Louis. In 1853 he cane to 
St. Joseph, and after learning the confectioner's 
business established a manufactory on Main 
Street. He afterward removed to the corner of 
Felix and Edmond Streets, and was so successful 
that he finally embarked in the wholesale business. 
He was a pioneer in this branch of trade in the 
West. His death occurred May 2, 1890, at the 
age of sixty-three years. 

The mother of our subject, whose maiden name 
was Caroline Vegely, was bom in Alsace. France. 
She came to St. Joseph, in which city she was mar- 
ried. Her sis children are all living. They are 
as follows: William, a resident of Idaho; Joseph, 
a musician of this city ; Moliie. wife of Theodore 
Stinacker, a resident of St. Joseph; Emma, wife of 
William Kershaw, of Birmingham, England; Car- 
rie, and our subject. The mother is still living at 
the old family residence. No. 1"'-' North Eighth 
Street 

John C. Kneer was born in St. Joseph, January 

■>1. 1869, and alter receiving a public-school edu- 
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father. From the time he was fifteen years old 
he was in charge of the office, and in 1890, just 
before his father's death, he was made a partner 
in the firm. The building occupied by this con- 
fectionery house is at No. Ill South Fourth 
Street. It is 20x120 feet in dimensions and is a 
three-story and basement brick, provided with 
every convenience and facility for their manu- 
facturing purposes. Fifteen experienced candy- 
makers are employed in the establishment, and five 
traveling men represent the house on the road. 
All kinds of first-class confectioneries are here 
manufactured, including caramels, chocolates and 
French goods. A large stock is always carried, and 
all goods sold are fully guaranteed as represented. 
As only pure sugars and genuine fruit flavors are 
used, the confectionery made by this firm is al- 
ways in demand. 

Like his father before him, Mr. Kneer is a loy- 
al supporter of the Republican party. He belongs 
to Lodge No. 25, II. C. T. lie is well known 
throughout this section and highly esteemed for 
his enterprise and public spirit. He is a practical 
and rising young business man, and has recently 
very materially improved his establishment and 
operations. 



aHARLKS N. BURNHAM, editor and pub- 
lisher of the Cameron Daily and Weekly 
' Observer, is a native of New York State, 
having been born in Jamestown, Chautauqua 
County, May 11, 18.57. In his boyhood heat- 
tended the common schools of his district, where 
he gained a practical education. At the age of 
fourteen he accepted the position of printer's devil 
on the Chautauqua (N. Y.) Democrat, and with the 
exception of two years spent on a farm and three 
years in the Union army in the War of the Rebel- 
lion, has followed the printing business since that 
time. 



Upon the breaking out of the Civil War, Mr. 
Burnham enlisted under President Lincoln's call 
for seventy-five thousand volunteers, and was as- 
signed to Company H, Tenth Pennsylvania Re- 
serve Volunteer Corps, in which he served over 
three years in the Army of the Potomac, parti- 
cipating in nearly all the great engagements of 
that army, under Gens. McClellan, Pope, Burnside, 
Hooker and Grant, He passed through the ser- 
vice without receiving wounds, but was subse- 
quently captured by the enemy at the battle of 
Fredericksburg, December 13, 18G2, and was com- 
pelled to spend a few months in Confederate pri- 
sons. At the expiration of his term of service he 
was honorably discharged at Pittsburgh, Pa. 

December 28, 1864, Mr. Burnham was united in 
marriage with Miss Mary A. Carpenter, at Busti, 
N. Y. Mrs. Burnham is a native of Erie County, 
Pa., born May G, 1843, and is a lady of superior 
intelligence and culture. Being on a visit to 
Washington, Mr. and Mrs. Burnham were in the 
audience at Ford's Theatre at the time President 
Lincoln was assassinated, and were seated where 
they witnessed Booth's leap from the President's 
box to the stage. They heard the shot and experi- 
enced all the excitement accompanying the act. 

In 1871 Mr. Burnham came West to Missouri, 
and, settling in Cameron, bought the printing ma- 
terial of the Observer and resumed the publication 
of that journal, which had been suspended several 
weeks prior to that time. The Observer has never 
missed an issue since passing into his hands and 
has become an influential paper. From year to 
year he has made valuabe improvements, and in 
March, 1892, added a daily issue, which promises 
to become one of the leading dailies of that part 
of Missouri. In 1889 he was appointed Post- 
master at Cameron and holds that position at the 
present lime (January, 1893), his commission not 
expiring until December 21, 1893. Socially, he is 
a member of the Masonic fraternity, the Order of 
Knights of Pythias, and the Grand Army of the 
Republic, being a Past Commander in the latter 
organization. lie and his wife are the parents of 
twin daughters, Netta and Nella, born January 9, 
1867, the former of whom was united in marriage 
with Dr. E. K. Shaw June 23, 1892. 




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fILLIAM M M M'M'.V is one of the Lead 
ing merchants and is Postmaster in the 
village of Platte River, Buohanan County. 
He was born in Adair County, K\., May 
21, lSL'l, and was the second in a family of ten 
children whose parents were John and Elizabeth 
A. (Fogett) Matney, the father a native of Queen 
Anne's County, Mil., and the mother of Virginia. 
•lames A., our subject's oldest brother, who had 
served in many county ami state official capacities, 
died in St. Joseph in 1892. Thomas died in Cali 
fornia; George W. departed this life in Kentucky; 
Catherine A. (deceased) was t lie wife of Mr. Bo- 
gard by whom she had four children; Henry J. 
died in Montana; Mary J. became the wife of Al- 
exander Greenwell, of Gentry County, Mo.; Ben 
jamin F. was killed in the siege at Gainsville; El- 
len is the wife of James K. Parrish of Gentry 
County ; and Nancy is the widow of Marshall Locke 
of Gentry County. 

Our subject grew to manhood in the county of 
bis birth and when nearly twenty-two years old, in 
October, 1845, came to Buchanan County, locating 
where he now resides. In 1<S4 ( J he started across 
the plains, going by way of Kansas and Arizona 
across the big desert to southern ('ali fornia, reach- 
ing Los Angeles in November, after having been 
about six months on the journey. He remained 
there until April, 1852, of the following year, when 
he returned home, reaching St. Joseph in June. 
In 1853 he purchased a half interest in the old 
John Bretz place. In April, 1853, he married 
Catherine, daughter of John Bretz, and to them 
have been born seven children as follows: Albeit, 
E., who died after reaching man's estate; James 
B., who lives on the old home; Elizabeth, wife of 
•lames M. Itidge, of Buchanan County; John \\\, 
who died in childhood; Lydia, who also died when 
young; Edward and Emma, who lived at home. 
The two wins are now running the old home farm, 
Mr. Matney having turned over to them the active 
management of the place, and they are now con- 
sidered to be among the active young business men 
of the county. 

Mr. Matney owns some live hundred and thirty 
nine acres of valuable land in this county, three 
hundred and twenty of which are comprised in the 

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one farm on Section 26, Jackson Township, where 
his residence is located. His business career bas 
been unusually active as in addition to general 
farming and handling live stock he has carried mi 
milling and merchandising. In July, 1SS5, he 
Opened up a stock of general merchandise and mi 
the 26th of that month was commissioned Post 
master, an office which he has since held. At all 
times he has taken a stand in favor of the right, 
and is a man of firm convictions, being not afraid 
to express himself on all subjects on which he has 
formed an opinion. In the community where he 
resides he is very well thought of, and has always 
been found ready to support all worthy enterprises. 
His first ballot was cast for James K. Polk, his 
last for Grover Cleveland and he has always been 
a Democrat. In his possession is a cane which 
was the property of Gov. Stewart. This was given 
by him to Mr. Bretz, who gave it to our subject, on 
his death -bed. 



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I/SAAC T. DYER, JR. In a volume dedicated 
to public-spirited and representative citizens. 
[ it is always a pleasure to perpetuate the names 
of those who, through the exercise of excellent 
business qualifications, have advanced the interests 
of their several communities. Many of the most 
successful and popular citizens of St. Joseph have 
reached their present, positions of eminence and 
influence solely through their own unaided efforts, 
without capital or wealthy friends to assist them. 
To such as these great, praise is due, and they are 
justly accorded a position among the foremost men 
of their generation. In railroad circles perhaps 
no name is more familiar to the people of St. 
Joseph than that of I. T. Dyer, Jr., who is serving 
acceptably as Superintendent of Telegraph, and 
Chief Dispatcher of the Kansas City, St. Joseph A 
Council Bluffs Railroad. 

Mr. Dyer was born in La Grange, Mo., August 
17, I860. His parents were natives of Pennsyl 

vania and Illinois. The rudiments of his educa- 
tion Mr. Dyer acquired in the common school of 
Quincy, 111., and the knowledge there gained was 
supplemented by a course in college at Canton, 



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Mo., aud Chicago. 111. In the year 1876, therefore, 
a lad of only sixteen years, he became operator and 
Station Agent for the St. Louis, Keokuk & North- 
western Railroad at Helton, Mo. Two years after- 
ward he accepted a position with the Western 
Union Telegraph Company at Quincy, where he 
displayed considerable ability as an electrician, in 
addition to having become an expert telegrapher, 
which led to his being selected by the Western 
Union Telegraph Company to take charge of their 
office at Kansas City, Mo., which position he tilled 
with much credit. In 1878 he returned to the 
service of the Western Union Telegraph Company 
at St. Joseph, serving first as press operator, and 
later on receiving the appointment of Chief Opera- 
tor, which position he occupied until 1889, when 
he decided to re-enter the railroad service, com- 
mencing as operator in the Dispatcher's office of 
the Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluff's Rail- 
road. His ability was apparent to the officials of 
that company, and he was soon after made train 
dispatcher. He served in that capacity until May 
16, 1887, when he was appointed Superintendent 
of Telegraph of the Hannibal & St. Joseph and Kan- 
sas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs Railroads, 
and Chief Dispatcher of the latter road, which 
position he still tills, having the confidence and 
esteem of all the high officials. He is numbered 
among the most energetic and popular railroad 
men of St. Joseph. He has also attained a position 
commanding the respect of the best and most 
influential citizens of St, Joseph. 

Mr. Dyer is also considered one of the foremost 
electricians in this city. He takes a special inter 
est in all new inventions that will advance the 
present stage of electricity, and he has caused 
many new contrivances to be brought to St. 
Joseph that are leuding to it new attractions, as 
well as adding much to the convenience of our 
citizens. 

Mr. Dyer has accumulated considerable property, 
and we may hope that he will prosper aud remain 
with us for many years to come, as we know he 
will always work for the interest of St. Joseph and 
the community. 

Mr. Dyer, in addition to other positions of pub- 
lic honor conferred upon liim, has been elected a 



member of the School Board of this city and is at 
this writing serving the people with much satisfac- 
tion. He is also a member of the Ancient Order 
of United Workmen, and is a prominent member 
of the Knights of Pythias, being a Past Chancellor 
and at present holding the position of District 
Grand Deputy Chancellor of the State of Missouri. 



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VV/r ILT0N TOOTLE was financially in- 
Vyll terested in many business houses in St. 
II Joseph and elsewhere, and his connection 
with any enterprise was a sure guarantee 
of success. His history is intimately connected 
with that of this city, and so long as it stands he 
will be remembered as a model business man and 
public benefactor. The name of Milton Tootle 
and that of St. Joseph are one and inseparable. 
In 1872 he erected a costly and magnificent temple 
of amusement known as Tootle's Opera House. 
The building is four stories high, surmounted by 
a mansard roof, tastefully ornamented. The 
auditorium is 66x120, with a seating capacity of 
fifteen hundred. In regard to its interior arrange- 
ment it is richly decorated and frescoed, and is 
brilliantly lighted by chandeliers and gas jets. 
Everything is in excellent taste; the house is the 
pride of St. Joseph, and would do credit to the 
first cities of the east. Mr. Tootle was senior 
member of the firm of Tootle, Hosea & Co., doing 
a general merchandising business and still con- 
ducting a heavy trade iu this city. 

Milton Tootle was born in Ross County, Ohio, 
February 26, 1823, and while he was still an 
infant his father, John Tootle, removed to Marion 
County, where the lad received in the common 
schools the rudiments of an English education. 
This he subsequently improved upon by well 
directed reading, by habits of reflection and 
observation, and by contact with the business 
world, becoming thoroughly practical in its details. 
About the year 1836 his father removed to Jersey 
County, 111., where our subject, though only 
thirteen years of age and low in stature, being 
scarcely able to see the top of the counter, entered 
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actual business which has in later life been of 
immeasurable benefit to bim bere. Soon, after his 

introiluclii.ii into mercantile circles he entered the 
employ of his uncle, who dealt in general mer- 
chandise, and remained in his store until tie- 
latter removed to another portion of the country, 
when be was then employed as a clerk by Mr. 
George Smith. The latter in 1842 removed to 
Savannah, Andrew County, in this state, accom- 
panied by Mr. Tootle, who had so won the con 
fidence and esteem of his employer as to make his 
services seem absolutely indispensable. In 1844 
Mr. Smith divided his stock, sending a portion of 
it to Atchison County and giving our subject 
exclusive charge of the new house. Here, how 
ever, he remained only a year, having been called 
to take the management of the Savannah store on 
the removal of his employer to St. Joseph. 

In 1^-ts Mr. Tootle embarked in business for 
himself in Oregon, Holt County, and during his 
short business career in that place he evinced the 
tact, ingenuity, integrity aiul industry which have 
been marked features in his commercial life 
wherever he has been. 

He gathered about him a host of friends and 
laid the foundation of future success, but the 
country being new and sparsely populated the 
held was not large enough for the display of 
his abilities. In 1849 at the request of his old 
patron, .Mr. Smith, became to St. Joseph, where 
he was given an interest in the house, subsequent I y 
known as that of Smith, Bedford & Tootle. In 
the spring of that year the senior partner 
departed this life, and our subject, in company 
with his two brothers and William Farleigh, put 
chased the stock and began business under the 
firm name of Tootle & Farleigh. 

It was not long after this that our subject osfab 
lished a dry goods house in Omaha, one in Sioux 
Citj and one in Council MlulTs, flu- two former 
being among the first business houses of impor 
tauco iii either place, and are yet numbered among 

the most extensive and flourishing houses of the 
northwest. Mr. Tootle had always regarded tie- St. 
Joseph enterprise as the most staple and promising 
of his business ventures and to his rapidly incicas 



UDg interest here he has devotid most of hi-- pel 

Bona! attention. The steady growth of the <■ i i % 

and its commercial importance as a prominent rail 
road center and the extensive trade secured by 
his house have vindicated his judgment and estali 
lished his business sagacity. In I860 one of his 
brothers, Joseph, died, and soon after the linn 

sustained the loss of another m her by tie- with 

drawal of Thomas Tootle. The business con- 
tinued to be conducted by Messrs. Milton Tootle 
and William Farleigh, tinder the style of Tootle ,x 
Farleigh until 1873, when Mr. Farleigh, having 
amassed a large fortune, withdrew his interest. 
Other partners were admitted and the firm became 
Tootle. Craig & Ca, under which title it remained 
until 1S77, when another change was made and 
the present firm was formed. 

In January, 1866, our subject led to the mar- 
riage altar a daughter of James O'Neill, cashier of 
the Western Bank of Missouri. They have three 
living children. Engrossed as he was in business, 
the pure pleasures of the domestic heartstone af 
forded Mr. Tootle relief from harassing cares of 
the commercial world, and in the bosom of his 
family, surrounded by the luxuries that his own 
energy and care had provided, with simple and re- 
fined tastes and the means of gratifying them to 
the fullest, extent, he cast oil' the burden of busi- 
ness cares and found a world of unalloyed enjo\ 
ment. 

In personal appearance Mr. Tootle was a gentle 
man of commanding and prepossessing presence, 
and though not muscular was capable of enduring 
long continued mental and physical exertion. Mis 
success in life was dm- to the care with which he 
superintended and directed the minutes! .1,. 
tails of his business and the constant and close at 
tention he gave to everything connected with 
his numerous enterprises. Me was (-specially fort 
unate in retaining capable and faithful employes, 
whom he inspired with his own i 1 1 < lustrioiis and 
persevering qualities and who became attached to 
him and most, desirous of advancing his interests. 

Ho was liberal and public spirited, ami the uufort 
unate always round in him a willing and generous 
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El LIAS M. GARDNER is the Deputy Post- 
master of Rushville, Buchanan County, and 
for twenty years has been engaged in mer- 
chandising at this point, keeping a general 
stock of goods and having been very successful in 
his enterprises. He also owns one hundred and 
twenty-live acres of good bottom land on Sect inn 
10, Township 55, Range 37, which is in a high state 
of cultivation and of which he became the owner 
in 1890. 

Mr. Gardner was born March 10, 1847, in Flem- 
ing County, Ky., and is a son of Joniah W. Gard- 
ner, one of the representative farmers of (hat 
county, who emigrated to Buchanan County, Mo., 
in 1853, settling upon a farm just east of Rush 
ville which he was engaged in cultivating for 
twenty years, retiring in 1883 from farm life and 
removing to Andrew County, where he entered 
upon the mercantile business at Rosendale. He 
continued in that occupation until his death, which 
occurred August 31, 1892, at which time he was 
seventy-eight years of age. He was a leading cit- 
izen and active in all public affairs. He was a 
member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons 
and of the Odd Fellows. He was an esteemed mem- 
ber of the Christian Church, with which he had been 
connected for about half a century. His wife was 
before her marriage Miss Catherine Watson, whose 
family history appears in the record of Elijah 
Watson in another portion of this volume. She 
was a lovable Christian character, a devoted wife 
and faithful mother, and had a host of friends 
whom she had drawn to her by her lovable quali- 
ties. At the age of sixty -six years she passed to 
the better land to receive the reward which was 
surely awaiting her after the years she had spent 
in the Master's vineyard. Her death occurred 
October 18, 1884, and her memory is still cherished 
in the hearts of all who had the good fortune to 
know her. 

Mr. Gardner is one of twelve children, of whom 
seven are living, four having died in infancy and 
early childhood, and Charles having died in 1878, 
leaving a wife and three children. In his boyhood ' 
our subject had very limited educational advan- 
tages, being obliged to assist his father in the sup- 
port of his large family. However, he managed to 



acquire a fair knowledge of the general branches, 
which he has supplemented by his wise course of 
reading and practical experience in life. He man- 
ages his business successfully and is an efficient 
bookkeeper, keeping all accounts in a thoroughly 
methodical way. 

Until reaching man's estate Mr. Gardner's life 
was spent under the paternal roof and on October 
19, 1876, he was united in marriage with Miss 
Susan, daughter of Eli Smith, a native of Tennes- 
see. Mrs. Gardner was born in Maryland May 5, 
1853, being the sixth in order of birth in her fath- 
er's family. She received a good education and is 
devoted to her home and family. Of their seven 
children Harry died at the age of four years and 
Charles when two years of age; Edgar, the oldest 
living child, was born March 11, 1882; Virgil, the 
next, was born on February 27, 1884; Ethel, Octo- 
ber 20, 1886; Sammie, April 3, 1888; andHyland, 
the baby, on November 6, 1890. 

Politically Mr. Gardner supports the nominees 
and principles of the Democratic party, and so- 
cially is a member of Lodge No. 227. Independent 
Order of Odd Fellows, in Rushville. Both our 
worthy subject and his amiable wife are members 
of the Christian Church, where they are held among 
the most valued workers. Mr. Gardner owns a 
pleasant and tastefully furnished residence in the 
village, which is the abode of good cheer and over 
which his wife presides, making a charming host 
ess. The family move in the best social circles of 
the town and have the esteem and respect of all. 



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di AMES P. HAYMORE. Glancing at the 
biographies of successful men and noticing 
) that almost invariably they arose from 
humble positions in life, it would very natu- 
rally be inferred that poverty in youth is n blessing 
instead of a misfortune. It is certainly true that 
hardships in early life develop sturdy traits of self- 
reliance and self-denial, which often in the wealthy 
lie dormant. There are many citizens of Bu- 
chanan County whose unaided exertions have re- 
sulted in prosperity, and an excellent representa- 
tive of this class may be found in Mr. Hayinore. 



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This gentleman owns ami superintends a finely- 
Improved farm comprising six hundred urns. 
which is located on Section t, Crawford Township. 

He is the son of Jermon Hay more, a native of 
Virginia, who was born in L808, and who in turn 
is the son of Daniel Haymore. who had Ijis birth 
near Petersburg, thai state and who was a patriot 
in tin' war of 1812. The Haymore family, which 
is of Scotch descent, settled in Virginia about four 
generations ago. 

The maiden name of our subject's mother was 
Miss Jane l'ittman. She was also a native of the 
Old Dominion and was born near Petersburg in 
1810. Her father, John B. Pittman, came from 
an old Virginia family and was of English descent. 
The parents of our subject were married in North 
Carolina, where they are still residing on a farm 
in Surrey County. They are widely known in 
their locality and are prominent members of the 
Baptist Church, in which body the father holds 
office. Two of their sons, Robert D. and Chris- 
topher C. , are ministers of the Baptist Church, 
the former holding a charge in Chattanooga, Tenn., 
and the latter in North Carolina. 

James P. Haymore was born December 12, 
1831, in Surrey County, N. C, where he was 
reared on a farm, alternating the duties thus re- 
quired of him with attendance at the district 
school. When reaching his majority, in order to 
avoid becoming a physician, which profession his 
parents desired him to follow, coming to Missouri, 
in 1855, and locating in St. Joe, he followed the 
trade of a carpenter until reaching his fortieth year. 
Then, having accumulated "quite a sum of money 
and feeling that he would like to become a farmer, 
he. in ISTo, purchased one hundred and ten acres 
of land for which he paid $40 per acre. Meager 
improvements had been made upon it at that time. 
but Mr. Haymore set himself industriously to 
work to place it under good tillage, and from time 
to lime added lo its acreage until the estate now 
includes six hundred broad and fertile acres. 

Mr. Hay re started out in life with but, $60 in 

his possession, anil the vast estate which he now 
calls his own is a monument in itself to his good 
business management. Fn I^To he erected a bean 
t if ill residence on his farm, which is finished and 



furnished according to the taste of its occupants. 
Mr Haymore has upou his place forty head of 
cattle of good breeds, and gives his attention ex- 
clusively to farming. 

On March 18, 1873, Mr. Haymore and Miss 
Nancy, daughter of Pleasant Yates (whose sketch 
appears elsewhere in this volume), were united in 
marriage. She was born in Jacksou Township, 
February 20, 1843, and r ived an excellent edu- 
cation, having taught school for some time prior to 
her marriage. Religiously Mrs. Haymore is a 
member of the Presbyterian Church, in whose 
ranks she is an able and willing worker. Our sub 
ject lias always been a straightforward Democrat 
in politics, and feels sure that the country would 
be safe under its leaders. He has been a resident 
of this township for twenty-one years and deserves 
the high respect in which he is held as a favorite 
citizen and public-spirited man. 

EiLBERT S. OANN. The life of this gentle 
man, of which we give a brief outline, 
affords an illustration of the power of cour 
age and industry in enabling a man to over- 
come difficulties of no ordinary kind. He was ten 
years of age when he came to this county and a- 
his father was in limited circumstances he was not 
allowed to attend school (there being no schools or 
churches), but thus early in life began making his 
own way in the world. He labored untiringly. 
Undaunted by the many obstacles that beset his 
path, and as the years went by, invested his earn 
ings, and now, as a reward of his efforts, has 
gained prosperity. He owns considerable real 
estate and is numbered among the most successful 
farmers of Washington Township, Buchanan 
County, his home being located on Section 2S. 

The parents of our subject, Isaac and Annie 
(Clark) Oann, were natives of Tennessee, the 
father's birth occurring in ITS'J. Isaac Oann, dur 
ing the Seminole War, enlisted as a soldier and 
with his Company was engaged in service in the 
swamps of Florida. In his native state he net 
and married Miss Clark and made his home there 
until 1834, when they removed to this state and 



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for a short time resided in La Fayette County, a 
short distance from Greentowu. Later they made 
their way to Davis Creek, in the same county, and 
in 1838 became identified with the residents of Bu- 
chanan County, their home being situated within 
one mile of Pottawatomie village. His new claim 
consisted of raw prairie land upon which he 
erected a log cabin and began the work of im- 
provement and cultivation, being enabled before 
his death to place thirty-rive acres under the plow. 
The parents died within two months of each other, 
the father passing away in August, 1846, and the 
mother in October of that year. 

Of the twelve children born to Isaac and Annie 
Gann, three are now living, the brother and sister 
of our subject being Samuel A. and Susan, the 
latter of whom makes her home in Bolen, Kans. 
Elbert S. Gann was the youngest of the large 
family, his birth occurring May 3, 1828, in Cooke 
County, Tenu. As before stated, he was unable 
to attend school, but remained at home assist- 
ing his father in clearing their new land until 
reaching his seventeenth year when he offered his 
services to the Government as a teamster in the 
Mexican War, starting from Fort Leavenworth 
June 7, 1846, his destination being Fort Bentz, N. 
Mex. Later, returning to Fort Leavenworth, he 
was discharged the following year, and entering 
the Oregon Battalion as a teamster, went to Table 
Creek, Neb., where the train went into winter 
quarters. The following spring, the soldiery being 
ordered against the Indians in North Dakota, 
young Gann accompanied them as far as Fort Ver- 
million, where they were engaged in conflict until 
December. Again taking up their quarters at 
Table Creek, our subject was discharged, together 
with his fellows, and returned home. 

The two succeeding years following his return 
lo civil life our subject was engaged in farmiug, 
but in 1850 made bis way across the plains with 
ail "x team to Sacramento City, the trip consuming 
four and one-half months. After working in the 
mini's a short time he found that business was not 
a paying one in that locality, and opening up a 
small farm in the valley sought to try his fortunes 
in cultivating the soil. Finding that venture 
unsuccessful, he engaged to work in the extreme 



northern mines on the Trinity and Shasta rivers. 
where he remained for eight months. Returning 
home at tbe expiration of that time, the vessel on 
which he embarked was wrecked between Sacra 
mento and Acapulco. 

Mr. Gauu and twenty-five others left the ship 
and made their way from the latter place to the 
City of Mexico and thence through the mountains 
on horseback to Vera Cruz, where they engaged 
passage to New Orleans and were again wrecked, 
lying out thirteen days and nights. Finally 
reaching the Crescent city, Mr. Gann came home 
by way of St. Louis. The following year, how- 
ever, he went to Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana 
with a drove of horses, which trip ended his 
desire for travel, and since that time he has been 
engaged in farming. Purchasing the property 
adjoining the estate of his father, Mr. Gann there 
made his home until 1863, when he took up his 
abode in Center Township. After a residence 
there of twelve years he located on Section 28. 
He has five hundred acres of splendidly improved 
land in Center and Washington Townships. 

The lady who in 1849 became the wife of Mr. 
Gann was Miss Polly, the daughter of Samuel D. 
Ferrill, who had the honor of being Colonel of 
the first regiment ever mustered in Buchanan 
County. Mrs. Gann was born in Clay County, 
this state, in 1832, and after having become the 
mother of five children, departed this life August 
1, 1864. The family included the following 
named: Samuel D., who married Emma McCauley, 
is the father of seven children; S. Ellen, who 
is the wife of W. P. Samson, has six children; 
Bettie J (she is now deceased), who married 
George B. McCauley, was the mother of two chil- 
dren; George I. married Emma Montgomery; 
William T. , who is the husband of Alice Roberts, 
has four children. 

Mr. Gann is prominent in Masonic circles, hav- 
ing been a member of that order for the past 
twenty eight years. He is one of the best known 
members of the farming community in this section 
and enjoys the respect and esteem of all who know 
him. He takes little interest in politics, but dur- 
ing the Civil War was a member of the Paw Paw 
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residence, which cost $3,000 and contains nine 
rooms, all nicely finished ami famished. He lias 
given his children good educations ami has pro- 
vided a borne lor his grand-daughter, Gertie 
Samson, who, besides keeping up her studies in 
the high school, is his housekeeper. 

IRL1AM E. BRAGG is a successful rail 

road man who makes his home and head, 

quarters in St. Joseph, Buchanan Count) . 

Mo. He is Chief Clerk of the Freight 

Auditor's Office of the Burlington's Missouri Lines, 

and a native of St. Louis, Mo., born April '_!<>, 

1863. 

His father, I. \V. Bragg, was of English descent 
and of Quaker stock, and was horn in Belfast, 
Ireland. He came to New York state with his 
parents in early boyhood and went with them to 
New Orleans and later to Ohio, where he learned 
the machinist's trade in Cincinnati. After working 
there several years he went to Altooua and Phila- 
delphia. Penn., thence to Louisville, Ky., and 
about 1866 he came to this state, settling in Cald- 
well County where he operated a flouring mill. In 
1S71 he went to Kidder of the same county, and 
for several years operated a flouring mill at that 
place, which he afterward sold, returning to his 
trade. In 1883 he entered the employ of the 
Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad in their machine 
shops at Brookfield, and after staying there about 
two years he came to St. Joseph and entered the 
machine shops of the Kansas City, St. Joseph \ 
Council Blnffs Railroad, where he is still employed. 
He is now sixty-five years of age. 

His mother, formerly Virginia Burt, was born in 
Cincinnati, Ohio, and has attained the age of fifty- 
seven years. She is a daughter of Moses and Mary 
Frances Burt, nee Jones. Her father, who is now 
living in this city at the advanced age of eighty 
four years, was, in earlier days, engaged in the 
moulding and picture frame business in Cincin- 
nati, Ohio. Her mother came from an old Cincin- 
nati family, the head of which was a shipbuilder at 
that place in its early days. Mr. and Mrs. I \\\ 
Bragg are members of the Congregational Church. 
In political faith the former is a Republican. 



The gentleman of this sketch is the third, in 
order of birth, of a family of six children, two of 
whom are deceased. The most of his boyhood was 
[lassed in Kidder, Mo., where he attended the 
common school. At the age of seventeen he learned 
telegraphy and station agent's business at that 
place. He first came to St. Joseph in ISM as 
night operator at the Hannibal & St. Joseph Local 
Freight Office. He then worked as operator at 
various places on the Hannibal .V St. Joseph Rail- 
road for a few days at a time, after which he lo- 
cated at Woodland, where he was agent. In the 
fall of 1882 he left the service of this company, 
and obtained a position with the St. Louis, Iron 
Mountain & Southern Railway, working at various 
places in Missouri and Arkansas. On account of 
ill health he was obliged to leave there, and after 
ward accepted a position at Scaudia, Kans., on 
the Missouri Pacific Railway, where he was assist- 
ant agent. In May 1883, he again entered the 
service of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad as 
assistant agent at Liberty, Mo., and after quite a 
stay there he worked a short time as relief agent. 
He again left the employ of that company at 
Hamilton, Mo., and in March, 1S85, returned to St. 
Joseph and took a position as clerk in the Freight 
Auditor's Office of the Hannibal & St. Joseph and 
the Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs Rail- 
roads. He held various positions in this depart 
meut, and when in 18X11 a trip west seemed neces- 
sary on account of ill health, his place was held for 
him about six months, during which time he was 
in Denver working for the Rio Grande Western 
Railway, after which he again returned to St. 
Joseph. During the first half of the year 1891 he 
acted as Chief Clerk while the gentleman holding 
that position attended to the duties of Mr. O. \V. 
Miller, Freight Auditor, who was at that time ill. 
When the latter resumed charge of the office he 
was placed in charge of the Joint Freight Account 
Department, in which capacity he acted until Sep 
tember 1892, when he was appointed to the posi- 
tion which he now holds. 

By his fidelity to his duties, punctuality, and 
systematic methods he has won the entire confi- 
dence of his superior officers. He is a young man 
who has already reached n desirable position, ami 



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it is safe to predict that, if he rises in the next 
few years as he has in the past, he will then be 
occupying a prominent and leading official position. 

In November, 1887, Win. E. Bragg was united 
in marriage to Miss Annie Kearny of this city, who 
was born at Leavenworth, Kans., and whose father, 
Chas. Kearny, is an old settler of this locality, who 
has for many years been clerk at the Pacific House. 
His record appears on another page of this volume. 
Mr. and Mrs. Bragg have three children: Cora V., 
Charles K., and Alice K. , aged five years, three 
years, and four months respectively. The parents 
are members of the Congregational Church and 
active workers therein. 

In regard to politics, Mr. Bragg is an advocate 
of the Republican party. 






J/OHN Q. A. KEMPER has been for nearly 
forty years prominently connected with the 
' history of Clinton County. He is now resid- 
ing on his farm situated on Section 1, Town- 
ship 55, Range 30, of which he became the owner 
in 1852. His grandfather, Johu Kemper, in 1787 
emigrated from Fauquier County, Va. , to Ken- 
tucky. He settled in Garrard County, where he 
parsed the remainder of his life. He was a wheel- 
wright by trade, but after removing to the west 
turned his attention principally to the development 
of his farm. Though he was a slave owner he was 
politically a Whig. To himself and wife, who was 
before her marriage Miss Judith Burdette, was 
born a family of eleven children, six sons and five 
daughters. The family were members of the 
Baptist Church, and the death of both father and 
mother occurred in Kentucky. 

Thornton B. Kemper, our subject's father, was 
born in Virginia, July 1, L780, and came with his 
parents to Kentucky when a lad of seven years. 
He was drafted for the War of 1812 but procured 
a substitute. He was a strong Whig, though at 
one time he owned about twelve slaves. He was 
one of the early and honored pioneers of Ken 
tucky, where he spent the most of his life. His 
death occurred in November of 1878. His wife, 
who before her marriage was Miss Elizabeth 



Hutchison, came with her parents from Virginia 
to Kentucky when young. 

To herself and husband were born eleven chil- 
dren ; Jefferson (who died when sixteen years of 
age), James, Madison, Harrison, Jackson, Harvey, 
John Q. A., Verliuda, Judith, Elizabeth and 
Mary. Both parents were active workers in the 
Baptist Church. The mother departed this life in 
1857. 

J. Q. A. Kemper was born in Garrard County, 
Ky., January 3, 1826, and was reared to man's 
estate upon his father's farm. His education was 
such as could be obtained in the common schools, 
which was supplemented by judicious reading and 
wise observation. Upon reaching his majority he 
started out in life for himself, choosing the occu- 
pation of a farmer. In 1850 he came to Caldwell 
County, Mo., where he worked at carpeutering, 
which occupation he followed more or less during 
twenty years. In 1855 he pre-empted a farm of 
one hundred and sixty acres situated on Section 
12, Township 55, Range 30. The, farm upon 
which he is now living was purchased by him in 
L852. This property comprises two hundred acres 
which he has greatly improved and made a 
valuable piece of ground. He has deeded to his 
children some six hundred acres, and now retains 
only the farm last mentioned. 

As the sharer of his joys and fortunes Mr. 
Kemper chose Miss Adelaide Smith, who was born 
in Columbiana County, Ohio, and who is the 
daughter of Lieut. -Gov. George and Sarah 
(Chapman) Smith. Of their marriage have been 
born eleven children, nine of whom grew to 
maturity. They are as follows: William, now 
deceased; Sarah A., who died at the age of twenty- 
two years; Elizabeth; George S. ; John, deceased; 
Quincy M. ; James C; Mary B. ; Harry M. ; Ben- 
jamin F. and Claude S. Mrs. Kemper was 
a devoted member of the Christian Church, and 
was called to her final rest in 1874, leaving many 
who deeply mourned her loss. 

Mr. Kemper served in the state militia for one 
year during the late war, and rose to the rank of 
First Lieutenant. He participated in the battles 
near Camden's Point and that of New Albany. 
At the end of his year's service the company was 




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reorganized, and he again enlisted as one of the 
nation's brave defenders. He is a member of the 
Union League and a worker in the Baptist 
Cbnroh. Mr. Kemper is numbered among the 
honored early settlers of lliis section of the State, 
and bas been a witness of its surprising growth 
and prosperity. His many qualities of worth and 
upright manhood have won for bim the friendship 
and confidence of all with whom he has come in 
contact. 

WILLIAM H. CRAWFORD, M. D., are 

II tired physician of Cameron, was born in 
% Mt. Vernon. Ky., April is, 1823, the son 
of John and Elizabeth (Adams) Craw 
ford, also natives of the Blue Grass State. When 
about twelve years old he accompanied his parents 
to Missouri and for a few years resided in Howard 
County, but returned to Kentucky. At the age of 
nineteen he came to Rochester, Andrew County, 
Mo., and then' remained until the fall of 1X14. 

The science of medicine had from childhood 
possessed unusual interest for Mr. Cawford, and 
he was a mere boy when he commenced its study 
under the supervision of Drs. Mason and Jones, 
of Lancaster, Ky. In Rochester he engaged in 
practice with Dr. Walker, and upon removing to 
Mirabile, Caldwell County, Mo., in 1844, he open eel 
an office for the practice of his profession, in which 
he SOOn acquired a wide reputation for skill and 
ability. The village of Mirabile is situated twelve 
miles east of Cameron, and at the time of his loca 
t ion t here was one of the most, flourishing towns 
for miles around. At that time there were no rail- 
ways in the county, ami but few improvements had 
been made throughout, the length and breadth of 
this beautiful farming region that, is today the 
scene of so many happy homes and highly (level 
oped farms. The failure of the railroad to pass 
through Mirabile caused an immediate decline of 
ils prosperity ami it has never since regained its 
former high standing. 

Until 1881, a period of about thirty-seven years, 
the Doctor was engaged as a practitioner at Mira 
bile, and in addition to his professional duties he 



Owned and managed a store there from about 1850 
to 1880, selling out at the latter date to his son-, 
who removed the business to Cameron. For a long 
time Dr. Crawford did an average business of 
{40,000 per year, and go,. ,1s were bought and sold 
on twelve mouths" lime. In 1880 he sold his prac 
tice to Dr. Cannon and removed to Cameron. 
where he now resides. About 1885, accompanied 
by his family, he went to California, where he re- 
mained for one year at Los Angeles. He made 
huge investments in that city and two of his sons 
still reside there. He purchased forty acres of land 
and added thereto until he became the owner of a 
farm comprising fifteen hundred acres on the 
county liue near Mirabile. In connection with 
general farming, he has paid special attention to 
stock raising and has now about four hundred and 
fifty head of cattle on his farm. He employs three 
men the year round, but still gives his personal 
attention to the general management of the place. 
Although every line of business in which he has 
engaged has proved remunerative, he has had his 
share of reverses, ami during one winter lost two 
thousand head of sheep. 

During the Civil War there were about ten 
southern sympathizers in Mirabile to one Federal. 
I and the feeling whs so high that the greatest dan 
ger existed for life and | roperiy. Dr. Craw- 
ford was a strong supporter of the Onion and 
through (ten. Lvon was authorized to raise troops. 
Two companies were raised, ami he became First 
Lieutenant of one of these. Arms were supplied 
at St. Joseph and the company then joined the 
main troops at Line Mills, and some time later was 
incorporated in Col. Catherwood's regiment. Dr. 
Crawford then resigned and returned to his home. 
But although no longer in active service, his perils 
were by no means past; one Rebel captain placed 
a reward of $100 on his head, dead or alive, and 
for two years he was forced to be on constant 
guard, during which time he scarcely ever slept in 
his own house. As soon as the troops were with- 
drawn, the guerillas came in ami robbed him. to- 
gether with other citizens. At one time in 1 ^0'_' 
the Federals raised a pole at Kingston. The Con- 
federates, who had threatened the lives of all who 
took part, organized a company and rode around 



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tlie place, but did not attack the people. Nearly 
the entire expense of raising troops was borne by 
Dr. Crawford, and his store was used as the sol- 
diers' barracks during the continuance of the war. 

The lady who became the wife of the Doctor 
February 10, 1845, was Miss Elizabeth Kerrius, 
who was born in England, but was brought to this 
country by her parents when an infant. She was 
reared in Liverpool, Ohio, and was one of two 
children born to her parents, the other being the 
wife of Lieut-Gov. George Smith. Mr. and Mrs. 
Kerrins came to Missouri late in life and both died 
in Caldwell County. The family of the Doctor 
and his wife includes the following named chil- 
dren: A. Kerrius, a real estate dealer of Los An- 
geles, Cal; Sarah E., the wife of Thomas Clark of 
Cameron; Oliver, who is engaged in the clothing 
business at Cameron; John, a physician of Los 
Angeles; William T., who is in the gents' furnish- 
ing business at Cameron; Mary, who married W. 
C. Burt and died in Los Angeles, Cal., in Novem- 
ber, 1890, and Lillie, who is at home with her 
parents. 

The Doctor has always been firm in his support 
of Democratic principles, even during the trying 
days of the war. Soon after locating in Mirabile 
he was appoiuted Postmaster, and with the excep- 
tion of about two mouths, filled that office for 
thirty-seven consecutive years. Mrs. Crawford 
has always been a devoted member of the Catholic 
Church, with which the Doctor identified himself 
a few years ago. He lias always manifested 
proper public spirit in regard to all feasible plans 
for the improvement of his community, and is 
highly respected as a whole souled, warm hearted 
man of generous impulses and honorable character. 

^v ?v\ 7t\ 7(n7v\ 

If I °N GEORGE SMITH. Prominent in the 
Tr4 public life of Missouri for many years and 
lj well-known as the Lieutenant-Governor of 
w/ the state, this honored citizen of Cameron 

was deeply mourned when he, passed from earth. 
A brief review of the principal events of his life 
will be of interest to our readers and furnish to the 
young an example worthy of emulation. During 
the late war he was in the prime of his mental 



vigor and participated in the thrilling scenes which 
characterized that dark period of our national his- 
tory. There were many who differed from him in 
the great issues then at stake, but none questioned 
the purity of his motives and the honesty of his 
convictions. 

Born in Columbiana County, Ohio, February 2, 
1809, our subject was the son of John and Mary 
(Fisher) Smith, natives of Pennsylvania. His edu- 
cation was acquired at the Miami University, Ox- 
ford, Ohio, and prepared him for his active career. 
His first business was that of transporting flour to 
New Orleans on flat boats, in which ho engaged 
during the winter season, and each summer for 
three years he drove cattle from Ohio and Penn- 
sylvania to Maryland. In January, 1833, he was 
married, in Brooke County, Va., to Sarah A. 
Chapman, who died in 1830, leaving two children. 
His second marriage was solemnized in Novem- 
ber of 1839 and united him with Miss Mary Ker- 
rins, a native of England. Of this union three 
sons and two daughters survive. Both wives were 
ladies of education, refinement and high intel- 
lectual attainments. 

While engaging in mercantile pursuits at East 
Liverpool, Ohio, our subject was elected, at the 
age of twenty-seven, to the State Legislature on 
the Democratic ticket. The following year he 
was re-elected and served until the close of 1839, 
being Chairman of the Committee on Banks and 
Corporations. In 1844 he removed to Caldwell 
County, Mo., where he resided for twenty four 
years. He is regarded as the pioneer wool grower 
of this State and upon coming hither brought with 
him eleven hundred sheep, the first, large flock that 
was brought across the Mississippi. In 1S68 he 
located near the city of Cameron and gave his at- 
tention bo farming pursuits. 

In March, 1832, Mr. Smith stopped at St. 
Louis while returning from New Orleans and 
traveled on horseback over a large part of Mis- 
souri, with the general appearance of which he 
was well pleased. In later years he traveled ex- 
tensively throughout the United States. The 
Legislature of 1847 passed an act to secure the 
construction of the Hannibal & St. Joe Railroad 
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to have charge <>f the matter, and also was one of 
1 1 1 « - six who secured the preliminary organization 
of the company. In 1852 he whs elected, with 
the unanimous approval of both parties, to repre 
sen) Caldwell County in the Legislature, and dur- 
ing special sessions acted on the joint committee 
thai reported bills for the incorporation of the 
Northern Missouri, Iron Mountain and St. Louis 
an.l San Francisco Railroads. He also served in 
the regular session following in 1853. 

In 1m')'J Mr. Smith was elected to the Legisla 
ture and in the adjourned session of the ensuing 
year publicly declared himself in favor of emanci 
[■.-it i . . 1 1 . He was a member of the committee ap- 
pointed to draft a bill authorizing a convention, the 
object of which was to confine the elective fran- 
chise to the loyal men of the state, to abolish 
slavery, and to effect such other modifications as 
the public interests and safety wight demand. 
Mr. Smith served in the Legislature until 1864. 
Dining the summer of that year he presided over 
the Republican Convention at Jefferson City, 
which nominated the state ticket. This Conven 
tion nominated him Lieutenant-Governor, to which 
honorable position he was elected by a majority of 
forty thousand. In that capacity he presided 
over the State Senate for four years with dignity 
and impartiality. 

At the organization of the State Board of 
Equalization in 1865 Air. Smith was chosen its 
President and his efficient discharge of the duties 
of the position won for him many warm friends 
among both parties. March 20, 1869, he was ap 
pointed United States Marshal for the Western 
District of Missouri, and was again chosen for thai 
position in 1873, serving until March '20, 1877. 
lie was President of the National Convention of 
United Slates Marshals held at Cleveland in 1N73. 
His sympathies ami aid were given to charitable 
movements, hut he was never personally identified 
with any secret society. For twenty years he was 
a Hiding Elder in the Presbyterian Church, and 
was a devoted member of that denomination. In 
public affairs he was a man of great, prominence 
and his influence largely controlled the Republican 
party of the stale from the beginning of the Civil 
War until 1868. 



HoN GRANVILLE (i. ADKINS. The 
career of this gentleman is historical and 
quite sensat ioiial as well. He is the person 
who shot John BrOWO as he landed from 
the skill' at the battle of ( )sa walomie. He is at 
present a representative in tie; Legislat nre fi om 

District No. 2, of Buchanan County, Mo., and was 
bom in Owen County, Kv.. December 25,1882. 

His father, Ed. (i. Adkins. was of Scotch descent, 
his ancestors emigrating to Virginia before the 
Revolutionary War, in which both grandparents 
of our subject took part, on the side of the t'onti 
iientals. In an early day our subject's father set- 
tled in Kentucky, where he farmed in the summer 
and operated a mill the year round until 1833, 
when he went to Lewis County, Mo. There he 
followed the pursuit of farming and erected the 
mill on Sugar creek, between the towns of Monti 
cello and Canton, owning at this time one thousand 
acres of land well adapted to farming. In 1842 
he went to Platte Count) and located near Platte 
City, where he engaged extensively in raising 
hemp. 

The mother of our subject, whose maiden name 
was Eliza Garvey, was born in Virginia, and died 
in Leavenworth, Kans., in the year 1S7S. ami was 
buried in Platte City; her husband passed away in 
1849. She was the mother of five sons and two 
daughters, of whom all have died with the ezcep 
tion of Air. Adkins and his sister, Mrs. Howard 
Connelley. of Leavenworth County, Kans. 

Mr. Adkins was reared in Eewis County. Mo., 
until 1842, when his parents moved to Platte 
County, where lie was given all the advantages f 
a common-school education that could be had at 
that time. 

In 1859 Mr. Adkins engaged in freighting for 
the Government, running from Fort Leavenworth 
and fighting his way through the Indian reserva 
lions. In 1850 he with two other brothers eiui 
grated westward, the trip across the plains con 
suming ninety days. The journey hither was in 
structive and enjoyable, for they went through in 
a covered wagon drawn by a team of oxen, and 
were thus enabled to go leisurely along and view 
the wonderful works of nature. They landed in 
Sacramento, where they mined for six months, at 



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tbe end of which time they returned by the way of 
the steamer "Eureka," which cruised along the 
coas^ of Mexico and the Gulf States, finally land- 
ing them in New Orleaus, from which place they re- 
turned to Platte County, Mo., where they followed 
agricultural pursuits until the Kansas trouble 
sprang up in 1850. At this juncture Mr. Adkins 
went to Kansas, where he took an active part in 
tbe border warfare. 

After the close of these troubles Mr. Adkins re- 
turned to his farm, which he sold in a short time, 
and in 1858, thinking to better his financial con- 
dition, he moved to Lexington, Mo., where he set 
up a wholesale and retail grocery store. He fol- 
lowed this occupation for three years, when war 
was declared between the north and the south, 
and he was oiieof the first to enlist in Cnvanaugh's 
Company under Joe Shelby's command. It was 
not long until he was promoted to the rank of Aid 
de Camp. In the engagement at Pea Ridge he 
was wounded by a ball, which disabled his left 
arm for a short time. On returning home he 
found his wife very ill. She died in a short time 
after the close of the war, but Mr. Adkins kept a 
brave heart amid all these trials, and with a 
mighty effort again settled down to business. He 
engaged in buying and shipping hemp, contract- 
ing with the Atchison & Nebraska and the Atchi- 
son, Topeka & Santa Fe Railways. For three 
years, beginning with the year 1877, he was Coal 
Oil Inspector of St. Joseph under Gov. Phelps, 
after which he was in a like position under Gov. 
Crittenden for four years, and subsequently was 
in the same service for two years under Gov. 
Francis. 

Mr. Adkins was elected State Representative on 
the Democratic ticket in the fall of 1892, and 
missed but three roll calls in seventy-nine days 
during the session of the Thirty-seventh General 
Assembly, of which he was the chairman of the 
Emigration and three other committees. He 
passed seven bills and one resolution in the House, 
and has been a prominent member of the Legis- 
lature. He was married to Miss Madeline Archi- 
bald Patterson, in Platte County, this state, De- 
cember 10, 1857. His wife was born in Fayette, 
Mo., and was the daughter of Prof. Archibald 




Patterson, President of the Missouri Masonic Col- 
lege at Lexington. In religious affairs Mr. Ad- 
kins is devoted to the advancement of the Epis- 
copal Church, and politically is a warm supporter 
of the Democratic principles and platform. 

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EV. HIRAM DEVORSS. This much es 
teemed and prominent minister of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church has been en- 
gaged in preaching the gospel for over a 
half century. He is considered one of the best 
ministers in his county, and is noted for his elo- 
quence, deep reasoning and piety. 

John D. Devorss, the father of our subject, was 
born in Pike County, Ohio, and was the son of 
Daniel D. Devorss, who hailed from the Keystone 
State and was a soldier in the Black Hawk War. 
Mary (Davis) Devorss, the mother of our subject, 
was born in Kentucky, while her father, John Da- 
vis, was a native of Virginia, and during the War 
of the Revolution served as a veteran in its ranks. 
The elder Mr. and Mrs. Devorss were married in 
Ohio, where they continued to live, in Pickaway 
County, until 1841, the date of their removal to 
this state. Locating on a wild tract they redeemed 
it from its primitive state and made it their home 
until their decease. They were devoted members 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, toward the 
support of which they gave liberally of their means 
and time. The father was very prominent in pol- 
itics, being a strong Democrat, and served his fel- 
low townsmen at different times as Justice of the 
Peace for twenty one years. 

Mr. Devorss of this sketch, who was the eldest 
of his parent's family of seven children, was born 
December 29, 1810, in Pickaway County, Ohio. 
He was reared on his father's farm and made the 
best of the meager means afforded him for obtaining 
an education. He was permitted to attend school 
but two months in the year, but. being a bright 
pupil he soon gained a fair knowlege of the ordi- 
nary branches, to which he has later added by a 
thorough course of reading. 

Young Devorss, when starting out for himself, 
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Ohio, which he continued to follow during his res- 
idence in the Buckeye State. In 1836 lie was mar 
ried to Miss Rebecca English, a native of the 
above state and who was the daughter of John and 
Mary English, early settlers in Ohio. Mrs. De- 
rorsa w;is born in 1819 and four years after her 
marriage to our subject removed with him to Bu- 
cliaiiHii County. There the father erected a log 
house, in which they resided for three years, then 
removed to the sout Invest quarter of Section 31, 
which was the second entry of land in " Platte Pur- 
chase." It was covered over with very high prairie 
grass and the good state of cultivation under 
which he placed it returned to him a golden trib- 
ute for the years of labor which he expended upon 
it. He resided upon this fine farm until about 
seven years ago, when he sold it and purchased 
where he at present makes his home. 

During the late war Mr. Devorss was compelled 
to leave his farm as his property was confiscated 
and his house and barn burned to the ground. 
He removed with kis family to Rushville, where 
they remained for two years, and on their return 
found their land overgrown with willow trees 
While living in the above place our subject fol 
Lowed the trade of cabinet making, in which he 
was more than ordinarily successful, but the work 
of which did not agree with him as well as farm 
life. On returning to his rural home he rebuilt 
the house and remained there until seven years 
ago. His property now consists of one hundred 
ami eleven acres. 

The wife of our subject died in 18K7. She be- 
came the mother of ten children, seven of \vh 

are still living Susan, Maggie, Rebecca, Fannie, 
Nannie, David, Hiram. They are all married and 
established in homes of their own. Mr. Devorss 
has been engaged in preaching the gospel since 
1X41 under the auspices of the Methodist Episco 
pal Church, South. During the first three years 
he traveled as Missionary ( 'i rcuit Rider, preach 
ing on Sundays and working at his trade during 
the week. Since that time he has held many im 
portaut charges and at all times gave entire satis 
faction to his congregations. 

In January, 1891, Mr. Devorss was married to 
Mrs. Mary Myers, a native of Missouri. She is 



also a member of the Mel hodist Church. In his 
political relations our subject is a strong Demo 
crat, in the workings of which body he has always 
been actively interested. 



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CHARLES P. ELLIOTT, Manager of the new 
Crawford Opera House of St. Joseph, 
Buchanan County, has been until recently 
manager of Tootle's Opera House in this 
city. He is the Secretary and booking represents 
tive of the Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska Opera 
House Amusement Co. He was born in West 
Virginia, August '.I, 1869, and is, consequently, 
twenty- three years of age, being therefore one of 
the youngest managers in this country. 

Our subject commenced his career with Mr. 
L. M. Crawford in I SS 1 and, was on the road For 
five years when he was given the management of 
the opera house at Leavenworth, Kans. After 
four seasons of successful work, he came to St, 
Joseph in I Slid to take the management of Ti iotle'8 
Opera House. Never before has St. Joseph been 
favored with such a strong list of theatrical attrac 
tions as it has under Mr. Elliott's management: 
He is popular among business, professional and 
newspaper men, and certainly if energy and push 
can accomplish the result, he will some day be one 
of our greatest amusement manager-.. 

The beautiful new Crawford Opera House was 
thrown open to the public on the evening of 
March 2, lS'.f'. The elite of this cit_\ and vicinity 
were present, and when the curtain went up the 
star of the occasion, Mrs. Leslie Carter, found 
herself confronted with one of the most fashionable 
and brilliant audiences she had faced for some time. 
The most talented and leading members of BOciet] 
from many neighboring towus and cities were 
present, and the Mayor, with one hundred society 
people of Topeka. came by a special train, admired 
the beautiful theater and enjoyed the entertain 
meiit afforded by Mrs. Carter ami the vivacious 
Lottie Collins. 

After the preliminary overture by the orchestra. 
Hon. Grant R. Bennett stepped to the stage and 
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pable dedicated the temple to the muses. He 
reviewed the theatrical past of St. Joseph and 
prophesied a glorious future. To Mr. Crawford 
he paid a deserved tribute for his enterprise, his 
generosity and his wonderful success in pleasing 
the people of St. Joseph by thus giving them one 
of the finest and most complete play-houses in the 
West, a model of convenience, utility and beauty. 
Repeated calls were made for Mr. Crawford, who 
finally was reluctantly brought before the foot- 
lights. Not being fond of speech-making, after 
bowing to the audience and thanking them for the 
consideration they had shown him, he begged to 
be excused and retired amid thunders of applause. 
The popular young manager, Charles Elliott, was 
also honored by the audience, who specially desired 
to have him put in an appearance on the stage, 
bat that gentleman's modesty is equal to the coy 
school-girl's, and he could not be induced to be- 
come the center of admiration and interest. 

Mr. Elliott is a whole-souled fellow, socially, 
and his splendid testimonial, recently received, 
from the prominent New York managers and book- 
ing agencies, shows that he has as many friends in 
the east as at home. The Crawford Opera House 
will have only first class attractions, and under the 
popular direction of the manager cannot fail of 
winning golden laurels. He has only to ask, and 
it shall be given, among the newspapers of the 
city, for well written articles and commendatory 
notices in regard to the plays or enterprise of 
whatever theater he has connection with. 



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T'OBIAS GOODWIN. More than fifty years 
have come and gone since Mr. Goodwin 
located on the farm in Platte Township, 
where he now resides, and during this long 
period he has been as closely identified with the 
progress of Buchanan County as any man within 
its limits. His estate of three hundred and thirty 
acres bears all the modern improvements and is 
embellished with substantial buildings adapted to 
their various uses. The time has been when he 
enjoyed the personal acquaintance of every resi- 
dent of the county, and although advancing civil- 



ization has very rapidly populated this section of 
Missouri, he is still widely known; indeed, perhaps 
no one now residing in the county is more famil- 
iarly known to all classes of citizens than he. 

A native of Middle Tennessee, our subject was 
born in Bledsoe County February 10, 1814. His 
father, James Goodwin, was born in North Caro- 
lina, whence he removed to Tennessee in early 
manhood. From that state about 1833 he went, to 
Indiana and made settlement in Putnam County, 
where he followed the occupation of a farmer for 
several years. In 1840 he came to Buchanan 
County, where he died in 1800 at the age of eighty- 
six years. A man of kindly impulses and indus- 
trious habits, he occupied a prominent place in the 
community and was universally esteemed. 

When a youth of nineteen years, our subject 
accompanied his father to Indiana, where, on Sep- 
tember 10, 1835, he married Miss Matilda Ogle, a 
native of Tennessee. In 1839, with his wife, he 
removed to Livingston County, Mo., but after a 
sojourn of a few months there, he came to Bu- 
chanan County, where he has since made his home. 
Upon arriving here he purchased eighty acres of 
land situated south of the present site of Gower, 
and also purchased a small farm east of where that 
thriving village now stands. After residing there 
for a few years he sold the place and settled on 
the farm where he still resides. 

At the old homestead where Mr. and Mrs Good- 
win passed so many happy years, they celebrated 
their golden wedding eight years before this sketch 
was written. It was an occasion of great rejoic 
ing, an event which spoke of fifty years of unity, 
of children and children's children, of cherished 
love and sweet companionship, all delightful to 
dwell upon during these parting hours of life's 
day. Mr. and Mrs. Goodwin have had a famih of 
fourteen children, but only eight of that number 
now survive, as follows: George W., James T.. 
Elizabeth, Nannie J., John E., Henry G, Satali 
M. and Mary F. They are scattered in different 
states, two sons being residents of Kansas. A 
widowed daughter with her two children, daugh- 
ter and son, remains at home and administers to 
the comfort of the aged parents. The grand 
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educated, and brightens the old home with her 
presence. 

For several years after Mr. Goodwin came to 
this county it was impossible to ^'et money, but 
after the Mexican War a market was opened with 
Mexico, and since then no difficulty has arisen in 
that direction. He has sold both on the high and 
low markets, the highest price received being fl I 
and the lowest §1.25. During the dark days of 
the Civil War he was always a supporter of the 
Union, and politically is a Republican. He never 
belonged to any religions organization until 1885, 
when he united with the church. His acquaint- 
ance with the men of the county is surpassed by 
none, as his active business relations, covering over 
fifty years, have brought him in contact with a 
large majority of the people in Buchanan County, 
and with many beyond her borders. He is still a 
hale, hearty, vigorous man, and is as willing to 
grapple with hard work and the perplexities of life 
as ever — an unusually clear-headed mao for one of 
his years. 



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FRANK P. YENAWINE, whose residence is 
in one of the beautiful suburbs of St. Jo- 
seph, namely Wyatt Park, is City Elec- 
trician and Superintendentof the St. Joseph 
City Electric Light Plant. This position is one in 
volving considerable responsibility and requiring 
the skill of an expert in the management, as there 
are twelve dynamos, each having a two thousand 
candle power, and each furnishing illumination 
through thirty lights; also in the near future the 
city's lighting capacity will probably be increased 
by the introduction of three more large dynamos. 
This position of superintendent also involves a 
heavy financial responsibility as the lighting of 
the streets cost something like $70 |>er year for 
each lamp. But all burdens are light to those like 
Mi. Yenawine, amply able to discharge the duties 
of a difficult position both by reason of love of the 
work and unusual fitness for it. 

Mr. Yenawine began work as a line constructor 
at Keokuk, Iowa, about twelve years ago, erecting 
a telegraph and telephone line to Chicago. In that 



city he engaged in electric light work for a time, 
coming to St. Joseph in 1887, where he established 
the American District Telegraph Company. Boon 
after he added to that the St. Joseph Electric 
Supply Company. For the People's Railroad 
Oompany this concern did all of the wiring and 
put in all the incandescent lights in the stations, 
in addition to the street construction work. 

In September, 181)1, Mr. Yenawine became 
Superintendent of the city plant and City Elec 
trician, being the first who has occupied that posi 
tion. He has about sixteen men regularly em- 
ployed, and owing to his genius and well directed 
efforts, St. Joseph is as well lighted and brilliant 
B city at night as can be found on these western 
prairies. Mr. Yenawine is absorbed in hi> work 
and fully realizes the truth that electricity is the 
great and coming power which will move the 
world. He is an expert electrician, thoroughly 
familiar with all the details of his work. He has 
recently superintended the wiring of the new Craw- 
ford Opera House. 

Mr. Yenawine was born near Louisville, Ky., 
August 23, 1S53. When he was a lad he removed 
with his parents to Keokuk, Iowa, where he grew 
to manhood. In that city his father, W. H. Yena- 
wine, carried on a large mill. The maiden name 

of our subject's mother was . She was a 

native of , while the father was born in 

. When sixteen years old Mr. Yenawine 

commenced traveling for the house of in 

Chicago, continuing in their employ until he com 
menced electrical work about the year 1881. His 
brother, \V. M., was in the employ of a telephone 
company at St. Joseph, and afterward became 
Superintendent, of the system. lie also served for 
two years in Kansas City as Superintendent of the 
Missouri & Kansas Telegraph Company. His 
death occurred on June 10, 1890, when he was 
still in the prime of manhood, being only thirty -~ix 
years of age. It was largely owing to this 
brother's interest and recommendat ions that Mr 
Yenawine cast in his lot with the inhabitants of St. 
Joseph. 

In this city, September 3, 1889, WBS celebrated 

the marriage of Frank P. Yenawine and Mrs. 
Mamie- Maisner. widow of . a prominent 



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citizen. Mrs. Yenawine was born and reared in 

, and is a lady of superior education and 

natural talent. The pleasant home over which she 
presides is located at street. 



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IlOHN A. DEAKINS is successfully engaged 
vl in farming on Sections 13 and 14, Platte 
%JJ Township, Buchanan County. He has a tine 
farm of 137.\ acres, all but twenty of which 
is on Section 13. He numbers many friends in 
the county, is popular and prominent in Platte 
Township and is a leader in politics in this vicinity. 
His birth occurred in Washington County, Tenn., 
August 13, 1847. His paternal grandfather, a 
native of Maryland, was one of the early settlers 
of Tennessee. He was of Scotch-Irish descent. 

Richard Deakins, the father of our subject, was 
born in eastern Tennessee and on arriving at 
mature years became owner of a farm and also 
carried on a flour and saw mill. In 1856 he came 
overland with his family to Missouri. It had been 
his intention to settle in Arkansas, but as he did 
not like that State, he proceeded westward to 
Buchanan County. The journey was made with 
three teams and two wagons, the Mississippi being 
crossed at Memphis. In 1857 it was that Mr. 
Deakins purchased the farm on which his son is 
still living. He greatly improved it and engaged 
in general farming until shortly before his death 
in 1873. 

The mother of our subject, whose maiden name 
was Catherine Gorst, was, like her father, a native 
of Virginia. Her grandfather emigrated from 
Germany and engaged in farming in the Old 
Dominion. Mrs. Deakins, who is over seventy- 
four years old, makes her home with her children. 
She is still quite active and has made two trips 
alone to Oregon, where two of her children reside. 
Two brothers of our subject are located in this 
county and one is in western Kansas. The father 
of these children was previously married, and by 
his first union had oight children, three of whom 
are living. 

John A. Deakins received very little schooling 
as during the war education was almost abandoned 



in this part of the south. However, lie had 
managed to obtain some learning in the pioneer 
log school-house. He was early set to work on 
the farm and often swung a cradle all day in the 
fields with the men, while still a youth. On his 
marriage in 1867, to Miss Eliza Kinnaid, he 
became possessor of twenty acres adjoining the 
home farm. Mrs. Deakins was born in this town- 
ship and came from a pioneer family that emi- 
grated from Kentucky. The young couple com- 
menced house keeping in a log cabin. Our subject 
devoted himself to the improvement of the farm on 
which he resided until 1880, when he rented the 
old homestead. Three years later he became the 
owner of the place on which he lias since erected a 
new house and barn. On this place is the finest 
spring in the township. During the entire year 
it never goes dry, but, furnishes an abundance of 
water for the house and stock. Our subject keeps 
a good grade of horses, cattle and hogs, and 
raises large crops of grain, hay, etc. 

Six children came to bless the union of Mr. and 
Mrs. Deakins, namely: Annine M., now the wife of 
Mr. Bogard, of Andrew County; Catherine 
Beattle, Francis, Elida T., Lula Theodora, David 
F. Bunyan. The five youngest are all at home. 
They are regular attendants of the Christian 
Church at Gore with which the parents hold mem- 
bership. 

For several years Mr. Deakins was a member of 
the County Democratic Central Committee and has 
been sent as a delegate to nearly every county and 
congressional convention of late years. He lias 
served both the grand and petit juries and is now 
a school director. For five years continuously he 
was Road Overseer and it is due to him to say that 
to that fact is largely due the tine condition of 
roads in this township. In manner Mr. Deakins 
is so genial and pleasant that he is universally 
liked, and has hosts of friends. 



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M/ICHAEL K. GOETZ. Among the re- 
spected citizens of St. Joseph and those 
who have witnessed its almost phenomenal 
growth is our subject, who first came here 
in 1858 and the year following started a brewery. 



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He is now proprietor of the extensive City Brew, 
ery on the corner of Sixth and Albemarle str<>i>ts. 
Mr. Qoetz lias dealt considerably in real estate, is 
the owner of about twenty five vacant lots in this 
city and also of some six residences. The birth 
place of our subject was in Engenheun, Alsace, 
Germany, the date of that event being January 
16, 1833. His father, Michael K., Sr., was also a 
native of the same country, where he engaged in 
farming. He was only twenty eight years of age 
at the time of his death, which occurred the same 
year as our subject's birth. The mother of the 
latter was in her girlhood Miss Mary C. Koell, who 
was likewise a native of Germany, coming of a 
Protestant family. .She was called from this life 
in the Fatherland at the age of sixty-four. Mi- 
chael K. is the younger of two children and was 
reared in his native land, working on the home 
farm until arriving at his majority. 

When just twenty one years of age our subject 
left his native laud, crossed the Atlantic, leaving 
Havre on Jnne 24, 1 854, in the sailing vessel "Con- 
necticut."' After a voyage of sixty one days he 
arrived in New York city in August, and at once 
went to Buffalo, where he secured employment as 
a clerk in a grocery store, working for a second 
cousin for three and a half years.. In 1858 he 
started fur California by way of St. Louis and by 
boat up the Missouri, landing in St. Joseph in 
April. Liking the looks of this city and believing 
that it was destined to have a great future, he did 
not proceed further but entered the employ of 
Henry Nunning, working in his brewery for ten 
months. In L859 he embarked in the same busi- 
ness for himself, starting on the same spot and 
putting up a small frame building. As his busi- 
ness increased lie enlarged his plant until the 
building now is 90x120 in dimensions. In 1885 
Mr. Goetz put in an ice machine, being one of the 
first brewers in the west to use this valuable im- 
provement, His building is fitted up with all 
modern improvements, elevators, engines and ma 
chinery. 

In this city, in the year 1804, a marriage cere 
mony was performed which united the fortunes of 
Mr. Goetz and Caroline Clinck, who was born in 
Wurtemberg, Germany, and came to the United 

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States when only ten years of age. Their union 
has been blessed with a family of an children, 
namely: Knima, who was educated in this city: 
William L., a graduate of Bryanl A- Stratton's 
Business College, and a practical brewer, who is 
foreman of his father's brewery and has just coin 
pleted a course at the American Brewing Academj 
of Chicago; Frank, a graduate of Bitter's Busi- 
ness College, and a machinist in St. Louis; Albert 
R., also a graduate of Bitter College, collector for 
his father; Henry E. , now at tending t he Si . Joseph 
City Business College, and Annie, the youngest of 
the family, still at home with her parents attend- 
ing school. Our subject is a member of the 
Turner's Society and the United Slates Brewers' 
Association. In politics he is independent, cboos 
ing to cast his ballot in favor of the man who, in 
his estimation, is best qualified to fill a cerlain 
position regardless of party. 



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GAPT. GEOBGE YOUNG, who is engaged 
in farming on Section 6, Center Township. 
Buchanan County, was one of the lirst to 
enlist during the late war. He raised a 
company of young men from St. Mary's College, 
Marion County, Ky., in April, 1861, and was made 
Captain of the same. He joined Col. Grigsby's 
regiment, being attached to the command of Gen. 
John Morgan. He was engaged in the battle of 

Perryville, and fr there to Cumberland Gap, 

fought night and day. He was in the battles and 
engagements of Wytheville, Va., and Greasy Creek, 
on the Cumberland river, after which he went on 
the Ohio raid with Morgan. With forty men he 
drove the videttes half way through Cincinnati; 
was captured with Morgan, being imprisoned in 
Cam]) Douglas for three months, On a very 
windy night our subject and Lieut. Catlin gol 
possession of two overcoats belonging to Union 
soldiers, took advantage of the storm, and follow 
ing one of the guards down hi-, heat, struck him 
with a stick of wood and esoaped through the 
parapet. On their arrival in Chicago the] received 
help and went, to Windsor, Canada, staying there 
for six months. 



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George Young was there put ou detached service 
and took part in the capture of the steamer Philo 
Parsons, which was sunk at Maiden. Luke P. 
Blackburn and Marshall George Kain, of Balti- 
more, there organized a command for the purpose 
of operating along the lake. After being at 
Montreal for two months our subject started for the 
south in an English mail steamer by way of Hali- 
fax and St. George, Bermuda. There he waited 
for two weeks and then started for Wilmington, N. 
C. , the boat being chased by the man-of-war 
"Connecticut." He went to Richmond, receiving 
a furlough for three months, and then returned to 
his command at Aberdeen, Va. , fighting independ- 
ently until the close of the war. He was in the 
battle of Cynthiana, and in 1863, while on picket 
duty at Monticello, Ky., was attacked by Wol- 
ford's cavalry, being wounded in the groin by a 
miuie ball. 

In the year 1802, when scouting near Talla- 
homa, Tenn., he was captured and put on the 
train to be taken to the Nashville prison. Though 
he was in a stock-car going twenty miles an hour, 
he removed one of the slats and jumped, receiving 
but little injury . He was at another time captured 
bv some of Morgan's command. 

After Capt. Young's service of four years was 
completed he went to Canada, where he remained 
until 1866. His father had brought forty five 
slaves to Missouri. One of these, a large and 
desperate mulatto, saw Mr. Young, Sr. , bury 
$8,000 in gold in the ground and that night stole it. 
They took it from him and he ran away to Atchi- 
son, Kans., where he raised a band of men to kill 
our subject and his father. Through strategy the 
former got him to return to Missouri, and had him 
tied at home with the intention of putting him in 
jail at St. Joseph, but that night the slavo was 
loosed and in the melee our subject was fired 
upon and defended himself, the mulatto being 
killed. This caused trouble for Mr. Young, and 
after his return from the army he was tried in 
court, being acquitted. 

George Young, St., was born in Marion County, 
Ky., in 181*0. His father, whose Christian name 
was also George, was born in Culpeper County, 



Va., and was a soldier in the War of 1812. Our 
subject's mother, Mary, was the daughter of Dr. 
Ephraim McDowell, a noted physician and sur- 
geon of Danville, Ky., who married the daughter 
of Gov. Isaac Shelby. Our subject is one of four 
children, two of whom are deceased. A sister, 
Mrs. Valentine, lives in Tennessee. The father 
and his family moved to Buchanan County, Mo., 
in 18r>9, settling on Section P>, Centre Township, 
where he cultivated a farm until shortly before his 
death in November, 1874. He was a keen busi- 
ness man and well respected in the region of his 
home. 

The birth of Capt. Young occurred in Shelby 
County, Ky. , December 4, 1829, and his education 
was obtained in one of the log school-houses of the 
day. In 1854, in company with Green, son of 
Cassius M. Clay and Wiley Glenn, he furnished 
the Government with three thousand mules, bought 
in Mexico, to which country he made two trips, 
driving the animals to Missouri, each journey tak- 
ing six months. 

Afterward for awhile he kept a livery stable in 
Louisville, since which time he has been an agri- 
culturist. In 1859 he came to Missouri with his 
father and with the exception of the years spent in 
the war and the short time he was in Kansas, this 
county has been his home. His farm comprises 
three hundred and sixty four acres and is es 
teemed one of the very best in the county. One 
field, which has within its limits one hundred and 
twenty acres, is as level as the floor. On the place 
is an orchard of sixteen acres and a vineyard of 
eight acres. 

In the year 1873 the Captain wedded Cynthia 
A., youngest daughter of Judge Thomas A. Brown, 
now Presiding Judge of the County Court. They 
are the parents of five children, only two of whom, 
Maggie T. and Wallace Brown, are now living. 
The mother is a member of the Cumberland Pres- 
byterian Church and is a lady of culture and re- 
finement. Our subject is a stanch Democrat, 
having frequently been sent as a delegate to con 
ventions of the party, and has been Central Com- 
mitteeman. He is a member of the school board 
and is giving his children good advantages. 



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I SHAM S. TALBOT, M. I). It is a pleasure 
to tli>> biographer to head this sketch with the 
[ name of a man who is iu every sense worthy 
of the distinction afforded by honorable men 

tioil among the distinguished citizens of the coin 
mnnity in which he has passed the active years of- 
liis life, and the name with which this paragraph 
is introduced is that of one whose connection with 
Buchanan County dates hark with honor to him 
self and credit to the community to the time of 
his arrival here. 

Dr. Isham Talbot is the son of James W. Tal- 
bot, whose birth occurred iu Bourbon County, Ivy.. 
March 1(1, 1796. He in turn is the son of James 
S. and Unity (DeWitt) Talbot, natives of Virginia. 
The grandfather was a Revolutionary soldier, seiz- 
ing all through that struggle. The maiden name 
of our subject's mother was Mary Strother, the 
daughter of the Rev. George and Mary (Duncan) 
Strother. the father being a prominent minister in 
the Methodist Episcopal Church South. He began 
preaching the gospel at the early age of twenty 
years and continued with great success for sixty 
live years. 

The parents of Mrs. Talbot were married in 
the Blue Grass State, where her birth occurred, 
and where also she died in 1X38. The family in 
1S4H came to this state, the father locating on a wild 
tract of land in Marion Township. On (hat prop 
erty lie erected a little log cabin and did much 
hard work in placing the land under good im- 
provement. His death occurred in 1885, at the 
home of Dr. Talbot. Of the parental family of 
nine children, our subject is the only one now 
living. His mother was a member of the Method 
is( Church South. His father was very promi 
Dent in political affairs, and while a resident of 
Kentucky served two terms in the responsible 
position of Sheriff. 

Dr. Isham Talbot was born .Inly 15, 1833, in 
Carroll County, Ky., and was a lad of ten years 
when he accompanied his father on the removal 
to this state. Unlike the majority of farmer bids, 
he was given an excellent education, supplement 
ing the knowledge gained in the common schools 
of his neighborhood by attendance at Chapel Hill 
College in La Fayette County, this state. When 



leaving school he assisted in the snrvej of the 
Hannibal Railroad, working under Jeff Thompson, 

who is well known in this vicinity. 

Being determined to enter the professional field. 
Dr. Talbot, in 1852, began the study of medicine 
under the tutelage of Dr. B. P. Donaldson, of 
S;m Antonio, Mo., in whose office he remained foi 
three years. After receiving his diploma, Dr. 
Talbot practiced with his instructor until 1856, at 
which time he moved to Baston, where he w.as the 
first resident physician. He soon bad a very large 
following and is widely known throughout this 
section as one of the oldest and ablest of his pro 
fession. 

In 1866 Dr. Talbot added the occupation of 
farmer to his already busy life, and at the present 
time is the proud possessor of two hundred tillable 
acres, which, by a proper rotation of cropB, yield 
him a handsome income. In 1883 he erected a 
comfortable residence on his estate at a cost of 
SI. SOU. 

His marriage, which was celebrated in 1854, 
waswith Miss Eveline, daughter of Dr. B. F. Don- 
aldson. To them was born a family of ten children, 
of whom the following live are living: George \\\, 
Andrew J., Mary J., Laura and Eliza M. Mrs. 
Talbot departed this life August '_".», 1869, and th.' 
lady to whom the Doctor was married Mav IS. 
1871, was Mrs. Mary 0. Mahan. She was tin- 
daughter of John M. and Virginia (Finlei I 
Wyatt and the widow of John T. Mahan. Mr. 
Wyatt died in 1851, bat his good wife, who sur- 
vives at the advanced age of eighty-five years, 
makes her home with her son on the homestead in 
Marion Township. 

Mrs. Mary ('. Talbot was born in Hart Connlv, 
Ky., July 11, 1841, and by her union with Dr. 
Talbot has become the mother of four children, of 
whom Isham W.. Virginia L. and Charles A M 
are living. They are both devoted members of 
the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, in which 
body Dr. Talbot has been Elder since I860. 

Socially Dr. Talbot is a prominent Mason and 
Odd Fellow, having tilled all the chairs in the l.il 
ter order. He has also been Master of the Ma 
sonic fraternity and held a like position in the 
Grange. George W. Talbot, the eldest son ,,f 



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our subject by bis first marriage, is a prominent 
pbysician of Denver, Colo., while Andrew J. is 
traveling for D. M. Steele & Company, of Omaba. 
Dr. Talbot in politics is a standi Democrat, and 
has often been sent as a delegate by that party to 
state conventions. He is wideawake and up to 
the times iu every respect, well posted on the gen- 
eral topics of the day, alive to the interests of 
the section in which he lives, and is generous and 
whole-souled in the use of his means in behalf of 
enterprises that commend themselves to his excel- 
lent judgment. 



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FRANK B. ELLIS, a leading attorney of 
Plattsburg, Mo., is one of the most eloquent 
pleaders of the Clinton County bar, where, 
strong iu argument, logical in discussion, 
and thoroughly at home in civil and criminal law, 
he is heard with close attention in every court. 
Mr. Ellis is a cultured gentleman of high literary 
attainments, and commands the respect and regard 
of a host of friends and clients. Onr subject was 
born in Liberty, Clay County, Mo., August 20, 
1857. His father, James Ellis, a farmer, was a 
native of Kentucky, but removed to Clay County, 
Mo., iu 1844, and after residing there a number of 
years located in Clinton County, when our subject 
was but little more than a year old. In 1859 the 
father settled with his family three miles east of 
Cameron, in Caldwell County, where he yet 
resides. The mother of our subject, Susan 
Boughton, was born in Virginia, and was the 
daughter of John P. Boughton, an early pioneer of 
Clay County, Mo. Mr. and Mrs. James Ellis were 
united in marriage in Liberty in 1853. 

Frank B. Ellis, one of four living children, was 
reared upon his father's farm and received a pri- 
mary education in the common schools of his home 
neighborhood. At twenty-one years of age he 
taught school three terms iu De Kalb County, and 
during the sessions of 1880, 1881 and 1882 con- 
tinned his instruction, at the same time pursuing 
his legal studies with J. F. Harwood, then of 
Cameron, now of Maysville. In 1881 our subject 
was admitted to the bar, passing his examination 



before Judge Bradden, of Kingston, Caldwell 
County, and in 1883 entered upon the practice of 
his profession in Lathrop, which he made his home 
until he came to Plattsburg June 1, 1891. While 
in Lathrop be served with efficiency one term as 
Mayor, being elected upon the Democratic ticket. 
Although not politically engaged at present, he 
attends conventions and is naturally much in- 
terested in local and national issues. Mr. Ellis 
occupies Judge V. R. Porter's old office, and owns 
a magnificent library of three hundred and fifty 
volumes, among which are sone of the finest and 
most valuable reference books in the country. Our 
subject has a full set of the Missouri Reports, 
Missouri Appeal Reports, S. W. Reporter and 
Digest, and many complete sets of American 
decisions. 

Mr. Ellis has rapidly acquired an extended 
practice, and is generally found among the counsel 
in every important case tried in the county. His 
practice extends to all the state and federal 
courts, and in the well known case of Hugh 
versus McDivett, reversed in the Supreme Court, 
he made a telling hit. The case had been before 
the courts from 1883 until 1891, when it was taken 
to the Supreme Court. The point of argument 
was that when an administrator and the papers 
failed to recite that the administrator was per- 
sonally the officer taking the acknowledgment, the 
Circuit (Sandusky) Judge decided that the acknowl- 
edgment was not good. This was the decision 
reversed by the Supreme Court. The case was 
argued personally by our subject before the 
Supreme Court and became a precedent in the 
state. The sale was made under the law of 1835, 
but in 1845 a new law passed, and the acknowl- 
edgment was taken in 1840, but he held that it 
was good and should be construed under the same 
law which governs the sale. 

Mr. Ellis has made vigorous campaigns in the 
county in behalf of his party, but devotes his time 
almost exclusively to the practice of his profession, 
and has never prosecuted a man, beiug constantly 
engaged by the defense. He is also a partner in 
the insurance firm of Ellis & Finch, and invests in 
loans and real estate, realizing handsomely from 
this line of business. Fraternally he is a valued 



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member of the Kodish Commandery at Cameron, 
and socially no gentleman in Plattsburg is a 
greater favorite than lie. 

A close student of Shakespeare and thoroughly 
at borne in the Chautauquau Course, Mr. Ellis has 
mastered a wide range of instructive reading and 
especially enjoys literary effort and entertainment. 
Acknowledged by the general public to he one of 
the foremost of the young lawyers of Missouri, 
and having already attained almost phenomenal 
success in the defense of various desperate cases, 
he has a bright future before him in which he may 
ju-.th hope to emulate the must illustrious legal 
luminaries of this generation. A host of friends. 
thoroughly appreciating his superior ability and 
brilliant talents, predict for him the highest 
honors, which but wait to crown his later efforts 
with the rich fruition of assured success. 






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THOMAS KENNEDY for nearly twenty years 
has been engaged in the grocery business at 
No. '2402 South Sixth street, and controls 
an extensive and remunerative trade. He 
i^ esteemed one of the enterprising business men 
of St. Joseph, where he has resided since 1873. 
He has made his own way to the top, having com 
menced in this city as a teamster and having 
through industry and strict attention to business 
reached tin- position he now holds. 

In County Limerick, Ireland, occurred the birth 
of our subject. His father was a farmer in the 
Emerald Isle and apprenticed our subject to learn 
the grocery business when only fifteen years of 
age. Upon arriving at mature years he engaged 
in business for himself, carrying on a grocery 
trade in Limerick. In I860 Mr. Kennedy, believ 
ing that the New World afforded wider opportuni- 
ties to a young man desirous of success, crossed 
tlic Atlantic, starting from QueenBboro on a 
steamer bound for New York city. On his arrival 
in that metropolis he spent one year there and 
then removed to Chicago, which was his home for 
the succeeding three years. Next removing to 
Iowa, he engaged in fanning for some time in Al 
lamakee County. Thence removing to Nebraska, 



he homesteaded a farm in Pawnee County, upon 

which he remained until it was proved up. 

Mr. Kennedy tiually concluded to give up farm 
ing, on account of the grasshoppers, which de- 
stroyed his crops and made him thoroughly die 
couraged as to his ultimate success as an agricultur- 
ist. In 1S73 he located in St. .Joseph, engaging 
for some time in teaming, and with the money 
thus earned and with some he had previously 
saved, he started his present business and has 
steadily increased his trade. In 1889 he erected 
two stores on South Sixth street, which he sold to 
goocl advantage, and then returned to his native 
laud on account of poor health. He resided in 
Dublin for some time, engaging in business in 
that city until October, 1891, when he returned to 
America, taking up the same property, and has 
since cuntinued in the grocery business as formerly. 

In Ireland was celebrated the marriage of Mr. 
Kennedy and Honora MeQuade, a native of that 
country. They have three living children: Joseph, 
who is engaged in the wholesale business in 
Chicago; Charles, who is in partnership with his 
father; and Aunid. The family attend the Church 
of the Holy Rosary, and politically Mr. Kennedy 
is a champion of the Democratic party. 



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OHN DAVIS. Buchanan County is justly 
proud of her foreign-born citizens, who are 
honorably bearing their share in sustaining 
her interests and extending her wealth. 
Among these is John Davis, who is living a retired 
life on bis beautiful estate in Marion Township. 
It comprises two hundred and twenty-four acres 
on Section 2, is placed under substantial improve- 
ments, the fields are well tilled, and a neat set of 
farm buildings adorns the place. 

The parents of our subject, Louis and Maria 
(Evans) Davis, were natives of Wales, and oncom- 
ing to America in ISIS located in Gallia County, 
Ohio, where their decease occurred. They were the 
parents of eight children, three of whom are living 
at the present time. John Davis was born December 
31, 1816, in Wales, and was an infant in his 
mother's arms at the time of the removal of the 



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family to the New World. He attended the com- 
mon schools in Ohio and thus received a good in- 
sight into the ordinary branches taught in the 
English tongue. His mother died when he was a 
lad of fifteen years and young Davis remained at 
home until reaching his twenty fifth year, and in 
1841, when leaving the parental roof, found his 
way to this then western country and made his 
home with his brother David, now deceased. 

Miss Rebecca Deppeu became the wife of Mr. 
Davis in 1S48. She was the daughter of Peter 
and Catherine (Spong) Deppen, natives of Penn- 
sylvania, where the mother died in 1825. The 
father on coming to Missouri, in 1841, located in 
Marion Township, Buchanan County, where his 
decease occurred when quite advanced in years. 
Mrs. Davis, who was born July 24, 1824, together 
with her sister Catherine, Mrs. Wilson, are the 
only members of the family of nine children living. 

Like many of the old settlers, Mr. and Mrs. 
Davis, when locating here, had very little to begin 
life upon, their worldly possessions including a 
few household goods, two yoke of cattle and a 
horse. They made themselves as comfortable as 
possible in a rude log cabin with stick chimney, 
[luncheon floor and clapboard roof, the husband 
in the meantime working very hard to clear his 
laud. That his efforts were not in vain is noted 
from the fact that at the time of his removal to 
his present farm, in 1865, his place, comprising 
three hundred and sixty acres, was fenced and 
under the plow. He was very brave indeed to 
take upon himself the hard task of breaking an- 
other new farm, but such was the case, for when 
his present estate came into his possession only 
twenty acres were under the plow and fenced. 
He has been one of the hardest workers in this 
county, and the property upon which he now re- 
sides forms one of the valuable farms in the com- 
munity. In 1870 Mr. Davis erected a handsome 
residence which cost §2,700, where he is now 
spending his later years, enjoying the fruits of 
his busy life. 

Of the six children born to Mr. and Mrs. Davis 
four are living, viz.: Peter M. , who married Lucy 
Wyatt, lives in Gentry County, Mo.; Thomas W., 



who married Cullie Goodman, makes his home iu 
this county, Eliza E., who is the wife of George 
W. Bernard, also makes this county her home; 
and Albert V., who married Miss Emma Hall, 
now deceased. Our subject and his wife are de- 
voted members of the Cumberland Presbyterian 
Church, which body Mr. Davis has served as Dea- 
con. He has given his children good educations, 
and his interest in school affairs has led him to be 
placed on the "Board" as trustee. In politics 
he is a stanch Republican, and socially is a 
Granger. 

After his marriage Mr. Davis, in the spring of 
1850, crossed the plains to California, the journey 
occupying four and one-half mouths. He worked 
in the gold mines at Sacramento until December 
of that year, when he went to Jackson Creek, spent 
a short time there, and later boarded a vessel at 
San Francisco bound for Salmon river, three 
hundred miles north. He was snowed in for 
some time at that place and when able to leave, 
crossed the Salmon mountains, which were almost 
insurmountable in that season of the year, and 
made his way up the Salmon river for some dis- 
tance. He again crossed the Salmon mountains 
to a bar on the river of that name. Then in com 
pany with his partner he began draiuing the 
creek, and in July they were mining on their own 
"hook.'' Mr. Davis was fairly successful in this 
venture and at the end of two months had $500. 
Again crossing the mountains he was engaged in 
mining on the Trinity river, and while there re- 
ceived his fir.st letter from home, after a two years' 
absence. 

July 8, 1852, thoroughly homesick and anxious 
to see his family, Mr. Davis started home by the 
Nicaragua route and has ever since been engaged 
in the peaceful occupation of cultivating the soil, 
which he has found to be very profitable. He has 
"■iven each of his children $1,500 with which to 
start in life, still retaining for himself a sufficient 
sum to enable him to live comfortably the rest of 
his days. He is widely and favorably known in his 
community, and his comfortable and hospitable 
home is ever open to his many friends, among 
whom he is very popular. 



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I I KNRY KIUG, JR., who makes Wb home in 
p-H St. Joseph) is much interested in all that 
1 pertains to the growth and advancement of 
■f this vicinity. H<' holds many responsible 

positions, being manager of the Henry Krug Pack 
iug Company, Vice-president of the German 
American Hank, and also President of the Gor- 
man American Bank Building Company. 

Mr. Krag was Iwrn and reared in this city and 
is not only a popular young business man, bul a 
leading and influential citizen. He was horn in 
St. Joseph, July 9, 1861, to Henry and Louise 
Krug. Henry King was of German descent, run 
ning a hotel in Vienna for a number of years. 
About the year 1850 he emigrated to America and 
located in Glasgow, Mo., where he opened up a 
meat market. Soon after this, misfortune beset 
him on every hand, and on account of extremely 
poor health he was advised to travel for his physi- 
cal improvement Fitting himself out with a 
team of horses and covered wagon, he slowly 
wended his way overland to California. This trip 
revived his spirits and helped him both physically 
and mentally, and he remained some time in the 
west, where he engaged principally in merchandise 
business in Stockton, Cal. 

In 1852 Mr. Krug came to St. Joseph by the 
way of the Pauman & New Orleans Railway, and 
engaged in the grocery business with Mr. Hax, 
under the name of Hax & Krug;.the latter also be- 
came connected with a branch store in Denver. 
Colo. The above-named firm gradually became 
interested in the pork- packing trade, and thinking 
to improve their condition financially they gave up 
the grocery business and dissolved the partnership 
about 1869. Two years later Mr. Krug went to 
Weston. Mo., where he went into the pork pack 
ing business, in which ho successfully engaged for 
eighteen months, at the end of which time he was 
burned out, and returned to St. Joseph. 

In 1 S~;3 Mr. Krug erected a building iu which 
to carry on his business ami has been so prospered 
as to add other rooms from time to time, until now 
he is regarded as one of the most extensive and 
successful pork-packers in this city. In 18T'» the 
institution was incorporated as the Henry Krug 
Packing Company, of which lie has been Presi 



dent ever since. The firm started with a capital 
of $60,000, hut has increased until now it aggre- 
gates S |i Ml, 1 100 with an accumulated surplus. The 
buildings cover about four blocks of ground, all of 
which are fitted on! with modern conveniences for 
packing and one-half of which is covered with im 
provements. The capacity is two thousand hogs 
daily, including cutting for domestic trade and 
also for the meat markets of the southwest and 
west. They have in their employ from one hun- 
dred to two hundred and twenty five men. 

Mr. Krug was one of the most prominent per 
sonages belonging to the Union Car Line, in fact, 
its principal financial backer, and is largely inter 
ested in real estate, owning what is known as the 
Krug Park, which was given by him and William 
Krug to the city of St. Joseph for a public park. Iu 
June, 1893, he purchased a largo block of Ger- 
man American Hank stock, and at its re-organiza- 
tion was unanimously elected its President. 

The mother of our subject was Louisa Hax in 
her single life, and was born in Darmstadt, Ger- 
many, and married iu St. Joseph. 

Mr. Krug was the only child, and was reared 
and educated in the public and high schools of 
this city. When but fifteen years of age he quit 
school and started iu life for himself, and it is un- 
necessary to remark more concerning his success, 
as his record heretofore has very clearly shown his 
ambition and industry. 

Thinking it not good for man to live alone, Mr. 
Krug prepared a fine residence east of the Krug 
Park and took unto himself a wife in tho person 
of Miss Selma Hegner, the adopted daughter of 
Henry Krug. The marriage ceremony was oele 
brated May is, 1892. Mrs. Krug was born in this 
city, where she was carefully reared and educated 
and brought up in the faith of the Presbyterian 
Church, as was also her husband Politically our 
subject is a zealous Republican. 

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JOHN MOHAN is an extensive and successful 
j pork-packer of St. Joseph, Buchanan County, 
and was born in New Ross, County of Wea 

ford, Ireland, September 'JO. 1848. His 
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County, where be was foreman of the packing 
establishments. The grandfather of our subject 
was also in the same business and died in 1850. 
The mother of our subject was a native of Ireland 
and a daughter of John Malone, a brick-layer and 
contractor by occupation. Mrs. Moran died in 
1882, having been the mother of nine children, 
three of whom are still living. 

Our subject was the eldest of his parents' family 
and was reared in Ireland till he reached bis 
eighteenth year. When eleven years of age, he 
was employed in the packing industry until he 
came to America in 1861, locating in New York 
city, where he remained five and a half years, being 
employed during two years of that time by one 
Ed. Stokes, an eminent pork-packer of New York. 
Here he followed his occupation successfully. 

In 1863 Mr. Moran enlisted in the United States 
navy as fireman in the Gulf Squadron, where he 
remained one year. He was in the bombardment 
at Fort Fisher, which the Union side captured and 
held. In 1866 he went to Chicago and there fol- 
lowed his former occupation of pork-packing in 
the large firms in that city, working in the house 
of John Nash for nine years, and afterward be- 
coming his Superintendent. Several years later he 
superintended the packing-house of Toby & Booth 
for three years and then accepted the superin- 
tendency in the establishment of S. A. Ricker. 
Continuing his energetic and untiring labors, he 
plodded on until 1878, when he started in business 
in partnership with James T. Haley. For ten 
years the firm of Moran & Haley was widely known 
throughout the country, in which time they pros- 
pered greatly financially. In June of 1891 they 
sold their business to the International Packing 
Company. 

After Mr. Moran had sold out his share, he 
rented and operated the North American Packing 
and Provision House for six months and then made 
arrangements to come to St. Joseph. This im- 
mense establishment employed one hundred and 
forty five men the year around, and averaged the 
slaughter of eight hundred hogs daily, making a 
specialty of cutting for the English markets and 
consigning them from New York to Liverpool and 
Glasgow, to Bamford & Company. 



Mr. Moran chose for his life companion Miss 
Kate Murphy, who is a native of Wexford and 
came to America when but two years of age. Six 
children have blessed this union, namely: Michael, 
Patrick, Catherine, Celia, Gertrude and Loretta. 
Mr. Moran has been indissolubly connected with 
the advancement of this city's best interests. His 
residence is one of the finest and most beautiful 
ones in the city and has all the modern conveniences 
for a comfortable abode. Besides the pork packing 
business he is also engaged in jobbing, his office 
and wholesale market being located at No. 1 '-'- 
South Second street. Politically Mr. Moran is an 
advocate of the principles of the Democratic party 
and platform. At the present time his manager is 
Mr. P. E. Heneberry, late superintendent for John 
Morrell & Company (pork-packers of Ottumwa, 
Iowa), in whose service he labored for twelve years. 
Mr. Moran has been for many years an important 
factor in the rapid growth and progress of this lo- 
cality and holds a high place in the regard and es- 
teem of the general public. 



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FRANK W. MAXWELL, Secretary of the 
Commercial Club and a prominent citizen 
of St. Joseph, was born in Washington, 
Iowa, May 17, 1860. He is the younger of 
two sons born tb James C. and Mary (Mealy) 
Maxwell, natives of Pennsylvania, who were mar- 
ried in Ohio. The father followed the occupation 
of a carpenter at Cadiz, Ohio, but in an early day 
removed thence to Washington, Iowa, where he 
followed his trade and resided until his death. 
The mother now makes her home with Frank W. 

In the schools of Washington, Iowa, the subject 
of this biographical notice acquired a practical 
education, which fitted him for the responsibilities 
of life. His schooling ceased at the age of 
eighteen, but being a close observer and a thought- 
ful reader, ho has gained a fund of information 
both broad and deep, and is one of the best-in- 
formed men of St. Joseph. For a time he made 
his home in Chicago, where he followed the trade 
of a printer. From that city he returned to 
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wbere be filled the positioo of Night Ticket Agent 
for tin' Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad. 
After working in that capacity for six months, be 
came to St. Joseph in the fall of 1881 and accepted 
H position as clerk in the Rock Island ticket, office 
A short time afterward he became agent for that 
road in St. Joseph, and later was appointed Trav- 
eling Freight Agent. 

In the fall of 1SSS Mr. Maxwell resigned as 
Freight Agent, and going to Kansas City, accepted 
a position as Contracting Agent, for the Santa Fe 
Railroad, in which office he served with efficiency 
and fidelity for six months. He then accepted a 
similar position with the Maple Leaf Railroad and 
111 1 890 became Traveling Freight Agent for that 
company. Retiring from the railroad business, 
be located in Waterloo and embarked in business 
a^ a merchant. For two years he carried on his 
merchandising interests with energy and success, 
and at the expiration of that time came to St. 
Joseph and accepted the position of Secretary of 
the Commercial Club, which he still tills. 

October 15, 1889, Mr. Maxwell married Mrs. 
Maud Dougherty, who was born in Muscatine, 
Iowa. She passed from earth April 29, 1891. 
Mr. Maxwell is a man of shrewd business sagacity 
and tact. He maintains a deep interest in the 
welfare and progress of the city of St. Joseph and 
contributes to its growth in every way possible. 
In his political preferences, he votes and works 
for the success of the Republican party, being an 
ardent advocate of its principles. Socially be is a 
Knii/ht of Pvtbias. 



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FjRANCIS BROWNE. The life of this gen 
tleman furnishes an example of what a man 
with brains and business ability can ac 
complish by persistence, sagacity and in- 
dustry. His career, in its practical results, is an 
encouragement to every struggling young man 
who has ambition, resolution and a genius for hard 
work. The seed that, he has sown has fallen upon 
good ground and has grown and brought forth a 
hundred fold. He is at present living retired 
from active business of any kind in St. Joseph, 



with whoso interests he has been identified for so 
long 

The father of our subject, Francis Browne, Sr.. 
a native of Ireland, was born in County ( 'oik, 
while the mother, Ann (Geogahan) Browne, hailed 
from Dublin County. The father was a promi 
neut merchant in the city of Cork, where bis death 
occurred J uno 1, 1842. The mother, who preceded 
him to the better land by many years, died Octo- 
ber 31, 1N){'.>. Religiously she was a Catholic, 
while her husband was a member of the Episcopal 
Church. In politics he was a strong Conserva- 
tive. He held large Government contracts in bis 
native land, operating in wood, iron, etc., and at 
one time macadamized miles of roadway. He was 
also the proprietor of extensive stone quarries, and 
besides carrying on a farm, owned several large 
sutler stores. He stood high in Masonic circles 
and by dint of his personal qualities became one 
of the leading men of his county. In 1831 tire 
broke out in the largest of bis Miller stores and 
burned the buildings and contents. There being 
no insurance upon them, the whole was a total loss. 

Our subject, who was the only child of his par 
ents, was born in County Cork, Ireland, May li, 
1832. His mother dying when he was six months 
old, he was cared for by his father's sister, and 
when old enough was sent to a private school, 
where he remained until reaching his seventeenth 
year. Then starting out on his own account, he 
was employed as copyist by the British Govern- 
ment for about one year, being in the Royal Engi 
iiens' Department. Later he engaged as clerk 
for a Mr. Mcdarry in Butfcevant and remained 
with him until August, 1851, when with a light 
heart and an exceedingly light purse he started 
for America. 

About that timethe celebrated Father Matthew, 
who was trustee for the widowed aunt who hail 
reared our subject, bad a great desire to come to 
the New Worid. He did so, and one of her two 
sons, who had become a physician, was appointed 
professor of the school in which he had been 
trained. His ambition, however, was to enter the 
British Army, and with this in view he obtained 
an appointment as surgeon of the vessel which 
brought Father Matthew to America. Soon there 



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after bo was given the position of surgeon of one 
of the regiments in the British Army aud with the 
Sixty eighth Regiment was ordered to southern 
Russia. At the battle of Sebastopol be took charge 
of a detachment of soldiers in order to relieve a 
friend and at the opening of the battle was toru to 
pieces by a solid shot aud bis remains lie buried in 
the cemetery at Sebastapol. The other brother 
entered the civil service and was appointed clerk 
in the Quartermaster-General's office. 

He of whom we write lauded on American soil 
after a rough and stormy passage of thirty-eight 
days. The first moruing after his arrival he 
visited Peck Slip Market, aud never having seen a 
" nigger," was very greatly amused when Lis at- 
tention was called to a darkey twelve years of age 
who was sitting in a corner eating water-melon. 

Thinking that be could gain a better start in 
life in Connecticut our subject left New York, and 
going to New Haven began working in a printing 
establishment, his duties being to ran a stationary 
engine. In 1852 he was married to Miss Lucy 
M. Littleton, who was also born in his native 
county and to whom he bad been engaged prior to 
coming to America. The young couple made 
their home in New Haven until April 6, 1857, 
when, having received favorable reports of the 
western couutry from Father Tracy, a priest in 
Missouri, they started toward the setting sun, their 
destination being St. John's, Neb. After reaching 
St. Louis they found there was no such place as St. 
John's, and engaging passage on board the "Wash- 
ington City," they arrived in St. Joseph May 1, 
1S57. 

The uow nourishing city of St. Joseph was in its 
infancy, but Mr. Browne had no trouble in securing 
employment and soon engaged to work for the 
largest grocery house in the northwest. He re- 
mained with that firm until 1860, and for the suc- 
ceeding twelve months sold goods for the grocery 
house of William Riddle. At the expiration of 
that time he entered the employ of Nave & Mc 
Cord, beginning on a salary of $30 per month, 
which was raised in a few months to $1,000 per 
year and after two years' service to $1,500 per year. 
In February, 1800, our subject was giveu an in- 



terest in the above firm, being installed at the time 
of its incorporation as Secretary and Treasurer, 
which position he held until April 1, 1885, when 
he resigned. His relations with these gentlemen 
as employe and later as partner were always of 
the most friendly kind, and a truer or warmer friend 
he never had than James McCord, Sr., to whom be 
gives the credit of his success in life. Aside from 
the business mentioned, our subject was associated 
with the above firm in their packing, cattle aud 
manufacturing interests. 

In April, 1885, Mr. Browne visited his old home 
in Ireland and hunted up his cousin iu the Quar- 
termaster's Department, from whom be had heard 
nothing since 1857 until 1881, when his daughter, 
who visited Europe under the charge of Bishop 
Hogan, found him installed as chief of the depart- 
ment. Mrs. Browne, who departed this life in De- 
cember, 1880, had become the mother of five chil 
dren, aud four are living, viz. : Ann, now the wife of 
Albert J. N. Wright, of St. Joseph; William, who 
married Miss Minnie Hays and is now cashier of 
. the Bank of Oberlin in Kansas; Mary C. and 
Francis P. , who is bookkeeper of the Midland Cof- 
fee Company; Joseph H. died in 1885. 

While iu Europe our subject was married to 
Mary A. Davis, August 27, 1885. The lady was 
born in 1857 and by her union with Mr. Browne 
has become the mother of five children, three of 
whom are deceased. Those living are Louis W. 
and Raymond T. 

Formerly an Episcopalian, our subject in 1860 
identified himself with the Catholic Church. Iu 
1881 be deeded forty acres of land to the Academy 
of Sisters of St. Joseph, aided them in the erec- 
tion of a new building aud furnished them with 
all the necessary farming implements and teams. 
In 1881 he assumed all the indebtedness of the 
institution, which he presented to them free from 
all incumbrance. The asylum is nou sectarian, all 
denominations aiding in its support. Its provis- 
ions are such that it can not be sold unless deemed 
advisable by the Circuit Court of Buchanan County, 
aud if that time ever comes the proceeds are to be 
invested iu property within three miles of the city 
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FRANK J. Ml MM, Chief Clerk intheCar Ac- 
countant's office of the Burlington & Mis 
Boon lines, is a practical railroad man and 
formerly occupied a like responsible position 
in Keokuk. In the city just mentioned occurred 
the birth of our subject, April 4. 1871. His father, 
Edward Mumm, was born in Holland and crossed 
the Atlantic with his parents to America in his 
b i)' hood. He acquired a good eduoation and, be 
ing a man of more than ordinary ambition and 
ability, lias made himself a place in the legal pro 
fessiOQ. He graduated from a law school, after 
which for some years he engaged iu practice in 
Eddyville, Iowa. He then permanently settled iu 
Keokuk, Iowa, and at the present time is accept 
ably tilling the position of County Recorder. His 
wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Swart, 
was likewise born in Holland aud by her marriage 
became the mother of seven children, of whom our 
subject is next to the youngest. 

The education of Frank Mumm was obtained in 
the excellent public and high schools of Keokuk. 
When sixteen years old, he commenced his career 
as a railroad man by entering the employ of the 
St. Louis, Kansas & Northwestern Railroad Co. 
He commenced at the lowest round of the ladder 
as a clerk in the general office but was soon pro 
moted to the chief clerkship in the office of H. \\ . 
Pratt, Car Accountant. 

Iu August, 1890, Mr. Pratt resigned his position 
and Mr. Mumm was honored with the place. This 
position he held to the full satisfaction of his 
superiors until May, 1891, when the four impor- 
tant western lines were consolidated and the head 
quarters placed in St. Joseph. As Mr. Dumbell 
was the oldest man and the longest in the service 
of the company, he was placed iu charge of the 
office as Car Accountant and OUT subject was given 
the secondary place as Chief Clerk. This position, 
however, is as responsible as his former one in 
Keokuk on account of the greater range of terri- 
tory covered and the consolidation of the four 
companies. 

In his political affiliations Mr. Mumm is a 
stanch ally of the Democracy. Iu religion he is a 
Catholic and attends the St. Joseph Cathedral. 



GLARENCE B. CLAGGETT, son of au earl) 
settler and influential public man, has also 
been quite active in political circles and has 
tilled several important positions in the gift 
of the people, being at the present time Deputy 
County Sheriff. He was born May 17, 1852, in 
Pleasant Valley, Washington County, Md., and 
passed his early boyhood there, removing with his 
parents to La Fayette County, in 1858, and later 
in i860 to Buchanan County, Mo. He attended 

the Ebenezer and the Walnut Grove Sri I houses 

during the winter and in the summer worked on 
his father's farm until IS'U, when the latter re- 
moved to St. Joseph and our subject was thus 
enable to attend the city schools. In tho fall of 
1867 the family passed the winter on the P. P. 
Frazier place, one milesouth of the city, and while 
on that fertile farm Mr. ('lagged engaged in rais 
ing small fruits. He planted a vineyard, put in 
the fust asparagus bed in this region and was vers 
BUCCessful in raising strawberries. In 1870 he at- 
tended the St. Paul's Episcopal School at Palmyra 
for two terms and then, returning, was clerk in the 
Floiist Greenhouse at Smith's Park for two years. 
In lS7o Mr. Claggeti became an employe of the 
Merchants' Insurance Co. during the sickness of A. 
Kirkpatrick and started as an office boy. He was 
faithful and industrious, paying strict attention to 
business aud endeavoring in every way possible to 
anticipate his employers' wants, and for this he 
naturally rose iu their estimation year by year and 
remained with them until 1SS5, or for about 
twelve years, for a portion of the time having been 
cashier aud book keeper. In 1SSS Mr. Claggett 
ran for the position of City Auditor, aud was de- 
feated by only forty six votes. In January, INS"), 
the company with which he had been so long hav- 
ing retired from business, he engaged in repre- 
senting several insurance companies, as he under- 
stood every phase of the business from beginning 
to end and the greatest confidence was placed in 
his judgment by the merchants aud citizens of 
St. Joseph. He continued as local agent until 
March. 1891, when he took in with him as a part- 
net •!. W. Fowler, and together they continued 
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an office under tbe State National Bank. This firm 
continued in the insurance business until January, 
1892, when our subject sokl out his interest to his 
partner. In April of that year he ran as a candi- 
date for the office of City Treasurer but was de- 
feated. For the remainder of the year he was 
engaged in general insurance lines mostly, and 
on January 1, 1892, was appointed Deputy Sheriff. 

From 1889 to 1S91 Mr. Claggett served as a 
member of the School Board from the Third 
Ward, now a part of the Fifth Ward, and was a 
member when the city was re districted, being on 
the building and High School committees. So- 
cially, he is a Royal Arch Mason, being Secretary 
of the Chapter. He belongs to the Order of Red 
Men and the A. O. U. W. He is a member of the 
Episcopal Church and politically casts his ballot 
in favor of the nominees of the Democratic party. 
He is a very popular gentleman, both in social and 
business circles, and well merits the high esteem in 
which he is held by all for his sterling qualities of 
real worth. 

Capt. M. M. Claggett, the father of the gentle- 
man whose name heads this sketch, has held the 
various offices of Deputy County Clerk, Coun- 
ty Collector in 1878 and 1879; Deputy County 
Collector for three years, Deputy Sheriff for two 
years, and for the same length of time was Coal Oil 
Inspector. Mr. Claggett was born near Hagers- 
town, Md., October 2, 1S27, and was a son of j 
Samuel, a native of the same state. The latter 
participated iu the war of 1812, though he was 
not eighteen years of age when he entered the serv- 
ice, was First Sergeant and later Captain of mili- 
tia in Maryland. He was an extensive farmer in 
Washington County. His father before him, 
whose christian name was Thomas, was also au 
agriculturist until his death iu Ireland in 1865. 
The family traces its descent from one of three 
brothers who emigrated to America from England, 
locating in the Central Atlantic States. The 
mother of Capt. Claggett was Miss Eliza, daughter 
of Dr. Zachariah. The latter was a practicing 
physician in Frederick County, Md. , was very suc- 
cessful and owned a large, old style farmhouse, 
built in true southern style. The mother, who 
was a member of the Episcopal Church, died iu 



the east, leaving three children, two of whom are 
still surviving. A sister, Mrs. Eliza Huyett, a 
prominent Christian Scientist, resides iu St. Jo- 
seph. 

Mr. Claggett was reared on the old farm with 
but limited school privileges, as he was only 
enabled to attend school for about three months 
at a time. His mother died when he was but little 
over twelve years old and after that he only at- 
tended school during the winter terms. He 
remained at home until reaching the age of 
twenty-three, when he rented a farm, carrying it 
on until 1857, when he sold it and that summer re- 
moved to Missouri. Iu February, 1858, he pur 
chased a farm, located iu La Fayette County, 
where he engaged iu agricultural pursuits for 
about two years and in 1860 settled six miles from 
St. Joseph, on an eighty-acre farm, which he cul- 
tivated until the war. Iu 1861 he enlisted iu the 
Eighty-first Missouri Militia, Company D, and 
was commissioned Captain. He was twice called 
into active service and for a while .was stationed 
and in charge of a post at Ridgley, acting as 
Major, serving until the war was over. In the 
election of November, 1860, he was detailed to 
guard the polls and did valuable service. 

In the fall of 1861 Mr. Claggett engaged in the 
grain business at Saxton Station and Station 
Joseph, being principally located in the latter 
place. The following year he engaged in contract- 
ing and freighting supplies for the government 
from Ft. Kearuey to Ft. Collins with mule trains. 
Afterwards he went to Montana, taking a stock of 
goods from St. Joseph to Salt Lake and Virginia 
City, selling them and also his teams. Returning 
to St. Joseph, he then engaged in partnership with 
John C. L. Evans in building one hundred miles 
of the St. Joseph & Denver Railroad, now known 
as the Grand Island. Upon this they were en- 
gaged for about two years, laying tracks from 
Sabetha, Kans., to beyond Fairbury. Iu 1878 
our subject was nominated and elected to the po- 
sition of County Collector, being a caudidate on 
the Democratic ticket. After serving for two years 
he was appointed Coal Oil Inspector under Gov. 
Phelps for a like period of time, and then Berved 
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this he served as Deputy SheritF and Deputy Clerk, 
when for a time he retired, feeling ihe need of a 

brief rest from his arduous work of years. In 
1891 he was made Deputy County Clerk under 
Mr. Campbell and as such is still serving. 

In Maryland, in the year 1 S,j 1 , Mr. Claggeti 
wedded Miss Sal all E. Roteler, who was horn in 
that stato. Her death occurred in 1SS1 in St. 
Joseph. Of this union were horn six children: 
Clarence B. , whose name heads this sketch; 
M. M., who died in Fia Fayette County; Edith E., 
a resident of St. Joseph; Samuel, who met death 
by an accident, being drowned in Lake Contrary, 
June, I SS 1 ; Henry M., wlio makes his home 
in Utah, and Sarah E. . who died in Springfield, 
Ohio. She was the wife of Mr. Cortwell, who was 
the Postmaster of that city. Mr. Claggett is a 
member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, 
belongs to Zeredatha Lodge in the Masonic Order 
and is now B member of and formerly Vestryman 
of the Episcopal Church. An active Democrat, he 
was for years on the Democratic County Commit 
tee and was also its Secretary for some time. 






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EMUEL G. ANDREWS, Local Freight 
Agent of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific 
j Railroad Company, is a practical, civil and 
mechanical engineer, and enjoys the confi- 
dence and esteem of his superiors to a liigh de- 
gree. Mr. Andrews was born in Rock Island, 111., 
March ID, 18f>r>, and is a son of Lemuel L. and 
Jane (Gilmore) Andrews, the former a native of 
Ware, Mass. Our subject's paternal grandfather 
also lx>re the name of Lemuel, and was a farmer 
in Massachusetts, where his birth occurred. Our 
subject's father migrated to Illinois in bis youth 
and engaged in general merchandising for many 
years. He participated in the Black Hawk War 
and was prominently connected with the welfare 
of the region in which he lived. In later life lie 
engaged in the steam boat business, running a line 
between Galena and St. Louis. He was one of 
tin' incorporators of the Rock Island Road, be 
tween Chicago and Rock Island, was a banker and 



was Sheriff of Rock Island County for one term. 
He died in the faith of the Presbyterian Church, 
to which he belonged, in 1859, a man who was 
thoroughly respected for his sterling worth ami 
upright character. Our subject's mother was born 
in Athens, Rock Island County, where her grand 
father, John Gilmore, was one of the early ami 
honored settlers. Mrs. Andrews died, leaving 
three children, of whom two are now living, our 
subject being the younger. 

Mr. Andrews passed his boyhood in his Dative 

county ami was educated in the public scl Is. 

graduating from the high school in 1ST!. He 
then entered the Pernio Ivania Military Academy 
at Chester, from which institution he graduated in 
civil and mechanical engineering in lsTo. with 
the degrees of (J. E. and M. E. For one year there- 
after he was in the United States Mississippi Sur 
vey as a civil engineer, the headquarters of the 
commission being at Rock Island. The territory 
surveyed was between St. Lonis and St. Paul, the 
leader of the undertaking being Gen. Macomb. In 
1884 Mr. Andrews entered the employ of the Rock 
Island Railroad in the construction department, 
engaging in contracting and building. For two 
years he worked on the Dakota, the Kansas and 
the Nebraska extensions of the Rock Island. In 
September, 1888, Mr. Andrews was appointed 
Cashier of the Rock Island Freight Office, which 
position he tilled faithfully until February, 1891, 
when he received the promotion that he well de- 
served, being made Local Freight Agent. The 
freight offices of the company are situated in 
lar^'e buildings on the corner of Fifth and Mes 
sanie stieets. I'nder his immediate supervision are 
about one hundred men and to all the details of 
the business he gives his careful attention. 

In Philadelphia, Pa., Mr. Andrews was united 
in marriage with Miss Anna ('. Huikson, who was 
born in Chester, Pa. Mrs. Andrews is a lady of 
refinement and good education and it is her special 
pleasure to entertain and make thoroughly we] 
come the man \ friends of herself and hu-band at 
their pleasant home. Mr. Andrews uses bis right 
of franchise in favor of Ihe Democratic parly ami 
is greatly interested in its success, Mr. Andrews 
is thoroughly acquainted with the details of his 



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department of the railroad business, is industrious 
and bends his every effort to the faithful perform- 
ance of the duties devolving upon him. 






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FRITZ MAST is junior member of the firm 
of Hoffman & Mast, which firm he repre- 
sents on the road. This company are agents 
for the William J. Letup's Brewing Com- 
pany of St. Louis and are also wholesale liquor 
dealers. Our subject is a native of St. Joseph 
and has spent his entire life in this city. His 
birth occurred May 3, 1869. 

Christ Mast, our subject's father, was born in 
Altenstein, Wurtemburg, Germany. He crossed 
the briny deep to the United States when sixteen 
years of age, and going to Philadelphia, Penn., 
there learned the printer's trade. In 1861 he en- 
listed in a Pennsylvania regiment in defense of 
the Union flag, and was in service until the close 
of the war. Soon after he came to St. Joseph, 
starting in the liquor and ice business on Edmond 
street and later had his headquarters on Market 
square. His ice business in particular assumed 
large proportions and he formed a corporation 
called the St. Joseph Ice Company, with a capital 
stock of $30,000, of which he was made President. 
He later became sole proprietor, running the con- 
cern until his death October 9, 1886, at the age of 
fifty years. He was a member of Custer Post, 
G. A. R., and in politics was a Republican. In 
1875 he was appointed as United States Deputy 
Revenue Collector and served in that capacity un- 
til September, 1885, when the new administration 
chose another man for the place. He was quite 
an extensive real estate owner, and was always 
identified with everything relating to the city's 
growth. 

Our subject's mother, who bore the maiden name 
of Augusta Figge, was born in Wurtemburg, Ger- 
many, and was married in St. Joseph, where she 
still makes her home. She became the mother of 
four children, of whom our subject is the eldest. 
The others, Eda, Josephine and Oscar, are still 
living at home. 

The educational advantages of Fritz Mast were 



excellent, as he attended the public and high 
schools of this city until, on account of his father's 
sickness, he was obliged to discontinue his studies. 
He was only seventeen when he took charge of 
the ice business belonging to his father, and this 
large interest he managed until some time after 
the death of the latter. At the time when he sold 
out in 1888, the company was doing the largest 
business in the city, and the purchaser was J. O. 
Stevens. In January, 1889, Mr. Mast bought an 
interest with his present partner, Mr. Hoffman, 
and in this line of business he has also been quite 
successful. 

In this city on July 16, 1890, Mr. Mast mar 
ried Miss Emma Engel, who was born in Evansville, 
Ind. To the worthy couple has been born a little 
daughter, Emma Josephine. Our subject is a 
Republican in politics, and belongs to the 
Sons of Veterans. He is also a member of the 
Knights of Pythias. For years his father was 
Chairman of the City Council. Few young men 
in the city are more popular than he" of whom we 
write, and as a business man he ranks among the 
best. 



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ILLIAM C. MEADOWS. In order to 

1\mi succeed in life there must be self i el i 
■[ ance, nothing being more true than that 
he who fails to help himself gets no assist 
ance. Our subject displays this quality in suffi- 
cient strength to give promise of realizing that for 
which he aspires. We are proud to name Mr. 
Meadows as a representative of the intelligent, en- 
terprising and agreeable young business men of 
St. Joseph. He is at present Steward of the State 
Lunatic Asylum No. 2, in which he is well 
deserving of praise for his untiring efforts in 
behalf of the unfortunates. 

Mr. Meadows was born in Buchanan County, 
two miles out in Washington Township, June 9, 
1860. His father, Daniel, was born in Ohio, and 
his grandfather in Pennsylvania. The latter set 
tied in Ohio in an early day, and when the gold 
fever was prevalent throughout the United States 
he thought to wend his way westward and partici- 
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while crossing the plains. The father of our 
subject went to Buchanan County when bul a 

mere lad and entered government land and ini 
proved on one hundred and sixty acres, on which 
he erected a cabin, and there lived for some time. 
Be met his death in a railroad accident at Chilli- 
cothe, Mo., on his return from shipping stock to St 
Louis. He was interred in Mount Mora Cemetery. 

Mr. Meadows' mother, who was a Miss Verona 
El Manpin, was horn in Kentucky, Marion County, 
to Fountain E. Manpin, also a native of Kentucky. 
Mr. Maupin located in St. Joseph, where he was 
engaged in the livery and feed business, and now 
leads a retired life. Our subject is the third of 
nine children horn to his parents, and was reared 
on t he homestead until fifteen years of age, when 
he came to St. Joseph and entered the high 
school, pursuing his studies there for one year. 
He then accepted a position in the Weyth & Com 
pany hardware business, where he remained for 
two years, after which took charge of the order 
department of Shidtz & Hosea, remaining with 
them four years. Later in life we find him as 
traveling representative for the same firm, making 
his trips in northern Kansas and southern Ne- 
braska. He traveled two years and then became 
connected with the Rubber Company of New York 
city, traveling through Kansas, Nebraska, Mis- 
souri and Iowa for one year, then went into the 
real estate office of J. C. Heddenburg. taking 
charge of the abstract office for about twelve 
months. 

In 1888, the month of January, our subject was 
appointed bookkeeper of the board of managers of 
the lunatic asylum, which position he held for 
two years, and in May, 1890, was appointed as 
Steward by the board. His duties are in attending 
to the purchasing of all provisions, clothing and 
everything essential to the comfort of the inmates. 
Socially, he is a member of the Knights of Pyth- 
ias. He is a Democrat, and while not desirous of 
office, takes an active interest in local and national 
affairs. Mr. Meadows attends regularly and con- 
tributes liberally for the support of the Christian 
Church, and is altogether an amiable and enter- 
prising gentleman whom the citizens of St 
Joseph are proud to recognize. 



JOHN IH'MRKLIi, whose residence is in the 
progressive western city "f St. Joseph. Bu 
/ chanan County, for many years has been en 
gaged in railroading, having the responsible 

position of Car Accountant of the Burlington Rail- 
road system, keeping track of every ear belonging 
to the following railroads: The St. Louis, Ken 
kuk A; Northwestern, Kansas City, St. Joseph & 
Council Bluffs, and the Chicago, Burlington and 
Kansas City. He has under his supervision 
eighteen employes, and is justly considered by 
his superiors one of their most valuable men. 

The birth of our subject occurred in Wolvcr 
hampton, England, on February 23, 1841. His 
youth and early manhood were passed in his native 
land and when only ten years old he commenced his 
railroad career as an office boy and later became 
cashier of a station on one of the English rail- 
road lines, being in the service from 1N.Y2 to 1868. 
For some time he was claim clerk in the general 
office at Wolverhampton. Thus he learned the 
practical details of railroading, which have been of 
great value to him in his after life, as he is 
thoroughly familar with most branches of work 
pertaining to the same. 

It was an important event in the life of onr sub 
ject when he finally resolved to try his fortunes in 
the United States. He set sail in 1868, and on 
arriving at his destination, New York city, be at 
once proceeded to Michigan, obtaining employ 
ment on the Detroit & Michigan Railroad, be 
ing stationed at Grand Haven. In the follow 
ing year he arrived in St. Joseph, and entering 
the service of the Hannibal Railroad, was sent 
to Liberty, Mo., as an agent and later was 
transferred to Nebraska City, when the Kansas 
City road became independent of the Hannibal 
line. He was the regular agent at Nebraska City 
for some time. In 1S71 he entered the general 
office as auditor's clerk and after some time was 
sent to Kansas City to take charge of the station 
at Harlem, opposite Kansas City. That office be 
ing closed up, he came to St. Joseph and in the 
spring of 1ST! was made Car Accountant b\ J. p. 
Barnard, General Superintendent, in Issi the 

office of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad was 
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lie was given the position be lias held with them 
until quite recently. 

In June, 1870, a marriage ceremony was per- 
formed which united the fortunes of John Dam 
bell and Miss Maggie Bebout of Westport, Iowa. 
Their union has been blessed with three children, 
namely: Ray, Bee and Linn. Our subject's 
pleasant home, which is located on Seventeenth 
street, is the abode of hospitality and good 
cheer. The cultured and amiable hostess 
takes great pleasure in extending a sincere and 
cordial welcome to the hosts of friends both she 
and her husband have in this city and neighbor- 
hood. Mrs. Dumbell is a lady of good education 
and an interesting conversationalist. 

For twelve years Mr. Dumbell has been a mem- 
ber of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, was 
Financier for six consecutive terms and given the 
honors of the lodge, and is a Past Master. In 
religious belief he and his wife are members of the 
Episcopal Church in good standing. He is a loyal 
and patriotic citizen and whatever he possesses in 
the way of education and property is almost en- 
tirely owing to himself, as he has had to make his 
own way in the world from early years. 



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d I AMES J. REYNOLDS since boyhood has 
lived in Missouri, having migrated with his 
' parents to Clay County in 1828, where they 

were among the very first settlers. Ten 
years later our subject came to Buchanan County, 
locating near Old Sparta, and with the exception 
of a short time spent in Kansas has been a resi- 
dent of the county since, or for a period of one- 
half a century. His residence is situated on Sec- 
tion 29, Agency Township. 

In Jackson County, Tenn., occurred our sub- 
ject's birth, in 1813, his parents being James and 
Frances (Smithey) Reynolds, natives of Virginia 
and North Carolina, respectively. The former 
was in service during the War of 1812. His father, 
John Reynolds, was a native of the Old Dominion 
and one of the Revolutionary heroes. It is sup- 
posed that he was of English descent. 

In 184") James J. Reynolds entered one hun- 
dred and sixty acres of his present farm, which now 



comprises three hundred and sixty-four acres. He 
has been an enterprising farmer and it is entirely 
to his correct business methods and strict atten- 
tion to his own affairs, combined with the marked 
energy and industrious habits which are among his 
native characteristics, that he has laid up a com 
petency for old age. 

In 1842 our subject married Miss Eliza S. 
Gibson, whose parents were among the early set- 
tlers of the county. To them were born fourteen 
children, ten of whom grew to manhood and 
womanhood, the other four dying in infancy. The 
oldest son, James, was with Price's command dur- 
ing the late Civil War, but returned home after 
the battle of Pea Ridge. Mary J. is the wife of 
Benjamin France, of Nebraska. Martha A. is the 
wife of John Davis, of Could County, Kans. 
Louisa E. is the wife of Joseph Deathridge, of 
Buchanan County. Elizabeth, who became the 
wife of William Cline, also lives in this county. 
William L., a resident of Oklahoma. John B. is 
a graduate of the St. Louis Medical ^ College and 
is a practicing physician in St. Joseph. Stirling 
P. studied law and is now one of the leading 
lawyers in St. Joseph. Joseph J., who graduated 
from the law department of the University of 
Missouri, is carrying on the old homestead with 
his father. Stephen is a physician in St. Joseph. 
The mother of these children died in 1885 and four 
years later Mr. Reynolds married Priscilla Walker. 

For several years Mr. Reynolds has been a mem- 
ber of the Christian Church. He is a stanch 
supporter of the Democratic party, in the welfare 
of which he takes quite an interest. He was the 
fifth in a family of eight brothers and sisters, all 
of whom lived to adult years. The prosperity 
which Mr. Reynolds is now in the enjoyment of 
has all been won by him in the legitimate chan- 
nels of bnsiuess, as he would never resort, as so 
many do, to less worthy methods for obtaining a 
speedy success. Though he began life with 
limited means, he was fortunately endowed with 
abundant energy, a strong will and self-reliance 
that never failed him under the most trying cir- 
cumstances. He has conducted his farm and in- 
vestments with method and forethought and I he 
result is a compliment to his executive ability. 



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FREDERICK P. FUTVOYE. Prominent and 

Pi successful in tbe grain-dealing of St. Joseph, 
and eminently worthy of mention, is the 
gentleman whose name heads this sketch, who is 
of English birth, and who has inherited many of 
the worthy characteristics of that people, among 
which may be mentioned steady perseverance. Al- 
though the city has its full quota of vigorous, en- 
terprising and thorough-going business men, whose 
popularity is based upon their social qualities and 
well-known business activities, none of these is 
better liked by those having business dealings with 
him than Mr. Futvoye. lie was horn in London, 
in May. 1851, and graduated at Twickenham Col- 
lege, after which he accepted a position as cashier 

of a large dry-goods house in Liver] 1. In 1868 

he left England and moved to Canada, where he 
resided for a time with his cousin. I. B. Futvoye, 
Superintendent of the Central Vermont Railway, 
and who was a resident of St. John's, Province of 
Quebec. 

Our subject remained in Canada, traveling 
through various parts of the country until the 
following year, when he became connected with 
the Vermont Central Railway, at St. John's, Prov- 
ince of Quebec, as chief clerk of the terminal, also 
tilling a vacancy in the absence of the Superin- 
tendent, lie continued in this business until the 
fall of 1875, at which time he engaged in the fur 
trade at St. John's, Quebec. He found this busi- 
ness very profitable, and in time was enabled to 
purchase the stock of goods belonging to his fa- 
ther-in-law. A great calamity in the shape of a 
destructive (ire destroyed the whole city, and our 
subject lost everything. Not having any insur- 
ance, and being unable to resume his former busi- 
ness, he again entered the office in which he had 
formerly been employed, where he remained until 
IH7S. 

Mr. Futvoye was promptly encouraged in his 
efforts to gain a livelihood and gratefully accepted 
a position offered him by the Sante Fe Railway, 
making his headquarters at Newton, Kan., where he 
had remained but a brief period, when lie received 
an order to go to Trinidad, Colo. Later, he ac- 
cepted a position at PueblO, Colo., offered him by 

a Mr. Gregg, who was doing a large business for 
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tin- Sante Fe Railway (' pany. In 1880 he came 

to St. Joseph with Mr. Gregg, and was one of the 
incorporators of the Gregg Bros.' Grain Company, 
of which he became the Secretary and Treasurer, 
and in which position he remained until February, 
L898, when he withdrew and organized an inde- 
pendent company for the carrying on of a grain 
business. 

Mr. Futvoye is Secretary of the St. Joseph Boat- 
ing Association, and has been for two years; he is 
also Local Secretary of the Lay State Beneficiary 
Association, of Westfield, Mass.; and Secretary of 
the Economy Council of the National Union, of 
Toledo, Ohio. Socially he is a member of the 
order of Ancient Free & Accepted Masons, and 
a Secretary of the Mitchell Chapter of Cleopatra. 

In 1885, September 20, our subject was wedded 
to Carrie I). Simmons, a native of Norway, Me., 
who bore him the following children: F. Garnett, 
a member of the High School Class of '93, ajid 
now in his father's office; A. Percy, a student of 
the High School of St. Joseph, and also partial as- 
sistant in the office; Laurence Bertram. Edwin 
Morris, Clara Rosmond and Hartley Aldis. Our 
subject and his worthy wife were members of 
St. Mark's Episcopal Church, of St. Joseph, but at 
present arc consistent members of the Church of 
Christ. Mr. Futvoye "s large establishment, which 
is devoted to the grain business, is located on one 
of the most prominent streets of this city, his 
office- being Room No. to. Chamber of Commerce. 



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t EANDER N. MULLEN, Secretary and 
I (J) Treasurer of the St. Joseph Milling Com- 

1 A pany. is one of the leading business men 

of the city and an expert accountant. He was 
born in Harrison County, Ky.. near the town of 
Cynthiana, March 16, 1842. His father, John 
Mullen, was born in Alleghany County. Pa., in 
L814, and hi-- paternal grandfather, whose name 
was Arthur, was bom in Ireland and was of Scotch 
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Pennsylvania, where lie carried on a farm, later 
removing to Hamilton County, Ohio, and in 1817 
to Butler Count v. in tbe same State. He was a 
stonemason by trade, but also engaged in farm- 
ing, and during the War of 1812 was in tbe ser- 
vice of bis country. 

Our subject's father was taken by his parents to 
Ohio, and passed his boyhood in Hamilton County, 
receiving his education in the country schools and 
in Cheviot Academy. He afterward took charge 
of a school in Switzerland County, Ind., and was 
licensed to exhort in the Methodist Episcopal 
Church. For some time he had charge of the Mt. 
Sterling (Ind.) Seminary, and later of the Ghent 
College, in Carroll County, Ky. He was licensed 
to preach in 1841, and taught the Gospel in differ- 
ent parts of Kentucky. In 18ti<> he was appointed 
Missionary and remained in the Cumberland Moun- 
tains during the war. In 1865 he returned to Swit- 
zerland County, Ind., where he engaged in his usual 
vocations until 188(1, when he removed to St. Jo- 
seph, where he is still engaged in active work. 
His residence is at No. 918 South Eleventh Street, 
and he is esteemed as one of the best men and 
citizens of the town. He was ordained Deacon 
and Elder, and later was made Bishop. He is a 
member of tbe Royal Arch Masons, having been 
Chaplain of his lodge, and having also filled the 
same position in his lodge of tbe Independent 
Order of Odd Fellows. 

In tbe 3'ear 1834 was celebrated the marriage 
of tbe Rev. John Mullen and Elizabeth Smith, 
who was born in New Jersey, and who was a 
daughter of Thomas II. Smith, an early settler and 
farmer of Switzerland County, Ind. The true 
wife and loving mother died in St. Joseph March 
27, 181)0. Of her eight children seven are living, 
who are as follows: T. G., a farmer in Buchanan 
County; John A., who resides in Cincinnati, where 
he follows the carpenter's trade; Leander N., our 
subject; Jennie, Mrs. Wolfe, of Scott County, 
Kan.; Mollie, now Mrs. Sanders, of Cincinnati; 
Annie, now Mrs. Krutz, living in Los Angeles, 
Cal.; and Maggie, Mrs. Woodruff, of this cit}'. 

Leander N. Mullen, the gentleman whose name 
heads this sketch, was reared to manhood in Ken- 
tucky, and there given good educational ad van- | 



tages in the public schools. When about eighteen 
years of age he began farming for himself and 
doing carpenter work until 1869, when he re- 
moved to Buchanan County, and soon after lo- 
cated in Clinton County, where be engaged in 
farming for two years. He then settled in Slew- 
artsville, DeKalb County, where he engaged in 
tbe general merchandising business for about a 
year and a-half, but was obliged to sell out in 
1873. on account of poor health. Going to Cali- 
fornia, he spent some time in traveling over tbe 
State, thence going to Oregon and Washington, 
and returning to St. Joseph in 1874. For a time 
be engaged in the commission business in part- 
nership with Samuel Russell, when the latter diet), 
and for a \ car he then associated with him Thomas 
Morby. 

In 1876 Mr. Mullen entered the employ of R. 
T. Davis, remaining with that gentleman until 
1884 as his bookkeeper and Secretary, and for 
the following three years was with the Eagle Mills 
Company in the same capacity. In 1887 the 
firm of Payne, Mullen & Co. purchased the mill 
they now operate, and rebuilt the mill in 1888, 
increasing its capacity and greatly improving it 
in various ways. In the same year the company 
was incorporated as the St. Joseph Milling Com- 
pany, with a capital stock of $33,000, and our 
subject as its Secretary. The capacity of the mill 
is now from one hundred and fifty to two hun- 
dred barrels per day, and their trade is rapidly 
increasing, so that at present they have about as 
much as they can well manage. The business has 
succeeded beyond their most sanguine expecta- 
tions, and it is almost wholly owing to the sagac- 
ity and foresight manifested by the partners in 
their various undertakings. 

In Stewartsville was celebrated August 20, 1874. 
the marriage of Mr. Mullen and Miss Annie ('. 
Logan, who was born and reared in Shelby 
County, Ky.,and is the daughter of Robert Logan, 
who removed to DeKalb County in 1857, where 
be is a prominent farmer. Three children have 
graced the union of our subject and his wife, viz: 
Walter Elmer, Annie Lee and Harry Logan. The 
family are all attendants at. and the parents mem- 
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and much interested in the various branches of 
work in thai denomination. Their pleasant resi- 
dence is on the corner of Twelfth and IVnn 
Streets. 

Mr. Mullen lias always been inueli interested in 
many of tin' leading fraternities and is a mem- 
ber of the following: Lodge No. 189, A. F. & A. M.; 
Mitchell Chapter No. 89. of which he is l'a-t 
High Priest; Ancient Order of Tinted Workmen; 
and the Modern Woodmen of America, of which 
he is Trustee. He was made a Mason in Ken- 
tucky when only twenty-one years of age, and lias 
ever endeavored to put in practice the teachings 
of love towards one's fe!low-men which it incul- 
cates. He was Past Master of Stewartsville Lodge 
when residing in that place. Since becoming a 
voter lie has cast his ballot in favor of the nom- 
inees of the Republican party. 



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QUILLA DIE READ, deceased, was an 
attorney and an active citizen in every 
good work in St. Joseph for many years. 
He was considered one of the ablest and 
best-iead criminal lawyers practicing before the 
bar. As a man he was very popular, and as he was 
genial and jovial in his disposition, made many 
friends, lie was in numberless respects a remark- 
able man, a thorough student of history and gen- 
eral literature, being particularly familiar with 
Shakespeare. He was also a close student of the 
Bible, which he had read through thirteen times, 
and with which he was very familiar. Having a 
retentive memory, he could repeat chapter after 
chapter and immediately place any text or quota- 
tion from it which he might hear. He was a man 
whose friends were legion, and both as a public 
man and in the family circle his sterling qualities 
proclaimed him one worthy in every respect of the 
confidence of all. 

Mr. Read was born November I, 1816, in 
Hardin County, Ky., in which State he was 



married while still quite young to Miss Stith. 
lie removed to Topeka, Kan., where he resided 
until during the war, when he was arrested 
and taken to Leavenworth. On his release he 
came to Missouri and located in St. Joseph in 
1864. For some time he ran the St. Charles Hotel, 
his residence being on Third Street. While a resi- 
dent of Topeka, he lost his wife, and after remain- 
ing a widower for twelve year- he was united in 
marriage in this city, November 17, 1870, to Mrs. 
Elizabeth Sherwood, widow of Ilartwcll II. Sher- 
wood, to whom she was married November 18, 
1852. The death of the latter occurred November 
19, 1858. 

Mrs. Read is the daughter of William I), and 
Margaret (Johnson) Gibson, who were married 
July 25, 1825, in Manchester, Clay County, Ky. 
The father was born February 15, 1796, and died 
March '29, 186."). His wife, whose death occurred 
October 2, 1887, was born in Kentucky, September 
2. 1802. Mrs. Head was born in Clay County, 
January 30, 1835, and was first married in 
Buchanan County, where her father settled in 1839 
or 1840. By her first union were born three chil- 
dren: Levador, whose birth occurred April 20, 
1854; Elvandor. who was born February 13. 1856, 
and died in infancy; and Archibald C. horn ' 
March 21, 1858. Mr. Head had the following chil- 
dren by his first marriage: Robert; Elizabeth; 
Sylvester II., who died in Denver, Colo.; San ford, 
who was killed by the ears in Denver in the fall 
of 1892; and Charles, who accidentally shot him- 
self at the age of fourteen. By his second union 
Mr. Read had one son, William George, who died 
in his fifth year. Mrs. Read's father. William 
Gibson, died on the farm adjoining the city. He 
reared a family of nine children, of whom four 
only are living: Susan, widow of Z. 1). Washburn, 
of this city; Thomas J., who is a fanner near 
Wyatt Park; Elizabeth M.; and Henry E., a con- 
tractor, whose resilience is on the corner of Twen- 
tieth and Payne Streets. 

Mr. Read of this sketch was an active Demo- 
crat, and was a practicing attorney until Hearing 
the close of his life. Some eight years before he 
was called to the home beyond he Buffered with a 
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his death. He was buried under the auspices of 
the Masonic fraternity, of which he had been a 
member for forty years. He was a man of domes- 
tic tastes, always to be found at home evenings, 
except when attending the Masonic lodge, to 
which he was much attached. He was a member 
of the firm of Read <fe Henry, the latter of whom 
died of consumption. The home of Mr. and Mrs. 
Read was formerly at the corner of Fourteenth 
and Angelique Streets. He later purchased a 
property on Twentieth Street, between Charles 
and iS3'lvanie, both of which homesteads Mrs. 
Read still owns, as well as a portion of the old 
farm. In religious faith Mr. Read was a thorough- 
going Methodist, and to that denomination his 
widow still belongs. 



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(fF^ MITH R - MUDGE, whose home is in St. 
^&tf Joseph, is Road Foreman of Engineers on 
lv^-3) t ' ie Burlington lines in this part of the 
State, and is one of the oldest engineers. 
From his early manhood he has been engaged in 
the railroad business and has become thoroughly 
master of everything in his province. 

Mr. Mudge was boru near Batavia, Genesee 
County, N. Y., January 27, 1833. He is a son of 
George F. and Hannah (Allen) Mudge, who were 
born in New Hampshire. His paternal grand- 
father, Richard Mudge, was also a native of New 
Hampshire and a millwright. He operated a saw 
and grist mill and a tannery in New Hampshire. 
He removed to near Buffalo, where he lived for 
two years, and later became a resident of Lower 
Sandusky, now called Fremont, Ohio. While in 
Ohio he followed the occupation of a farmer. 
Religiously, he was a member of the Society of 
Friends. Our subject's maternal grandfather, 
James Allen, was a relative of the famous Ethan 
Allen family. George F. Mudge was an early set- 
tler in the northwestern part of Ohio, where he 
carried on a farm. He was Township Trustee for 
many years and was a prominent man. He was a 



member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and, 
politically, supported the Whig party. 

The subject of this sketch is one of five children. 
His eldest brother, Capt. J. C, enlisted at the first 
call for troops during the late war in an Ohio 
regiment. In 1835, S. R. went with his parents to 
Sandusky, and passed his youth near the village of 
Fremont. He attended the log schoolhouse of 
the period, and remained on the old farm until his 
twenty-fourth year. In 1856 lie entered the em- 
ploy of the Lake Erie & Western Railroad as lire- 
man, and a year later removed to Indiana. He was 
located at South Milford, where he ran a station 
engine until 185i), next being transferred to Ft. 
Wayne, where he engaged as a fireman on the Wa- 
bash & Western Line, and at the end of fourteen 
months became engineer. He operated an engine 
on a passenger line most of the time for nine yeais 
between Toledo and the State Line, and during 
that time did not have a single accident. 

In the year 1868, Mr. Mudge was transferred by 
consent of his company to the employ of the 
Pittsburgh, Ft. Wayne & Chicago, on the run be- 
tween Crestline and Chicago. Ten years he served 
faithfully in the employ of that important line, 
and during that time was fortunate in having no 
accident. In August, 1878, he went to Kansas, 
and entered the employ of the central branch of 
the Missouri Pacific Railroad as engineer from At- 
chison to Downs. In January, 188(1, the Missouri 
Pacific absorbed this branch, and he was then trans- 
ferred by order of Mr. Talmage to the main line 
of the Missouri Pacific, having charge of the con- 
struction work atSedalia. In November, 1880, he 
was appointed Roadmaster of the Kansas and Ari- 
zona division of the same company, with head- 
quarters at Osawatomie, Kan., being in charge of 
one hundred and forty miles of the line for about 
seven years. 

The position of Road Foreman of Engineers was 
next given to Mr. Mudge for the Kansas City 
Road, and in May, 189 T, he was also given a simi- 
lar place on the western division of the Han- 
nibal A' St. Joseph, including the Cameron and 
Kansas City branch. He traveled back and forth 
on the road all the time, and so faithful was his 
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dive a reprimand for anything lie had failed to do 
or had done in a wrong way. It is certainly to 
his credit that lie never had a collision <>r injured 
a man. 

In Sandusky Comity. Ohio. April 20, 1851, Mr. 
Mudge and Miss Ellen B. Dawson, who was born 
in that locality, were united in marriage. They 
have two children. Frank F.. who is in the employ 
of the Santa Fe as general yardmaster at Deming, 
N. M.: and Addie S.. wife of W. C. Tator, of St 
Joseph. The pleasant residence owned by our 
subject was erected by him. and is situated at No. 
1926 South Tenth Street. In addition to this he 
owns real estate in Osaw atomic, Kan. 

While a resident of the last-named village, Mr. 
Mudge was one of the incorporators of the place, 
and was the first Mayor, serving as such for two 
years. While in Ft. Wayne he joined the An- 
cient Free & Accepted Masons of the place, and 
d emitted to Osawatomic. He also belonged to the 
Royal Arch Masons, of Ft. Wayne, and is a char- 
ter member of Elmo Commandery No. 22, at 
l'aola. Kan. He has passed ail the chairs in the 
Chapter. He was formerly a member of the Broth- 
erhood of Locomotive Engineers, which he joined 
in June, L863. He was the First Grand Assistant. 
its Secretary and Treasurer, and was President of a 
monthly journal, the first engineers' journal ever 
printed. This had two years of existence, being 
started in January, 1867. In politics, our subject 
is a firm Democrat. He is very popular with all 
who have had the pleasure of making his acquaint- 
ance and numbers many friends. 



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<A jf; L. IlIOOKRSTAFF, who was for many 
\/\Ill y c;u ' s numbered among the leading and 
V^y successful agriculturists of Clinton Coun- 
ty. Mo., is now a highly respected resident of 
Plattsburgh, and is familiarly known to a wide 
circle of acquaintances as "Uncle Wilson." lie 
was born in Monroe County, Ky., March 28, ink;. 
and was the eldest of the four sons of his father, 



Paul William Biggerstafi. The four brothers were 
Wilson I... Granville T., Joseph B. and Samuel, 

all of Clinton Counts. Joseph B., the third -hi. 
was born in Monroe County, April 5, 1823, and 
came to Plattsburgh in 1842. He was a blacksmith 
by trade and served in that capacity at the out- 
break Of the war. The conflict proved financially 
disastrous to him, his losses amounting to $15,000. 
After the return of peace he traded in stock, and 
being a shrewd business man soon recovered Ins 
fortunes and is now the owner of one of the finest 
homes in Plattsburgh. He was married in Liberty, 
Clay County, to Miss Mary E. Collins, and hus- 
band and wife are both valued members of the 
Christian Church. 

As a boy Wilson L. worked upon his father's 
farm until he was about eighteen. He then sold 
goods successively at Centre Point and Tomp- 
kinsville. in his native State, and engaged in mer- 
cantile business a number of years, finally becom- 
ing a breeder of horses and mules, carrying on 
the latter business up to the time of his departure 
for Missouri, in 1855. In 18.06 Mr. Biggerstafi 
located upon a farm one and one-half miles south 
of Plattsburgh, and in 1«;">7 settled upon the 
homestead of two hundred and forty acres, where 
he resided with his family for thirty-two continu- 
ous and prosperous years. At the expiration of 
this length of time he disposed of his highly im- 
proved and valuable farm, and in 1889 removed 
to his present pleasant home in Plattsburgh. 

Mr. Biggerstafi was united in marriage upon 
July 27. 1843, in Overton County, Tenn., with 
Miss Ruth llolman, who died shortly after com- 
ing tO Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Biggerstafi were 
blessed with a family of eight children, one son 
and seven daughters. The son died at the early 
age of four years, but the seven daughters sur- 
vived to adult age. Nancy, the eldest (laughter, 
married and died in Richardson County. Neb.; 
Mary is her father's housekeeper; Painelia is Mrs. 
John Payne, of Kansas City; Martha is Mi-. 
George Newby, of Plattsburgh; Sallie is at home 
and unmarried; Lovinia married and died in 
Richardson County, Neb.; and Ruth. Mrs. George 
Russell, resides in Salem, Neb. 

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and highly esteemed. Mr. Biggerstaff has been an 
active member of the Christian Church for thirty- 
eight years, and nearly all the time has served as 
an Elder in that religious organization. Always 
a temperate man. he has used tobacco ever since 
he was twelve years old, and still chews a little. 
lie took no active part in the war, but his senti- 
ments and his sympathies were all with the South. 
He was a slaveholder previous to the Civil Con- 
flict, and politically was a Whig, but since 1865 
he has been a strong Democrat. He cast his first 
vote for Andrew Jackson, and afterward voted 
for Harrison and Taylor. 

In Kentucky Mr. Biggerstaff was elected to the 
Magistracy for four years, a similar position to 
the office of County Judge, and was also Post- 
master of Centre Point four years. A man of 
ability, upright in character and faithful to the 
trusts reposed in him, he efficiently discharged 
the duties of each position. During a residence 
of nearly two-score years in Plattsburgh, Mr. Big- 
gerstaff has been identified with the growth and 
progress of his home localit}', and as a true Amer- 
ican citizen rejoices in the continued prosperity 
of a united people, among whom his descendants 
may worthily win their upward way to future 
distinction and assured success. 



UGO GREBEL, manager of the Anheuser- 
V Busch Brewing Association at St. Joseph, 
is one of the prominent business men of 
this city, and has been manager of the 
company since April, 1892. He is a highly edu- 
cated gentleman, and a native of Germany, his 
birth having occurred in Zittau, Saxony, August 
8, 1856. His father, August Grebel, was born in 
Thuringia, German}', while his grandfather was a 
loading minister in the Lutheran Church. The fa- 
ther was a banker in Zittau. and had large com- 
mercial interests in his native country. Though 
over seventy years of age, he is still in active 
business life, and is president of large stock com- 



panies and a commission business in Zittau. In 
1874 and again in 1893 he visited his children in 
America. He is, like his father, a devoted mem- 
ber of the Lutheran Church. Our subject's mother, 
who was before her marriage Miss Agnes Behrens, 
was born in Magdeburg, Prussia, where her father 
was a large manufacturer of vinegar, etc. Mrs. 
Grebel, who is still living, had a family of seven 
children, five of whom are living, and two of 
whom reside in the United States, George, a 
brother of our subject, living in St. Louis. 

Hugo Grebel was reared to manhood in the place 
of his birth, studied the languages, and was grad- 
uated from the g3'mnasium, and then attended a 
higher academy. In 1872 he became assistant 
bookkeeper in a large foundry and machine shop, 
where he remained for about three years, when he 
volunteered and entered service in the German 
army, serving for a year in the Sixty-sixth Prus- 
sian Infantry. He was later promoted to the rank 
of First Lieutenant of the One Hundred and Sec- 
ond Regiment Saxony Infantry. Forfour months 
he was then in England, after which,' returning to 
the Fatherland, he engaged in business with Mr- 
Grebel, Sr. 

In 1884, up to which time Mr. Grebel had re- 
mained in business with his father, he went to 
Leipsic, where he started the manufacture of type 
in a foundry, and had complete charge of the same, 
building up a large business and employing up- 
wards of one hundred and fifty men. He traveled 
quite extensively, selling goods for the firm, and 
making two trips to South America in the inter- 
ests of the concern. He had a very pleasant jour- 
ney each time, and in 1878, when in South Amer- 
ica, visited Montevideo and Buenos Ayres, thence 
going to New York by way of California and San 
Francisco. In the year 189(1 he was sent again, 
and in the spring of the following year sold out 
his business, coming to America Ivy way of Bremen 
and New York City. 

In December, 1891, Mr. Grebel entered the em- 
ploy of the firm he is now with at Memphis, and 
in April, 1892, was appointed manager of the 
brewery, with the entire control resting upon his 
shoulders. This large plant, located on Fifth and 
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houses and additional buildings covers nearly a 
block. Their business is almost entirely a whole- 
sale trade, and five wagons arc kept constantly 
transferring the freight to and from the depots. 
In 18'.t2 Mr. Grebel was united in marriage in the 
city of St. Louis with Miss Bertha Wezler, who 
was born in that city, and who is a thoroughly ac- 
complished and lovable lady. Our subject is a 
member of the Knights of America, of the Order 
of Red Men. and of the Landwehrverein Society 
of Germany, of which he is President. 



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1 olIX MICHEL is the confidential clerk 
and oldest employe of the well-known 
Nave & McCord Mercantile Company, of 
^f/ St. Joseph, Buchanan County. He is a pub- 
lic-spirited and enterprising citizen, is a promi- 
nent Mason, and belongs to the Ancient Order of 
United Workmen and the Grand Army of the 
Republic. Mr. Michel was born in Wurtemberg, 
Germany, February 27,1844. His parents were 
Andrew and Anna M. (Friedrich) Michel. His 
grandfather on his mother's side was in the Ger- 
man army and was twice in Paris fighting against 
Napoleon. The Michels are an old Frank ish fam- 
ily. Our subject was a lad of no more than 
eight years of age when his father died. His mo- 
ther remarried, becoming the wife of John D. 
( lender, who was born in Bavaria. In 1853 the 
family came to America, leaving Liverpool in the 
Bailing-vessel "Johnny Want." After fifty-six 
days on the water they landed in New York and 
at once proceeded to Chicago, where they lived 
for a number of years. The mother died in 1868. 

The only brother of our subject is Andrew J., 
who is a cigar manufacturer in Chicago. John 
Michel began to "paddle his own canoe" after his 
tenth year, and was for two years employed in a 
tobacco factory as a stripper. He was then for a 
year in a printing establishment, after which he 
was apprenticed as a silversmith to David A. 
I'oote. remaining with him forfour years. During 



this time he went to night School and attended 
tlu' Bryan 1 a- Stratton Business College. One of 
his teachers was Hubert C. Spencer, son of Piatt 
R., originator of the Spencerian system <>f penman- 
ship. He desired to enlist in the army, but did 
not on account of the strong opposition of his 
parents, who needed his financial help. 

In August, 1864, John Michel landed in St. Jo- 
seph without a dollar and with only an ordinary 
suit of clothes. He obtained a position in the 
shoe and leather business with John P. Fink, and 
in the following year entered the Missouri En- 
rolled Militia as First Sergeant. Becoming tired 
of the border warfare, when an opportunity of- 
fered he enlisted in the Forty-fourth Missouri In- 
fantry, acting as Col. R. C. Bradshaw's private 
secretary for a while, and was promoted to the 
rank of Regimental Color-Sergeant. He was later 
made Quartermaster-Sergeant. In 1864 he took 
part in the Price campaign, and then went to 
Nashville, Tenn. lie (ought in the battles of Co- 
lumbia, Spring Hill, Franklin and Nashville, after 
which he went with the regiment to New Orleans, 
and in the spring of 1865 was active in the sieges 
of Ft. Blakely and Spanish Fort. He was then 
sent to Montgomery, where he remained for a 
short time, and in August was mustered out of 
service at Benton Barracks, Mo. 

On his return to St. Joseph in the fall of 1865, 
Mr. Michel became bookkeeper in the packing 
house of Davis A- Finger. The senior member of 
the firm was interested in the bank of John Cal- 
hoou it Co., and through his influence our sub- 
ject became bookkeeper for that concern. With 
the consent of Mr. Calhoon, at the end of a year 
and a-half Mr. Michel entered the employ of 
Nave, McCord & Co., with whom he held a simi- 
lar position until January, 1868. lie then began 
traveling for the firm, and was the first grocery 
salesman to start from St. Joseph. He continued 
steadily on the road for fifteen years, and was 
then permitted to retire From the occupation. He 
has since been confidential clerk of the firm, who 
highly esteem him. 

October 16, 1867, Mr. Michel wedded Wilhel- 
mina Wurts, who was born in Stuttgart, Ger- 
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Pinger. Her father died in New Orleans, at the 
end of his journey from the Fatherland. Mrs. 
Michel was reared and educated in Cincinnati, 
and came to St. Joseph in 1865. Four children 
have been born of this union: Eduard, who is 
Weighmasler for the Western Weighing Associa- 
tion of the Rock Island Railroad Company; Will- 
iam F., who is with the C. D. Smith Drug Com- 
pany; Albert F., decorator and paperhanger with 
the firm of Henry Voss; and John A., an employe 
of Richardson, Roberts, Byrne & Co. 

For many years our subject has been a member 
of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, and has 
been greatly interested in Sunday-school work, 
serving as teacher and Superintendent. In poli- 
tics he is a Republican, and fraternally belongs to 
Custer Post No. 7, G. A. R., of which he is Past 
Commander. He also belongs to Pride of the 
West Lodge No. 42, A. O. U. W.; to St. Joseph 
Lodge No. 78, A. F. & A. M., of which he is a 
Past Master; to Mitchell Chapter No. 89, R. A. M., 
of which he is Past High Priest; and is also a 
member of both the Grand Lodge and Grand 
Chapter. 



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, ETER J. CAROLUS, ex-City Attorney of 
III St. Joseph, and a practicing lawyer, is a 
'fy! ^ popular and promising young attorney, 
J J who is bound to make his mark in the 

world. Though young in years, he has been en- 
gaged in practicing for some time, and has by 
study, observation and experience already gained 
a leading position among the lawyers of this city, 
who predict for him a successful career in his 
chosen field of work. Our subject is a native son 
of this city, his birth having occurred May 7, 1864. 
His father, George, was born near the falls of the 
River Rhine, in Germany. His grandfather, Al- 
bert, was a watchmaker and a lineal descendant of 
Albert Carol us, a celebrated Prince of Saxony. 
Our subject's father was a shoemaker by trade, and 
while still a young man, in 1857, crossed the Atlan- 



tic and soon located in St. Joseph, where he en- 
gaged in working at his trade for a short time and 
then entered the hotel business. During his later 
years he led a retired life and died in this city 
December 19, 1883. He was a Republican and ac- 
tive in local affairs. During the Civil War he 
was First Lieutenant of Company B, in the Thir- 
teenth Missouri Infantry, and was held captive for 
a while at Lexington, Mo. The mother of our 
subject, who was born in Swabia, Germany, bore 
the maiden name of Theresa Striegcl. She is still 
living at her old home on Frederick Avenue. Of 
her thirteen children ali but two grew to maturity 
and are yet surviving. 

Mr. Carolus of this sketch was reared in this 
city, which was his birthplace, and was educated 
at the Christian Brothers' College. From 1880 to 
1881 he was employed by the firm of H. W. R. 
Hartwig & Co., remaining with them for two years. 
In January, 1884, he went to Seneca, Kan., and 
was in the employ of Simon Conwell as a stenog- 
rapher, and studied law with that gentleman. In 
1885 he went to Atchison, Kan., being employed 
by the firm of Everest & Wagner for a year, when, 
returning to St. Joseph, he was for five years with 
the firm of Ramey & Brown, attorneys for the 
Rock Island Railroad. In 1886 our subject was 
admitted to the Missouri Bar, and engaged in 
practice with the last-mentioned firm until 1890, 
when he was elected City Attorney for the term 
of two years. January 1, 1893, he entered into 
partnership with Arthur W. Brewster, under the 
firm name of Carolus it Brewster, and though this 
company has been too recently formed to judge 
of these gentlemen's work together, there is, how- 
ever, little doubt as to their ultimate success as 
they are both more than ordinarily intelligent 
and well read in their profession. 

In addition to his legal knowledge, Mr. Carolus 
has acquired a good musical education, and when 
only fourteen years of age, while still at college, 
he began to play on the violin. Under the tutor- 
ship of Joseph Kneer, of this city, he completed a 
course of instruction and even taught for a while 
in the Christian Brothers' College. For ten years 
lie was also connected with the Symphony Club 
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member of the Modern Woodmen of America and 
was a Councilor of Branch No. 12. Politically, he 

is a Republican, and greatly interested in the wel- 
fare of his party. 



W, I LI. I AM N. WILSON, Superintendent of 
Mt. Mora Cemetery, at St. Joseph, was 
born in Albany, X. Y.. in 1833. He is a 
son of John Wilson, a Scotchman, who engaged 
as a dealer in horses and cattle in his native land. 
After his marriage he emigrated to America and 
located at St. Johns. X I>., where he engaged in 
the hide and wholesale boot and shoe business. 
Later he carried on an extensive wholesale trade at 
Albany. X. Y.. and also managed a branch store at 
Albany. In his business dealings he was honorable, 
energetic ami prosperous, and had he been per- 
mitted to attain to an old age, he would undoubt- 
edly have become a man of wealth. His death 
occurred when in life's prime, about 1837. 

The mother of our subject, Agnes (Moore) 
Wilson, was born in Scotland, and after the 
death of her husband she removed to her native 
land, where she resided for thirty years. In her 
old age she returned to the United States and 
passed away at the home of a son in Paterson, 
X. .1. She was the mother of five children, William 
X. being the youngest. He accompanied his 
mother to Great lii Main when quite small, and for 
a time resided in London, removing thence to 
Kingstown, Scotland. I lis educational advantages 
were very meagre, covering a period of three 
months in school, but he was a studious youth and 
utilized his leisure evening hours for the acquire- 
ment Of knowledge. In this way. as well as bj 
observation, he has become well informed and in- 
telligent. 

When nine years old oursubjeel was apprenticed 
to a gardener at Paisley, Scotland, with whom he 
remained for live years. He then entered the 
employ of J. X. P. (oat.s, the thread manufacturer, 



as assistanl head gardener. Later he tilled the po- 
sition of foreman in the gardens at Kallston Hall; 

also thai of gardener al Lorri Castle, Edinburgh 

the property of Sir Andrew Rutherford. After 
working for a shorl time in Newcastle, England, 
he went to Carlisle, where he worked for three 
months. He then engaged as a landscape gardener, 

and as he was an expert in this business, his servi- 
ces were in great demand and he was engaged in 
laying out gardens through England for sixteen 
years. For nine years following, he engaged as a 
contractor in Glasgow, in which he met with fair 
success. 

In 1.H70 Mr. Wilson embarked on the steamer 
"Germany" at Liverpool, which anchored at 
Quebec at the close of an uneventful voyage. 
From that city he proceeded to Detroit, where he 
arrived on the 1th of May. At that place he acci- 
dentally met an old gentleman by the name 
of Moffet, who years before had been in the employ 
of the senior Mr. Wilson. He look our subject in 
his employ as time-keeper in his sawmills, and 
later secured for him a position as head gardener 
in the asylum at Kalamazoo. Having served in 
that capacity for three years, Mr. Wilson resigned 
and embarked in business for himself. He pur- 
chased some land in Kalamazoo, and there raised 
vegetables and fruit until, through his partner, he 
lost his entire property. 

For one year Mr. Wilson was head gardener in 
Graceland Cemetery, at Chicago, and for the suc- 
ceeding three years served as Superintendent of 
the Springdale Cemetery, at Clinton, Iowa. His 
next move was to Palestine, Tex., whore he spent 
two years on a fruit farm, and later was in the 
employ of the International A- Cleat Northern 

Railway Company as engineer, first in the shops 

and afterward at the water works. The confine- 
ment necessitated by this kind of work undermined 
his health tO SUCfa an extent that he resigned his 
position and went to St. Louis, where he became a 
laborer in the Bellefontaine Cemetery. As soon 
as the superintendent discovered his ability, he 
appointed him head gardener and foreman, in 
which capacity he was employed for eighl years. 
In the autumn of 18111 he was asked to come to St. 
Joseph and accept the Superintendency of Mt. 



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Mora Cemetery, which he is occupying at the pres- 
ent time. 

A visitor to the cemetery cannot fail to be 
impressed with its quiet beauty and the good taste 
apparent on every hand. These pleasing results 
may be attributed to the efficient labors of the 
Superintendent, whose ability in this direction has 
long been recognized both in America and upon 
the other side of the Atlantic. The design of the 
greenhouse, which was erected in 1892, is original 
with him, and is the practical exemplification of his 
excellent ideas concerning gardening. The cem- 
etery grounds comprise fifty acres, through which 
neat walks have been laid out, and to which new 
beauties are constantly being added. 

At Carlisle, England, Mr. Wilson married Miss 
Agnes Edgar, and they became the parents of thir- 
teen children, the majority of whom are living, as 
follows: Matthew, who assists our subject and is 
gardener of the cemetery; Mrs. Mary Savage, of 
Bloomington, 111.; "William N., Jr., gold treasurer 
for Wells, Fargo & Co., at Black Hills; Mrs. Jane 
Anderby, of Carroll City, Iowa; Agnes, Mrs. 
Henry Swarm, residing in Calamus, Iowa; James, 
a blacksmith in East St. Louis, 111.; Bessie, wife of 
James Brown, of Greenville, Tex.; John, a business 
man of Little Rock, Ark.; and Robert, a blacksmith 
at St. Louis, Mo. Mrs. Agnes Wilson died in 
Palestine, Tex., and three years after her demise 
Mr. Wilson married Mrs. Mary Twaits, a native of 
New York State. Politically, our subject is an ad- 
herent of the principles of Democracy. Socially he 
is identified with the Knights and Ladies of Honor 
in St. Louis. 



< lp?< i OBERT E. BAKER has a pleasant residence 

L4? which he himself erected at No. G10 Bon Ton 

L\fl^ Street, St. Joseph, Buchanan County. He 

bas always taken an active pait in political 

matters, being a stiong Democrat, and was elected 

by that party in 1892 as a member of the City 

Council from the Fourth Ward. 



The gentleman of whom we write was born in 
Buchanan County, twelve miles south of St. Jo- 
seph, near the place where the village of Wal- 
lace now stands. The date of the occurrence was 
February 21, 1858. His parents, John W. Baker 
and Elizabeth (Herndon) Baker, were botli natives 
of Kentucky. The father is now living a retired 
life in St. Joseph. He came with his family to 
Buchanan County in 1846, and for many years 
was engaged in farming. Our subject was reared 
to farm labor and lived under the parental roof 
until twenty-four years of age. He then engaged 
in carrying on the old homestead where he was 
born, and after running it for two years, he sold 
the place and purchased a farm five miles north of 
St. Joseph, in Andrew County. This place consists 
of three hundred acres, and is known as the King 
Hill Stock Farm. Our subject dealt largely in 
horses and mules, shipping mainly to the Eastern 
markets. He built up an extensive business, but 
finally sold out in September, 1887. 

About that time Mr. Baker came to St. Joseph, 
still continuing in his former occupation, and was 
the owner of a sale stable on South Ninth Street, 
until within the last year. He dealt quite largely, 
buying from sixty to seventy carloads of horses 
per annum. The animals were purchased in Kan- 
sas and Nebraska, and were distributed in all the 
adjoining States. For the past year he has not 
been engaged in active business, having laid up a 
comfortable fortune, upon which he can draw as 
he requires. 

On December 20, 1883, Mr. Baker married Miss 
Edina, the only daughter of Horace Connett, of 
Buchanan County. Mrs. Baker was born May 25, 
18G3, on her father's farm, which is loeated eight 
miles south of this city. Her superior education 
was obtained in Dr. Martin's Female Institute at 
St. Joseph. Three children have come to bless this 
union: Mary, I va Belle and Herndon. The fam- 
ily has a good home, with all of the comforts of 
life, and in the social circles of the city they are 
well received. The children have been given prac- 
tical educations, thus fitting them to adorn any- 
place, whether in commercial or social positions. 

Mr. Baker is, and has been for years past, a 
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tions of commercial import is highly esteemed, 
therefore be is often consulted in regard to the 
advisability of pursuing certain ventures of busi- 
ness. The business block erected by the McCor- 
inirk Machine Company on South Fourth Street 
is a substantial structure, and in this our subject 
has an interest. Jn all things tending to advance 
the city's best interests he is always actively con- 
cerned, and as one of the City Fathers takes great 
pains to promote its progress and prosperity. lie 
is one of the first to champion any new idea cal- 
culated to increase the city's usefulness or improve 
its condition, and to this in a large measure is due 
his popularity with all. even his political enemies. 




p ICHAEL S. ALLGAIER, Justice of the 
Peace and retired farmer, is a prominent 



citizen of Cower, Clinton Count}-. His 
ancestors emigrated from Vienna, Austria, 
at an early day, and settled in America. He is a 
son of George and Lydia (Gift) Allgaier, the for- 
mer a native of Pennsylvania and one of the early 
settlers of Kentucky. The mother was also a na- 
tive of the Keystone State. 

Michael Allgaier was born in Scotland County, 
Ky.. on New Year's Day, 1827, and was the young- 
est son of a family of three children. His boy- 
hood days were passed in his native county, where 
he received a common-school education. At the 
age of eighteen years he entered college at Bards- 
town, Ky., where he pursued his studies for a time. 
After finishing his school life, he commenced mer- 
chandising. The year 1m.">6 witnessed his arrival 
in l'iatte County, Mo. For some two years Mr. 
Allgaier was engaged in the John Brown war in 
Kansas. In 1861 he enlisted in the Confederate 
Army under lien. .1. (I. Shelby, and was in service 
until the close of the war. 

Until 1865 Mr. Allgaier engaged in farming in 
l'iatte County, after which, removing to Clinton 
County, he conducted a large farm near (lower for 



some years. In 1880 he was elected Sheriff of the 
county, which position he filled acceptably for six 
years. In the fall of 18'.»2 he was elected Justice 
of the Peace, and is making an efficient officer. 
In his political views he is a stanch adherent of 
the Democratic party, for whose furtherance he 
does all in his power. 

In 1849 occurred the marriage of Mr. Allgaier 
and Blisa Ilaltie Anderson, of Kentucky. Of this 
union were born four children, three of whom are 
living: George, James and Hattie. In 185!> our 
subject was again united in marriage, at which 
time Miss Amanda Williams, also of Kentucky, 
became his bride. Ten children graced this union, 
seven of whom survived: Albert W., George, 
John, Eugene, Owen, Mary and Cathleen. The 
mother of these children departed this life Feb- 
ruary 7, 1882, leaving many friends to mourn her 
loss. 

For nearly thirty years Mr. Allgaier has taken 
an active part in public affairs, and has been iden- 
tified with the welfare and progress of Clinton 
Count}'. As a consequence, and as the result of 
his many noble qualities of mind and heart, he has 
won for himself the repect and friendship of all 
with whom he has come in contact. He is a mem- 
ber of the Catholic Church. 



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ARRY II. SMITH is Chief Clerk in the office 

■ of the Master Mechanic of the St. Joseph 
A- Grand Island Railroad, his headquarters 
>((5) being in St. Joseph, Buchanan County. 
His birthplace was in Upper Sandusky. Ohio, and 
the date of his birth September 1 1. 1801. His father, 
Josiah, was born in Pennsylvania in 1821, and 
on arriving at manhood went to Upper Sandusky, 
where ho engaged in the merchandise and crockery 
business. He was also Postmaster of the city for 
one term. In 1872 he removed to Kansas and, 
settling in Wyandotte, there engaged in various 
enterprises lor three years, at the end of which 
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and successfully carried on a fruit farm. In 1881 
he settled in Lawrence for the purpose of educat- 
ing his son, but was called from this life in the 
same year. He was always active in local Repub- 
lican circles, frequently being a delegate to con- 
ventions of the party. His wife, who was before 
her marriage Louise Lewis, was bona near Malone, 
Canada, in 1835, and with her father removed to 
Upper Sandusky, where they were numbered 
among the earl)' settlers. Mr. Lewis, who was 
born in Massachusetts, was a Sheriff while living 
in Canada. Mrs. Smith departed this life in 1890 
in Kansas City, leaving two children, our subject 
and his brother, Clarence J., who is engaged in 
educational work in Kansas City. 

Harry II. Smith, of this sketch, was brought up 
in the city where he was born and in Wyandotte, 
Kan. He attended Palmer's Academy after leav- 
ing the common school. P'or two years after his 
father's death he operated the homestead farm, 
hut in 1883 a cyclone which devastated that region 
destroyed everything, buildings and trees, and the 
family therefore left the farm. For one year he 
engaged in teaching at Connor, Kan., after which 
he was in the real-estate business for one year and 
a-half in Wyandotte. 

In 1885 Mr. Smith first entered the employ of a 
railroad company, being a clerk under J. O. Chap- 
man at Armstrong, Kan. In 18811 he was sent to 
Leavenworth and given a position as Chief Clerk 
in the Master Mechanic's office of the Union Pac- 
ilic. with E. II. Minn ford as his superior. In 1890 
Mr. Smith came to St. Joseph, still in the employ 
of the same railroad company, though on the 
Grand Island Branch, and was Chief Clerk under 
A. J. Broughel. In 1891, two new divisions hav- 
ing been made, Mr. Smith was sent to Armstrong 
again as Senior Clerk in the Master Mechanic's 
office of the Union Pacific. When throe months 
had expired he was sent to Salt Lake City, where 
he served in a like position under A. C. Hinckley. 
On New Year's Day, 1892, our subject returned 
to this city and until May 1 held the position of 
Chief Clerk of the Mechanical Department of Ac- 
counts, in the Auditor's office. At the last-men- 
tioned date Mr. A. C. Hinckley was installed as 
Master Mechanic in St. Joseph with the Grand Is- 



land Road, and Mr. Smith was again made his as- 
sistant and Chief Clerk. He is well known and 
liked in railroad circles, for he attends strictly to 
his duties and is exact and methodical to a degree. 
In Kansas City, Kan., Mr. Smith was united in 
marriage on April 27, 1892, with Miss Laura M. 
Berry, whose birth occurred in Chillicothe, Mo. 
She grew to womanhood in Kansas City and was 
given a liberal education. She is cultured and 
refined, a lady of most amiable disposition and 
worthy qualities. In regard to the questfon of 
politics, Mr. Smith is a firm supporter of the Re- 
publican party and is a good citizen in every 
sense of the word. 



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I^ENRY LOWER. The name with which we 
head this biography needs no introduction, 
the owner being one of the oldest settlers 
in Wayne Township, Buchanan County, 
and therefore well known in public and private 
life as a citizen of high repute. He has been a 
tiller of the soil where he is residing on section 36 
for a half-century, and is regarded as one of the 
substantial men of the township. 

Jacob Lower, the father of our subject, was born 
in 1787 in Tennessee, and during the Indian War 
did efficient service under Gen. Andrew Jackson, 
acting as Orderly-Sergeant. The maiden name 
of Mrs. Lower was Sarah Cline. She was a na- 
tive of Pennsylvania, but after her marriage with 
the father of our subject resided with him in 
Tennessee until 1836, when they came to this 
State and made their home for a year and a-half in 
Jackson County. In the fall of the following 
year, however, his two sons, our subject and his 
brother Jacob, located a claim for him in Wayne 
Township, this county, on which they erected 
a log cabin. Into this rude structure the family 
moved the next spring, and there the parents re- 
sided until their decease in 1851. The surround- 
ing country at that time was a perfect wilderness, 
and Mr. Lower can yet see the forest and under- 
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where nun his eyes only note the great fields of 
yellow grain, or the rustling corn. 

Henry Lower, who was one in a family of eight 
children, was born July l l. 1818, in Rowan County, 
Tenn. His father being in limited circumstances, 
his education was necessarily of the most limited 
kind, and his time was so occupied that if his ad- 
vantages had been better he would scarcely have 
had time to enjoy them. Young Lower remained 
:it home until reaching his twenty-fifth year, in the 
meantime hiring out to work for other parties. In 
the spring of 1837 he went as teamster with 
freighters from Jackson County, this state, to 
Santa Fe, N. M. The trips were made with very 
great difficulty, as Indians were very numerous 
and exceedingly troublesome. At one time the 
little party was surrounded by five hundred red 
men. whose lives were only saved by their having 
in their possession a cannon, which frightened the 
savages. 

Mr. Lower, having visited the Platte Purchase 
was so favorably impressed with the opportunities 
which it presented to a voting man, that he aided 
his father in locating here, and remained at home 
for a time, aiding him in clearing his new land. 
When stinting out for himself, he located the 
claim where he is at present residing, on which he 
built a cabin and made improvements before he 
was old enough to legally hold it. 

February L 1811, Mr. Lower and Miss Sarah A., 
daughter of Henry Sandy, were united in marriage. 
Mr. Sandy was a native of Maryland who in early 
life came to this State, where his decease occurred. 
Mrs. Lower was born in Ireland, from which 
country her parents came. After his marriage, 
Mr. Lower located permanently upon his farm, 
which has been his abiding-place for fifty years. 
His estate, which is one of the best in the county. 
includes a quarter-section, and from it Mr. Lower 
reaps handsome returns, lie-ides this property he 
has given his children many acres, and in this 
manner started them out in life well equipped to 
earn a livelihood. In 1866 Mr. Lower built his 
present commodious residence which cost $2,500, 
besides the labor and time which he expended up- 
on it. 

Mrs. Sarah A. Lower, who was very much 



respected in this community on account of her 
amiable disposition and the keen management 

which she displayed in her home affairs, departed 
this life in .hint-. 1890, al the age of sixty-seven 
years. She bore her husband ten children, of 
whom the following seven are still living: Sarah 
E., Mary Ellen, John \\\, James C, Martha A.. 
Isaac >.'. and Henry M., all of whom are members 
of the Christian Church. Those deceased were 
also members of that church. 

Mr. Lower is a devoted member of the Christian 
Church, having been identified with that organi- 
zation since the 3*ear 1814. Mrs. Lower prior 
to her demise had also been connected with 
the same church. After the late war. and dur- 
ing the erection of the Bethel Church, our sub- 
ject contributed *. r >no toward accomplishing 
that end. He has been very active and prom- 
inent in the same, and for a number of years 
served as Deacon and at the present time occupies 
the honored position of Elder. Socially he is a 
member of the Grange, in which body he was 
Master. In politics he always votes for Democratic 
candidates, and his interest in educational affairs 
has led him to be placed on the School Board a 
number of times. During the war he was a mem- 
ber of the militia at home. Mr. Lower has 
a brother and sister residing in this county. Lair. 
and Rosa, now the widow of Jesse Blevins, of 
Bloomington Township. 



y» 1I.L1AM 1. A 1 LhSI 
countanl for the St 
Island Railroad, and 



WILLIAM T. AYLESBURY is Car Ac- 
st. Joseph & Grand 

d has made railroad- 
ing his business since leaving school. His father, 
also, Thomas Aylesbury, has long been engaged in 
the same occupation, and is one of the oldest em- 
ployes of the Kansas City Road, being now Gen- 
era] Foreman of the car department in this city. 
His sketch may be found in another portion of 
this work. 



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The birth of our subject occurred on Christmas 
Day, 1863, in Kewanee, 111., which was his home 
until 1870, when he removed to St. Joseph with 
his parents. He received a good public-school 
education, after which he went to the Christian 
Brothers' College, from which institution he was 
graduated in 1878. He at once commenced work- 
ing for the company with which he remained for 
some years. This was the Kansas City line, and 
the position which he first took was that of a clerk 
for the Car Accountant, there then being only 
two in the office. In time he became the Chief 
Clerk, and when he gave up the place there were 
twenty employes in the office, which shows how 
the business had increased. For two years after- 
ward he was located in Kansas City as contracting 
agent for the Burlington Lines. 

On New Year's Day, 1892, Mr. Aylesbury ac- 
cepted the important position of Car Accountant 
for the Grand Island Railroad, having his office in 
the Chamber of Commerce Building. He is a mem- 
ber of the St. Joseph Building and Loan Associa- 
tion, and takes great interest in the surprisingly 
rapid growth and prosperity of the city. 

On the 12th of October, 1892, in this city, 
was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Aylesbury and 
Miss Gertrude, daughter of Mrs. Miranda (Con- 
nett) Reid, who has long resided in this city. Mrs. 
Aj'lesbury is a native of Buchanan County, and is 
a musician of undoubted talent, particularly as a 
pianist. Our subject is also musically inclined and 
is a fine vocalist. He studied with Prof. Leib, of 
Kansas City, and has been a member of the old 
Apollo Club, and also of the Mendelssohn Society. 
He has sung in a number of churches, for eight 
years in the Congregational Church of this city. 
In a number of different cantatas and musicales 
given here of late 3'ears lie has taken leading 
parts. 

Mr. Aylesbury is quite interested in civic socie- 
ties, belonging to Charity Lodge No. .'531, A. F. & 
A. M., of which he is Senior Deacon, and to the 
Knights of Pythias, in which he has occupied 
various official positions. He belonged to the 
lodge at (iate City, Kansas City Division No. 24, 
of which he was Captain. He belongs to the Grand 
Lodge, K. P., of Missouri, and to Woodland 



Lodge, A. O. U. W., of Kansas City. lie and his 
estimable wife are connected with the Trinity 
Episcopal Church. In politics he is a supporter 
of the Democratic party. He is well liked as a 
business man, and both he and his wife stand high 
in social and musical circles. 



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T'RANK M. CAHILL, an expert hoist shoer, 
doing the finest work in the city, has 
a fine reputation for his methods of treat- 
ing all diseases of horses' feet. He makes a speci- 
alty of shoeing roadsters, driving horses and trot- 
ters, making shoes from bar iron. His place of 
business is at No. 308 South Sixth Street, St. Jo- 
seph, Buchanan County. 

Mr. Cahill was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., April 28, 
1861. His great-grandfather emigrated to the 
United States from the northern part of Ireland. 
Grandfather Cahill was a farmer, and our subject's 
father, M. F., was born in Lee, Mass. He learned 
the blacksmith's trade in his native State, and 
worked for some time at the business in Brooklyn 
and New York City. In 1869 he removed to 
Waukesha, Wis., where he started a shop as an ex- 
pert horse shoer. He invested in property, which 
increased greatly in value after the discovery of 
the now famous springs of that region. He is 
wealthy, and has an elegant residence in the center 
of the city. He is only fifty-three years of age, 
and is still actively engaged in business, now 
dealing in pianos, organs and musical goods. 
His wife was in her maidenhood Miss Bertie War- 
ren, born and reared in Hartford, Conn. 

Our subject is the eldest of nine children, who 
are all living. Until eight years of age he lived 
in Brooklyn, and then removed to Waukesha, 
Wis., being educated at Carroll College, from 
which he graduated about 1879, being the young- 
est in the class. From boyhood he worked around 
his father's shop, and was always very fond of 
man's noble friend and servant, the horse. He 
learned his trade with his father, and when twelve 



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if.' 



yean old could put on a shoe with the best work- 
man in the shop. For two years after his gradu- 
ation, he remained with li is father, and then set 

out to carve his own way. After traveling for 

ahout three years, during which time he was for 
nine months in St. Joseph working at his trade, 
he returned to the East and worked in the St. 
Louis A- Quincy shops. He also worked at l'.ell- 
ville, Milwaukee. Racine and Janesvillc. 

In the summer of 1891, Mr. Cahill returned to 
make a permanent location in St. Joseph. He 
bought an interest in the shop run by Frank 
Breckenridge, the firm being Breckenridge A- Ca- 
hill until January, 1893, when our subject bought 
out his partner and became sole proprietor. He 
thoroughly understands every branch of his trade, 
and makes a specialty of correcting bad habits and 
those diseases to which the feet of horses are so 
subject. 

Mr. Cahill is a member of the Independent Or- 
der of Odd Fellows, and Knights of Pythiasof the 
World, and uses his right of franchise in favor of 
the Republican party. 



HARLFS I). M. CRANOR, M. I)., who has 
a fine practice, is one of the best physicians 
^ and surgeons of St. Joseph, and is numbered 
among the old inhabitants. His birth occurred at 
Germantown, on the Miami River, Ohio, August 
22, 1860. His father, William, was also a native 
of Montgomery County, to which the grandfather 
of our subject came in the early days, being one 
of the pioneers of that region. He was born in 
the North of Ireland, his wife being a native of 
Scotland. Our subject's father was a mechanic and 
iron machinist. He enlisted in 1861 in an Ohio 
regiment, and served until the close of the war as 
a member of a band. In the fall of 1865 he came 
to St. Joseph, working as a machinist until his 
death in 1870. His wife. Josephine, was also a 
native of Montgomery County, Ohio, and a daugh- 
ter of Peter Lorenz, who was a soldier with .Napo- 



leon, and was one of the Empress Josephine's 
body guards in Prance. That beautiful and un- 
happy empress at one time lost a slipper, and Mr. 
Lorenz luckily found it and returned it to the fair 
owner. He was a weaver by trade, and came to 
America, locating at Germantown, where he mar- 
ried and engaged in weaving carpets during the 
remainder of his life. The old loom which for 
many years he worked at unceasingly is still in 
the possession of his descendants in Ohio. Mrs. 
McCranor is still living, making her home with 
our subject. 

In a family of four children, three daughters 
and one son, the Doctor is the second in order of 
birth, his sisters being Cora, now Mrs. George 
Finn, a resident of North Platte, Neb.; Ida, Mrs. 
F. Kaucher, of this city; and Maigaret E.,a gradu- 
ate of the high school in this city, and now a 
teacher in the Washington School. Since 1865 
Dr. McCranor has resided in St. Joseph, receiving 
such education when young as was obtainable in 
the public schools. He was early set to work, and 
when only ten years of age, clerked in a drugstore 
for William Striblen, continuing there for eighteen 
months, and then entering the pharmacy of Dr. 
W. S. Hall, on Francis Street. At the end of three 
months he took up the study of medicine with Dr. 
A. V. Banes, and in the fall of 1S78 entered the 
Jefferson Medical College, in Philadelphia, pursu- 
ing his studies in that famed institution until 
1882, when he was graduated with the degree of 
I (oetOr of Medicine. 

Returning to St. Joseph, Dr. McCranor started 
in practice, being for one year with Dr. A. V*. 
Banes, and then embarked in practice alone. Year 
by year, as his success in treatment of disease be- 
came k own, he continually added to the list of 
his clients until he now possesses a line practice, 
and is kept as busy a8 he could wish. His office is 
located on the corner of Frederick Avenue and 
Ninth Street, lie keeps thoroughly posted on all 
subjects relating directly or indirectly to medicine, 
and is a member of the National Union Medical 
Examiners. He attends the Catholic Cathedral, 
and in politics is a Democrat. 

Dr. McCranor ha- been twice married, his iii-t 
wife being Miss Elizabeth Rigney, who was born 



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in St. Joseph, and was a daughter of Thomas Rig- 
ney, a well-known citizen. She died in 1887, 
leaving one child, a daughter, Gertrude. The Doc- 
tor was united in marriage April 29, 1891, to Miss 
J. Mary Kilfoyle, who was horn in Buchanan 
County, and is a well-educated and cultured lady. 



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T. JOSEPH COMMERCIAL COLLEGE, 

an incorporated institution, is conducted 
by the Christian Brothers. This is a body of 
teachers in the Catholic Church, who have 
devoted their lives to this department of work, 
the headquarters of the organization being in 
Paris, Fiance. In the United States their work is 
divided into four provinces, the first one having 
headquarters at St. Louis, and this portion having 
schools extending from that city to points as far 
north as St. Paul. This institution, to which we 
will give our especial attention, was established in 
1867 by Brother Noah, who was Director for one 
year. The present large college building was erec- 
ted some six years ago, on a spot which is remark- 
able for health, convenience and beauty of scenery. 
In 1858 Father Powers erected the old building, 
but on account of the war the school was not con- 
tinued until 1867, and the building was occupied 
by the soldiers as a barracks. 

In 1886 the present fine structure was erected 
at a cost of 125,000. There are ten brothers on 
the college faculty, and for the past six years 
Brother Marcellian has been in charge as Presi- 
dent. The college usually has on its roll about 
one hundred and fifty students, fifty of them be- 
ing boarders. The building is admirably arranged 
for the school work, which is first class in every re- 
spect. Whether at work or play, in the dining- 
hall or dormitories, the pupils are constantly at- 
tended by one of the brothers, who gives them his 
counsel and guides and directs their deportment. 
The course of studies embraces all that is usually 
taught in similar institutions, and comprises four 
departments, Primary, Preparatory, Commercial 



and Scientific. The religious instruction and 
moral training of the student are regaided as of 
primary importance and are faithfully attended to. 

The present able President of the college, 
Brother Marcellian, has had about twenty-five 
years' experience in teaching in St. Louis, St. Paul 
and New York State. Mathematics have been his 
specialty, and in the work done by his pupils, which 
shows the many excellent results of his systemctic 
method of imparting instruction, he takes a just 
pride. He is very pleasant and popular among 
his students, as with all who have the pleasure 
of meeting him. 

It seems but just to give a brief sketch of the 
Rev. Father Powers, who has merited the name of 
"the pioneer priest," and for the past five years has 
served in the capacity of Chaplain of the Chris- 
tian Brothers' College. lie established a coloni- 
zation society in Reading, Pa., and purchased 
about twenty thousand acres in Nodaway and 
Jefferson Counties, Mo., entering much of the 
land at Washington. He was sent out to select 
land, and in 1856 and again in 18o8 he brought 
out the first settlers, altogether about eighty men, 
establishing a colony at Conception, Nodaway 
County. In 1860 he erected the first Catholic 
Church in northwestern Missouri. The title to the 
lands was in litigation and was not settled for ten 
years, and though located on, the matter was not 
adjusted until after the war. Father Powers was 
placed in charge as Priest, under authority of 
the Bishop at St. Louis, holding that important 
post until 1873, when he turned it all over to the 
Benedictine monks, who have built up a large 
church, convent schools and industrial orphanage. 
As other settlers came in, Father Powers assisted 
in starting several other churches, at Marys ville, 
Burlington Junction, Conception, and all the chur- 
ches of < i en 1 1- %■ County. Until 1873 he was the only 
priest in that whole section of the State. Father, 
now Bishop, Ilogan was the nearest priest, his lo- 
cation being at Chillicothe. Father Powers had 
much rough pioneer work to do, being often ob- 
liged to travel great distances, his journeys being 
made on a little pony, and frequently he would 
be compelled to swim all the little streams. 
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difficulties. Father Scan d on had a small church at 
the corner of Fifth and Felix Streets, and was al- 
so engaged in pioneer work. In is."i7. Father 
Powers was made assistanl to Father Scannon, 
during the time of litigation giving employment 
at various times to many people. In 1873, Father 
Powers returned to St. Joseph, where he remained 
a year and then went to Europe, spending about 
a year and a-half in the foreign field. On hi* 
return he came to this city and assisted Bishop 
Hogan, who had in the meantime been conse- 
crated, and when the latter visited Rome, Father 
Towers had charge of his work for a year and a- 
half. Later he went to California, where in 1877 
be engaged in mis-inn work for a year. Up to 
the time of his filling the Chaplaincy in the col- 
lege, his work had been mainly that connected 
witli missions mi Omaha, Council Bluffs, Chicago 
and the South. 



\\ ■-- / HANK COLLINS, who is actively engaged 

1L#-. • if i . i ' • • 

\—{S) m general farming and stock-raising on 
1 section 20, township •">.">. range 80, Clinton 

County, was born in Clay County, tin- State, No- 
vember 5, 1853, and is a son of John W. and La- 
vinia (Bernard) Collins. One Robert Collins em- 
igrated from Wales at a very early day and set- 
tled in Kentucky, lie married a .Miss Haley. Our 
subject's great-grandfather, Robert Collins, settled 
in Fayette County, Ivy., and married a .Miss Coon-. 
lie was a gallant soldier In the Revolutionary War 
ami later removed to (lay County, Mo., where he 
passed from life. Politically he was a Whig, and 
in religiouB belief was a Baptist. His son William 
was born in Fayette County, Ivy.. April 25, I7'.»7. 
Il<' was a farmer by occupation in Kentucky, and 
on coming to Missouri in 1828, settled in ( la\ 

County, Which is Still his home, he having reached 

the venerable age of ninety-five years. He was 
formerly a Whig, but is now an adherent of the 
Democracy. He reared a large family, who, with 
the except ion of t wo who entered tbi army, were 

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all married. They were as follows: John \\\; 
Mary; Eliza Susan; William, who was in the Con- 
federate Service, and died at the close of the war 
in Texas; Austin, who was in Shelby's brigade, 
and died at Springfield, Mo.; and Amelia. 

John W. Collins was born in Kentucky and set- 
tled in this county in 1828, where he still resides. 
lie ha- served a- Assessor and ReCOrdd of Heeds, 
and has held a number of other count} offices. 
Previous to his marriage he engaged in merchan- 
dising, but farming was his chief occupation until 
about 1880, since which time he has lived retired 

from the arduous duties of farm life. He ha- been 
twice married, and by his first union was born 
a large family of children, two Of whom died while 

young. The others are Frank, Mary, l.utic, Fan- 
nie, William N., Susie, Ruth, Augusta (deceased), 

and Allen. The mother of these children died in 
1S7.">. and Mr. Collins took as his wife Mrs. Hath- 
away. Our subject's mother, who was born in 
Franklin, Mo., was the daughter of X. and Susan 
(Mavhan) Bernard, natives of Virginia, who came 
to Howard County, this State, in the early days 
and afterward removed to Boonville, when- thej 
were numbered among the early pioneers of that 
section. 

Frank Collins was reared to mature years on a 
farm and received the advantages ol a common- 
school education. Upon attaining the age of 
twenty-two years he Mailed out in life for him- 
self, embarking in the drug business. For four 
years he clerked at 1 lainesvillc, Mo., and 1880 be- 
came a resident of Clinton County. His farm 
comprises two hundred and forty acres of arable 
land, which is finely improved ami -how- the 
management of a skillful and practical agricul- 
turist. 

On May 7. I 879, M r. Collins and Mary !■'. Evans 
were united in matrimony. The lady, who was 

born in I lames vi lie, is a daughter of .lame- \\. and 
Mary A. (Hogard) Evans. The father, who was 
a native of Dorchester County, Mil., was a carriage- 
trimmer b\ trade. Ill I S.ST he wa- located in 
Charleston, S. (..but in 1844 removed to llaines- 
Ville, .Mo., near which town he purchased a farm. 
A Iter five \ cars' residence in tlii- State lie returned 

to Maryland and North Carolina, but in 1850 con- 



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eluded to return to the West. lie purchased two 
hundred and seventy acres of farm land near Con- 
verse, and afterward became the- owner of four 
hundred and eighty acres in Arkansas. In 1880 
he removed to his farm on section 20, township 
55, range 30, which comprises four hundred and 
eighty acres. At the time of his death, in February, 
1883, at the age of sixty-eight years, he was the 
owner of over twelve hundred acres of fine land. 

Politically Mr. Evans was a Democrat, though 
he had formerly been a Whig, and was a consist- 
ent member of the Christian Church. Their family 
comprised three children: William J., John (now 
deceased) and Mrs. Collins. The mother of these 
children, who is a daughter of Elisha and Winne- 
ford (Cobb) Ilogard, of North Carolina, is still 
living. 

The union of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Collins has 
been blessed by the birth of seven children, who, 
in order of birth, bear the names of Eulah, Roscoe 
15., Lee Curtis, Sallie A., Amy, Frank and De Witt 
C. Mr. Collins is a member of the Baptist Church, 
while his estimable wife is identified with the 
Christian Church. 



Tr^'-.ODNKY SMITH is manager of the Western 
IWr Union Telegraph Company at St. Joseph, 
<!i \V and is one of their oldest and roost esteemed 
employes. He was born in South Deerfield, 
Mass., March 16, 1851. His father, George R. 
Smith, was born in Iladley, Mass., while his father, 
in turn, whose Christian name was Rodney, was 
likewise a native of the Bay State, and a farmer 
by occupation. George R. Smith was a lumber- 
man, and also devoted considerable time to agri- 
cultural pursuits. He operated a sawmill near 
South Deerfield, on the Mill River, until he retired 
from active business cares. He is still living and 
active in the work of the Congregational Church, 
with which he has been connected for many years. 
and is now in his seventy-fourth year. His wife, 



now deceased, was in her maiden days Elvira Hop- 
kins. She was born in Conway, Mass., and passed 
her entire life in the Fast. 

Rodney Smith is the eldest of four children, 
three of whom are living. He was brought up as 
a farmer boy, and worked some in his father's 
mill. With the New England idea of education 
and its importance as a factor in a person's life, 
he was given good common and high school ad- 
vantages He took up telegraphy a little in his 
boyhood, and when twenty years old, or in 1871, 
started out from home, going to Quincy, 111., 
where he obtained a position in the Western 
Union Telegraph office. lie remained there for 
nine months, beginning at the bottom round of 
the ladder and gradually working his way up. 
His next position was with the Hannibal A- St. 
Joseph Railroad as extra night operator at Clar- 
ence Mo., after which he held a like post at Chilli- 
cothe and Kansas City. Our subject was appoint- 
ed in 1873 regular operator with the same road 
at Atchison, and in the latter place also became 
office manager. He was stationed there for nearly 
five years, and about that time the manager resign- 
ing, he was appointed to fill the position. This was 
about 1880, and he served as manager until the 
fall of 1887, when he was given the more impor- 
tant position of manager at St. Joseph, in which 
capacity he has served up to the present time. 
The business has more than doubled in the last 
few years, and about thirty operators, clerks and 
messengers are now employed. The office is lo- 
cated in the basement of the Board of Trade, on 
the corner of Third and Edtnond Streets, and 
here are a thousand cells of the batteries. This 
office is the third largest in the State, and is as 
well equipped and managed as the offices of larger 
cities. 

Mr. Smith and Miss Belle Morehead were united 
in marriage in Quincy, 111., the ceremony being 
performed in December, 1882. Mrs. Smith was 
born in Covington, Ivy., but passed her girlhood 
in Quincy, and was there educated. She is a lady 
of culture and refinement, and has won her way 
into the hearts of those who know her. She is 
well received in social circles, and both she and 
her husband number a host of friends and ac- 



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quaintances in tlii- eity, whore they have lived 
for about five years. Mr. Smith is a stanch sup- 
porter of the Republican party, and is fraternally 
an Ancient Freed Accepted Mason. 




[CHAEL K. SWEENEY, foreman of the 
freight warehouse of the Chicago, Bur- 
lington & Quincy [tail road, is one of the 
prominent railroad men of St. Joseph. 
Although he has scarcely reached the prime of his 
manhood, he has attained to a position of trust 
and honor, indicating that he possesses unusual 
sturdiness of character and energy of thought. 
He is foreman over eighty-six men, and so great 
is his efficiency that an immense amount of work 
is acorn plished in his department. 

Boston, Mas-., is Mr. Sweeney's native city, and 
April 27, 1856, the date of his birth. He is of 
Irish parentage, being the son of Thomas B. 
Sweeney, a native of County Cork, Ireland, who 
emigrated to America and resided at various 
times in different eities of Massachusetts. In 1 S ."» 7 
he removed to the far West, as Missouri was then 
considered; and established his home in the then 
flourishing and growing village of St. Joseph. lie 
was closely connected with the various interests 
of the place until he departed this life in 1879. 
His widow, who bore the maiden name of Maggie 
Lucey, still resides in this city, and is an estimable 
woman, whose friends are as numerous as her ac- 
quaintances. 

The only home of which our subject has an\ 
recollection is the city of St. Joseph, whither he 
was brought by his parents when one year old. 
Here he grew to manhood, enjoying the advanta- 
ges of a common-school education, and becoming 
a man of broad information. When fifteen years 
ot age, he was apprenticed to learn the trade of 
blacksmith, at which he worked for three years 
nnder George Schrores. After the expiration of 

his ter f apprenticeship, he followed the trade 

on his own account lor two years, 1ml il was. im- 



suited to his tastes, and he soon found employ- 
ment more congenial. 

In 1879 Mr. Sweeney entered the employ of the 
Kansas City Railway Company, and Idled success- 
ively the positions of receiving clerk, check clerk 

and assistant foreman. February Hi. 1891, he 
was promoted to the place which he has since held, 
and in which he is rendering satisfactory service 
to the company. As a business man he is keen, 
far-seeing and energetic, and his talents have been 
universally recognized in the city, where he is 
highly regarded as a man of worth. His social 
connections are with the Ancient Order of Hi- 
bernians, and religiously he is a faithful member 
of the Catholic Church. He resides with his 
mother at No. 1022 Lincoln Street. 



[£_ KNKY W. DUNN, a well-known citizen of 

St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Mo., is e'n- 

vg? gaged in street contracting, grading, pav- 

'.(jS) ing, curbing, etc. He has been very suc- 
cessful in this business, to which he gives his whole 
attention, and in 1892 hi- work amounted to over 
$50,000. He has acceptably tilled the official po- 
sition ot Street Commissioner, and ever since his 
arrival in this city, in the year 1866, he has been 
prominent in everything pertaining to her pros- 
perity and progress. 

The gentleman of whom this is a brief life rec- 
ord was born in Lee County, \ a.. April 'J. 1838. 
His father, John I). Dunn, was a farmer by occu- 
pation, ami Glasgow, Scotland, was the place of 
his nativity. Until his nineteenth year our sub- 
ject remained on his father's farm, assisting him in 

whatever way he could, until in the year 1857 the 
family removed to the West, locating in Agency, 
Buchanan County, where the death of the father 
incurred two years later, on October 20. The fol- 
lowing month Mr. Dunn removed to l.ccomptou. 
Kan., where he engaged in keeping a livery -table 
for about twoyears, Among hi- customers was 



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Jim Lane, who was well known in that part of the 
State, and was familiar with many prominent pro- 
slavery men. Returning to Agency, our subject 
made that his headquarters until the close of the 
war. 

In 1864 Mr. Dunn enlisted as a member of Com- 
pany I), Eighty-first Regiment Enrolled Missouri 
Militia. Capt. Claggett commanding the company, 
under Col. Scott. During Price's raid in 1865, our 
subject removed to Page County, Iowa, five miles 
south of Clarinda, but in the following year re- 
turned to this city. He obtained a position as 
street sprinkler, and as such did efficient service for 
twelve years. The Deputy Street Commissioner 
in 1881 made him one of the Street Commissioners, 
and in that position he remained for one year, af- 
ter which he became a street contractor, and has 
since continued in that line of business with con- 
siderable success. 

On the 4th of July, 1861, Mr. Dunn married 
Miss Melinda Reece, daughter of Jacob Reece, who 
was from North Carolina, and an earl}- settler of 
Buchanan County, having located at De Kalb in 
1841. From 1844 until the time of his death, 
which occurred in January, 1879, he lived on the 
old Agency farm, in the identical house built by 
the Government for the Indian agent and mission- 
ary, Mr. Ballard. To our subject and wife have 
been born the following-named children : Franklin 
P., who is associated with his father in business; 
Mattie D., Mrs. L. C. Markland, of Crockett 
County, Tex.; John L., deceased; Charles H., who 
is a blacksmith at Memphis, Tenn.; Fred A., an 
electrician in Memphis; Bertha E., who lives at 
home, as do also the younger members of the fam- 
ily, Otic M., Nannie L. and Lulu, who are attend- 
ing the High School and are in the Class of '94. 
Lulu has never been absent from or tardy in school 
for eight 3'ears. Jacob 1'., the ninth child, is a 
close student, taking great interest in school work, 
and has not been tardy for three years. Mollie E., 
next to the youngest in the family, died in 1882, 
aged fifteen months; and Mabel I. completes the 
circle. John L. was drowned in the Missouri 
River, May 21, 1X77, when in his tenth year, lie 
was on the sprinkling wagon with his brother 
Franklin when the horses became frightened and 



turned the wagon over, throwing both brothers 
into the whirl of the treacherous Missouri. 

Mrs. Dunn is a member of the Presbyterian 
Church, but her children belong to the Hundly 
Chapel of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Our 
subject is an active member of the Ancient Order 
of United Workmen, belonging to Pride of the 
West Lodge No. 42, and is also a member of the 
Select Knights. 







HARLES F. KNIGHT, M. IX, is the oldest 
regular physician in practice in the city of 
St. Joseph. He was for five years one of 
the physicians of the State Asylum and has made 
his home in this city since 1855. He has a very 
extensive practice and at one time was a member 
of the editorial committee of the St. Joseph Med- 
ical Journal. He has been a witness of life on the 
frontier, and during his early practice in this 
community was obliged to ride on horseback 
across the bluffs to visit the Indian dug-outs and 
rude cabins of the pioneers. He has always been 
a member of several prominent medical societies, 
has been President of the St. Joseph Medical So- 
ciety, and afterward of the Buchanan County 
Medical Society. He is also connected with the 
following: the Missouri Valley, the Northwestern 
Missouri, and the American Medical Associations, 
having served as delegate to the latter at conven- 
tions in St. Louis and New York City. 

Dr. Knight is a member of an old Virginia fam- 
ily, having been born in Frederick County, near 
Winchester, on November 14, 1829. His paternal 
grandfather was a native of Scotland, emigrating 
to Virginia at a very early day. Our subject's 
father was an extensive farmer in the latter State, 
and was for years Overseer of the Poor or super- 
intendent of the institution. He had a large 
plantation, was very wealthy, and was called from 
this life in 1859. In Fredeiick County. Ya., he 
married Miss Rebecca Pagett, a native of that 
county, whose father was a large contractor and 



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was owner of a small plantation. Her mother, 
whose maiden name was Rowe, was a lineal de- 
scendant of Catherine Fitzgerald, who was kid- 
napped in Ireland and brought to America. Our 
subject's mother died in lM.'io. leaving one child. 

Dr. Knight was reared to manhood <>n his fa- 
ther's plantation, and was given good school ad- 
vantages, at lending an academy and then the 
Greenway County Academy (where George Wash- 
ington stopped when he surveyed that region), and 
was also a student in Winchester Academy. From 
bis earliest years it had been his intention to pur- 
sue the medical profession, and lie began to read 
under Dr. Hugh McGuire as early as 18.J0. Pn- 
tering Winchester Medical College, he was gradu- 
ated tberefrom in 1852, and engaged in practice 
at White Post, Clarke County, for three year-. 

In 1855 the Doctor came West by railroad and 
stage and part of the distance by boat to St. Jo- 
seph, which numbered at that time less than five 
thousand inhabitants. Since that time he has 
been engaged in active practice in this city, and 
after the Hannibal ,v St. Joseph Railroad was put 
through this place, served as surgeon of the com- 
pany during a period of live years. That he is 
accounted one of the best physicians in the city 
is shown by the fact that for live times he has 
been City Physician at different periods, the firsl 
time in l*. r >7aiid the last in 1*75. Dr. Knight 
was one of the ti ist organizers of the old St. Jo- 
seph Hospital Medical College, of which he was 
the first President, and remained in that position 
for eight or ten years. In 1889 this institution 
Was discontinued, but until two years previous to 
that time he had lectured in the college, and had 
been Professor of Obstetrics, Diseases of Women 
and Children, and Clinical Medical Treatment. 
He was President of the faculty until 1886, when 
he was appointed Assistant Physician at the stab' 

Asylum, having charge of nine female wards and 
remaining physician in charge for live years. In 
June, 1891, he gave np outside work and has 
since made a specialty of diseases of women and 
children, having a large regular practice in the 
city. 

In this city was celebrated the marriage of Dr. 
Knight ami Mi>> Mattie Keyes, who was born in 



Jefferson County, Va., and was a daughter of 

Thomas W. Keyes. who emigrated to this State in 
1855. He first carried on a foundry and later 
a llouring-mill until his demise. ( >ur subject's 
wife was called to her final abode in August, 1861. 
Three years later the Doctor married Miss Anna 
M. Keyes, a sister of his first wife, and unto them 
have been born seven children, of whom five are 

living: Th as K.. clerk in the Auditor's Office of 

the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad at Omaha; 
Charles P., Jr., a druggist in St. Joseph; George 
W., in the Car Accountant's office of the Chicago 
A Northwestern Railroad at Council Bluffs; Annie 
S., who was educated at the Convent of the Sa- 
cred Heart and is an exceptionally fine musician; 
and Reginald W., who resides at home. In 1867 
the Doctor erected a pleasant home on the corner 
of Third and [sadore streets. The house is sur- 
rounded by beautiful grounds, which are shaded 
by line large trees planted by our subject. 

Since 1853 Dr. Knight has been a member of 
the Masonic fraternity and is a Knight Templar. 
He was seven years in the same position with 
Sera Datha Lodge, and was Pirst Master of Char- 
iton Lodge for many years. He has been very 
successful in his business relations and owns con- 
siderable real estate in this city.' He is a member 
of the Episcopal Church and at one time was a 
Vestryman of the same. Until the war he was a 
Whig politically, but since that lime has been a 
Democrat. 



i OlIN J. KENNEDY, Chief Clerk in the 
Loral Freight Office of the Burlington 

Route, Missouri Pines, was born ill St. 

Joseph. July 3, 1863. His father, W. G. 

was bom in Dublin. Ireland, and having been 
orphaned when a mere lad, he was obliged at an 

early age to be< e self-sustaining. Resolving to 

seek the New World for the home and fortune 
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lie worked his passage across the Atlantic to New 
Orleans, and there found employment as clerk on 
a river steamer. From the position of clerk he 
was promoted to first mate, but soon tiring of that 
life, he drifted to the West and engaged in freight- 
ing across the plains. 

While in the far West Mr. Kennedy prospected 
in the mines at Pike's Peak, but not meeting 
with special success, he returned to his former oc- 
cupation of teamster. Subsequently he entered 
the employ of the railroad, and was night-watch- 
man for the old Hannibal & St. Joseph Railway 
Company. He resigned that position to become 
mail-carrier, being one of the first men connected 
with the city delivery. When the Kansas City 
Railroad Company built its present freight house 
he was employed as night-watchman, which posi- 
tion he still holds. lie is an ardent Democrat in 
politics and is always interested in the success of 
his party. / 

Annie Clifford, as the mother of our subject was 
known in maidenhood, was born in Galena, 111. Her 
father, Patrick Clifford, was a native of Ireland and 
became an early settler of Galena, 111., where he 
engaged in teaming. Later, he located in St. 
Joseph, where he remained until his death. Our 
subject is one of two children, the other, Annie, 
being at home. He was reared in St. Joseph, 
where he entered the public schools at an early 
age. The rudiments of education there acquired 
were afterward supplemented by a course of study 
in the Christian Brothers' College and a term 
spent at Bryant & Stratton's Business College. 

About 1878 Mr. Kennedy entered the employ 
of the Kansas City Railway Company as messen- 
ger boy in the local freight office. 1 1 is abilities 
being soon recognized, he was promoted to be clerk, 
and afterward to Chief Clerk of the Kansas City, 
Hannibal & St. Joseph Railway Company. Helms 
occupied the place last named for four years, and 
in May of 1892, upon the consolidation of the 
various lines, he became Chief Clerk for all of 
them. Politically,' he affiliates with the Demo- 
cratic party, believing that its principles are such 
as will most effectively promote the development 
of our country. He is a member in good Stand- 
ing of St. Patrick's Church and a generous con- 



tributor to its support. The Isle of Erin, where 
for so many generations his ancestors made their 
home, is very dear to him, and he takes a deep 
interest in its welfare, although, with true patriot- 
ism, he believes that America is the destined Queen 
of the World. He is a member of the Ancient 
Order of Hibernians, in which for some time he 
officiated as Secretary. 



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THOMAS CROWS, the gentleman with 
whose name we introduce this sketch, has 
witnessed and materially assisted in the 
growth and development of Buchanan County, 
and more especially Marion Township. He be- 
longs to that class of pioneer residents to whom 
SO large a debt of gratitude is due from the pres- 
ent generation, owing, as it does, all the advan- 
tages of an easier life and a higher degree of cul- 
ture to the noble hearts who endured privation 
and opened the way for civilization through track- 
less prairie. 

Adam Crows, the father of our subject, was 
born in Ashe County, N. C, in 1801. lie, in turn, 
is the son of Adam Crows, Sr., a Pennsylvania- 
Dutch farmer. The mother of our subject, Mrs. 
Judith (Johnson) Crows, was born in 18(12, in 
Tennessee, and was the daughter of Thomas John- 
son, also a native of that State. The parents were 
married in North Carolina, where they continued 
to reside until 1837, when they made their way 
to this State and made their home for a short time 
in Saline County, In 1841, however, they came 
to Buchanan County and purchased property on 
section 22, Marion Township. The section was 
then wild prairie land, and on his new property 
Mr. Crows built a hewed-log house. His purchase 
consisted of a quarter-section and this he had par- 
tially improved at the time of his removal to 
DeKalb County, where the parents of our subject 
made their home with a daughter until their 
decease, both dying in lssT. 

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Iwo <>( whom are deceased. Those living besides 
our subject are Margaret, Betsey, Polly Ann and 
Rachel. The elder Mr. and Mrs. Crows were de- 
voted members of the Separate Biptisl Church, in 
which body the father was Deacon, lie was a man 
widely and favorably known, and his sterling 
worth and strict integrity won him hosts of 
friends anion;; the best residents of the count}'. 

Thomas (rows, of this sketch, was born May 27, 
1821. in Ashe County, X. ('. His opportunities 
for obtaining an education were very limited, as 
In- passed his early life on the frontier, but mak- 
ing the best of these meagre means he received a 
fair insight into the common branches taught at 
that time. He was given a thorough training in 
farm duties, however, and when attaining his ma- 
jority was married to Miss .Mary Pennington, who 
was born in Kentucky in 1823. After his mar- 
riage Mr. Crows had hut ten cents in money, a 
horse, saddle and bridle, with which to begin life, 
and the money he placed in the contribution box 
the following Sunday, to aid in the purchase of 
new church books. Nothing daunted, young 
(rows rented the Mackey farm for three years, 
and at the end of that time he had managed af- 
fairs to such good advantage that he was enabled 
to purchase a piece of limber land and at the 
same time entered land north of Faston. On this 
he erected a hewed-log house and immediately 
commenced the arduous task of clearing and im- 
proving the home place, where lie continued to 
reside for a number of years. Then selling out to 
good advantage he purchased his present beau- 
tiful estate, on section 26, which has been his 
home for the past thirty-live years, and which 
ranks as one of the best in Buchanan County. 

Mrs. Mary Crows departed this lift- February in, 
1869. She reared a family of seven children, of 
whom the following four are living: Benjamin, 
George, Isabel and .lesse. The succeeding year 
our subject was united in marriage with Miss 
Katie Cave, a native of Salem, this State. She 
died in the year 1871. and the lady who is the 
present wife of Mr. Crows was formerly Mrs. 
Almira V . Crockett, a native of Clay County, this 
Stale. She was the daughter Of liobeit and Mar- 
garet ( Liggett ) Dunlap, natives of Virginia, the 



father being born .luly 22, 1791, and the mother. 
October 17, 1799. Mr. Dunlap followed the com- 
bined occupations of farmer, blacksmith and gun- 
smith. He was :i very prominent and influential 

man in Clay County, where he owned many slaves. 

With his wife, he was a devoted member of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church South, and reared a 

family of nine children, of whom four are living, 
viz.: Narcissa, Mrs. John Boggis; Elizabeth, Mrs. 

Hell; Almira, Mrs. Crows; and Serepla. Mis. 
'I'll as Holland. 

Mrs. Crows was born February .">, 18:17, in Clay 
County. Mo., where she was given a fair education. 
She was married to Mr. A. .1. Crockett, by whom 
she became the mother of three children, Robert. 
Maggie and Oscar. Her union with our subject 
has resulted in the birth of two children. Susan 
M. and Albert T. 

The original of this sketch is the proud posses- 
sor of two hundred and twenty acres of tillable 
land, upon which he lias erected all the needful 
buildings for the successful prosecution of his 
work. During the Civil War he enlisted in March. 
1863, becoming a member of Company F. Fifth 
Missouri Cavalry, under Col. Pennocfc. His Brat 
service was at Liberty, Mo., where he did guard 
ami scouting service. 

Mrs. Crows is a member of the Methodist Fpis- 
COpal Church South. Mr. Crows is a member of 
the Separate Baptist Church. Our subject is an 
ardent Democrat in politics and uses his influence 
in every possible way to advance his party's in- 
terest. 



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fll.LIAM T. FLAM, M. D., is justly num- 
bered among the prominent young physi- 
cians of St. Joseph, and is one of the 
bright young professors of the Northwestern 
Medical College, which institution is his Alma 
Mater. In the fall of 1891 he became Professor of 
Bacteriology and Venereal Disease-. From 1890 to 
1892, under Mayor Shepard, he was Assistant 



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City Physician with Dr. Berghoff, being the first 
assistant appointed in the city. He was influential 
in getting through the ordinance to establish the 
Board of Health, which has been of great benefit 
to St. Joseph, unquestionably. 

The birthplace of Dr. Elam was in Gentry 
County, I\Iu.. near Albany, and the date of that 
event was June 4, 1866. Ilis father was William 
M. Elam, who was born in Morgan County, Ky., 
the father of the latter being James, a native of 
Virginia, who emigrated to Morgan County with 
his parents when quite young, and was one of the 
early settlers of Gentry County, where he engaged 
in farming. Our subject's great-great-giand father 
emigrated from England, locating in Massachusetts, 
near the city of Boston, and his sons participated 
in the War of the Revolution. Our subject's 
father came to Missouri in his early manhood, first 
engaging in the drug business at Mt. Pleasant, and 
later pursuing the same line of trade in Albany. 
He served in Company E, Twenty-first Missouri 
Infantry, for two years, or until the close of 
the war, and during that time practically lost 
the use of his eyes. On returning from serv- 
ice he followed his former business for a while, but 
in 1886 located in this city and is now living a 
retired life. His wife, formerly Miss Melinda F. 
Baxter, was born in the East, and came with her 
parents to Gentry County, where they were among 
the early settlers. 

Dr. Elam, of whom this is a brief sketch, is the 
second in order of birth of a family of six children, 
four of whom are yet living. His boyhood and 
youth were passed in Albany, where he received 
a good education and attended the public and 
High Schools. He early entered his father's drug 
store as his assistant, and in 1884 removed to 
Kansas City, where he engaged in the same busi- 
ness and while there was registered as a druggist. 
Remaining there until the fali of 1885, he then as- 
sumed charge of a drug store in Jameson, Mo., 
which he carried on for a year, and then located in 
Falls City, Neb., managing a like business until 
1887, when he finally came to this city. 

In 1888 Dr. Khun started a drug store at No. 
1633 Frederick Avenue, and while operating 
it started in at the North western Medical College, 



graduating therefrom in 1890 with the degree of 
Doctor of Medicine. He then sold out his business 
and has since been engaged in the practice of 
medicine, bis office being located on Eighth Street, 
in Smith's Block. He is Surgeon of the Fourth 
Regiment of the National Guards of Missouri, with 
the rank of Major, and was private in Company K 
of the same regiment, known as the Wickham 
Rifles, and was later appointed Surgeon. He is 
also Secretary of the Doctors' Business and Pro- 
tective Association of St. Joseph, an organization 
recently established for the discussion and regula- 
tion of the business features connected with the 
practice of medicine. Socially, lie is a'membcr of 
the Knights of Pythias, is Democratic in his polit- 
ical views, and is a member of the Buchanan County 
Medical Society. 



OHN JESTER is the proprietor of a large 
brewing establishment at the corner of Thir- 
teenth and Sacramento Streets, St. .Joseph. 
The plant occupies 140x170 feet of ground, 
has about $50,000 invested in it, and has a capac- 
ity of about five thousand barrels of Wiener beer 
per annum. For their Premium beer, which is 
warranted to keep in any climate, Mr. Jester re- 
ceived medals in 1884 and again in 1885 from the 
Industrial and Agricultural Exposition of St. Jo- 
seph. He has been engaged in business for him- 
self since 1879, when he started with a small capi- 
tal of $2,000. His trade has greatly increased, 
his sales being largely outside of this city, and be- 
ing principally in bottled goods. Owing to his 
personal supervision of all the details of its manu- 
facture is due the reputation which the product 
of his brewery has won. 

The subject of this sketch was born in the Tyrol, 
Austria, on the 6th of February, 1844, and while 
still a mere lad he commenced serving an appren- 
ticeship in the brewery business, working for three 
years. In 186',) he emigrated to the United States 
and remained for one year in Allegheny, Pa., after- 



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ward going to Chicago, in which city he was lo- 
cated at the time of tin- great Ore in L871, losing 
:il! of his clothing and effects. Soon after lie came 
in si. Joseph and worked for the old New Ultn 
Brewery Company, and later for four years in the 
St. Joseph Brewery, or until starting in business for 
himself, as previously mentioned, in 1879. 

In this city in the year 1880 was celebrated the 
marriage of Mr. Jesterand Miss Emma Ismer, who 
died September 9, 1881, leaving a daughter Mamie, 
now a bright little twelve-year-old girl attending 
school. Mrs. Jester was the daughter of Gustav 
Lsmer, who was for many years proprietor of a 
boarding-school on the corner of Fourth and Ed- 
mond Streets, and was well known in this city, 
particularly among the Ocrmans. Jle was a na- 
tive of northern Germany, and died August 21, 
1886, aged about sixty-two years. Our subject is 
a Democrat in his political affiliations, and served 
tor three years as a member of the School Board 
of the Eighth Ward. He is a member of the 
Tinner Society and of the Sons of Herman. 



OSEPH SWARTZ is one of the oldest and 
most practical engineers running out of St. 
Joseph. lie is in the employ of the St. Jo- 
seph & Grand Island Railroad, and usually 
has the duty of training new engineers. He is a 
careful engineer, and it is to his credit that he has 
never had an accident, or injured any one. 

Mr. Swartz was born in St. Louis, Mo., May 28, 
1846, and is a sun of Philip and ( Ihristine (Krous) 
Swartz, who were both Datives of the Fatherland. 
The former was a blacksmith by trade, and -non 
after his marriage he emigrated to America. Set- 
tling in St. Louis, lie ran a blacksmith-shop at the 
cornel- of Twentieth Street and Gamble Avenue. 
lie had forty acres of land there that he also cul- 
tivated. This property, which is now worth mil- 
lion-, the mother had to sell for $2,000, as her 

husband died in 1849 of that dread disease, chol- 
era, and she was left with a family of six children. 



one of whom is aow deceased. Mi's. Swartz after- 
ward married Charles 1'>1 i in 1858, and removed 

with him to FultOD, Mo., where they spent • 

year. He worked at his trade a- a painter in Col- 
umbia for a short time, and then took the family 
hack to St. Louis, when' they remained until the 
fall of 1854, when they went to Ilannihal. Mr. 
Bloom died in April. 1893, after having worked 
for twenty-eight years for the Hannibal A- St. Jo- 
seph Railroad. His wife, who survives him. is 
still living in Hannibal. 

Joseph Swart/., of this sketch, lived in Hannibal 

until I860, attending the common scl I s . At 

that time he went to St. Louis, and for two \ ear- 
was clerk in his uncle's grocery store. He next 
engaged in driving a team for a while, but in 
1868 entered Company A. Forty- first Missouri 
State Militia, as a private soldier, and served until 
mustered out at the close of the war. 

In the year 1867 our subject started in his first 
railroad work as a machinist in the shops of the 
Northern Missouri Railroad ( lompany at St. Charles. 
At the end of a year he was made fireman for the 
same company, between St. Louis and St. Charles. 
He remained in that capacity for three years, at 
the end of which time he became an engineer on 
the road then called the St Louis. Kansas City & 
Northern Missouri, but later the si. Louis Ne- 
braska .V Pacific Railroad, his run being between 
St. Louis and Moberly from 1M71 to 1876. He 
was next engineer on the St. Joseph branch be- 
tween Lexington and St. Joseph, with his head- 
quarters in this city, being stationed here until 

1883. For one year, thereafter, he was located in 

Montana on the Union Pacific In the spring of 

1884, returning to st. Joseph, he became an engi- 
neer on the St. Joseph a- Western, now the Grand 

Island Railroad. With this c ipany he has been 

both freight and passenger engineer, and i- con- 
sidered one of the best men they have. I'nlike 
railroad men in general, he owns some g 1 prop- 
erty, has a comfortable residence, and seventy 
acres Of farm land about twelve miles out of St. 
Louis, which he rents. 

In St. Charles, Mo.. Mr. Swartz married Miss 
Lizzie Stein in I HUM. She was born ill Cincinnati. 
Ohio, and passed her girlhood in st. Charles. Pour 



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children grace this union: May; Joseph, Jr.. who is 
a machinist in the terminal shops; Arthur and 
John. 

Our subject is a straight Democrat. He is a 
member of Division No. 107, Brotherhood of Lo- 
comotive Engineers, has held all the different 
ofiices, and is now Secretary. For five times he 
has been a delegate to the Grand International 
Encampment of the order. These meetings were 
held at the following places: New Orleans, New 
York City, Pittsburgh, Chicago and Atlanta, Ga. 
At present he is Chairman of the Grievance Com- 
mittee, on the Board of Adjustment on the Grand 
Island Railroad, and is also Chairman of the Leg- 
islative Board for the Engineers. Mr. Swartz be- 
longs to Enterprise Lodge No. 332, I. O. O. F., in 
which he has passed all the chairs, and is past offi- 
cer of John Libbey Encampment No. 48. 



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AMUEL D. SENOR, M. I)., of St. Joseph, 
Buchanan County, is well informed on 
general subjects, and especially on every- 
thing pertaining to his profession, and for 
a young physician has met with unusual success. 
He is a graduate of the Northwestern Medical 
College, so justly noted in this portion of the 
West, and in the fall of 1890 became a professor 
in that institution, holding the chair for two years, 
when he resigned on account of ill-health and 
spent the winter in California, traveling all over 
the State and visiting the principal points of in- 
terest. 

The birth of the Doctor occurred December 19, 
1866, in Doniphan County, Kan. His father, Sam- 
uel D. Senor, was born in Boone County, Mo., 
near the village of Columbia. Grandfather Michael 
Senor, who was born in Virginia, was of German 
and Spanish descent. He was a gunsmith by trade, 
and took part in the War of 184;"), being- pro- 
moted to the rank of Captain. He was one of 
the early settlers of Boone County. In 1857 he 
went to California, and there met with an acci- 




dent, which caused his death two years later. His 
wife removed to Doniphan County, Kan., with her 
children, and there passed her remaining days. 

Our subject's father also went to the Golden 
State in 1857, and after remaining there for two 
years returned to Kansas. In 1861 he enlisted as 
a musician in the Thirteenth Kansas Infantry, 
and served until the close of the conflict. Soon 
after he wedded Priscilla E., daughter of James 
Willyard, a native of Kentucky and an early set- 
tler and farmer of Holt County, Mo. There Mrs. 
Senor was born, and soon after the marriage of 
the young couple they located on a farm near 
Oregon, which was their home until 1882. At 
that time, on account of ill-health, Mr. Senor gave 
up his farm and became a resident of St. Joseph. 

The Doctor is the only son and the oldest liv- 
ing child in a family of four children. His boy- 
hood days were passed on the homestead farm in 
Holt County. His education was obtained in 
Oregon in the public and normal schools. In 
1882 he entered the employ of H. M. Gorlick as 
clerk in a drug store. He served for nearly three 
and a-half years with the gentleman, and after- 
ward was for fifteen months an employe of 
J. C. Hope, in his store at the corner of Fourth 
and Isabelle Streets. Determining then to become 
a physician, our subject resigned his position and 
commenced his medical studies under the tutor- 
age of Dr. T. E. Potter. 

In the fall of 1887 Dr. Senor entered the North- 
western Medical College, from which he was grad- 
uated two years later. He then began his prac- 
tice, having his office at the corner of Third and 
Isabelle Streets. As previously mentioned, in the 
fall of 1890 he accepted a position as Professor 
of Chemistry, Toxicology and Urinalysis. In the 
spring of 1893 the Doctor returned from his 
Western joumeyings with greatly improved health, 
and re-opened an office. This is nicely located at 
No. 1004 North Third Street. He is quite suc- 
cessful with surgical cases and will probably in 
time make that branch his specialty. 

Dr. Senor and Miss Jessie Townsend were united 
in marriage in this city December 3, 1890. Mrs. 
Senor is a daughter of Thomas Townsend, a pio- 
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curred in Avenue City. In politics tbe Doctor is 
a Democrat, and fraternally belongs to St. Joseph 
Lodge No 78, A. 1'. A A. M., and to Lodge No. 
I l. R. A. M. IK' lias been tin' physician and was 
Council Commander of Lodge No. 12, W. W. 








'£_, ENRY 1'.. M< [NTYRE, the genial and pop- 
ular proprietor of the Laclede Hotel at 
Plattsbnrgh, Mo., has successfully conducted 

§}) Ins present business three years, succeeding 
II. T. Riley as host <>f tbe leading botel of the 
town. The Laclede Hotel is specially arranged 
for the comfort and convenience of transienl 
guests, and contains two finely lighted sample 
rooms. The entire hostelry was completely re-tit- 
ted for Mr. Mclntyre, and with its attractive fur- 
nishings offers a strong contrasl to the original 
accommodations proffered the traveling public 
upon the corner of Main and Broadway, where the 
Laclede now stands. Joseph Hunter was the 
landlord of the first house of entertainment 
erected here, which was a log cabin, and a fair 
sample of the hotels of those early days. Mr. 
Hunter was succeeded by Thomas Palmer as pro- 
prietor. 

Henry 11. Mclntyre has been a resident of 
Plattsburgfa nineteen years, but is a native of 
Kentucky, and was born in Boyd County July 
29, 18.',:?. He came West in 1ST:'., and. settling in 
Missouri, remained two years in his first Location 
and then came to Plattsburgfa to operate a hard- 
ware store, being a tinner by trade. Later he en- 
gaged in the liquor business, and finally took 
charge of the hotel, whose business has increased 
materially under his excellent guidance. Mr. Mc- 
lntyre was united ill marriage with Miss Fanny 
Young, daughter of John M. Young, an early 
resident of Clinton County, who located at the 
time of Mrs. Mclntyre'8 birth about two miles 
from Plattaburgb. The estimable wife of our sub- 
ject did not long survive her marriage, her death 
occurring in the winter of 1886. Two children 



survived the loss of their tender and devoted 
mother, a son and a daughter, Katie and Oscar, 
both of whom are living at present with the 
mother of Mi. Mel ntyre. 

(•ur subject is a pronounced Dei srat, and 

while not a politician in the common acceptation 
of the term, and never an ollice-seeker, finds 
special enjoyment in attending the large political 
gatherings, the State and National conventions, 
where the issues of the day are fully discussed. 
Mr. Mclntyre was present at the Republican Na- 
tional Convention held in Chicago, when the 
lamented Garfield was nominated. lb- has been 
one of the audience of every Democratic National 
convention since Tilden was nominated, and con- 
siders it a liberal education to meet the leading 
and eminent statesmen, in whose guiding hands we 
trust the responsible interests of this great American 
nation. M i. Mclntyre is the possessor of ability 
and energy, and is eminently the right man to pro- 
vide for the various wants of the weary guests 
who seek shelter beneath his hospitable roof. ,\~ 
a citizen he has during his many year-' residence 
in Plattsbnrgh won the esteem and confidence 
of a large circle of friends, and is now numbered 
among the prominent and influential business men 
of the city, ever ready to aid in the public improve- 
ments Or assist in any social or benevolent enter- 
prise. 



/p^EORGE KNAPP is the oldest settler and 
ill (— - contracting painter in the city of St, Jo- 
^^|( seph. Mr. Knapp was born in St. Louis. 
November 19, 1889, and came to this city when 
but eight years of age, where he has been follow- 
ing his trade since boyhood. Ilis father. Ed .1. 
Knapp, was a native of Orange County, N. V.. be- 
ing born in the year 1809 to William Knapp. who 
came from I reland at an early day. Grandfather 
Knapp's family was a mixture of old Irish and 
Italian blood, and its members belonged to the 
Catholic Church, lb' located in Orange County, 



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N. Y., in early life, and engaged in cabinet-mak- 
ing for a time, later removing to Boston, where he 
remained two years, after which he came overland 
to St. Louis, in the year 182<l, and followed his 
trade very successfully. He died in St. Louis about 
three years after moving there. 

The father of our subject was reared in St. 
Louis, where he learned the painter's trade, to 
which he was apprenticed seven years and four 
months, devoting especial attention to ornamental 
painting. Later in life he started in business on 
his own account, making a specialty of house and 
steamboat painting, continuing in this until 1847, 
when he located in St. Joseph. He immediately 
started in his business on Main Street, where he 
took a contract to paint the houses, and where, by 
going to the neighboring country towns, he 
worked up a lucrative business and made for him- 
self a good livelihood. He passed away in 1880, 
at the mature age of seventy-one years. He was 
Justice of the Peace for four years prior to the 
time of his death, and was also Inspector of 
Weights and Measures. Politically, he was a 
strong Union man, and cast his vote for the 
Democratic nominees. 

The mother of our subject was known in her 
single life as Miss Emily Mallett, and was born in 
Vincennes, Ind. Her father, Francis Mallett, was 
born in Montreal, where he was reared and edu- 
cated in the common district schools, and settled 
in an early day in St. Louis. He was collector for 
large estates and handled a great deal of money. 
In his declining years he came to St. Joseph, where 
he retired from business and died, at the ripe old 
age of ninety-eight years, in the Catholic faith. 
This elderly gentleman was a gallant soldier in 
the War of 1812, distinguishing himself in the 
battle of Tippecanoe, being commander of the 
troops at Ft. Harrison. He was a friend of the 
Indians, and had a great deal of inlluence over 
the different tribes. 

Mr. Knapp's mother resides in St. Joseph, and 
is now past her seventy-fourth year, having been 
the mother of eleven children, nine of whom 
reached their majority, and eight of whom are 
still living. Our subject was the eldest of the 
children born to his parents and was reared in St. 



Louis until he reached his eighth year, when he 
came to St. Joseph by way of the steamboat '•Mar- 
tha," which was owned by' Capt. Labarge, the trip 
consuming a week's time. The family landed 
here April 30, 1847, where they located perma- 
nently, and George was given an education in all 
the private schools. When he attained his four- 
teenth year he began the study of painting under 
his father's supervision, working at this art during 
the summer, and attending school through the 
winter months for four years. He continued 
painting with his father until the breaking out of 
the late war, and then moved to Leavenworth, 
where he was greatly prospered in the work. 

Our subject, after spending some time in Leav- 
enworth, returned to St. Joseph in 1865, and en- 
gaged in his trade as contractor and painter, meet- 
ing with much success, and finding his business so 
increased as to permit a removal, in 1882, to his 
present location at No. 610 Felix Street, where he 
does all the principal business in the city. Mr. 
Knapp is a practical business man, and his knowl- 
edge of the art of painting has been acquired In- 
experience. He makes a specialty of wall-paper 
work and embellishing, keeping in his employ 
from twenty to thirty men who are engaged in 
common painting, besides a sufficient number of 
experienced hands for decoration purposes, mak- 
ing a total of about fifty hands. Among the con- 
tracts taken for various firms and people, we will 
enumerate the following: Ogdeus it Nave, C. D. 
Smith, Mr. Robinson, Mr. McKinney, Mrs. Weyth 
and Mr. McC'allister. Besides these Mr. Knapp 
has been engaged principally by the Pacific House, 
Tootle, Ilosea it Co., and by Asylum No. 2, which 
covers about two acres of land adjoining the city. 

August 8, 1856, the gentleman of whom wc 
write was married to Miss Eva, daughter of George 
W. Brown, who had been formerly of New York 
City, but was in business in St. Joseph at the time 
of the marriage of his daughter. Mr. Brown was 
reared in New York, a tinner by trade, and re- 
moved to Little Rock, where he followed farming, 
working a little now and then at his trade. At 
the time when he located in Arkansas, the coun- 
try was nothing but a vast wilderness, which con- 
tained great numbers of bears and other wild ani- 



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mals. In L 845 be came to the West, and a year 
later he established himself in St. Joseph, where lie 
resided until the time of li is death. In 1 S74 lie 
was made a member of the Masonic fraternity. 
Mrs. Knapp's mother was born in Louisiana and 
still survives at 1 1 it" age of seventy-live years. 

Twelve children have been born to our subject 
and his wife, five of whom are now living: Fran- 
cis, who is a practical painter; Mary, Eva, Fanny 
and Joseph, all at home. The deceased are: Emily, 
George, Elinor, Charles. Edward, Agnes, Minnie 
and Lulu, four of whom died within a few weeks' 
time of each other, of that dread disease, diphtheria. 
The father of this family is a Select Knight of the 
Ancient Order of United Workmen, and in poli- 
tics is a stanch Democrat, having been a delegate 
to the state and Congressional Conventions, lie 
was at one time an able member of the National 
Association of Painters and Builders. His wife is 
a consistent member of the Catholic Cathedral, of 

St. Joseph. 



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C. HINCKLEY, Master Mechanic of the 
St. Joseph & Grand Island Railway Com- 
pany, formerly served in the same capac- 
ity in Salt Lake City, where he had been 
for three years, and from which city he was sent 
here by the Union Pacific Company. Before his 
employment in Salt Lake City, he had been assis- 
tant Master Mechanic of the Wyoming Division 
for two years, and prior to that time Road Fore- 
man of the engines of the Union Pacific System, 
having supervision of all shops and engines. 
After assuming the superintendency of the ma- 
chinery for the system of Salt Lake City, he was 
given charge of the Utah, Idaho ,v Wyoming 
Division, where he had entire control of all the 
engineers and firemen of the car department, 
which comprised about three hundred men. 

Mr. Hinckley was born in OswegO, N. V.. Sep- 
tember ll, 1854, where lie was rtared, receiving 
a good education until he was fifteen years old. 




Being thrown on his own resources, hi' started 
out as a Times reporter on a new round from Ro- 

chelle to Rockford, l If. and later was employed in 

the Receiver's Office of the Chicago & Iowa Rail- 
way . located at Rocbelle. When seventeen years 

of age he went to Aurora. 111., where he studied 
the trade of a mechanic, and worked nine months 
in the shops of that city, after which he fired on 
an engine for three years. He was then promoted 
to the position of engineer on a construction 
train, ami after a time again entered the shop- at 
Aurora to complete his preparations for his chosen 
vocation, which required eighteen months' time. 
After completing his work here he opeialed an 
engine for seven years on the Chicago .V Iowa 
Railway. 

In 1881 oursubjeel went to Huron, N. Dak. .where 
he performed the duties of an engineer for one 
year, then taking a like position on the Chicago, 
Burlington & Northern at La Crosse, Wis. After 
the completion of the road running from St. Paul 
to Oregon, 111., he became a passenger engineer, 
and ran the engine that pulled the first limited 
train ever run over that road. When the great 
engineers' strike occurred he left this company 
and became connected with the Union Pacific 
Railway, under the supervision of Mr. dishing, 
his first work being that of testing coal for Omaha 
and Denver, after which he was made Road Fore- 
man, with headquarters at Rawlins. Wyo. He was 
promoted from this position to the place of Mas- 
ter Mechanic of the Wyoming Division, going 
thence to Salt Lake City as Assistant Superintend- 
ent of the same division. 

Leaving home with $2.25 at the ago of fifteen 
years. Mr. Hinckley, with the consent of his 

mother, had worked his passage from Buffalo lo 

New York City, where he worked steadily and in- 
dustriously, and after many years of toil he at 
last finds himself one of the prosperous citizens 
of St. Joseph. He has recently been connected 
with the Columbian Foundry and Machine Com- 
pany, of which he is the general business manager, 
being the successor of Mr. AI . II. Herbert our sub- 
ject is a Director of the St. Joseph Terminal Rail- 
way Company, and still conducts his farm at Cran- 
don, S. Dak. 



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Mr. Hinckley was married at Rochelle, III., to 
Miss Francis May Porter, a Dative of that State, the 
auptials being celebrated March 12. 187;*. This 
amiable lady has been the mother of the fol- 
lowing children: Frank W., EbherS., Tom Por- 
ter, and Donna, who died at the age of sixteen 
months and was buried in Omaha, Neb. The fa- 
ther of this family is a member of the Independ- 
ent Order of Odd Fellows, and is also secretary of 
the B. & L. L. Lodge, Division 375. He is not 
only a very popular railroad man. but is a cordial, 
genial and sociable gentleman. Since his abiding- 
place has been this city, he insists on the insertion 
of the word St. Joseph in full on all his ears and 
engines. He attends closely to every detail of 
bis business, is familiar witli every feature, keeps 
abreast of the times on all railway questions and 
improvements, and has brought the Grand Island 
Road to a high standard. 



THOMAS AYLESBURY, one of the oldest em- 
ployes of the Kansas City Railroad, is gen- 
X|§|^ eral foreman of the ear department of the 
Burlington lines centering in St. .Joseph. Since 
1865 be has been engaged in railroading, and is 
thoroughly competent in many of the departments 
connected with the same. 

Robert Aylesbury, father of our subject, was bom 
in the Isle of Man in the English garrison, as his 
father. Thomas, was an officer in the British army. 
He was stationed at different points until he was 
retired at half-pay. His family trace their de- 
scent to some of the sturdy followers of .lames 
II. who went with him to France, and one of the 
Dumber, Thomas Aylesbury, was knighted. The 
branch of the family to which our subject belongs 
has few representatives in America. Robert Ayles- 
bury came to America in bis youth, becoming sup- 
erintendent of coal mines near Pottsville, l'a. In 
1854 he started to locate in the West, but was 
stricken with the cholera while on the steamboat 
going down the Ohio. He was only forty -six years 



of age. His wife, Dorothy (Smith) Aylesbury, was 
born in Northumberland County. Pa. Her three 
children are: our subject; Mary, Mrs. Walter 
Randall, of Tamaqua, l'a.; and Rebecca, Mrs. Ed- 
ward 1'. Lincoln, of Kewanee, 111. 

Thomas Aylesbury received a public-school ed- 
ucation in the Keystone State, and was only thir- 
teen years old when he was apprenticed as a carriage- 
maker for two years. For the succeeding five 
years he worked at carpentering, for two years of 
the time being a journeyman. His next venture 
was entering upon the work of a contractor and 
builder, ami as such he was employed for three 
years longer. In the fall of 1857 he made a trip 
to Kewanee, 111., where he remained only a few 
months, and then returned to Pennsylvania, where 
in 1856 he wedded Miss Hayiet Hill. She was 
born in Staffordshire, England, and came to the 
United States with her parents when only four 
years old. 

In the spring of 1861, Mr. Aylesbury returned 
to Kewanee, 111., working at contracting and 
building for four years. At the expiration of that 
time he entered the employ of the Burlington 
Road at Galesburg as a journeyman in the car de- 
partment. When three years bad passed he was 
given the position of foreman of coach-building, 
which place he held until May, 1872. At that 
time he was appointed foreman of the car depart- 
ment at St. Joseph, the works being located oppo- 
site the site of the Union Depot. It was a small 
building, with but little machinery, but he contin- 
ued there as foreman until 1875, when the shops 
were removed to their present situation. This 
building is 80x160 feet in dimensions, and here 
the company builds new ears and coaches, our sub- 
ject still being in charge of the work. 

Mr. Aylesbury is a director in the Merchants' 
Loan and Building Association, and in the South 
St Joseph Loan and Building Association. In 
1876 he was elected a member of the City Council 
on the Democratic ticket from the Fifth Ward, 
continuing as such until 18811. He was a member ■ 
of the Water Commission which made plans and 
arrangements for the present system of water- 
works. He was also on the committee which 
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Manufacturing Company. Our subject is a Mason, 
belonging to Charity Lodge No. 332, A. I'. a a. 
M., and is Past Grand of the [ndependeut Order 
of odd Fellows. Hi' belongs to the Encampment, 
and i> I > i — 1 1 ■ i < - 1 Deputy Grand Master of the Anci- 
ent Order of United Workmen, and is also a mem- 
ber "f the National 1 fnion. 

Mr. Aylesbury's four children are as follows: 
Charles, a graduate "f the High School, is married 
and is running a wholesale grocery house in 
Wichita, Kan.; Ella, who also graduated from the 

High Sd 1, is the wife of Horace Stringfellow, 

manufacturer of implements; Thomas, Jr., who was 
graduated from the Christian Brothers' College, is 
Car Accountant of the St. Joseph & Grand Island 
Railroad, his sketch being in another portion of 
this volume; and Winifred completes the family. 
Mr. Aylesbury is Senior Warden and Vestryman 
of the llolv Trinity Episcopal Church. 



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4p^EOROE L. SHERMAN. M.D., is one of the 
|| <^— leading physicians and Burgeons of St. 
V^jA) Joseph, Buchanan County, tie was brought 
up in Andrew County, where his father is a 
wealthy farmer and influential man. The Doctor 
is a graduate of the well-known Northwestern 
Medical College of this city, and though he has 
not been engaged in practice for a great many 
years, is of such an Observant and studious nature 
that he readily becomes thoroughly equipped in 
each particular branch of work to which he applies 
himself. Our subject was elected Ad j unci Profes- 
sor of Hygiene in the Northwestern Medical Col- 
lege. 

The paternal grandfather of our subject was a 
farmer in Germany. He emigrated t<> America at 
an early day and took part in the War of 1812. 
His son John, the father of the Doctor, was bom 
in Bavaria, Germany, and in his early manhood 
crossed the Atlantic, settling first in Pennsylvania, 
and later in Scioto County, Ohio, where he oper- 
ated a farm until the close of the war. lie then 



came to Missouri, buying. a farm in North County, 
but the following year removed to Andrew t ounty. 
lb started with a farm of four bundled acres, to 
which, after improving it well, be added adjoin- 
ing land. The home farm comprises six hundred 
and forty acres in one body, and besides tbi~ be 
Owns a number of other improved farms, lb- is 
an official member of the Method isl Episcopal 
Church. Though formerly a Douglas Democrat, 
lie is now a Republican. 

Our subject's mother. Catherine, daughter of 
William Knic, was born in Germany. Her father 
was in the War of 1812 and look part in the bat- 
tle of Waterloo. He removed to the United States, 
for a time engaged in farming in Ohio, and Anally 
settled ill Gentry County. Mo., where his death 
occurred. In a family of six children, three of 
whom are living, the Doctor is the sixth in ordei 
of birth. He was born March 30, 1861, in Scioto 
County, Ohio, lie received common-school ad- 
vantages in Andrew County and was early set to 
work on a farm. He remained at home until nine- 
teen years of age, when he entered the < 'ollege of 
Physicians and Surgeons of St.. Joseph. That very 
winter the division occurred in that college, and 
the Northwestern Medical was Organized. In this 
he became a student and was one of its Bret grad- 
uates in 1882. He lirst located as a practicing 
physician in Mosman. Page County, Iowa. At 
the end of ten months he removed to Beatrice, 
Neb., at which point he engaged iii carrying on a 

pharmacy in addition to conducting a general 
practice for nearly a year. Returning to Andrew 
County, Dr. Sherman opened an office in Empire, 
partly in order to look after his father- extensive 
business interests. 

[n the fall of 1890 Dr. Sherman went to Cali- 
fornia On business and was for nearly a year en- 
gaged in practice in Pasadena, where he also ran 
a fruit farm. Return int.' to this State in 1891, the 
Doctor opined an office in St Joseph, at the corner 
of Tenth and Olive Streets, and baa since carried 

on r regular and general practice. 

In this city in the year 1885 w: as celebrated the 
marriage of Dr. Sherman and Mi>s Nancy, daugh- 
ter of Dr. !•'. A. Simmons, a noted physician and 

President of the Northwestern College. Mrs. Sher- 



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man, who was born in this State, has become 
the mother of one child, George P. T. 

Socially, our subject is a member of Lodge No. 
131, I. O. (). F., of Flag Springs, in which he was 
at one time Vice Grand. He belongs to the Fra- 
ternal Aid Association, and in politics supports 
the Republican party. He is connected with the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, and in personal char- 
acter is a man of integrity and unblemished repu- 
tation. 



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\f\ x ATRICK MARTIN, a wholesale liquor 

dealer, has been prominent in city politics 
and is a veteran of the late war. He lias 
been a resident of St. Joseph since soon after 
the close of the rebellion, as in the spring of 1 8(iG 
he started for California, but only went as far 
we*t as this place, where he has since made his 
home. For two years he served as an Alderman 
from the Fifth Ward, and in 1892 was made Presi- 
dent of the City Council. While a member 
of that body his influence was used in many pub- 
lic works and improvements, and for many years 
he has done all in his power to promote the welfare 
of his fellow-citizens. Mr. Martin was born in 
Bennington. Vt., on Christmas Day, 1842. His 
father, Patrick, was a native of County Galloway, 
Ireland, where his marriage was celebrated, soon 
after which he removed to America. lie was 
a merchant in the Emerald Isle, and departed this 
life only three months after locating in Vermont. 
His wife, who bore the maiden name of Marga- 
ret Martin, though she was not a relative, was also 
a native of Ireland, and after her husband's death 
she removed to Troy, where her death occurred in 
lSlj. Mr. Martin was then taken by his grand- 
mother to bring up, and in 1855 she removed to 
Janesville, Wis. Her death occurring that sum- 
mer, our subject then went to live with an uncle, 
William Martin, a farmer in Rock County, Wis., 
though later engaged in farming near Albany, 
Green County, and now, retired from agricultural 
pursuits, residing in Albany. 



Mr. Martin, who is an only child, spent the most 
of his early life on a farm, and in 1857, with his 
uncle, settled in Green County, going to school 
about two and a-half miles from home. This was 
the only frame school building in that township, 
and there he coutinued his studies, also assisting 
in the farm work, until the breaking out of the 
war. Agriculture was carried on in a very primi- 
tive style even at that late daj r in that part of the 
country, as they plowed with oxen and mowed 
with the sickle, hauling grain to Milwaukee, a 
distance of ninety-two miles, with their ox-teams. 
They often sold their wheat for twenty-five cents 
a bushel, thus making little profit on their crops. 
Our subject assisted in clearing the farm, and dur- 
ing the autumn engaged in threshing, as he, in 
company with a partner, owned a machine. 

In May, 1802, Mr. Martin enlisted as a member 
of Company V, Thirty-first Wisconsin Infantry, 
and at once on being mustered in went South, 
skirmishing along the Mississippi. He was in the 
charge at Ft. Ilalleck and in the battles of Look- 
out Mountain, Chickamauga and Missionary 
Ridge. He went with Sheridan in his advance on 
Atlanta, and with .Sherman on his march to the 
sea. Going North, he took part in the battle of 
Bentonville, and then proceeded to Washington, 
where he had the honor of participating in the 
Grand Review. At Atlanta he was detailed as an 
aid on Hooker's staff, and had charge of the Gen- 
eral's body-guard, later being transferred to Will- 
iams' staff. Near Unionville, Ky., in a skirmish, 
he was wounded in the left side, and afterward was 
hit a number of times by spent balls. At the battle 
of Bentonville he was struck on the right hip by a 
shell, which penetrated to the bone. After the 
Doctor had dressed the wound Mr. Martin got on 
his horse again, and actively engaged in the battle 
until night, when he was so stiff that he had to be 
lifted from his horse. On Gen. Williams' staff he 
had the rank of Captain, and altogether his war 
record is one of which he may well be proud. 

On June 15, 1865, Mr. Martin returned to his 
old home in Wisconsin, where he remained until 
the spring of the following year, when, as previ- 
ously stated, he located in St. Joseph. He under- 
stood bookkeeping and soon got a position with 





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James 1>. McNeely, wholesale grocer. He was tor 
twenty years a faithful and trusted employe of 
that bouse, but in is. s <> concluded to engage in 
business for himself, and in company with Mr. 
Sheridan tunned the present partnership of Martin 
& Sheridan Bros. 

Mr. Martin was married in this citj in 1868 i" 
Miss Alice Martin, who was born in the same 
county in Ireland as was our subject's father. She 
is not, however, a relative, though formerly hav- 
ing the same name as she now bears, and is 
a daughter of James Martin, a fanner in Green 
County, Wis. Five children Jrace the union of 
our subject and wife: Maggie, now Mrs. Wilhelm, 
residing in St. Joseph; MollieE.; Frank 1'., who is a 
telegraph operator at Marysville, Mo., in the cm- 
ploy of the Kansas City Railroad: Agnes G. and 
Leo. Gertrude died aged eighteen months. Mr. 
Martin is a member of the Catholic Knights of 
America, belonging to Lodge No. 239; is a member 
of the St. Patrick Benevolent Association, and is a 
charter member of the Union Veteran League No. 
98, of Sherman's Club and of Chester Harding 
Post, G. A. H. He is politically a Democrat, and 
attends the Cathedral Parish Church, to winch he 
belongs, lie owns a pleasant residence, which he 
himself erected, situated at No. 817 South Tenth 
Street. 



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OIIN GOODING, a prosperous and energetic 

agriculturist of Buchanan County, and 
widely known as an excellent and industri- 
ous citizen, upright in character, now resides 
upon a valuable farm located on sect 88, Wash- 
ington Towisbip, which he is conducting in a most 
profitable manner. 

His father, Abram Gooding, who was born in 
Kentucky in 1798, was the son of Cornelius Good- 
ing, who hailed from Virginia, where he was a 
fanner. The former later in life, however, re- 
moved tO the Blue • Iras- Mate, where he pa--ed the 

remainder of his life. He was a nephew of old 

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Col. David Gooding, well known in this section as 
an Indian fighter, whoaided in killing Chief Te- 
cumseh. 

Tin- mother of our subject, Isabel (Jones) Good- 
ing, was born in IT'.U in Kentucky, and was the 
daughter of .lame- .lone-, an old Revolutionary 
soldier. By her union with Mr. Gooding there 
were born nine children, six of whom are still liv- 
ing. On till' deeea-e of his lil'St wife, which OC- 

curred in 1838, Abram Gooding was married to 
Louisa Parker, a native of Virginia, by whom he 
became tin- father of two children, lie took a 
prominent part in the affairs of Fleming County. 
Ky., where he resided and at his death, which oc- 
curred in 1870, there was universal mourning. Mrs. 
Gooding followed him to the better land a few 
months later. 

Mr. Gooding was a prominent politician, being 
a member of the old Whig party, and in 1837 and 
1838 was a member of the Kentucky Legislature. 
He faithfully discharged every duty devolving 
upon him. and as a public-spirited citizen mani- 
fested a commendable interest in all that pertained 
to the welfare and upbuilding of his community. 
lie served his fellow-townsmen as Magistrate for a 
number of terms, and in the performance of his 
obligations was always to lie found upon the side 
of right and justice. 

A native of Fleming County. Ky., our subject 
was born May '-'it. 1820, and received a fair educa- 
tion in the subscription schools of that period. 
When twenty-five years of age he assumed the 
charge of his father's plantation and slave-, and in 
the conduct of affairs exercised that sound judg- 
ment and business tact which brought him success. 

November 27, 1845, John Gooding and Miss.lu- 
liet K., daughter of William L. and Cassandra 
(Phillips) Farrow, were united in marriage. Her 
parents were native- of Kentucky. I he father being 
born in 1800 and the mother in 1802. They were 
farmers i>\ occupation and greatly respected in 
Mason County, where they made their home. Mr. 
Farrow was a son of Col. William L. Farrow, a 
Revolutionary soldier, who also fought in the War 
Of 1*12. The latter wa- very prominent in poli- 
tics, and for main year- was a member of the 
Kentucky Legislature, being elected on the Whig 



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ticket. In 1840 he with his sons and grandsons, 
in all twenty-six persons, cast his vote for Will- 
iam Henry Harrison, of which fact he was always 
very proud. 

The father of Mrs. Gooding was for many years 
a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church. He 
departed this life in 1846 and was followed to the 
better land by his good wife, who died in 1859. 
They were the parents of seven children, four of 
whom are still living. One son, Capt. Richard S. 
Farrow, served in the late war under Gen. Beau- 
regard, and died in Virginia from the effects of 
wounds received in battle. 

Mrs. Gooding was born December 5, 1827, in 
Mason County, Ky., and after her marriage with 
John Gooding continued to reside in that county 
until 1850, when the}' came to Buchanan County 
and located upon what is now our subject's beau- 
tiful farm, but which was then in its primitive 
condition. The country round about was sparsely 
settled, and the hardships and privations through 
which they passed are known only to those who 
have aided in the development of a new country, 
and to whom all honor is due. The present home 
of Mr. Gooding contains one hundred and forty 
acres, which bear all the improvements in the way 
of farm buildings and machinery which make of it 
a first-class estate. It is stocked with fine breeds 
of cattle and horses, which he has imported from 
the Blue Grass State, and in this branch of farming 
he has met with no small degree of success. He 
erected a comfortable residence on his place in 1870, 
costing $3,000, where, until the death of his estim- 
able wife, which occurred May 2, 1893, they enter- 
tained hosts of friends. 

Mr. and Mrs. Gooding had no children of their 
own, but reared and educated eight little ones, 
who are now all married. Mr. Gooding lias al- 
ways taken an active part in religious affairs, and 
as a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church 
attends as conscientiously and carefully to the 
duties there required of him as in every other 
path of life. He contributed liberally of his 
means toward the erection of the church at St. 
George (a suburb of St. Joseph), which after its 
completion was named in his honor. He now holds 
the positions of Steward and Trustee of that body, 



and his wife, who was also a church worker, was 
the very efficient Superintendent of the Sun- 
day-school for many years. She solicited the 
money which purchased the handsome memorial 
window to Mary A. Adamson, and in all his good 
works and enterprises ably seconded her husband, 
who has the sympathy of friends and neighbors in 
his loss. 

Mr. Gooding is very progressive in all his ideas, 
and at one time gave $500 to the Central College, 
which institution he has served as Director of 
Spring Garden District nearly all his life. Our 
friend is a stanch Democrat in politics, and boldly 
expresses his opinions without fear or favor. He 
is a temperate man in the truest sense of that term, 
for tobacco in any form has never passed his lips, 
and he has tasted less liquor during his life than 
any other man in Kentucky not a teetotaler. 



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W OHN II. SPARKS. Nowhere in the world 
are bridges constructed upon more scientific 
principles than in the United States, where 
the greatest natural difficulties have been 
overcome in the most ingenious manner. Among 
the prominent establishments devoted to this line 
of work the St. Joseph Hridge ife Iron Company 
has earned an honorable place. The business of 
the company is one in which vast improvements 
have been made in recent years, but they have 
kept abreast of the times and have adopted new 
methods as soon as they have proved of sterling 
value. 

The company was incorporated in 1890 with a 
capital of $50,000 and the following officers: J. H. 
Sparks, President and Treasurer; J. M. Hoffman, 
Vice-president; and W. F. Beale, Secretary. They 
have constructed bridges throughout the whole of 
that vast region extending from Minnesota to the 
Gulf of Mexico, and from the Eastern States to the 
Pacific Ocean, and in ever}' instance their work 
has been satisfactory. To them was given tlie re- 
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viaduct in Chicago, which is eighty feet wide and 

two hundred and eighty feet long. They have 
had other work equally important and difficult, 

among which maybe mentioned the building of 
the iron bridge adross the Illinois River at Ottawa. 

In the factory steady employment is given to 
one hundred and twenty-five men. while eight 
traveling men and a large number of experienced 
workmen for the execution of the contracts are 
also in the employ of the company. The Bhops 
are at Thirty-second and Mary streets, and cover 
three and one-fourth acres of land. The main 
building is '250x80 feet in dimensions, and the 
offices of the company occupy two Stores 22x22 
feet in dimensions. The machiner} is of the most 
approved pattern and power is supplied by two 
steam-engines. 10x60 feet, of one hundred and 
forty horse power each. 

Our subject was born at Blinonk, Woodford 
County, 111., June 23, I860. His father, .lames 
Sparks, who was born in Monroe, N. ('.. became a 
pioneer of Stanford, Ind.. where he engaged in 
farming. From there he removed to the vicinity 
of Minonk. Woodford County, 111, where he fol- 
lowed agricultural pursuits and also for a time 
served as Sheriff. Later he removed to Beatrice, 
Cage County. Neb., and thence to Wichita, Kan., 
where he now leads a retired life. His political 
sympathies are with the Democratic party, and in 
religious matters he is a loyal Methodist. His 
wife, whose maiden name was Louisa Edwards. 
bore him eight children, five of whom are now 
living. 

In the grammar and high schools of Minonk 
our subject received his education. When about 
seventeen he removed to Nebraska and entered 
the employ of M. C. F. Lee, a farmer residing in 
Johnson County. Iii 1879, he entered the employ 
of the Burlington & Missouri Railroad at Beatrice, 

with which lie remained. Occupying different po- 
sitions, until 1883. He then entered the employ 
of W. .1. Hobson, of Savannah, and remained with 
him a- salesman for about four years, when he be- 
came a member of the linn, the title being Hobson 
a- sparks. In the spring of 1890 he represented 
tin' Pittsburgh Bridge Company as traveling sales- 
man, alter which he aided in the establishment of 



the St Joseph Bridge a- Iron Company. In 1892 

the capital of the c puny was increased (5,000. 

The same Officers have continued in charge of the 
works since their inception, and the Superintendent 
i~ now ( ieorge Poster. 

At Savannah, in 1.S77. Occurred the marriage of 
.1. H. Sparks to Miss Carrie, daughter of John B. 
Majors, of that place. They are the parents of 
one child. Louis. In his social affiliations, Mr. 
Sparks is identified with Savannah Lodge No S. A. 
F. & A. M.; Savannah R. A. M.; St. Joseph Com- 
mandery No. 4, K. T. Politically he is a Democrat, 
and is a man who has a keen interest in public af- 
fairs and progressive measures. Having traveled 
extensively and visited every State and Territory 
in the Union, he has acquired a fund of informa- 
tion at once deep and far-reaching, and is undoubt- 
edly one of the best-informed of St. Joseph '8 cit- 
izens. 



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f^^i AMIKL SCOTT, who is well known in 
^^? railroad circles, is engineer for the St. Jo- 
lll/J)j seph .V Grand Island Railroad. He runs 
passenger engine No. 11, which is equipped 
with eight wheels, and is one of the finest engines 
to be found in the country, and bears that reputa- 
tion in the West. It is the particular pride of our 
subject, who keeps it in a fine condition, every 
polished surface glistening in the sunshine. 

The birthplace of Mr. Scott was the village of 
Carthage, Hancock County, 111., tin' date of the 
event being June 17, 1850. His paternal grand- 
father was bom in Connecticut, where he carried 
on a farm and resided until his death. Our sub- 
ject's father, Leverett, was born in Hartford, 
Conn., and in early life was a traveling salesman. 
lb- was married in Kentucky to Mary II. Wils' n, 
who was born in Crab Orchard. Her father, Sam- 
uel Wilson, also a native of Kentucky, was an 
early settler at Carthage, where lie engaged in the 
hotel business. After the marriage of Mr. Scott. 
he turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, 



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carrying on a farm near Carthago until about a 
year before the war broke out. His next move 
was to emigrate to Davis County, Iowa, where he 
farmed until 1865, near the village of Blooinfield. 
In the last- mentioned year he came to St. Joseph, 
and for a while was engaged in teaming. A short 
time before his death he retired from active busi- 
ness cares, and died at the age of fifty-two years. 
His wife also departed this life in St. Joseph. 
They were both members of the Presbyterian 
Church, and were the parents of seven children, 
five of whom are yet living. 

Samuel Scott, who was the second in his father's 
family, passed his boyhood and youth in Illinois 
and Iowa, and attended the district schools. In 
1865. when fifteen years old, he became a resident 
of this citj', and after a short time spent in the 
public schools, worked at various occupations. In 
1871 he first entered the employ of a railroad com- 
pany, at that time obtaining a position as a brake- 
man on the St. Joseph & Denver Road, running 
from this point to Maryville, which portion of the 
railroad had just been completed. At the end of 
a year and one-half he became a fireman, and was 
detailed on trips all over the system. In 1873 he 
became an engineer on the main line. For the 
three years from 1875 to 1878 he was occupied in 
filing, but in 1878 was again made engineer, and 
has continued in that occupation ever since. 

In St. Joseph, July 6, 1875, Mr. Scott wedded 
Miss Ida M., daughter of Thomas N. Pace. Both 
father and daughter were natives of La Rue Coun- 
ty, Ky. William Pace, Mrs. Scott's grandfather, 
was a native of Metealf County, Va., and becom- 
ing a resident of Kentucky, was there engaged in 
shipping tobacco. He was at one time Sheriff of 
the county. Thomas Pace in 1861 located in 
Belmont, Doniphan County, Kan., and in 1862 re- 
moved to St. Joseph. He was a Colonel in a Ken- 
tucky regiment during the Mexican War, and 
died in 1871, when visiting his mother in Ken- 
tucky. She at that time was one hundred and 
three years of age, and died shortly afterward. His 
wife, who was formerly Mary A. Anderson, was 
also a native of the Blue Grass region, and is still 
living, her home being in Barnston, Neb. Mrs. 
Scott, who is the youngest of eleven children, 



eight of whom are yet living, is the mother of two 
daughters. Nellie and Myrtie. 

Mr. Scott belongs to Division No. 107, Brother- 
hood of Locomotive Engineers. In politics, he is 
a loyal advocate of the Republican platform. 
Personally, he is a very clever and friendly gen- 
tleman, who has hosts of friends. 






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».-*. J. SHULL is the most practical driller (if 
wells of Buchanan County, or perhaps in the 
Slate, as he has had thirty years of actual 
experience. He runs two drills all the time, the 
deepest well he has made in St. Joseph being five 
hundred feet, but he has drilled a well as deep as 
eighteen hundred and fifty feet, which is almost 
unprecedented. Mr. Shull also puts up windmills, 
and placed one in the steel tower of the Aer-motor 
Mill in this city. He has also the reputation of 
giving the most satisfactory work and being thor- 
oughly reliable m his contracts. He has a large 
trade both in this and surrounding counties, and 
is justly esteemed one of the influential business 
men of St. Joseph. 

In the beautiful Virginia Valley, eight miles 
from Winchester, our subject was born October 23, 
1839. His father, William, who was of German de- 
scent, was a miller by occupation, and was likewise 
a native of Virginia. He resided in his native State 
until 1851, when he removed to Doddridge Coun- 
ty, W. Va., where he purchased a farm and pro- 
ceeded to develop the same. He was a prominent 
man and held many positions of trust and honor, 
being Revenue Collector for some years. He was 
a genius at dressing millstones, and was often 
sent for many miles to do that kind of work. 
About the year L880. with his wife he removed to 
Missouri, locating near Clinton, Henry County, 
where he purchased a farm, but was not actively 
engaged in agriculture. Our subject's mother 
before her marriage was Miss Sallie Johnson; she 
was born in the Old Dominion, and her pater- 
nal grandfather was of Scotch-Irish parentage. 
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( Mir subject is the second in order of birth of his 
father's family of eleven children, only seven of 
whom yet survive. He was reared in Virginia un- 
til reaching the age of twelve years, when be re- 
moved with his parent- to West Virginia, and at 
the early age of thirteen yearn was apprenticed as 
a machinist in Parker's Head, W. Va. lie became 
:i practical mechanic and was four or five years in 
the railroad shops of the Baltimore & Ohio, later 
becoming engineer on the same road. His trip was 
from Grafton to Parkersburgh, a distance of one 

hundred and four miles, and most of these years 
lie had charge of a passenger engine. lie was in 
seven wrecks, three of these very serious to him- 
self. At one time he was scalded, nearly fatally. 
but as there was a heavy fall of snow on the 
ground he was enabled to apply the cooling sub- 
stance, and this probably saved his life, though lie 
was for eight weeks nearly at the point of death. 

In 1862, Mr. Shull left railroading and com- 
menced drilling wells at Burning Springs, W. Va., 
his object being to reach oil. He was very suc- 
cessful in drilling Oil wells and often struck nat- 
ural gasas well. Amongthe noted gas wells which 
he drilled was the one called "Eternal Center," at 
Burning Springs, which wonderful well continued 
burning until 1882, or for nearly twenty year-. 
In I.S.X2, Mr. Shull went to New Mexico, and at a 
point near Los Collenbas engaged in drilling for 
the Santa Fe Placer Works. The latter were on 
the Rio Grande at San Pedro, where there are 
large smelting works. lie drilled several wells, 
from four to live hundred feet in depth, at < .olden, 
and remained in .New Mexico until 1885, when he 
went to Denver, engaging in drilling there. 

In 1886, our subject went to Alma, Wabaunsee 
County. Kan., where he drilled lifty-t wo wells, and 
then gradually drifted to Topeka. putting in four 
hundred wells in that city and in Shawnee County 
in four years, lie then entered the employ of the 
Chicago, Burlington a- Quincy Railroad, and did 
considerable work in I)e Kalb County, mostly at 
Union Star and Helena. In the spring of 1891 he 
became a resident of St. Joseph, drilling the first 
well for the Mining Brewing Company, over five 
hundred feet in depth; for the People's Electric 

Light Company two wells; for the Stuck 'lards; 'he 



Moian Packing House, two wells; and for the Ilax 

Furniture Factory, the Pfeuffer Stone Works, the 
Water Gas Company, the Francis Street Depot, and 

for the Artesian lee Plant, which is the largest 
well in the city, having a capacity of live thousand 
barrels every twenty-four hours. In this is used 
a deep-well pump called the "MeCooks." In 18H2 
he drilled three wells for the Water Works at 
Rockport, Atchison County, Mo.; four wells for 
Bartlett Si Bros., on the Platte River, in this 
county ; also one for John Donovan, on King Hill 
Stock Farm. 

In 1*77, Mr. Shull led to the marriage altar 
Miss Sallie M. Clifford, their union being celebra- 
ted in Coolvillc. Athens County, Ohio. Mrs. 
Shull was born in Ohio and is of Scotch descent. 
By her marriage she became the mother of one 
child. Frank. Mr. Shull has his office at No. 680 
South Sixth Street, and in 1892 took in with 
him F. A. Winslow. He has met with many rare 
experiences in his business, and has had an unusual 
chance for studying the peculiar geological forma- 
tions in different parts of the country. While 
drilling a well for Logan Maxwell, two miles from 
this city, an eigliteen-inch vein of coal was struck, 
which is said to be quite valuable. Mr. Shull, 
while drilling a well at Lake Contrary, found at 
the depth of forty feel the jaw-bone of a deer con- 
taining two natural teeth. In his political prefer- 
ences Mr. shull is a Democrat 



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JUDGE A. \. BRECKENRIDGE, the ener- 
getic and efficient presiding magistrate of the 
County Court, and an enterprising and in- 
fluential citizen of Pittsburgh, Clinton 
County. Mo., was born in lioiirhon County. Kv., 
March 21, 1887. His parents were John and Ann 
(l'.rooks) Breckenridge, the mother being a native 
Of Clark County, Kv.. and the father of Virginia. 
lb- was reared in Kentucky, where all families 
bearing the name of I'.reekeui idge are more or less 
related. 



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Our subject was reared upon his father's farm. 
and was early trained in the duties of agriculture. 
At the age of nineteen years, upon March 7, 1856, 
he was united in marriage with Miss Rebecca D. 
Wilmott, of the same county. This estimable lady 
is the granddaughter of Col. Wilmott, of Revolu- 
tionary fame. In 1874 Judge and Mrs. Brecken- 
ridge came to Missouri, settling upon a fine farm 
in the extremesouthwestcornerof Clinton County. 
Alexander Breckenridge, of Edgerton, Platte 
County, came in 1852, and settled five miles south 
of Plattsburgh, and in 1881 located permanently 
upon his present farm, three miles southwest of 
Turney, and profitably and extensively engaged 
in agricultural pursuits, which have won for him 
a leading position among the prominent farmers 
of the county. 

Judge Biecken ridge owns a valuable farm of 
four hundred acres, but possessed ten hundred and 
sixty until he divided with his children. Success- 
ful in general agriculture, he has also made a 
specialty of feeding stock, cattle and hogs. Our 
subject remained upon his homestead until July 
1889, when he made his home in Plattsburgh, but 
still retains the oversight of the farm, which is 
principally managed by his son, Jefferson D., who 
is his business partner. 

In July. 1890, Judge Breckenridge was elected 
upon the Democratic ticket to the honored posi- 
tion of Presiding Judge of the County Court, his 
associates being Judge George O. Wallace, serving 
from the First District, and W. L. Culver, from 
the Second District. In the discharge of the va- 
ried duties connected with his lesponsible posi- 
tion, Judge Breckenridge has proven himself to be 
thoroughly adapted to the able and efficient ad- 
ministration of affairs, and has given universal 
satisfaction upon the judicial bench. Judge Breck- 
enridge served with courage and bravery for three 
years in the Confederate army under Col. W. C. 1'. 
Breckenridge until 1863, when he was engaged in 
(Jen. Morgan's command, afterward being trans- 
ferred to Bragg's and Johnston's. He remained in 
the service until he surrendered at Washington, < la. 

Judge Breckenridge was captured during the 
Hinds' raid in Indiana. Confederates to the num- 
ber of sixty-six crossed the Ohio River and raided 



about three days, cutting the communications of 
the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad, and engaged in 
several skirmishes. The raid was a failure, and 
the Confederates returned to cross the river, but, 
being closely followed, forded the horses to an isl- 
and. The Federals opened fire upon them from 
the bluff, and Hind and one other man stripped 
themselves and swam to the Kentucky shore, and 
safely reached a neighboring house, where the 
ladies of the family generously supplied them with 
suits df clothes. The remainder of the raiders 
were captured. 

This event occurred a few days before the Mor- 
gan raid. The prisoners were confined in Louis- 
ville, Camp Chase, Ft. Delaware and Point Look- 
out until March, 1804, when they were exchanged 
in company with the Louisiana Tigers. Judge 
Breckenridge and Capt. II. C. Kerr, now of Platts- 
burgh, answered to the names of two men who 
were killed, and whose names were called at roll- 
call. After the exchange our subject rejoined his 
old regiment in May, 1864, and later took part in 
all the battles and skirmishes of that campaign. 
His command and one brigade of cavalry were sent 
in the rear of Sherman's army to prevent the send- 
ing out of small parties to destroy the country. 
The Confederates continued to follow Sherman, 
entering North Carolina in his rear, where the 
brigade was ordered to escort Davis and his cabi- 
net as far as Washington, Ga., where they divided 
and scattered. The troops then went into camp 
and surrendered to Wilson's cavalry. 

At Milton, Tenn., during a charge with Texas 
troops, capturing a battery, a shell pierced the 
breast of Judge Breckenridge 's horse, and, passing 
out just in the rear of our subject's leg, the horse 
fell dead. The company to which Judge Brecken- 
ridge belonged had been selected with the Texas 
troops to make certain sorties and dangerous raids 
when the commander wished to be sure just what 
manner of men he was leading into the midst of 
peril, and possibly certain death. 

The three sons of our subject, John ('., William 
Wilmott and Jefferson l).,are all settled upon 
farms near Turney. Previous to the war Judge 
Breckenridge was actively associated with the In- 
dependent Order of Odd Fellows, but since the 



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Civil War has not affiliated with the order. lie 
is also a Knight of Pythias. Judge Brecken ridge 
recently joined the Southern Presbyterian Church, 
while Mrs. Breckepridge has been a member of the 
Southern Methodist Episcopal Church since early 
girlhood, and has ever been foremost in the good 
works of that religious organization. Our subject, 
who has enjoyed many years of prosperity, came 
to Missouri with $800, and making this sum a nu- 
cleus for a future fortune, has by provident and 
busy industry and wise investments achieved a 
comfortable competence. A true American citi- 
zen, earnest, energetic and self-reliant, our subject 
has worthily won his upward way into fields of 
honor, influence and distinction, and possesses as 
a richest heritage for his children a spotless name 
and unsullied reputation. 



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/ W. 111. AND, M. D., a retired physician, 
resides on section 13, township 55, range 
33, Clinton County. He owns and culti- 
vates six hundred acres of arable and valuable 
land, most of which is under cultivation. Mr. 
Bland is a native of Kentucky, his birth having 
occurred in Nelson County on the 10th of August, 
1819. lie is a son of James and Mary (Wyalt) 
Bland, the former of whom was also a native of 
Kentucky and is numbered among the pioneer 
Settlers of Warren County, Mo. The paternal 
grandfather of our subject was Samuel Bland. 

When but six years of age. with his parents, Mr. 
Bland removed to .Missouri, becoming a resident 
of Warren County. His primary education was 
obtained in the common schools, after which he 
took a course of lectures in the Medical College 
at St. Louis, from which well-known institution 
he was graduated in 1841. Soon after leaving 
college he c( mmenced the practice of his profes- 
sion in Warren County, this State. In 1854 he 
landed in Clinton County, which has since been 
bis place of abode. lie conducted a general prac- 
tice in both medicine and surgery for many years 



in this vicinity and had a large and lucrative 
practice. About the year 1880 he retired from 
bis arduous duties and since that lime has de- 
voted his at rent ion to general farming and stock- 
raising. 

In February, 1854, occurred the wedding of Dr. 
Bland and Miss Fannie E. Payne, of Clay County, 
Mo. The lady is a daughter of August H. F. 
Payne, ami by her marriage with our subject has 
become the mother of seven children, three sons 
and four daughters. In order of birth they are 
as follows: Mai \ B.,Genevra F... lames II., Herbert, 
Luella, Anna L. and Louise. They have all had 
the advantages of good educations and are highly 
esteemed citizens of the community in which they 
dwell. 

The Doctor and Mrs. Bland are valued members 
of the Christian Church, and have always enjoyed 
the respect and good wishes of their many friends. 
In his political sentiments Dr. Bland is a stalwart 
advocate of the Democratic party. For nearly 
forty years our subject has made his home in Clin- 
ton County and is well and favorably known both 
in this and adjoining counties. His life has been 
marked by uprightness and fair dealings with his 
fellow-men. Both in professional and business 
life he has been very successful and well merits 
the high opinion in which he is held by all. 



kEWIS W. GATES, M. !>.. who is engaged in 
the practice of his profession in the city of 
St. Joseph, Buchanan County, is a graduate 
of the Northwestern Medical College, of this city. 

I le controls an extensive and lucrative practice, and 
ranks high among his medical brethren in this lo- 
cality. He is a native of Putnam County, Ohio, 
and was bom January 12, 1843. His father, Seth 
i. .iic-. was bom in Jefferson County, N. Y., while 
his grandfather, whose Christian name was Silas, 
wasa native of the Bay State. The ( rates family are 



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of English descent, their residence in the United 
States dating back to an early settlement in Ply- 
mouth. 

Our subject's great-grandfather was a cousin of 
the famous Gen. Horatio M. Gates, one of our 
Revolutionary War heroes, and was himself a par- 
ticipant in that conflict. Grandfather Gates was 
also patriotic, and gave his services to his country 
in the War of 1812. He was an early settler in 
Jefferson County, N. Y., and was a farmer by oc- 
cupation. Later in life he removed to Ohio with 
his family, settling in Medina County, where he 
died. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church. 

The father of our subject was an agriculturist in 
Muscatine County, Iowa. He was also a fine me- 
chanic and a skillful carpenter. In 1840 he went 
to Iowa alone on horseback, and bought land in 
Louisa County, which he improved. Five years 
later he returned to Iowa witli his family, making 
the journey by team. He located in Muscatine 
County, where he built a log house, which is still 
standing. He improved one hundred and forty 
acres, and cultivated the farm until shortly before 
his death, in 1877. His fellow-citizens often called 
upon him to fill various positions, among which 
we may mention that of Supervisor of the county 
and Justice of the Peace. He was a radical Re- 
publican and an Abolitionist. His wife before 
her marriage bore the name of Cornelia Amanda 
Pettit. She was born in Medina County, Ohio, 
and with her parents removed to Iowa. She was 
called from this life in 1848. After the death of 
his first wife Mr. Gates was again married, this wife 
having been previously Mrs. Eva (Fitzgerald) 
Fry. She became the mother of six children, who 
are all living. 

Dr. Gates is the youngest of three children 
horn to Set h and Cornelia Gates. Silas R. now 
resides in Barton County, Kan. lie was in the 
Eighth Iowa Infantry during the Civil War, and 
after serving for two years was discharged on ac- 
count of physical disability. Our subject was 
brought up on a farm in Muscatine County, at- 
tending the common schools of the district. In 
18G1 he was among the first to volunteer for the 
three-years service, enlisting in September as a 
member of Company A. Eleventh Iowa Infantry. 



He was mustered in at Camp McClellan, Daven- 
port, and sent South. That winter he took part 
in a number of skirmishes in Missouri, and in the 
spring of 1862 was in the battle of Shiloh. He 
was wounded in the left hand, but did not leave 
the company, and was in all of the fights and 
skirmishes until the capture of Corinth. After 
this he was in the battle of luka, sieges of Corinth 
and Yieksburg, and later went on the Atlanta cam- 
paign, and on the march to the sea, being en- 
gaged at Richmond, Goldsboro and Bendville. 
Going to Washington, he there took part in the 
Grand Review. He was mustered out in Louis- 
ville, Ky., but was discharged July 22, 18G5, at 
Davenport, Iowa. 

Returning home to the farm, the Doctor re- 
mained there until the spring of the following 
year, when he married Miss Mary Shellabarger, 
who was born in Montgomery County, Ohio, and 
was reared in Iowa, where her father was one of 
the early settlers. After operating a farm for four 
years, Dr. Gates located in Letts, where he learned 
telegraphy, and, accepting a position with the Rock 
Island Railroad, held the place for eight years. 
He was then obliged to leave the railroad business, 
as his health had become impaired during the war 
and lie had never fully recovered. Accordingly, 
for the next three years he traveled in the South 
and West. 

In 1878 Mr. Gates entered the University of 
Iowa, and pursued a course of study in the medi- 
cal department for one year. He practiced until 
1880 in Iowa, and was then appointed United 
States Mail Clerk on the Rock Island Railroad, his 
run being from Davenport to Atchison, Kan. He 
was appointed during Garfield's administration, 
and held the position a little over six years. In 
the fall of 1887 he came to St. Joseph, and en teied 
the Northwestern Medical College, from which he 
was graduated in 1888. He at once opened an 
office at Nos. 22 and 24 South Sixth Street, and 
made that his headquarters until March, L892, 
when he removed to his present place at No. 1610 St. 
Joseph Avenue, and has built up a large practice 
in the neighborhood. 

Dr. and Mrs. Gates have two children: Ernest 
L., who is a graduate of Cornell College, and is 




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now stenographer for Studebaker Brothers, in 
Kansas City; and Emma, who lives at tiome, and 
is a stenographer for the Hrm <>f Nave A McCord. 
While a resident of Ononwa our subject was Jus- 
tice of the Peace, and Mayor of the city for one 
year, besides being a member of the City Council. 
He is a member of the Ancient Order of I'nited 
Workmen and of Chester Harding Post. G. A. H. 
In politics lie is a Republican, and in religion be- 
longs to the Christian Chnrch. 



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WF. DAILY, a well-known and respected 
citizen of St. Joseph, was born in Alexan- 
dria, Va., April L3, I860, and when but 
four years of age came to St. Joseph with his 
father, John Daily, who was foreman of the Han- 
nibal & St. Joseph Road up to the time of his 
death, which occurred thirteen years ago. After 
emigrating to this State, our subject began the 
battle of life for himself by winking on the railroad 
at the meagre salary of $10 per month, for the 
Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs Railway 
Company. Here he labored constantly and indus- 
triously for eight months, at the end of which 
time he was employed to carry water on the con- 
struction train at better wages, and then became 
brakeman on the same railway, continuing there 
for two years. At this juncture. Mr. Daily was 
promoted to the responsible position of conductor, 
holding the position for eight months and dis- 
charging the duties in that line to the satisfac- 
tion of his employers. At the present time he is 
yard-master for the Kansas City & Hannibal Roads 
Of St. Joseph, where he has performed the work 
for nine years, having under his care about fifty 
men. 

Thinking it not good for man to live alone, our 
subject made his choice of a life companion in the 
person of .Miss Ida Elizabeth Hanley,of Knoxville, 

Iowa. This union occurred August lis, 1891, the 
result of which was the birth of one child to 
brighten the home ami gladden the hearts of 



Mr. and Mrs. Daily. The family residence is lo- 
cated on Twelfth and Duncan Streets. 

Socially, our subject ranks among the highly 
valued members of the Knight of Pythias; 
Lodge No. 148, of the Golden Cross; and is 
also the Director of Lodge No. 17 Uniformed 
Rank, in which he has taken an active part. 
Devoted to the work of religion, he aids in the 
promotion of all enterprises pertaining to the 
( 'at holic Church, of which he has been a prominent 
member and liberal supporter for a great many 
years. Not only is he interested in the advance- 
ment of the work of his denomi nation, but he is also 
actively engaged in promoting and furthering all 
works pertaining to the management of local and 
national affairs. In connection with the work 
of the railway, Mr. Daily has achieved a de- 
servedly fine reputation through his practical and 
intelligent management of affairs, and he is also 
among the important factors in the progress and 
advancement of this city. In politics he is a Dem- 
ocrat. 



/^RANVILLE T. BIGGERSTAFF, a prosper- 

(II c — , ous general agriculturist, and extensive 
V A dealer in live-stock. Located near Pitts- 
burgh, Mo., fully fifty years ago, and as an en- 
ergetic, useful and honored citizen has materially 
aided in the growth and prosperity of Clinton 
County. The parents of our subject, William and 
Nancy (Black) Biggerstaff, were natives of Monroe 
County, Ky., in which Slate ( Iranville T. was born 
October 80, 1818. An uncle. John Biggerstaff, 
went to Chariton County, Mo., about 1826, and 
afterward returned to Kentucky, but coming to 
Missouri in a few years settled in Clinton County, 
and assisted in surveying and organizing the 
county, lie was the first County Judge, and was 
a man highly esteemed for his ability and worth. 
In I860 he removed to Texas, where he died at 

eighty-four j cars of age. 

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horses which had been taken to Kentucky to sell, 
but not being able to dispose of them there he 
brought them back to Missouri. Our subject was 
married August 15, 1839, in Monroe County, Ky., 
to Sarah T. Bedford, also a native of the same 
vicinity, and born August 11, 1819. With his 
wife and two children, Mr. Biggerstaff settled in 
1843 four miles due east of Pittsburgh. 

Fifty acres, the first land ever owned by our 
subject, were given him by a blind man named 
William Taylor, an old resident, who lived with 
Mr. Biggerstaff. Our subject then entered one 
hundred and sixty acres from the Government, 
and being an excellent manager increased his real 
estate until his farm contained nine hundred and 
fifty acres. For a man who had arrived in the 
State with but $25 in money, a wagon, and a 
horse (which soon died), Mr. Biggerstaff suc- 
ceeded comparatively early in life in placing him- 
self above want, and was enabled to provide lib- 
erally for his family. 

It was at first difficult to manage with so little 
ready money, but as soon as possible he purchased 
cattle, and one day as he was hauling goods from 
Liberty with three yoke of cattle a man whom he 
met asked him what he would take for his team, 
to which our subject answered $120. The stranger 
handed him $20, saying he would send him the 
balance in the morning, which he did. This 
money well invested was the beginning of easier 
times. During the Mexican War Mr. Biggerstaff 
returned to Kentucky to settle up some business, 
and from that date his affairs continually improved 
and he transacted an immense and successful busi- 
ness up to the time of the war. Most of his time 
was devoted to raising fine cattle, for which he 
found a ready sale, especially during the years of 
the gold excitement in California. 

In the early days Mr. Biggerstaff owned six 
or seven slaves, whom he had received from 
the old estate in Kentucky, lie took no active 
part in the conflict of the Civil War, but lost 
about $7,000. Each party decided that he favored 
the other side, and between the two his life was 
rendered so intolerable that he was obliged to 
leave his home for a time. Since the restoration 
of peace, his homestead has constantly been his 



abiding-place, and he has prospered even more 
than before. The slaves had been no benefit to 
him, requiring so large a provision of food and 
clothing that in consequence they had yearly ab- 
sorbed more than the profit of their work. It had 
annually been necessary to furnish twenty-five 
hogs for their use. Later, when fifteen were 
killed, Mrs. Biggerstaff remarked that they would 
have to buy pork this year, which proved a happ3' 
mistake, Mr. Biggerstaff selling a surplus of $140 
worth. Raising and feeding cattle and buying 
and selling mules have ever been profitable ven- 
tures with him, as he thoroughly understands live- 
stock. Once he drove mules to St. Joseph, the 
rain pouring all the way, and having concluded a 
sale and received $2,025, the buyer remarked to 
him, "I will give you $100 to drive them back to 
Missouri." "I am not driving mules now," was 
the ready reply. 

Mr. Biggerstaff was prominent in the building 
of the old log church which Rev. Samuel S. Trice, 
a Christian minister, was connected with so long; 
the latter died while officiating in the pulpit of 
Bethany Church. Politically Mr. Biggerstaff is a 
Democrat, and before the war was, against his 
wishes, elected Justice of the Peace of Concord 
Township, a position which he was finally prevailed 
upon to accept. He held the office for sixteen 
years, discharging the duties in an able and satis- 
factory manner. He was in fact the most popular 
Justice of the Peace in that section of the country, 
and all trials that could possibly be brought into 
his court were argued before him, each side well 
assured that he would ever decide according to 
law and evidence. Few cases which he heard were 
ever carried to a higher court, so great was the 
confidence reposed in our subject by his friends 
and neighbors. In early life Mr. Biggerstaff had 
often remarked that when he was worth $10,000 
he was going to take life easy, but when that limit 
was reached he worked harder than ever to increase 
his worldly store. 

From the beginning of the Civil War Mr. Big- 
gerstaff had determined that his sons should not 
take an active part in the struggle, and though it 
cost him dear to get them safely out of the country 
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where he had accompanied a sun. he found a letter 
awaiting him in the pcstofflce which threatened 

his safety in must blasphemous language unless, as 
the writer expressed it, he did not take himself 
off. lie consulted the local Federal Commander, 
and referred him to various citizens as to his 
character, and that military official told him to go 
home and shoot the first man who meddled with 
him. 

During the war one of Mr. Biggerstaff's trusted 
negroes stole one of his valuable horses and tied. 
For this slave Mr. Biggerstafi felt a special fond- 
ness, and now says that he would give |100 to 
know that the man was in comfortable circum- 
stances, and if not, he would be glad to have him 
come hack and share his hospitality. 

Of the family of sons and daughters whose pre- 
sence blessed the old homestead. William 15., who 
resides five miles from Plattsburgh, is the eldest; 

Tl ias J. lives upon the Cherokee St rip; Rebecca 

T.. Mrs. Stephen N. Triee, resides upon a part of 
the old farm; Joseph L. is a resident of Trinidad, 
Colo.; James II. is employed in a store, but lives 
with his parents; John B. is located four miles east 
of Plattsburgh; Porter F. is in the store with Whit- 
tington; and Stephen H. is a partner of James II. 
In all these years but one member of the family- 
has died, and that one was an infant. 

In May, 18815, Mr. Biggerstaff made his perma- 
nent home in Plattsburgh, and since that time has 
not been actively engaged, and consequently has 
not enjoyed as robust health, but he has neverthe- 
less found much pleasure in the society of the old 
and true friends whom he meets daily. For fifty- 
one years he and the faithful companion of his 
joys and soirows have been numbered among the 
valued members of the Christian Church, which 
the husband and wife joined on the same day. 

Our subject had but one bad habit, that of 
Chewing tobacco, and after using it steadily for 
thirty-eight years from the age of thirteen, he aban- 
doned it for twenty years, still, however, carry- 
ing a piece of the weed in his pocket as a souvenir 
of the past and as a test of his strength of will. 
Since his retirement from active duties he has 
again indulged very moderately in the use of 
tobacco, which he thinks relieves a stomach trouble. 



Few citizens can show so long and honorable a 
record of private and official life un marred by 
any ignoble act as our subject, who. secure in the 
confidence and high regard of his fellow-citizens, 

can with supreme satisfaction review a life of 
busy usefulness and enjoy with calm content de- 
clining days passed amid the associations of more 
than a half century. 






I'TO BEHR. No man in the West has done 
more to cultivate correct musical tastes in- 
to elevate the popular ideas in this depart- 
ment than has the gentleman of whom we write, 
who is a professor of music, and author of a large 
number of high-class compositions. He has been 
a member of many of the best musical societies. 
and his talent is admitted by one and all. For 
thirty years he has been organist at the Synagogue 
and for twelve years in the Cathedral, and has also 
served in a similar position at other chinches. 
His has truly been pioneer work in the West, but 
his labors have not passed unappreciated. 

Prof. Behr was born in the Slate of Schleiz 
Thuringia, Germany, June 19, 1828, being a son of 
the Rev. Heinrith lSehr, a clergyman. When only 
eight years old he began the study of music. When 
quite young, he was apprenticed to learn the 
piano-maker's trade, and when still a mere boy at- 
tracted considerable attention by his performances 
on the piano and violin. His father gave him 
competent instructors, and at the age of eighteen 
he entered the Leipsic Conservatory of Music. 
His teacher there, I'rof. J. Moscheles, was formerly 
Mendelssohn '8 instructor, I'rof. Moscheles, Men- 
delssohn and others having been the founders of 
the Conservatory. Our subject's father held at 
that time the highest position in the State Church, 
and to him much credit is due that he in ever) 
way possible promoted the ambit ion of our subject 
tip succeed in his favorite study The Revolution 
of isis interrupted the Professor's studies, but he 
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and there commenced to teach, also engaging for 
one year in imparting instruction in this branch 
at Milan, Italy. 

In 1853 Prof. Behr concluded to try his for- 
tunes in the New World, believing that there in- 
deed was a wide field, though perhaps a discourag- 
ing one, as the art of music had not yet become 
largely a portion of the people's lives and pursuits. 
Landing at Philadelphia, he continued to teach in 
that city for five years. The year 1858 witnessed 
his arrival in St. Joseph, where he at once com- 
menced to teach, having been prominently con- 
nected with her musical progress until the present 
day. He organized the first musical society here 
in 1865. For five years it was known as the Phil- 
harmonic Society, and was a prosperous organiza- 
tion. In 1881 the Mendelssohn Society first 
sprang into existence, and for eleven years was 
largely productive of interest in all circles in this 
city, and in this also the touch and influence of 
our subject were shown from the first. He has been 
for twenty-three years musical instructor at the 
Young Ladies' Institute of St. Joseph. 

Prof. Behr is quite noted as a composer, one of 
his most beautiful pieces, entitled "Longing," be- 
ing an obligato for 'cello and piano. For many 
centuries the Germans have been foremost in the 
musical world, and Prof. Behr is only another ex- 
ample of the musical genius which seems to be the 
peculiar heritage of the natives of that favored 
land. Personally, he is very genial and well edu- 
cated, and is popular in all circles in St. Joseph. 



\f OI1N SIMMON. Among the leading farm- 
ers of township 57, range 34, Buchanan 
County, is the gentleman whose history we 
J will proceed to briefly sketch. During the 
Civil War he was a soldier in the Missouri Enrolled 
Militia for eight months, and was in service later 
for two months, in 1864. He was a strong Union 
man all through the war, and in consequence of 



that and his freely spoken sentiments he made a 
good many political enemies, who, however, as 
the years have passed have grown to be his friends. 
When he landed here in 1845 he did not have a 
cent and for a few years he suffered a great many 
hardships. In order to make bread they boiled 
corn and having punched holes in a piece of tin 
with a nail, grated the corn on that primitive in- 
strument. Wheat was tramped out on the floor, 
and ground as it was, regardless of the dirt which 
was of course intermixed. 

John Simmon, our subject's father, was a native 
of Germany. He came to America when quite 
young, settling in Adams County, Pa., where he 
married Miss Susan Brame, who died in 1852. 
The father afterward came to Missouri and lived 
with his children until he departed this life in 
1865. Of his eleven children seven are still liv- 
ing. The parents are both devoted members of 
the Lutheran Church. 

The birth of John Simmon took place October 
16, 1824, in Adams County, Pa., and w.ith his par- 
ents he moved to Stark County, Ohio, where he 
was reared to man's estate and there given a com- 
mon-school education. Leaving home before his 
twenty-first year, he commenced learning the trade 
of a carpenter, and in the fall of 1845 came to 
this county, settling on his present farm, which 
was then entirely wild and in a thinly settled dis- 
trict. In 1854 Mr. Simmon wedded Charlotte, a 
daughter of Henry Boyer, now deceased. She 
was born in this State in October, 1834. and 
died in 1866, leaving five children: Jennie wife of 
Syl Williams, who has four children; William B., 
who married Althea Bowen,and has three children; 
John A., whose wife was formerly Laura Clark, 
and has three children; Ida, who became the wife of 
Oliver Wright and is the mother of three children; 
and Annie, wife of William Walls, who also has 
three children. 

When our subject settled here he built a log 
shanty, and now owns one hundred and one acres, 
which are all well fenced and improved. The land 
is fertile and yields abundant harvests to the for- 
tunate owner. In the spring of 1868 occurred the 
wedding of Mr. Simmon and Mary Ann Augustine, 
whose parents, Joseph and Julia (Un kerf er) Angus- 




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tine, went from Maryland to Ohio, and from there 
came to Missouri in 1852, settling in Buchanan 
County. Mrs. Simmon was born November 30, 1857, 
in Ohio, and her five children are all deceased. Our 
subject and wife Are members "f the Cumberland 
Presbyterian Church of Harmony, which the 
former helped to build, and of which he was one 
of the lirst eight members, lie has been teacher 
in the Sunday-school and also Superintendent of 
the same, and is now Deacon in the church. He 
is a straightforward Republican and has been a 
delegate to county conventions, lie also served 
as a member of the School Hoard, and in other ways 
has practically shown his interest in the welfare 

Of this i imunity. lie is a member of the Anti 

Horse Thief Association. 



1. 1. K.N SKOUTEN, one of Buchanan Coun- 
ty's oldest living settlers, makes his home 
| II in Agency Township, where lie has a val- 
@%l liable farm of one hundred acres, in addi- 

tion to which he owns another small farm, which 
comprises forty acres. The old saying that "It is 
better to be born lucky than rich," seems to have 
had an illustration in his case, for everything he 
has undertaken of late years has turned out suc- 
cessfully. This, however, it is safe to say, is not 
to any extent owing to luck, but to the good 
judgment and business ability he has brought to 
bear on every question. 

The birth of Mr. Skouten occurred in Adams 
County, Ohio, in the year 1818, and while still 
young his parents removed to Fountain County, 
lud., where his youth was passed. There he re- 
mained until reaching his twenty-fourth year, 
previous tn which he had married Elizabeth Dan- 
ner. In the fall of 1841 he removed to Buchanan 
County and entered a small farm, to which by 
subsequent purchase he added adjoining tracts of 
land, until he found himself the owner of nearly 
four hundred acre-. When the war broke out he 
was driven into the Confederate service, but re- 



mained only a few months. As uis heart was not 
in the cause, rind this trait frequently manifested 
itscit', he was several times arrested and finally, be- 
fore tin' close of the rebellion, lost all his property. 
Nothing daunted, however, he started again to 
build up a home and competence, and in lh(I7 
purchased his present farm. 

In early days .Mr. Skouten did considerable 
freighting across the plains, making twenty-six 

trips and bee ing very well acquainted with the 

country through which he passed. In this way he 
made considerable money, which was the nucleus 
of his present fortune, lie possesses much more 
patience than the average man. and has always 
been willing to wait for a reasonable length of 
time to see the outcome of his business ventures. 

Our subject's father, John skouten, was a native 
of Pennsylvania and came of sturdy old Revolu- 
tionary slock. Mr. and Mrs. Allen Skouten have 
reared three children. Joshua and William are 
deceased, and Margaret is the wife of James Me 
Callion, residing in St. Joseph. The parents are 
good, conscientious Christian people, who have 
ever striven to do their duty to their fellow-man 
in every respect. They deserve what they most 
truly possess — the admiration, friendship and re- 
spect of those who know them well and who as 
the years have passed have become more and more 
attached to them. In politics Mr. Skouten has 
been a lifelong Democrat. 



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» ollN GRAHAM DREW is Auditor of the 
St. Joseph & Grand Island Railroad, and 
Secretary and Auditor of the St. Joseph 
v^/ Terminal Railroad, his office being in the 
Chamber of Commerce, St.. Joseph. Mr. Drew per- 
forms his multifarious duties carefully and sys- 
tematically, being a man of correct business habits 
and thoroughly versed in railroad matters. Mr. 
Drew was born at Hammondsport, N. Y/.,February 
12. 1864, and was only lour years of age when he 
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ther, J. M. Drew, is now in the employ of ttie 
Grand Island Railroad and is also a resident of 
this city. 

Mr. Drew of this sketch was educated in the 
public schools and was only sixteen years of age 
when he first engaged in railroading. In January, 
1881, he entered the office of the Grand Island 
Railway, being stationed as clerk at Seneca, Kan., 
where he also became thoroughly familiar with the 
details of the operating department, and he was 
only a mere boy when he worked at telegraphing 
in Hiawatha, Kan. Later he served as station agent 
at Axtell, Kan., for one year, from which place he 
was transferred on New Year's Day, 1884, to the 
Accountant's Department in St. Joseph, since which 
time he has been identified with this office. In 
December, 1889, Mr. Drew was appointed Auditor 
of the Grand Island Road, but three months later 
the office was removed to Omaha. January 1, 
1892, the department was returned to St. Joseph, 
oursubject being again appointed to his former po- 
sition, and he has continued in the same ever since. 
He lias about twenty assistant accountants, book- 
keepers and clerks under his direction, and all ac- 
counts of the road pass through his hands. The 
close attention and painstaking care he has always 
manifested in the company's interest have proved 
eminently satisfactory to his superior officers and 
cannot fail to bring him still greater promotion 
as a mark of their appreciation. In December, 
1889, when he became Auditor for the Grand 
Island Railroad, he was also made Secretary and 
Treasurer of the St. Joseph Terminal Company, 
which has immense investments in St. Joseph, 
tracks, roundhouses and terminal facilities, serv- 
ing as an important factor in the commercial cir- 
cles of this locality. The company handles all 
fieight business for both the Santa Fe and Grand 
Island Roads, the latter turning their trains over 
to this company on entering the city. 

In St. Joseph Mr. Drew was united in marriage 
with Miss Ella M. Lender, on March 19, 1890. 
She is a daughter of the well-known pension at- 
torney and solicitor, J. C. Bender, who was born, 
reared and educated in this city, and is highly es- 
teemed in this vicinity. The home of our worthy 
subject and his estimable wife is blessed with a son 



and daughter (twins), who are called Charles and 
Elizabeth and are now eighteen months old. Mrs. 
Drew is a charming hostess and presides over her 
pleasant home with grace and womanly dignity. 
She and her husband are very popular in social 
circles and it is a source of great pleasure to them 
to make welcome their man}' friends and enter- 
tain tnem royally in their hospitable home. Mr. 
Drew and wife are both members in good stand- 
ing of the Presbyterian Church, and our subject 
socially belongs to the Masonic fraternity. 









•al JfolLLIAM C. STALEY, a well-known citi- 

\/\l/l zen °^ ^ t- J 050 ?' 1 ' Buchanan County, is 
\yy\y commercial agent of the Rock Island Rail- 
road, and has charge of the local freight traffic, 
directing the changes of freight from the differ- 
ent St. Joseph Railway connections. 'He was pro- 
moted to this position October 7, 1891, and spends 
about one-third of his time in the interest of the 
company. 

It was in Mechauicsbuig, Champaign County, 
Ohio, that the birth of our subject occurred May 
24, 1857. His father, Stephen S., was also a na- 
tive of the same village. Grandfather Andrew 
Ntaley was born in Shepherdstown, Md., and came 
to Ohio at an early day. He was a millwright by 
trade and a line mechanic. About 1829 he built 
a mill in Champaign County, which he ran for a 
number of years. This was situated on Darby 
Creek. In the neighborhood of Mechanicsburg 
Mr. Staley purchased a large tract of land and 
owned one-half of the town. His wife was for- 
merly a Miss Shepherd. His death occurred in 
1875, at the age of eighty-three years. In poli- 
tics he was a Republican, and religiously belonged 
to the Methodist Episcopal Church. 

Our subject's father was also a miller and im- 
proved and rebuilt a number of times the old 
mill erected by his father. Changes were made 
from the old burr-stone to high grinding, the first 
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steam power. He was slightly lame and was there- 
fore given a superior education. Until his mar- 
riage he was a teacher, and lias always been quite 
a literary man, contributing articles to local papers. 
When he was a boy one of his chosen companions 
was William II. Smith, now librarian of New 
York. The latter was private secretary to Gov. 
Brough, who was then Secretary of State. Mr. 
Stale} 1 was assistant to Mr. Smith from 18117 to 
1869, after which he returned to his milling busi- 
ness, in which he continued until he retired at the 
age Of lifty-nine years. 

The maiden name of Mrs. Stephen Staler was 
Emily Rath bun, and she was also a native of Me- 
chanicsburg, Ohio. Her father, Levi Rathbun, 
was of English descent and an early settler in Me- 
ch.iniesburg. where he was a merchant. His wife, 
before her marriage Miss Eliza Mitchell, was a 
descendant of Lord Caldwell, of England. Our 
subject is the eldest of four children. His only 
brother, Paul A., is an attorney-at-law at Spring- 
field, Ohio; Elizabeth and Florence, the two sis- 
ters, are the wives of Mr. Socksteder and Mr. 
Wright respectively. The former lives in Chi- 
cago, III., and the latter on the old homestead. 

When eleven years old, William C. Staley went 
to school at Columbus, and when seventeen years 
old entered the Ohio University for two years. 
In his boyhood he learned the miller's trade, lint 
forsook it on account of ill-health. He picked up 
shorthand, and in the spring of 1880 went to Chi- 
cago, where he soon obtained a position in the 
general freight office of the Illinois Central Kail- 
road as stenographer. At the end of a year and 
a-half he was given charge of the correction desk 
in the same department, and when eighteen 
months had elapsed he became chief clerk in the 
claim department of the same railroad company. 

In May. 1885, Mr. Staley became an employe of 
the Santa Fe Railroad. His position was that of 
chief clerk in the general agent's office in Chi- 
cago, which is located in the Sherman House. 
Another year rolled by and found him acting as 
contracting agent for the Santa Fe Railroad. This 
position he held until November, 18,s<x, when he 

took a similar position with the Rock Island Road, 

with his office at No. 116 Washington Street. He- 



was there stationed until October 7, 1891, when 

he was appointed as coiiiiiii--ion agent in St. Jo- 
seph. Mr. Staley has made his way rapidly upward 
in railway circles, owing to his industry and busi- 
ness methods. 

While in Columbus, Ohio, in 1882, Mr. Staley 
and Miss Helen Harrod were married. The lady 
was born in Huntsville, Ohio, and one of her an- 
cestors, a companion of Kit Carson, was the 
founder of Harrodshurg, Ky. On the maternal 
side her descent is traced hack to Benjamin 
Franklin. She died in 1888, leaving one child, a 
daughter, 1 rina. The second marriage of our 
subject occurred in Chicago, Miss Eva Baisocq 
then becoming his wife. She was born in Belgium 
and is of French extraction. She was reared to 
womanhood in Chicago and is a daughter of .lean 
Baisocq, who is an engineer in a manufactory of 
that city. A little daughter, who has been given 
the name of Yava, is the result of this marriage. 

Socially, our subject is much interested in civic 
societies. He is a member of the Ancient Free 
.V Accepted Masons and of the Royal Arch Masons 
of St. Joseph. He also belongs to Council No. 
22, K. L., and was Scribe and also President for a 
year. Mr. Staley also belongs to the Commercial 
Club of St. Joseph, and to the Woodlawn Park 
Club, of Chicago. He is independent in politics. 
but takes a positive stand in one particular that 
"America is for Americans." He is well read, a 
fluent conversationalist, and n limbers many friends. 



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j SAAC STONE, or "Ike" Stone, as he is more 
familiarly called, is one of the pushing busi- 
ness men of St. Joseph, I'.iiehanan County, lie 
is public-spirited and liberal, and no one is doing 
more than he to advance the commercial and 
business interests of this city. He is Secretary, 
Treasurer and Manager of the st. Joseph Steam 
Laundry, and is also Treasurer of Tootle's Opera 
House. 

Mr. Stone was born in St. Louis, Mo., Septem- 



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ber 3, 1865, and is a son of N. Stone, who was 
born in Europe, and came to America when a boy, 
locating in St. Louis. He engaged in the whole- 
sale jewelry business, and was also a manufacturer 
for some years. Later, with Thomas Kerr, he car- 
ried on a wholesale hide and leather business. In 
1876 Mr. Stone, Sr., removed to St. Joseph and 
was for eleven years a dry-goods merchant, his 
place of business being at the corner of Sixth and 
Felix Streets. In 1887 he sold out and retired 
from business, though he still makes his home in 
this city. His wife was also born in Europe. By 
her marriage she became the mother of nine chil- 
dren, three sons and six daughters, and of the 
number our subject is the eldest son. 

Until eleven years old Isaac Stone lived in St. 
Louis, where he attended the public school, and 
in 1876 came with his parents to St. Joseph. He 
graduated from Bryant's Business College, after 
which he was employed by the wholesale clothing 
firm of Weil, Calm & Company for two years. He 
next went to Canon City, Colo., where he embarked 
in the dry-goods business in partnership with his 
father, the firm being known as N. Stone A: Son. 
They furnished railroad supplies and did quite a 
successful business. He was thus employed until 
1882, when he went to Wellington, Kan., there 
opening a dry-goods house, which he operated for 
three years. For the following two years he was 
traveling salesman for the Mokaska Coffee Com- 
pany, of St. Joseph, working mainly in Kansas. 

In the year 1 8 i> Mr. Stone started the laundry 
in St. Joseph of which he is at the head. This 
laundry business is incorporated as the St. Joseph 
Steam Laundry Company, with a capital stock of 
$16,000. In March, 1893, the capital stock was 
increased to 820,000 paid up. The other officers 
arc: A. F. F'aulhaber, President; N. Stone, Vice- 
president; and Y. T. Conrad, one of the Directors. 
The building which the laundry occupies is at 
Nos. 211 and 216 North Sixth Street, 60x120 feet, 
and comprises three floors besides the basement. 
The plant is furnished with steam power and all 
modern improvements used in large establishments 
of the kind. Fifty-two hands are given employ- 
ment and during the summer two forces are kept 
busy. Agencies have been established in Mis- 



souri, Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska, and this fact 
alone indicates the enterprise and Western push of 
the concern. 

Our subject certainly deserves great credit for 
the energy he has brought to bear in bis chosen 
work, and though he started at the bottom round 
of the ladder only a few years ago, is most assur- 
edly on the high road to success and fortune. In 
the clubs and fraternities of the city, Mr. Stone is 
interested, is President of the Independent Order 
of B'Nai Hrith,and is also a member of the Wood- 
men of the World, and of the U. C. T. He is a 
member of both the Standard and Commercial 
Clubs and, in regard to the question of politics, 
more particularly those of national bearing, is a 
Democrat. 



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pj|\OBERT I. YOUNG, who has hang been a 
< resident of Buchanan County, is one of 




the leading stock-raisers and agricultur- 
^ ists of Center Township, his farm of forty 
acres being situated on section 4. Twenty acres of 
this are used for growing small fruits and orchard 
products. In 1889, our subject, at a cost of *2,- 
400, built his residence, which is one of the finest 
in the township. His specialty is raising Poland- 
China hogs, the number in his drove being from 
eighty to one hundred and twenty, annually. He 
has taken premiums on these animals at every 
place they have been exhibited. The drove now 
comprises one hundred and thirty-five head, and 
'•Commonwealth," who is at the head, is the 
largest one of the variety in the State, weighing at 
times from eight hundred to eleven hundred 
pounds. This animal, with other good specimens, 
will be shown at the Columbian Exposition. E. 
R. Dorsey, of Perry, 111., who is a breeder of 
national reputation, declares that Mr. Young has 
the finest drove in the State. For two years our 
subject has bought Mr. Dorsey's prize-winners at 
a cost of $135 each. 

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in County Tyrone, Ireland, where his wife, whose 
maiden Dame was Jane Greer, was also born. Mr. 
young came to America in 1834, and after living 
for :i Bhort time at Baltimore, Mil., went to Wheel- 
ing, W. Va., whert be was married. He was I It- 
keeper for tin- large iron and glass manufacturers, 
Sweeney, Mathis & Gray, for twenty years. He 
was a man of good education, which fact was en- 
tirely owing to his own efforts, as be was an ear- 
nest student and spenl considerable time- in oighl 
schools. In 1844 he moved to Buchanan County, 
before the land was yet in the market. He was 
very poor and had but fifty cents when he arrived 
here. For two years be was obliged to go without 
shoes, and was indeed grateful for a pair which 
liis brother sent him from Wheeling, W. Va. 

Tho*i>as Young built :i log cabin, which be lived 
in for about twenty year-, and then moved into a 
hewed-log house, and later into a frame residence. 
He settled upon a one hundred and sixty acre farm, 
waiting for it to come into the market, and to this 
lie afterward added eighty aero. He was an act- 
ive Republican, always being a delegate to con- 
ventions, and was also a Central Committeeman. 
He was elected Coroner, which office be held for 
two terms, and was Justice of the Peace for twen- 
ty-four year-, lie was School Director during the 
whole time of hi- residence here, and, religiously, 
wa- an Episcopalian. He died December 26, 1890, 
aged seventy-eight year-. Hi- wife, who >till sur- 
vives, aged about eighty years, is a member of the 
Methodisl Episcopal Church, and has been the 

ther of ten children, eight of whom are living. 

During the Civil War. Mr. Young. Si., was Enroll- 

I Uliccr for thi- county, was First Lieutenant of 

the Missouri State Militia, and took part in the siege 

of Lexington, marching to the relief of Col. Mul- 
ligan, lie Berved with Gen. Ken Loan, and was 
appointed Captain near the close of the war. He 
never had a law.-uit in his life, wa- very popular, 
and had no enemies. 

Our subject wa- horn June :i. 1854, on the farm 

Dear where he now live-, and W88 hen- reared to 
manhood, attending the district school, and also 
the Episcopal Parish school, at St. Joseph, When 
nineteen year- of age lie commenced teaching 
in Buchanan County, and continued a- a peda- 



gogue for twelve year-, being located in only four 

schools. He graduated in the Class of '78 from 

the International Training School, located at 
Manchester, X. II. . where he took a full business 
course, lie then began the pursuit of an agricul- 
turist on the home farm, having since continued 

in that line with great BUCCi 

At the home of the bride's mother anil -tep- 
father, Norton and Mary (McFariand) Blake, in 
1880, a marriage ceremony iras performed which 
united the fortune- of Robert Young and Mi- 
Belle Thompson. Her father, who was a native 
of Manchester, England, wa- a draughtsman and 
mechanic, and wa- the first Master Mechanic of 
tin- Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad, with which he 
wa- connected for four years, and afterward was 
Master Mechanic of the Missouri Valley Railroad 

until his death in 186J, Hi- wife, who wa- horn 
in County Tyrone, Ireland, is still living. Mr-. 
Young, whose birth occurred March 1. 1860, was 
educated in tin 1 public Bchools of st. Joseph. 
To herself and husband were horn seven chil- 
dren, one of whom is deceased. They are: Ches- 
ter A.. Riley K.. Ida M., Mary. Clara and Fanny. 
Harry is deceased. The eldest BOn, ten year- of 
•i_M. who has a line natural talent for drawing, has 
made a splendid map of Missouri, which he in- 
tend- to have exhibited at the Columbian Expo- 
sition. 

In polities Mr. Young i- a Republican, and has 
been a delegate to several conventions of his party. 
The cause of education finds in him a loyal Bup- 
porter, and in everything i elating- to the welfare 
of his community or the country at large he takes 
an interested part. 



WILLIAM II. SANDUSKY. \n excellent 
example of -t urdy enterpi i-c. thrifty habits 
and persistent industry, characteristic of go 
many of our farmers, may he found in the life of 
Mr. Sandu8ky, who i- now living in Wayne Town- 



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ship. He owns six hundred acres of valuable land, 
whose possession attests his success in worldly 
affairs, and whose improved condition and orderly 
appearance furnish equally good evidence of his 
intelligent conception of the details of his voca- 
tion and his progressive spirit in all that pertains 
thereto. 

Born October 9, 1834, in Clinton County, Ky., 
our subject is the son of John I. Sandusky, also a 
native of the Blue Grass State, where he carried on 
farming. His mother, who was known in her 
maidenhood as Miss Aseneth Winn, was likewise a 
native of Kentucky, where she spent her entire life. 
She bore her husband eight children, all of whom 
are living with one exception. In religious affairs 
the parents were members of the Christian and 
Methodist Episcopal Churches respectively. 

William II., of this sketch, remained at home 
until after reaching his majority, in the meantime 
having been given an excellent education. His 
studies, which were prosecuted in early life in 
the old log schoolhouse, were supplemented by a 
course in the seminary of Monticello, Ky. He fol- 
lowed the profession of teacher and was also occu- 
pied with farm work in his native State while 
young, and on coming to Missouri taught school 
in Gentry County. During the Civil War he made 
his home in Iowa, later removing to Daviess and 
Platte Counties, Mo. 

In 1872, he of whom we write came to Buchanan 
County, where he taught school for a time and then 
hired out to work on a farm. He was very indus- 
trious and economical and soon laid by a sufficient 
sum to enable him to launch out in business for 
himself, and for the past ten years he has been en- 
gaged, in addition to farming, in buying and ship- 
ping grain from Kails Station, Kenmoor, De Kalb 
and Steele's Spur. 

As stated in our opening paragraph, Mr. San- 
dusky is the proud possessor of six hundred broad 
and fertile acres, which he devotes almost exclu- 
sively to the raising of the cereals. As might be 
expected, he is an excellent judge of grain and one 
who in every department of life fulfills the duties 
that lie before him in a creditable manner. He 
has never married, his home being presided over 
by Mrs. Huff and husband. 



In politics Mr. Sandusky is a firm adherent of 
the Democratic party and has been frequently sent 
as a delegate to its various conventions. In 
1892 he ran for Count}' Judge but was defeated 
by a small majority. He acted as Notary Public 
for a period of twelve years, and indeed is one of 
the most prominent men in Buchanan County. 
Gentle and unobtrusive, Mr. Sandusky accords to 
ever}' man the right to his opinion. Honest and 
upright, he yields to all what is due in just measure. 
He is especially popular among the young men 
whom he has repeatedly aided in a monetary way, 
and man}' times he has incurred great risk in order 
to accommodate others. The fame of his deeds 
may not reach the outside world, yet, after all, uo 
higher praise can be bestowed upon any man than 
that his life is upright, and that no wrong or op- 
pression was ever perpetrated by him. Such 
may be truthfully written and said of Mr. San- 
dusky. 



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ORACE T. CONNETT. Among the most 
} progressive and extensive agriculturists 
of Buchanan County is he of whom 
we write, whose residence is located 
on section 28, township 56, range 35. He has 
something over two thousand acres in the home 
farm, in addition to which he owns a very large 
tract which came to him through his wife. In 
1867 he erected his beautiful residence, which cost 
$8,000. and six years later built a $4,000 barn. 
He has also put up other substantial farm buildings. 
Eive hundred acres of the place are timber and pas- 
ture land, and the remainder is under cultivation, 
being largely devoted to raising cereals. Mr. Con- 
nett's stock now comprises two hundred and 
twenty-six head of cattle, three hundred hogs and 
forty horses and mules. Besides his fanning in- 
terests, Mr. Connett is interested in other enter- 
prises, among which we mention the Sax ton 
National Hank of St. Joseph, the pressed brick, 
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death the sons bought out their gisters' interest, 
carrying on the business as S. S. Connett & Bros., 
Squire S., William C. and Horace T. being mem- 
bers of the firm. After the death of the two first 

mentioned the style of the firm was changed to Con- 
nett Bros., our subject and the three sons of William 
C. running the business. 

William C. Connett. Sr., our subject's father, a 
native of Lexington, Ky., born in 1800, was 
reared on a farm in Hardin County, and was fairly 
educated. At Georgetown, Ky., he married Matilda 
Thornberry. After this event he was engaged in 
manufacturing bagging and rope at Lexington. 
Coining to Missouri in 1839, he settled on a piece of 
timber and prairie land of one hundred and sixty 
acres, where he made a permanent home. Himself 
and wife were the parents of nine children, who 
all grew to maturity. Three are living: Elzerie, 
Mrs. Samuel Wildbahn; Miranda, wife of Walker 
<L Seed; and our subject Those deceased are 
Squire S.; Melvina, wife of .Judge E. P. Duncan; 
Isabella, wife of Columbus Roundtree; William ('., 
who married Perilla 1.., daughter of Judge Solo- 
mon L. Leonard; Matilda, wife of Martin Hughes; 
and Anderson, who died at the age of seventeen 
years. The father of these children was a well- 
pOSted man. and was a soldier in the war of 1812. 
A man of more than common energy and sterling 
worth, at the time of his death he owned eighteen 
hundred acres of land, on which be raised stock 
and hemp. 

The subject of this sketch was bom October 10, 
1832, near Lexington, Ky.. and was only seven 
years old when he came to Missouri, which has 
since been his home. In April, 186 1, he married 
the third daughter of Judge Solomon L. Leonard, 
Miss Mary I... who died October 22, 1873. They 
were the parents of six children, four of whom 
are now living: Salrna E., wife of Robert E. 
Baker, of St. Joseph; Charles II., proprietor of the 
folding bed factory at St. Joseph; .John A., an 
attorney of the same city; andWeslej L.,a young 
man of unusual promise, who is now a -Indent at 
the Chicago University. On November 26, 1885, 
occurred the wedding of Mr. Connett and Salina 
A., -eeond daughter of Judge Leonard. She was 
born May •_'.">. 1840, and was called from this life 



December 27, 1892, Mr. Oonnett is politically a 
Democrat, and is held in the highest esteem by 
the many friends and neighbors he has in this 
vicinity. 



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OKI. E. GATES, of St. Joseph, is now Re- 
corder of Buchanan County, and has for 
many years acted in an official capacity in 
different portions of this State. A native 
of this county, he has always had her interest near 
to his heart, and ha> been prominently identified 
with her welfare for years past. Mr. Gates was 

l » ■in ten miles east of St. Joseph in February, 
1859, and is a son of Col. Elijah Gates, whose 
record will be found on another page of this work. 
Our subject, who is the third in order of birth in 
a family of nine children, was reared on his father's 
farm until the year L868, when ln> father located 
here, the latter, al that time occupying the position 
of Sheriff. 

Mr. Gates received a good common and hiuh 
school education in this city, and in 1*77 was ap- 
pointed Pharmacist at the State Penitentiary, 
where for nine years he did all the dispensary work. 
Eight years of this time he served under Col. Wil- 
li>-. Warden, and the remainder of the time under 
Col. Marmaduke. 

Returning to St. Joseph at the expiration of this 
time, Mr. Gates was appointed Deputy United 
States Marshal foi the Western District of Mis- 
souri in 1886. During the time he occupied that 
position business took him over a good portion of 
the Slate, and many trips were made from this 
county west to the Coast, and from the Lakes to 
the Gulf. Mr. Gates discovered and arrested Gar- 
ton, the Clipper Cap train robber, arresting hiin in 
Kansas City, and taking him back to San Fran- 
cisco, where upon trial he was Senl to the peniten- 
tiary for ten year-. Mr. t.ate- held the important 
position of Marshal during Cleveland's entire oc- 
cupancy of the Presidential Chair, and in 1890 he 



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was nominated and elected on Hie Democratic 
ticket as County Recorder for a term of four years- 
commencing on New Year's Day, 1891. He super- 
vises the work of four clerks in li is office in addi- 
tion to attending to bis own regular duties. The 
records are kept by him in a thoroughly methodi- 
cal and systematic manner, thus reflecting great 
credit upon himself and the good judgment of his 
constituents in choosing so able a man to fill the 
important place. 

Mr. Gates was united in Nicholasville, Jessamine 
County. Ky., in 1892, to Miss Vickie M. Buford, who 
is a native of that place and was there reared and 
educated. Mrs. < iates is a lady of culture and refine- 
ment, and with womanly grace and dignity presides 
over the pleasant home of our subject. Mr. Gates 
is a Knight-Templar Mason, and belongs to Moila 
Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He ranks in the 
estimation of his fellow-citizens among the most 
reliable and trusted of the public servants, and is 
extremely popular on account of his cleverness, 
ability and affable manners. He is a thoroughly 
representative citizen, and has always believed 
that great things were in store for this favored 
place, which has been his home since his early 
days. 




lARTLETT J. BURKE, M. D., who makes 
his home in Lathrop, Clinton County, is 
| the son of James and Sarah (Turner) Burke. 
His grandfather Burke served in the War 
of the Revolution, enlisting from North Carolina. 
About the year 1790, he became one of the pio- 
neers of Kentucky, where both he and his wife de- 
parted this life. His son, the father of our subject, 
was born in North Carolina, and when a boy 
removed with his parents to Jessamine County, 
Ky. He was twice married, and of his first union 
were born eight children, seven of whom grew to 
mature years: Arthur T.; Susan, deceased; Ed- 
ward A.; William, whose deatli occurred in In- 
diana; Benjamin F.; John, who died in Kentucky; 



and Barllett J., our subject. The mother was born 
in North Carolina, and was the daughter of Ar- 
thur Turner, a Revolutionary soldier of Scotch 
extraction. She died in Henry County, Ky., in 
1827, while her husband departed this life in 1843, 
at the age of about sixty-three years, while on a 
visit in Daviess County. The Burke family is of 
Irish origin. 

Dr. Burke was reared to man's estate in Ken- 
tucky, where he obtained a common-school educa- 
tion. When twenty years of age, he removed to 
Butler County, in the same State, where his mar- 
riage was celebrated, and later went to Greenville, 
Ky. In the year 1855, he commenced the practice 
of his profession in Tazewell County, 111. Pievi- 
ous to this, however, he had practiced more or less 
in Muhlenberg County, Ky., but from this time 
forward, except during bis war service, he gave his 
exclusive attention to the practice of medicine. 

In May, 1862, Dr. Burke entered Company II, 
.Seventieth Illinois Infantry, and was for four 
months stationed on garrison duty. In June, 
1864, he became a member of Company D. One 
Hundred and Forty-fifth Illinois Infantry, acting 
as Hospital Steward, and being assigned to service 
in Missouri. In the year 1865, the Doctor came 
to Missouri, residing for three >ears in Spring Hill, 
Livingston County. In August, 1868, having set- 
tled in Lathrop, he was actively engaged in prac- 
tice until 1885. At the time of his arrival in the 
place, there was but one doctor in this vicinity, 
and he therefore soon acquired an extensive prac- 
tice. 

In 1839 occurred the marriage of our subject 
with Miss Amanda James, who was born near the 
mouth of the Barron River, in Kentucky, in 1814. 
and whose parents, Foster and Elizabeth (Grand) 
James, emigrated from Richmond. Va. They were 
among the earl}- settlers of Butler County, Ky., 
where the father was a farmer by occupation for 
many years. Several children have been born to 
our subject and his worthy wife. James F. enlis- 
ted in 1862 for a three-months service in the Six- 
ty-eighth Illinois Infantry. In 1863, be became 
a member of Company E, Seventh Illinois Infan- 
try, and met his death at the battle of Altoona 
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unlisted in the One Hundred and Forty-fifth Regi- 
ment, belonging to Company D, ami in 1864 
joined the One Hundred and Fifty-second Illinois 
Regulars. He is now a practicing physician in 
Laclede, Mo. Sarah K. is the widow of Andrew C. 
\I. ss, of McPherson County. Ivan.; and Henry E. 
completes the number. The mother of these chil- 
dren, who was an active member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, 'and much beloved by all who 
knew her, was called from this lite August 80, 
1883. In 1885 Dr. Burke married Mrs. Violet C. 
Carter, who before her marriage, was Miss Thomp- 
son. 

The Doctor is a much-honored resident of this 
community, and has been called upon by his fel- 
low-citizens to serve in many positions of trust 
and honor. He has served a- .lustice of the Peace 
f<T sixteen years, both in Kentucky and Illinois. 
For about twenty years he has served in the capac- 
ity of Notary Public. For two terms he was the 
efficient Mayor of Lathrop, anil he has also been 
on the Board of Aldermen. In church affairs, he 
has ever taken an active part, and was one of the 
organizers of the Methodist Episcopal Church of 
the village, and one of the principal movers in 
building the first church erected in Lathrop, in 
1868. In polities Mr. Burke is a Republican, and 
lias ever done all in his power, both in peace and 
war, to promote the well-being of his country and 
fellow-men. 




I C. HYDE, the gentleman whose honored 
name appears at the open ing of this sketch, 
Is is a representative of the men of energy, 
ability and enterprise who have made 
Buchanan County so prominent in the state. His 
name is associated with the rise and progress of 

agrieulture, as one who has made a SUCCC88 of till- 
ing the soil and improving the stock of the county 
I iv careful breeding. His beautiful estate is lo- 



cated on Bection 32, Washington Township, and 
contains four hundred and fifty-six acres. 

.lames l„ Hyde, the father of our -uhjert. was a 
native of Connecticut, his birth occurring Novem- 
ber :). 1780. He was a fanner i.\ occupati and 

during the War of 1812 entered it- ranks as Ma- 
jor from New York State. lie was the son of Cal- 
vin Hyde, also bom in the Nutmeg State, who re- 
moved to New York in L783. 1 lis family consisted 
of two sous, who drifted apart and lost the where- 
abouts of each other until an accidental meeting 
brought them together in the home of our subject. 
At that time one was eighty years old, and the 
other eighty-eight. 

The mother of our subject, Amy (Harris) Hyde, 
was born in Massachusetts in 1782. Her marriage 
with .lames I.. Hyde occurred in New York State, 
soon after which event they removed West and 
took up their abode in Bath County, Ivy. Later 
they went to Greenup County, the same State, and 
iii 1840 came to Missouri, when it was still thickly 
populated with Indian.-. In that early day the 
now nourishing city of SI. Joseph was nothing but 
a trading-post, the "tavern" being kept by a 
Frenchman named RobidOUX, at whose table our 
subject has eaten a "wild" meal. Opening up a 
farm in the new country, the parent- at once com- 
menced its improvement, and there made their 
home until their decease, the father dying in Sep- 
tember, 1871, at the advanced age of ninety-one 
years, and the mother passing away in 18 1."). when 
sixty-two years of age. They reared a family of 
eight children, three of whom are deceased. Mem- 
bers in good standing of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, in which body Mr. Hyde was a leader. 
they were greatly respected and honored for their 
upright lives by all who knew them. 

A. C. Hyde was born January 11, 1819, in Bath 
County, Ivy., where he was reared on his father's 
farm. His parent- being in limited circumstances, 
he was permitted to attend school but a very short 
time, but. being ambitious to gain kuowledge,con- 
ducted his studies at home. He remained under 
the parental roof until reaching hi- majority, when, 
stait ing out on his own account, became to Mis- 
souri and Secured the farm Which he ha- de\ eloped 

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primitive wiklness when he purchased it, but pos- 
sessing a determined spirit to make of it one of the 
most productive farms in this section, he indus- 
triously set to work to clear, fence and place it 
under the plow. 

In 1845 Miss Elizabeth Whitlock, of Virginia, 
became the wife of our subject. She departed this 
life that same year, and March 12, 1848, Mr. Hyde 
was married to Miss Thirza, daughter of William 
C. and Polly (Sage) Cure, natives of New York 
State. The parents were born in 1801 and 171)7, 
respectively, and on coming to this State in 1846, 
made their home in Washington Township, Bu- 
chanan County, where their deaths occurred. They 
were well-to-do people, and owned a good farm in 
Doniphan County, Kan. In religious affairs they 
were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church 
Sou tli. 

Mrs. Hyde was one in a family of eight chil- 
dren, four of whom are living, and was born July 
17, 1827, in Delaware County, N. Y. In 1849, 
Mr. Hyde, being afflicted with the "gold fever," 
crossed the plains with an ox-team, and was four 
months in reaching Feather River. Going to 
work in the mines, he was thus employed for a 
year and a-half, when he was taken sick with the 
mountain fever, having had the cholera on his 
way to California. Desirous of returning home, 
he again took up his abode on the farm, which had 
been operated during his absence of two years by 
his noble wife. 

As before stated, Mr. Hyde is the proprietor 
of an estate comprising four hundred and fifty- 
six acres, two hundred and fifty of which he has 
placed under excellent tillage. He is engaged 
in mixed husbandry, and his contented face 
tells of the success that has crowned his ef- 
forts. During the late war the enemy ravaged his 
farm, taking everything in the way of stock, grain, 
chickens, honey, etc., which they could take away 
with them. He then entered the Paw Paw militia 
in order to secure protection, and was offered the 
captaincy of his company, but refused the honor. 

Of the nine children born to our subject and 
his wife, only one is deceased. Those living are 
John L., the husband of Sadie Steele; Jennie, Mrs. 
W. S. Martin; Augusta W., the widow of George 



Conner; William T., the husband of Mollie Harper; 
James B., who married Katie Harper; Cassie D., 
the wife of Isaac Edds; Charles A., who married 
Annie Leach; and Calvin A., who married Emma 
Reichmann. Mrs. Hyde is a woman of great piety, 
and a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church South. 

Socially, our subject is a Mason, and has been 
Master of King Hill Lodge No. 376, for six years. 
In politics, he is a strong Democrat, and has served 
his fellow-townsmen in the capacity of School 
Trustee for over thirty years. He is very popular 
in his community, and has been repeatedly solicited 
to run for County Judge, Sheriff, etc., but has as 
often refused to allow his name to be placed be- 
fore the people. 




NDREW J. FERRELL. In all the broad 
expanse of this Stale there is no county 
which affords sustenance to a greater num- 
ber of agriculturists than this, whose pro- 
ductive soil, commercial facilities and advanced 
development make it pre-eminently the farmer's 
home. One of its most comfortable and attractive 
abodes is that of Mr. Fen ell, who occupies a good 
estate pleasantly located on section 4, Crawford 
Township. 

A native of this county, Mr. Ferrell is the 
youngest son of Matthew C. and Matilda (Janet) 
Ferrell, who are spoken of in the sketch of James 
Ferrell, elsewhere in this volume. Andrew J. was 
born in this county on September 24, 1845, on the 
quarter-section of land where he has resided all 
his life. He has since added to this property, which 
he purchased of his father, and at the present time 
is the proud possessor of four hundred acres, all 
in one body. 

When establishing a hearthstone of his own, 
Mr. Ferrell was married to Miss Jennie Davidson, 
the ceremony which united them beinsj performed 
in 1870 in Center Township. Mrs. Ferrell was the 
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in this section as early as lS'M. Of her union 
with our subject have been born ten children, five 
of whom are living, namely: Etta M., now Mrs. 
William Finney; Effa A., Lora .1.. Homer ami 

No! a. 

Mr. Ferrell has Ida land under excellent tillage, 
raising thereon corn, wheat, potatoes and good 
grades of stock. He is an enterprising and indus- 
trious farmer, who has steadily worked his way 
upward by his own efforts and won well deserved 
success as the result of his untiring labors. lie 
lias been a member of the School Hoard of his dis- 
trict for a quarter of a century and faithfully dis- 
charges every duty devolving upon him. He is 
progressive and public spirited and manifests a 
commendable interest in all that pertains to the 
welfare and upbuilding of his community. His 
life lias been well and worthily passed, and the 
community in which he has so long made his home 
holds him in high esteem. In polities he is a 
stanch Democrat, and socially he is a prominent 
Mason, holding membership with the Blue Lodge 
and Chapter at Taos, and is also connected with 
the Knights Templar at St. Joseph. 



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fiOEL D.HUDSPETH. Seldom has Death 
called from our midst one who is more uni- 
versally missed, and one who has done more 
to advance the best interests of his fellow- 
citizens than .Mr. Hudspeth. He was a man of up- 
right character and integrity, admired by all who 
knew him, for he was one who acted from prin- 
ciple and not for the praise of others or in the 
hope of future reward. " Deeds, not words," he 
made his motto through life; he was merciful to 
his enemies and just to all. He was benevolent, 
and from his door the poor and needy were never 
turned away hungry or unclothed. 

On the farm in Buchanan County where he 
spent his entire life, and where his death occurred, 
Mr. Hudspeth was born January 28, 1847, being a 
son of Oeorge YV. Hudspeth. He received a good 



education in the common schools, and made two 
trips across the plains in his early life, but was 
never away from his faun altogether more than 
two years. The homestead comprises four hundred 
and fortj aires, is (me of the best in township 55, 
range 87, and is located on section 1 .">. Itis under 
high cultivation, anil its principal improvements 
were placed upon it by Mr. Hudspeth. In addi- 
tion to general farming, he was quite an extensive 
stock-raiser, and at the time of hi- death had over 
fifty head of cattle. In the orchard on the farm 
are over sixteen hundred apple trees and a large 
quantity of small fruits. 

In the year 1867 Mr. Hudspeth and Miss Nettie 
Lollar were united in marriage. Their union was 
graced with five children, of whom the eldest 
daughter, Lizzie, died when sixteen years of age. 
The others are Mollie lv, Oeorge W., Moetta and 
Fornetta (twins). The wife and mother was 
called from this life in 187'.), her loss being sin- 
cerely mourned by the many friends she had 
made in this portion of the county. On Decem- 
ber HI. 1880, Sir. Hudspeth was again married, 
Miss Mary M. Hurt then becoming his wife. Her 
parents are Daniel C. and Keziah (Spencer) Hurt, 
of this county. Mrs. Hudspeth was born Decem- 
ber 18, 184G, and by her marriage became the 
mother of two children, Daniel ( . and Nanny. 
She is one of ten children, of whom seven are yet 
living. She is an intelligent and amiable lady, 
and one who has the sincere friendship of all with 
whom she has come in contact. Moreover, she is 
a woman of good business ability, and is now car- 
rying on the homestead with marked 3UCCeS8. 

In local affairs Mr. Hudspeth took a prominent 
pari, and served in vaiious official positions Of 
trust and honor. He was interested in educational 
affairs, and served at one time as President of the 
School Hoard. He was possessed of the qualities 
of industry and perseverance, and made a thorough 
success of whatever enterprise he attempted, lie 

was a member of the Ancient free A Accepted 
Masons, and politically lie was an ardent Demo- 
crat. Hi- death occurred on February :•. 1893, as 
the result of a stroke of paralysis. Hj s funeral 
was conducted undei t he auspices of the Masonic 
Order. He had so long been a resident and par- 



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ticipator in the growth of the township that his 
sudden demise was most deeply deplored. His 
memory will ever be cherished in the hearts of 
those who had the good fortune to come into con- 
tact with him in either a business or social way. 
He was a deep thinker and a stndent of human 
nature, his judgment being keen and shrewd. 






/p^EORGE SAMPSON KARNS, the prosper- 
[#[ ous and intelligent farmer whose name 

^\yj{( opens this article, possesses one of the best 
farms in Buchanan County. His estate, to the 
cultivation of which he devotes his entire time 
and attention, is beautifully located on section 32, 
Marion Township. 

Michael Karns, the father of our subject, was a 
native of Bedford County, Va., and during the 
War of 1812 had two brothers who fought in 
that struggle. The maiden name of our sub- 
ject's mother was Mary Bales, and her birth oc- 
curred in Pennsylvania. The parents were mar- 
ried in the Old Dominion, where they continued 
to reside until 1837, when they came to this State 
and located in the old Indian agency, now called 
Center Township. Two years later they took pos- 
session of section 31, Washington Township, which 
was then all timberland, and where they were liv- 
ing at the time of their decease, the father dying 
in 1817, and the mother in 1862. Of their large 
family of nine children, only two are living, our 
subject and Lea, now Mrs. Speak. Mrs. Karns was 
a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church. She was a lady possessing more than 
ordinary intelligence, was refined, and accom- 
plished in many ways. She seemed to lie endowed 
with the power of healing, and was therefore 
as much in demand as the practicing physicians of 
her da}' and neighborhood. She was generous, 
kind-hearted and willing at all times to sacrifice 
her interests for the welfare of those about her. 

George Sampson Karns, who had his birth De- 
cember 23, 1821, in Bedford County, Ya., was a 



lad of four years when his parents removed to Lee 
Comity, the same State. Twelve years later, 
when the family moved to this Stale and county, 
although George S. was not the eldest son, he pos- 
sessed the ability to plan and put into execution 
his ideas, and therefore was looked upon by the 
little household as their leader. His parents were 
very poor when landing in this new country, their 
possessions in money amounting to So. 05. As 
might be expected, our subject was compelled to 
assist in developing the home place, and was 
therefore not permitted to attend school much 
after reaching his ninth year. He has been a close 
reader, however, and at the present time is well 
informed on all the leading topics of the day. Af- 
ter the death of his father Mr. Karns remained 
at home, caring for his mother, while his broth- 
ers John N. and James G, both now deceased, 
went across the plains to California, where they 
expected to reap a fortune in the gold mines of that 
State. 

In 1852 George S. Karns and Miss Matilda, 
daughter of Dr. Pascal and Ellen (Jenkins) Wat- 
son, were united in marriage. Her parents were 
early settlers of Grand River, this State, where Dr. 
Watson was a prominent physician. He was an 
influential man in politics, being identified with 
the Whig party, in whose interests he made many 
effective speeches. 

Mrs. Karns was born on the battlefield of Tippe- 
canoe, in 1831, and died in 1878. She reared a 
family of nine children, namely: Mary E., Eliza- 
beth A., Sarah J., Pascal W., Belle, Carrie, John, 
.Margaret and Etta. They have all been given 
good educations and fitted to become useful and 
honorable citizens. 

When starting out in life on his own responsi- 
bility Mr. Karns had little else than willing hands 
and a determination to succeed on which to de- 
pend, lie is now the proud ownerof one thousand 
broad acres, which fact indicates in a marked man- 
ner his thrift and industry, and his farm portrays 
to even the casual observer the fact that it is the 
abode of one who possesses a goodly amount of 
this world's goods. His estate is embellished by 
a beautiful residence, which cost $4,000, and which 
is furnished in a most tasteful manner. 






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Religiously Mr. Earns is a member of the Method- 
ist Episcopal Church. The cause of right and 
trutb always finds in him a friend, and to these 
causes lie devotes bis heartiest sympathy and aid. 
In politics lie advocate- the principles of t lie Re- 
publican party, and voted both times for Abraham 
Lincoln. 



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IpSjjjALEIGH S. MORGAN, an extensive land- 
l|L^ holder, and for many years widely known :is 
ifc \. one of the most prosperous pioneer agri- 
culturists of Clinton County, isnow a highly 
esteemed and honored resident of the city of 
Platlsburgh, where he enjoys the congenial com- 
panionship of old-time friends and acquaintances. 
Our subject was born near Shepherdstown, on the 
Potomac, Jeffersop County. W. Va., December 2:!, 
1824. His parents, Raleigh and Rebecca (Slyer) 
Morgan, were both native Virginians, their Welsh 
ancestors having been among the early settlers of 
the < >ld Dominion. Mr. Morgan was reared upon 
the old Virginia homestead, and after having 
Learned the trade of a house-painter, located, at 
twenty-one years of age, near Winchester, Clark 
County, Ky. With ambitious energy he followed 
his trade and engaged in farming until 1857, when 
he came to Missouri, bringing with him his family, 
two slaves and (7,000 in money. 

Purchasing a fine farm of three hundred and 
sixty acres. Located seven miles from l'lat tshurgh, 
our subject devoted himself to the duties of mixed 
farming and was among the largest growers and 
feeders of live-stock in the county. His original 
Missouri homestead has grown to four hundred 
and forty acres, and he now owns three farms, all 

under a high -tale of cultivati and containing 

a total of over one thousand acres of land. His 
real estate is all under his immediate supervision, 
and he personally manages the home farm, which 
is one of the Bnesl and most profitable in this sec- 
tion of the country- In common with many Others, 
he suffered heavy financial losses during the war. 
but look no active part in the conflict. 



At twenty-five years of age Mr. Morgan was 
united in marriage in ( lark ( lounty, Ky., with M Lsa 
Amanda Ann Trimble, a native of thai "state and 
county. The marriage was blessed by three chil- 
rcn, two daughters ami one -on. Raleigh Morgan, 
the eldest, is a prominent citizen of Plattsburgh. 
Mary Margaret, now the widow of Albert Shaver, 
resides with her father. Her son. Raleigh A., 
twenty-one years of age, i- hi- n rand father's a—i.-t- 
aut and i- a young man of unusual promise and 
ability. Sally Ann. the second daughter, is the 
wife of David L. Stoutimore, whose pleasant home 
is ju.-t across the street from the elegant and com- 
modious residence of our subject, finely Located 
upon South Spring Street. Soon after their mar- 
riage Mr. and Mr.-. Morgan joined the Old-school 
Presbyterian Church, and have ever been among 
the active workers of that religious organization. 
They and the various members of their family oc- 
cupy a high social position and arc leader- in he- 
rn^ olent enterprises, having materially assisted in 
the advancement of the best interests of their 
home neighborhood and county. 

Although never an office-seeker, Mr. Morgan is 
a stanch Democrat, and deeply interested in Local 
and national i-sue-. A man of intelligence and 
ability, upright in character and earnest in purpose, 
for thirty-five years he has been closely identified 
with the progressive movements of the State, and 
is numbered among the public-spirited citizens 
whose steadfast integrity anil energetic industry 
have deservedly won for them both affluence and 
influential position. 



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lead to them. Of successes in the agricultural 
world which have been earned by the exercise "t 
Bound judgment, thorough business tact and in- 
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pie in this section of Buchanan County than 
Judge Fen-ell, who is the possessor of four hun- 
dred and fifteen broad acres, located upon section 
9, Crawford Township. 

Matthew C. and Tilda (Janet) Ferrell, the par- 
ents of our subject, were natives of Tennessee, 
whence in 1840 they came to this State and 
made their home on section 4, Crawford Township, 
when this county was in its primitive wildness. 
There they continued to reside, contributing their 
quota toward making this section one of the must 
productive spots in the State, until their deaths, 
the father dying in 1877 and the mother in 1870. 
Their church connection was with the good peo- 
ple who followed the rules laid down by the Cum- 
berland Presbyterian Church. Mr. Ferrell 's fel- 
low-citizens persisted in electing him to public- 
positions and for many terms he acted as Assessor 
and Tax Collector. In politics lie was a Demo- 
crat. 

Judge Ferrell, who was born November 21, 
1830, in Jackson County, Tenn., was a lad of ten 
years when lie accompanied his parents on their 
removal to this State. Here he passed through all 
the trials and hardships which life in a new coun- 
try imposes, and when not needed on the farm 
was allowed to attend the school of the neigh- 
borhood. In this manner he gained a good in- 
sight into the ordinary branches of study. He 
was married in 1854 to Miss Louisa Baker, the 
daughter of Zebediah and Martha (Wammeg) 
Baker, who came from Tennessee to this State in 
183'.). Mrs. Ferrell was born in Crawford Town- 
ship, Buchanan County, in 1837, and was trained 
bv her excellent mother to perform all those duties 
which make home so pleasant and attractive. 

Judge Ferrell remained at home assisting his 
father in operating the farm until after the late 
war, when he took up his abode on what is now 
his present beautiful estate. It comprises four 
bundled and fifteen acres, forty-five of which are 
set out in an orchard. Mr. Ferrell in 188f> erected 
a handsome residence on his farm which cost 
$3,(ioii. 

Eleven of the thirteen children born to Mr. and 
Mrs. Ferrell are living at the present time, viz.: 
Matilda. Martha C, Rhoda, Ratliff F.. James K.. 



John R., Robert F., Mattie, C. C, Lizzie and Leoni. 
The parents are devoted members of the Cumber- 
land Presbyterian Church, as are also the children. 
Mr. Ferrell is Presiding Elder of the denomina- 
tion in Fawcett, while his son, James K., is Dea- 
con. He has provided his children with every 
possible advantage for obtaining an education, 
and his interest in school affairs has led him to be 
placed on the Board as one of its Directors. 

Mr. Ferrell 'a high sense of honor and general 
fitness for public office are well known to every 
voter of his township, and in 1885 he was elected 
County Judge, the duties of which position were 
discharged by him in a most satisfactory manner. 
He has also been candidate for Sheriff and Re- 
corder, and served as Constable in 1858. Politi- 
cally he is a Democrat, and has often acted as 
delegate to the various conventions of that party. 
Socially, he is a Ro^al Arch Mason, and has been 
Treasurer of both the Blue Lodge and Chapter. 
The family of Mr. and Mrs. Ferrell is a pleasant 
and hospitable one, and there is no place in which 
the worthy stranger finds a warmer welcome than 
in their home. 



WILLIAM F. McDONALD is a member of 
the firm of Smith & McDonald, dealers in 
real estate, and insurance agents, and is 
Treasurer of the King Hill Brick and Manufactur- 
ing Company. He represents the German-Ameri- 
can Insurance Company, of New York, and the 
..-Etna, of Hartford, Conn., and is one of the lead- 
ing men of St. Joseph, Buchanan County, where 
he has resided since his birth which occurred April 
23, 1851. 

Dr. Silas McDonald was the father of the gen- 
tleman of whom we write. He was a native of 
Washington County, Kv.,born April 18, 1812, and 
was one of the first physicians in Buchanan 
County, then a part of the Platte Purchase. He 
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the county, where lie located in January, 1838. 
He had been for three years previous a resident of 
Payette, Howard County, Mo. His father, Alex- 
ander Mel >im:tlii. was born in Montgomery County, 
\ a., while liis father in turn was a native of the 
Keystone Slate. The father of the latter was a 
native of Scotland and settled in the United States 
in Colonial days. 

Dr. I McDonald's father emigrated to Kentucky 
soon after the celebrated Daniel Boone located 
there. When he located in Mercer County, be 
found that Capt. llarrod. who had built a fort, 
was about the only white inhabitant of the region, 
and it frequently happened that the early settlers 
were obliged to take refuge in this citadel. Mr. 
McDonald took up a thousand-acre tract of land 
in the wilderness, making his own survey. He 
huiit a hewed-log house near a spring, and several 
of his brothers also founded homes in the neighbor- 
hood, they being only half a mile distant from each 
other. The land was cleared with oxen, and the 
brothers devoted themselves to raising hemp. In 
the War of 1812. Mr. McDonald was a soldier un- 
der Harrison, and in the battle of Tippecanoe was 
wounded in the shoulder. He was a great hunter 
and had plenty of chance to show his skill, as 
game of all kinds was very abundant. He died 
in 1842, in the faith of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, having reached the age of eighty-two 
years. His wife, Elizabeth (Taylor) McDonald, 
was born in Virginia and was a daughter of Zach- 
ary Taylor, a cousin of the President of that 
name. This family was prominent in the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church and Mrs. McDonald's bro- 
ther and nephew were both ministers of that de- 
nomination in Green River County, Ky. 

The boyhood of the Doctor was passed on the 
farm which he heljied to improve. On hearing his 
father tell of the adventures in the life of a pio- 
neer, he became imbued with the idea of going to 
a new country himself, lie remained at home un- 
til 1833, and began the study of medicine with 
two noted physicians of Harrodsburg. In 1x3,"). 
he entered the Transylvania Medical College, at 
Lexington, and in 1886 came to Missouri by boat, 
settling in Fayette, where he began practicing. In 
the fall of 1838, he entered the Cincinnati Medi- 



cal College, from which be graduated the follow- 
ing year. In January, 1838, be came to locate 
upon the Platte Purchase, and here lie found 
plenty of Indian villages, as they were not removed 
to Kansas Until the fall. The Doctor took up a 
claim of three hundred and twenty acres, twelve 
miles SOUtfa of the present city of St. Joseph. He 
improved the same, and when it came into the 
market he paid for it at the rate of |1.25 per acre. 
He built a rude log house and began his practice 
as a physician, hiring men to improve his farm. 
As physicians were scarce and settlers miles apart, 
he often rode thirty miles or so to a patient, and 
was out in all kinds of weather. On his farm 
a good crop was raised the first season and his 
was the first hemp ever sold in the Piatte Pur- 
chase. As this was a great country lor that sta- 
ple, about is 12 he erected the first manufactory 
put up in the county for the manufacture of bale 
rope, shipping direct from Weston to New Or- 
leans. 

It was in is 17 that Dr. McDonald left the farm 
and located in St. Joseph and after that he gave 
all of his attention to his medical practice, selling 
his farm about 1860. Until after the war he had 
the largest practice in St. Joseph, his office being 
on Main Street. Since 1876, lie has lived a retired 
life, in the enjoyment of the fruits of his years of 
toil. He laid out the McDonald Addition to St. 
Joseph, a seven-acre tract, and still owns a like 
amount. In the estimation of the Doctor the 
country of which St. Joseph is the center is the 
finest in the United States, and he is in a position 
to know, having traveled from the Gulf to the 
Lakes and from coast to coast. When he came on 
horseback from Howard County, he cut his name 
and the date, January 9, 1888, on a tree, which 
fact held his claim. 

In Buchanan County ill 1889, Dr. McDonald 
anil Miss Sarah Donnell were united in marriage. 
She was born in North Carolina, and with her 
parents removed to Missouri in 1836. Seven chil- 
dren weie born to this marriage: Doctor Daniel: 
William, a retired banker: Silas. Jr., Cashier of the 
State National Bank; Alexander, who is teller in 
the same bank; Martha, wife of c. B. Franc, Pres- 
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seph Gelke; and Mehitable, Mrs. Lindsey, whose 
husband is a Cashier in the State National Bank. 
Dr. McDonald is an original member of the Pres- 
byterian Church of St. Joseph, and in politics is a 
Democrat, having cast his Hist Presidential vote 
in Buchanan County in 1840 for William H. Har- 
rison on the Whig ticket. 

William F. McDonald received a common public 
school education and attended the High School 
for three years. In 1869, he entered Westminster 
College, at Fulton, Mo., which he attended for 
three years. In 1874, he went to Forest City, 
Mo., where he was made a paying teller in the 
bank of Frazier & McDonald. In 1882, he re- 
turned to this city as one of the tellers of the old 
State Savings Bank, with which he was connected 
for about four and one-half years. On the 11th 
of January, 1893, he formed a partnership with 
Harry S. Smith in the real-estate and insurance 
business and controls a large trade. He built 
some fine residences at the corner of Eighth and 
Robidoux Streets. 

In Ilarrodsburg, Mercer County, Ky.. Septem- 
ber 1, 1875, Mr. McDonald and Miss Rosa Litsey 
were married. The lady was born in Washington 
County, Ivy., and is the daughter of a leading 
farmer there, formerly from Virginia. One child, 
( irlaudo, has come to bless the union of our sub- 
ject and wife. The parents are members of the 
First Presbyterian Church, in the work of which 
they are much interested. In politics, Mr. Mc- 
Donald is a Democrat. He is enterprising in bus- 
iness and public spirited. 



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ffiAC'OR McCAULEY. Nowhere within the 
limits of Buchanan County can be found a 
man of more energy, uprightness and integ- 
rity than Jacob MeCauley, who isone of the 

largest farmers in this portion of the county. 

owning four hundred and eighty acres pleasantly 

located on sections 22 and 27, Center Township. 

lie is the eldest son of Samuel McCaulev, and was 



born October 4, 1844, in this township. He was 
reared upon his father's farm, attended the dis- 
trict school, and remained at home until 1861, 
when he went to Lexington, this State, and en- 
gaged to work in a hemp factory. 

In 1862 Jacob MeCauley enlisted in the Union 
Army, becoming a member of Company B, Third 
Missouri Volunteers, and did much scouting and 
skirmishing while in the service. Six months later 
he received his honorable discharge on account of 
disability, and returning home again took up the 
peaceful pursuits of life, devoting his entire time 
and attention to cultivating the soil of his broad 
acres. 

The lady to whom our subject was united in 
marriage in 1867 bore the maiden name of Per- 
necey J. Yates. She was the daughter of Pleasant 
and Harriet (McCreary) Yates, old residents of 
this county. Mrs. McCaulev was born October 20, 
1846, in Jackson Township, this county. Her 
parents are now deceased. After his marriage Ja- 
cob MeCauley located on his present farm, which 
in that early day bore little resemblance to its now 
flourishing condition. In 1888 he remodeled his 
residence, expending §2.51*0 in making it more 
comfortable and attractive. His barn, which was 
erected at a cost of $1,600, is constructed after the 
most approved patterns, and is 38x50 feet in di- 
mensions. Mr. McCaulev is also the owner of two 
good dwellings in Willow Brook. He also owns a 
valuable piece of business property in St. Joseph. 
Although possessing so much property, he is very 
modest and never fails to respond to any and all 
demands upon him that he deems worthy of sup- 
port. He devotes a great deal of time and atten- 
tion to stock-raising, making a specialty of breed- 
ing mules, and in that branch of agriculture reaps 
a handsome income. 

Mr. and Mrs. MeCauley have been blessed by the 
birth of nine children, only one of whom is de- 
ceased. Those living are, Samuel P., Nancy Belle, 
Cora May, Maude M., Rosa E., Jacob W., Charles 
C. and Robert II. Ann Louisa died at the age of 
two years. They are both actively interested in 
church work, and are devoted members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church South. Mr. MeCauley 
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years, and lias been Trustee for the pasl sixteen 
years. He has also been Class-leader and Super- 
intendent of the Sunday-school. Socially, lie- is :i 
prominent Mason, and in the chapter has filled two 
of the chairs. As a member of the Grange he al- 
ways holds office, and in connection with the 
Farmers' Alliance was Chaplain for some time. In 
his political relations he votes for Democratic can- 
didates and has represented his party on various 
occasions al county and state conventions. 

Mr. MuCanley is w\\ popular in his community, 
and has often been called upon to accept the posi- 
tions of County Judge and Representative, but 
has always refused, preferring to give his time and 
attention to his private affairs. lie has been 
School Director of District No. I for the past fif- 
teen years, and by appointment of the Board built 
the new schoolhouse at a cost of $1,850. lie is 
giving his children good educations. Nancy 1'.. 
and Cora have both been students in the Howard 
Payne Female College, at Fayette, Mo., and Samuel 
P. in the Central College, of the same place. 

Samuel McCauley, the father of our subject, came 
to this county in an early day. and at his death, 
which occurred Fein nary 12, 1888, was one of the 
wealthiest farmers and largest land-owners in this 
portion of the State. His good wife followed him 
to the liettcr land the next year, her death occurring 
January 7, 18H1). The father was born in Lancas- 
ter County. Pa., on the loth of October, 1819. lie 
was the sixth of a family of nine children composed 
of seven boys and two girls. His grandfather 
emigrated from Ireland to America. His father's 
name was George McCauley,and his mother'.-- name 
before marriage was Catherine Sehroyer. About 
the yeai 1825 his father moved wit h the family 
from Lancaster to Perks County, l'a., and subse- 
quent^' died there, when the subject of this Sketch 
was eight years of age. Hi> mother then moved 
with the children to Lebanon County, in the same 
State. Samuel hired out on a farm, and worked 
at that occupation till he was about seventeen, 
and then began to learn the trade of a tin and 
COpper-Bmith in the town of Lebanon. Pa. Here 
Mr. McCauley served an apprenticeship of three 
years, lie then went to Huntingdon County, Pa., 
and from that locality stalled out to make his 



joui uey towards the greal West, where he intended 
settling, lie went li\ canal through Pennsylvania 
to Hollidaysburg, and from there across the moun- 
tains ami b\ canal to Pittsburgh, where he worked 
fora short time, and thence journeyed to Cincin- 
nati. 

lie worked also for short periods at Dayton and 
Miamisburg, Ohio; then went to Indiana, and 
from that State back to Cincinnati. He had de- 
termined to emigrate u< Missouri, and he accord- 
ingly proceeded to si. Louis, where he laid in a 
stock of tin, and with his tools came up the Mis- 
souri by steamboat to Weston. From Weston, lie 
came to Center Township, in Buchanan < 'ounty, of 
which he was ever afterward a resident. 

The town Of Sparta was not then laid out. but 
a log court bouse and a f< u other buildings oc- 
cupied a site a little southwest of Mr. McCau- 
ley 's late residence. lb- located at Sparta, and 
opened a tin -hop in a little frame shed adjoining 
the court house, and was undoubtedly the first 
tinner who ever started business in Buchanan 
County. 

Mr. McCauley was married May 22. 1841, to 
Louisa Maxwell, she was born in Fulton County. 
III., on the 11th of February, 1828, and was the 
daughter of Hugh Maxwell, who emigrated with 
Ins family to Missouri in 1840, and first settled a 
mile south of Sparta. lie Bold goods for a short 
time in Sparta. and then went to fanning four miles 
east of St. Joseph. lie was a preacher of the 

Methodisl Episcopal Church South, and was widely 
and extensively known throughout the county. 
Hi- death occurred in Doniphan County. Kan. 

In the fall of 1841 Mr. McCauley went to farm- 
ing a mile and a-half south of Sparta, and pre- 
empted a claim there, and made a large farm, on 
which he lived until 1867. lie had come to Bu- 
chanan County with his only capital Ins tools and 
stock of tin. He was full of industry anil energy 
from the start, and made up hi- mind to fight Ilia 
way upward in the world, if any thing could be ac- 
complished by hard work and perseverance. When 

he went to farming, it was IliS custom to work hard 
through tin- day. and almost every night after the 
day'- WOl'k On the farm was over he -pent some 
hours in work at his tinner's trade, and thu- added 



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little by little to his means. When land was put 
into the market and be acquired sufficient means. 
be bought land and paid for it in installments. In 
L 867 he purchased a farm, which covers the site 
of the old town of Sparta. lie was one of 
the largest land-owners in the county, and was 
the possessor of over twelve hundred acres, by 
good judges considered to he the best body of 
land of its size in Buchanan County. For some 
of it he paid *75 an acre. Seven whole quarter- 
sections join each other. His residence and build- 
ings are among the best belonging to any farm in 
the county. 

Mr. and Mrs. MeCauley had eight children 
now living, who in the order of their births are 
as follows: The eldest son, Jacob MeCauley, 
married Pernecey J. Yates. Alexander MeCauley 
was united in marriage to Margaret Gibson. George 
Bell MeCauley married Elizabeth Gann. Mary, 
the eldest daughter now living, is the wife of 
Adolpli Houseman. Samuel MeCauley married 
Adaline Harness. William MeCauley. the next to 
the youngest son. is unmarried. Emma is the wife 
of Samuel Gann. Henry MeCauley is the young- 
est son. All the boys, except the two youngest. 
are married, and ail live in Center Township, and 
are industrious and enterprising farmers. 

The political views of Mr. MeCauley always at- 
tached him to the Democratic party. The first 
time he ever voted was just after coming to Mis- 
souri in 18-10. at the Presidential campaign when 
Harrison was the Whig and Van Buren the Demo- 
cratic nominee. He east his vote for Van Buren at 
that eleetiou, and during life continued to vote the 
Democratic ticket. 

At his death he was one of the oldest settlers of 
the county. In every respect he was a self- 
made man — one who won his way to his position 
among the wealthy and substantial farmers of Bu- 
chanan County by his own industry and energy. 
He had nothing except what he had earned. No- 
body ever gave him anything iu the world, and 
the rising generation would do well to imitate his 
industrious example, if m like manner they would 
rise to positions among tin- large and thrifty farm- 
ers of this part of the State. Mr. MeCauley was a 
plain and unassuming citizen, and one whose word 



could he implicitly relied upon, and whose hon- 
esty was never doubted. He aimed to make his 
way in the world by industry, not by trickery; 
and by the slow but sure gains of patient labor, 
rather than by the brilliant schemes of speculation. 
by which fortunes are often rapidly amassed, and 
by which they are, perhaps, as often swiftly lost. 
At one time Mr. MeCauley was the largest tax- 
payer iu Buchanan County outside the city of St. 
Joseph. 



VILL1AM A. CORNELIUS is a prosperous 
tanner on section 1, township 57. range 
34, Buchanan County. Our subject is a 
veteran of the late war. having enlisted in the Paw 
l'aw militia under Gov. Gamble, and was First 
Lieutenant of Company H, Eighty-first Regiment, 
Missouri Militia. He served for two years, seeing 
considerable hard service and being usually in 
command of the company. He was regularly 
discharged but never received any pay. He now 
owns eight hundred and ten acres of land, mostly 
improved, and that, too, by the owner. Mr. 
Cornelius is the eldest son of Benjamin and Mary 
( Davis) Cornelius. The mother was a daughter of 
William Davis, who came to Missouri at the same 
time as did the Cornelius family. William A. was 
born September 29, 182i». and was a lad of eight 
years when his father settled here, there then be- 
ing plenty of Indians in the neighborhood. The 
father often hauled goods for old Joseph Robidoux. 
and frequently had considerable trouble with the 
Indians. Our subject was reared on the old home 
farm on section 15, having but slim chances for 
obtaining an education, as he had much hard work 
to do on his father's timber claim. He remained 
at home until his twenty-fifth year, but had 
supported himself for seven years, and wasof more 
assistance to his father than any of his other sons. 
It was in 1855 that our subject was married to 
Miss Mary J. Wilson, a daughter of Edward and 
Catherine (TJeppen) Wilson, the former a native of 



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Pennsylvania, and of English descent. The mother 
was born in 1818, in the Keystone State, removed 
to Franklin County, ( >liic>. and came to Missouri in 
1842, settling in this county, where her grandfather, 
Peter Deppen, located the same year. Mi's. Cor- 
nelius was born February 22. is:!7. in Ohio. After 
his marriage our subject rented the Peter Deppen 
farm for five years, and in I860 settled on this 
place, where lie lived in a 1 < »^c Cabin until after the 
war. His substantial dwelling-house "as erected 
in 1866 at a cost of $2,000. For a short time, about 
1865, he was engaged in freighting across the 
plains to Denver with mule train-. 

Mr. and Mrs. Cornelias an' the parents of nine 
children and have twelve grandchildren. Lorena 
is the wife of .Ian is 1'iermond: Amanda is the wife 
of George \V. Castle; Eleanora became the wife of 
Edward Carpenter; Edward wedded Rosa Clark; 
William B. married Mii-s .Mary Courtney; and the 
four younger, John C, Alice, Effle and Eva, live at 
home. The eldest daughter taught school for 
some time successfully, and all the children were 
given good educations. Both our subject and his 
amiable wife are charter members of the Cumber- 
land Presbyterian Church at Harmony, in which 
the former is an elder. A Democrat in politics, 
Mr. Cornelius is also a member of the Farmers' 
Alliance, and is Treasurer of the Anti-Horse Thief 
Association. He has often served as a delegate to 
political conventions, and takes great interest in 
the success of his party. 

Benjamin Cornelius, our subject's father, was 
reared in Christian County, Kv., his birth having 
occurred in North Carolina on April 27, 1793. His 
wife, a native of Tennessee, was born August 10, 
18<i:5. Benjamin Cornelius was reared to manhood 
in Kentucky, lived for a short time in Tennessee, 
and came to Missouri in 1815, settling in Clay 
County, near Liberty, where he was married BOOn 
after, and at once settled on a farm, which 
he cleared and improved. In 1HI57 he became a 
resident of Buchanan County, his farm being foiu 
miles from the nearest neighbor. He built a 
substantial double-log cabin, and at the time of his 
death owned two hundred and eighty acres of 
land. Hi- family were the oldest settlers in the 
township, and St. Joseph was then known as 



Robidoux' store, [n order to buj breadstuffs and 
necessary provisions, the earlj pioneer of this im- 
mediate region had to go fiftj mihs through the 
almost trackless wilderness, there then being no 
roads and the savage foe adding to the terror- of 
the journey. Benjamin < 'orneliua was railed from 
this life in March, I860, hi- wife having died about 
five years previous. He was a soldier in the War 
of 1812, and, though a I lemocrat, was a Union man 
in sentiment. His wife, who was the mother 
of twelve children, four of whom still survive, was 
a member of the Free-will Baptist Churcb. 



olIN BERMOND is one of the most exten- 
sive farmers of Buchanan County, his resi- 
deuce being situated on section 26, town- 

i^/ ship ."i«. range 31. He has one of the nicest 
farms in the county, which now has within its 
boundaries eleven hundred and sixty-five acres, 
nearly all improved. Thi- ha- been his home for 
about forty-two years, and in 1*71 he replaced the 
modest farmhouse with a substantial one. which 
was erected al a COSt of $3,000. lie ha- also a tine 
barn. 60x34 feet in dimensions and eighteen feet 
high to the plates, which structure cost $1,000. 
Mr. Bermond is the owner of three other dwellings, 
and altogether ha- acquired a Large estate through 
hi- enterprising and business-like management. 

Our subject's father, John Bermond, was a na- 
tive of Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, hi- birth hav- 
ing there oceuired in 17*1. Our subject's mother. 
Mary Bermond before her marriage, was a native 
of the -aim- province as her hii-band. but was born 
thirteen years later. They were married in Ger- 
many and crossed the Atlantic to America in 1826, 
settling for a while in Chamber-burg. Franklin 
County, l'a. Later the\ removed to Tuscarawas 

County, Ohio, "heir the lather engaged in team- 
ing. In 1838 he came to Missouri, settling on sec- 
tion 31, township 58, range.;:!. There were but 
few families here at that time, and locating on the 
wild land he built a log house with a clapboard 



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door and a chimney made of mud and sticks. He 
was very poor on bis arrival, but in the course of 
time became quite well-to-do. He was a hard 
worker all his life and his success was due entirely 
to the energy and industry with which he per- 
formed his duty. Life on the frontier in those 
early days was full of hardships and danger, for 
wandering bands of Indians often surprised the 
settlers, and occasionally wild animals were seen. 
There, were but few houses in the now large city 
of St. Joseph, and the nearest market was at Lib- 
erty. Mr. Bermond, Sr., later built a substantial 
hewed-log house, which is still standing, a relic 
of former days. Loth parents were members of 
the Presbyterian Church, were well liked by their 
neighbors, and lived to a good old age, the father 
dying in March, 1863, and his wife January 12, 
1873. 

Our subject is one of six children, the three 
others now living being Louis, George and Phillip. 
Three of the sons took part in the late Civil War, 
our subject being a member of Capt. Bnerly's com- 
pany, United States Volunteers, doing guard duty, 
and was also under Gen. Blount in Jackson and 
Cass Counties, serving for nine months. He is the 
eldest son now living, having been born on Christ- 
mas Day, 1819, in Hesse-Darmstadt, and attended 
both German and English schools in Pennsylvania. 
In 1847 he bought the claim he now lives on, 
which comprised three hundred and twenty acres, 
and had no improvements upon it, and here he 
settled some four years later. 

On November 16, 1851, was celebrated our sub- 
ject's marriage with Miss Martha Jane, daughter 
of James and Margaret Campbell, the former a na- 
tive of Logan County, Ohio, and the latter of 
Washington County, Ohio, both being born the 
same year, 1811. They settled on the Carpenter 
farm in Missouri in 1813, and there resided for 
nine years, then moving to the one now owned by 
Charles Czeek, there being a mill on the place, 
which he operated until his death in 1863. The 
mother died in 1875, leaving live children. Mrs. 
Bermond was born September 22, 1836, in Jo 
Daviess County, 111., and was educated in Missouri. 

Five children, all sons, have been born to Mr. 
and Mrs. Bermond, viz.: George W., who mar- 



ried Eliza Davis; James, who married Lorena 
Cornelius; Charles L., who married Libby Wood- 
bury; and Henry Otto and Benjamin F., at home. 
Our subject has been a member of the School Board 
and has given land for school purposes. In poli- 
tics he is a stanch Republican, and is always to be 
found on the side of all measures having for their 
object the good of his fellow-men. 



OHN I. MCDONALD, A. B., is the son of R. 
L. McDonald, of St. Joseph, and is the gen- 
eral manager of the firm of McDonald A Co., 
wholesale dealers in dry goods and manu- 
facturers of men's furnishings. He was born in this 
city June 1 1, 1858, where he was reared and edu- 
cated in the public schools until 1874, when he 
entered Yale College, graduating four years later. 
After receiving his degree of Bachelor of Arts, 
he returned to his native city and was in business 
with his father as cashier until 1880, when he took 
charge of the entire manufacturing business, and 
in 1886 purchased the old Patee Building, and re- 
modeled it into a manufacturing plant. Five hun- 
dred hands are employed in this establishment, in 
which arc made the best grades of men's furnish- 
ing goods, including shirts, pants and overalls. 
The citizens of St. Joseph view with pride the ad- 
vancement that this firm has made and the won- 
derful growth it has undergone. The building is 
located on Twelfth and Thirteenth Streets, occu- 
pying an entire block between Mitchell and Penn 
Streets. 

Since 1880 Mr. McDonald has been connected 
with this business. His family residence is located 
on Sixth Street, No. 702. He was married Novem- 
ber 17, 1880, to Miss Fanning, who was born in 
Elmira, N. Y., and was educated at Godfrey, 111. 
Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. McDon- 
ald, whom they named Irving, Louise and Rufus 
L., Jr. The father of this family is a member and 
Director of the St. Joseph Fair Association, with 




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which he is prominently associated, and is affiliated 
with tlic Democratic principles and platform. He 
travels a great deal, making two or three trips 
yearlv to New York, where he purchases supplies 
tnr the firm, lie is a eleven, sociable gentleman, 

stands well in society, and is a reliable and well- 
informed business man. 




[Gil 15. REYNOLDS. Someone baSMUd 
that the farmers are the bone and sinew of 
tins country. They are indeed important 

(£)) factors in that stability and steadfastness 
which have made this republic of so much more im- 
portance thaD that of France. We see in the sub- 
ject of tliis sketch one of the leading agriculturists 
of Buchanan County, a man of sterling worth and 
an upright citizen. He is one of the honored pio- 
neers of Jackson Township, to which he came, 
taking up land from the Government, as early as 
1886. lie now owns one hundred and ninety-two 
acres of valuable land, situated on section 8. 

Mr. Reynolds was born in Bedford County, 
Tenn.. in the year 1818. His childhood days were 
passed in his native State without any unusual 
event, and with his parents in 1 S 1 he emigrated 
to Missouri. They located in Clay County, where 
Mr. Reynolds continued to live until the land of 
the Platte Purchase came into market, when, in 
company with his brother .lames, he came to Buch- 
anan County, and, as previously mentioned, took 
np a claim. At that time the land was, of course, 
unbroken and uncultivated, but the rolling years 
have witnessed vast changes in the place, as the 
owner has assiduously and with characteristic en- 
ergy devoted the best years of his life to its im- 
provement. He is now considered to be. as hi' 
certainly is, one of the substantial and well-to-do 
citizens of the community, being held in the high- 
est respect by one and all. In the development 
and upbuilding of the community he has ever 
borne his part, and for his faithful performance 

of the duties of citizenship deserves all credit. 
30 



Mr. Reynolds was married in Claj C ity to 

Frances Horless, and to them were born the fol- 
lowing children who grew to manhood and 
womanhood: .lames M.; John W., of SI. Jo- 
seph: William C. whose residence is in Clay 
County; K. J., who died unmarried; Frances E., 
who is the wife of Robert Moore, their home being 
in Agency; Adeline G., deceased; Angeline, now 
Mrs. Freeman: and Levi W. 

About the year 1858, Mr. Reynolds wedded 
Martha .1.. widow of Isaac Norman, and daughter 
of Samuel Newhouse, of Clinton County. Four 
children were born to their union: Edward \.. 
who makes his home in Troy, Kan.; Belle, wife of 
James Campbell, of Buchanan County; R, Lee, who 
liveS near the old homestead; and James Y.. who 
is still living with his parents, and lending his as- 
sistance in the active work of the farm. Mr. Reyn- 

olds has given his chih ben good scl I advantages, 

thus fitting them for the battle of life, and has 
reared them to become good and useful citizens. 
Our subject and his wife, as well as several of his 
children, are identified with the Baptist Church. 
In regard to the question of politics, Mr. Reynolds 
has always used his influence and cast his ballot 
in favor of the Democratic party. His years of 
toil have been abundantly blessed with success, 
and in his declining years he can feel the satisfac- 
tion which only comes to those whose lives have 
been well spent. 



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,;p^ TEPHEN GREENARD, deceased, was long 
_^j^ numbered among the meet progressive 

agriculturists and early settlers of Buch- 
anan County, lie was a native of Ver- 
mont, where he lived until twelve years of age, 
when his parents located in Licking County, Ohio, 
where his youth was passed, lie wa- one of nine 
children, whose parents were natives of France. 
While still a resident of Ohio, our sub- 
ject was married in that Slate to Mrs. Mary 
Mii-well) White. In 1888 he removed to Mi,. 



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souri, settling first in Audrain County, where 
he resided for six years, in the spring of 1844 
coming to Buchanan County, where he afterwards 
made his home until called from this life in Janu- 
ary. 1871. In the year 1847 he crossed the plains 
to Oregon, and was one of the '49ers in California, 
where he remained until 1851. He was quite 
successful, considering the comparatively short 
period of his stay in the Golden State, and on his 
return to this county he purchased, in all, some- 
thing over six hundred acres of land, his residence 
being situated in Agency Township. He was a 
man of more than ordinary business and executive 
ability, and dealt considerably in live-stock, buy- 
ing, feeding and selling extensively. 

The family of our subject consisted of four 
children. William died in 1868 at the age of 
thirty years; Mary R. is the widow of .John Dyer; 
Franklin died when quite young; and the young- 
est of the family is A. Frank. The father, after the 
war closed, became a supporter of the Democratic 
party. He was a man who was thoroughly respec- 
ted for his high sense of honor and for his strict 
integrity. 

The youngest son of our subject, A. Frank, who 
has succeeded to the old homestead, was born in this 
county in the fall of 1844, grew to manhood on 
the same farm, and received a common-school ed- 
ucation, lie enlisted as a member of Company D, 
Eighty-first Regiment Missouri Enrolled Militia, 
and remained there for some time. In 1866, he 
wedded Mary .1.. daughter of William Whitson, 
who was one of the pioneers of the county, having 
landed here in 1839. The marriage of our subject 
and wife has been blessed with five children: 
William S.. Mamie A., Franklin .1., Julia D. and 
Edith M. 

Mr. Greenard, in 1878, purchased a farm of one 
hundred and five acres on the cast side of the riv- 
er, and from 1879 until quite recently has also 
been engaged in running a general merchandise 
Store. Since the same year he has been in charge 
of the Postoffice at I iarrettsburg, which he re-estab- 
lished, it having been abandoned previously. The 
old homestead belongs to him. in addition to which 
he owns a farm of seventy-live acres. 

For two years Mr. Greenard served as Justice of 



the Peace, and has always been actively interested 
in the welfare of this locality. Through his in- 
strumentality a nice schoolhouse was erected on 
one-half an acre of his homestead, which land be 
donated for the purpose. In the fall of 1884 he 
was elected Judge of the First Judicial District of 
Buchanan County, serving for one term and ac- 
quitting himself creditably. He is a member of 
the Masonic fraternity, belonging to the St. Joseph 
Chapter and Cornmandery. He is a stalwart Demo- 
crat, and when the Farmers' Alliance was started 
in the district where he resides he was made its 
President, which office he held for one year to the 
satisfaction of all. 



3 ***-{- Was 







k REST(>N CANADA LITTLE, of town- 
ship 56. Buchanan County, has been Jus- 
tice of the Peace for ten years, is also 
Notary Public, and is Postmaster in the 
village of Adams, which office he was instrumental 
in establishing in 1889. He is a member of the 
Christian Church, and for years past has been a 
member of the Masonic fraternity, having been 
Secretary and also King in the Chapter. For sev- 
eral years he has been Vice-president and Acting 
President of the Farmers' Alliance, and also be- 
longs to the Farmers' Protective Association lie 
is a supporter of the Democracy, in the success of 
which he is always greatly interested. Educa- 
tional measures are warmly advocated by him, and 
for six years he has served as a member of the 
School Board. 

Mr. Little was born May 31, 1845, in Wolf 
County, Ky., and passed his boyhood on a farm, 
receiving a common-school education. At the 
breaking out of the Civil War, although only six- 
teen years of age, he enlisted on October 15, 1861, 
as a private soldier in Company E, Eighth Ken- 
tucky Infantry. He was assigned to the Depart- 
ment of the Cumberland, taking pari in the battles 
of Stone River and Cb.ickam.auga, in the latter 
being wounded in the right leg by a musket ball. 



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628 



Until his recovery lie was in the hospital :it Nash- 
ville and linn rejoined his regiment at (Initta- 
nooga, Berving under lii'iiv Buell, Rosecrans and 
Thomas. At the end of three years and one 
month's service lie was honorably discharged, No- 
vember 1 7. 186 l. 

Returning from the army. Mr. Little resumed 
farming, and was married November 22, lst',7, to 
Molly Landsaw, a native of Wolf County, Ky., 
and daughter of James Landsaw, who still re- 
Sides in that State. To Mr. and Mix Little baa 
been born one son, William II. , who lives at home. 
In March, 1868. Mr. Little eame to Buchanan 
County, settling first on a farm in Bee Creek, and 
afterward removing north to one in Crawford 
Township, where he resided for four years. In 
1875 he concluded to try his fortune in south- 
westem Kansas, and. going to Sumner County, he 
there engaged in farming until September of the 
same year, when he returned to this county, mak- 
ing his hone for two years on his original farm. 
lie was nest for one year situated on a farm two 
miles east of this, in Jackson Township, after 
which he was for four years near Camden Point, 
Platte County. Returning to Jackson Township, 
he bought a farm near North Arnolds villi- . which 
he operated for four years, then selling out and 
coming to his present farm. Be has sixty acre-. 
all under a high state of cultivation and well de- 
veloped. In the fall of 1«'.I2 lie built a comfort- 
able residence, costing $820, and has also other 
good farm buildings. 

Preston Little is the son of the Rev. Charles 
and Charlotte (Bryant) Little, both native- of 
Virginia. Their marriage was celebrated in Ken- 
tucky, after which event their permanent home 
was made in Wolf County, of the same Slate. 
The Rev. Mr. Little was a minister in Hie Chris- 
tian Church and preached for nearly half a cen- 
tury in Kentucky, lie was a prominent man in 
the councils of the denomination and supplied 
four churches regularly. Moreover, he was a suc- 
cessful farmer, operating a place of about fifteen 
hundred acres. He was always greatlj concerned 
in public affairs, being an active Republican after 
the war. His sympathies were entirely with the 
Union cause, and four of his sons were in the I .-.|- 



eral army, two of them being wounded in the 
battle of Chickamauga. In February, 1865, near 

his Kentuck\ home. Mr. Little, sr., was overtaken 
by some guerrillas, who shot him. A ball from a 
pistol entered hi- head under the left ear ami. 

passing diagonally, came out under the right jaw. 
breaking the bone and four teeth. From this 
serious wound he recovered, his death not occur- 
ring until 1878. His wife siirvi veil him ten years, 
dying in 1888. 



^m>-$t<w^ 



.g^ T. Ml NCIIl.VS CHURCH, Rev. James 
^^- O'Reilly. Pastor. The Catholic Church at 
^xJOw Cameron was organized in 1867 by the 
Rev. John J. Ilogan, then pastor of the 
church at Chillicothe. Mo., and now Bishop of 
Kansas City. The seventeen persons who com- 
posed the church membership at that time under- 
took to erect the first church building. In a few 
war- the congregation increased to such an ex- 
tent that the building was enlarged to it- present 
dimensions, 70x40 feet, with a seating capacity of 
three hundred persons. 

The site for a new brick structure has been 
secured, plans and specifications prepared, and the 
necessary funds almost entirely pledged, so that 
work will be begun at an early date, and SOOU the 
congregation will be worshiping in the handsomest 
church building in Clinton County. The present 
pa-tor. Rev. James O'Reilly, has been in charge 
for the pa-t six years, succeeding the Rev. Thomas 
Daneny, who was pastor for twelve years and re- 
tired on account of ill health. Much of the suc- 
cess of the cause is due to our subject, who i- 

alike popular with his parishioners and the people 
in general, without regard to religion. 

The Rev. .lames O'Reilly was bom in the parish 
of Dromard, County Longford. Ireland, foils 
years ago. He conducted hi- classical studies at 
Ballymachugh Seminary, County Cavan, and St. 
Mel- College, Longford. In 1872 he entered the 
Theological < ollege at Carlow, and "a- ordained 



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to the priesthood on the 16th of June,. 1877, by 
the Most Rev. .Tames Walsh, Bishop of Kildareand 
Leighlin. He came to the Archdiocese of St. Louis 
in October, 1878, from which time until February 
1880, he had charge of the churches of Clinton, 
in Monroe County, and Shelbinaand Hunnewell in 
Shelby Country. In these charges he was well 
known as an indefatigable worker and successful 
pastor, and while he had charge of the church at 
Shelbina their handsome edifice was erected. 

In February, 1880, Father O'Reilly moved to 
Joplin, Mo., where he was pastor for two years 
and six months, meanwhile building the parish 
school at that place. He located in Kansas City 
in 1882, and for one year thereafter assisted at 
Si. Patrick's Church. Later he was taken to the 
Cathedral in the same city, and there remained for 
four years with the Rt. Rev. Bishop Ilogan, by 
whom he was appointed to his present charge in 
November, 1887. 



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^ OMINICK BECK. It is with pleasure that 
we present the sketch of this honored pio- 
neer of Washington Township, Buchanan 
County, with whom time has dealt most 
kindly, although he has labored hard throughout 
his life. His early days were marked by a strug- 
gle to gain a foothold among his fellow-agricultur- 
ists, and that he has succeeded is due wholly to 
his own efforts. He is at present residing on a 
good estate, comprising twenty acres on section 
3, where he devotes his time and attention to the 
cultivation of small fruits and vegetables. 

The parents of our subject, Martin and Mary 
(Silinger) Beck, were natives of Baden, Germany, 
where the former was a farmer, making a specialty 
of the cultivation of grapes. He was also a soldier 
in the German army in the wars under Napoleon, 
but after two years' service his father paid for a 
substitute to take his place. The elder Mr. Beck 
was a well-educated gentleman, and during his en- 
tire life occupied sonic public otlice of responsi- 



bility and trust. He was a leading member of the 
Catholic Church, and was greatly respected in his 
community. 

Our subject, who was one in a family of eight 
children, was born November 25, 1829, in Baden. 
Like all German youths he was given an excellent 
education in the model schools of that country, 
and when at home assisted his father in cultivat- 
ing his vineyard. In 1856, thinking to better his 
financial condition in the New World, young Beck 
boarded a vessel, which landed him in America, 
and, making his way West to Cincinnati, lived 
there for a time, and later went to Lexington, Ky., 
where he was engaged in gardening. 

In 185 ( J Mr. Reck of this sketch became a resi- 
dent of St. Joseph, and twelve months later moved 
upon his present beautiful farm. The acreage was 
in its primitive wildness at the time it came into 
his possession, but with his characteristic energy he 
industriously set about the task of redeeming it 
from the forest. He made his home in a little log 
shanty until 1861, when that rude structure gave 
way to a more commodious and substantial resi- 
dence, which cost $500. Mr. Beck has five acres 
devoted to a vineyard, and the rest of the twenty 
acres is given to raising small fruits and garden 
stuffs. 

The marriage of our subject with Miss Matilda 
Haegelin occurred April 23, 1867. Mrs. Beck was 
born November 24, 1839, in Baden, Germany. 
Their union has been blessed by the birth of five 
children, three of whom are living: Fred A., Jo- 
seph A. and Henry F. Those deceased are Florian 
M. and Ferdinand R. The parents are devoted 
members of the Catholic Church, and have given 
their children good educational advantages, send- 
ing them to the Sisters' School and to the Chris- 
tian College. Our subject is a Republican in poli- 
tics, and although he has often been solicited by 
his friends to accept public office has always re- 
fused to do so. 

Mrs. Beck was the daughter of Florian and 
Magdalena (lviefer) Haegelin, also natives of linden, 
the father having been bom October 18, 1801, and 
the mother September 14, 1814. The father was 
the proprietor of an hotel in his native country, in 
connection with which he ran a line natatorium. 





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They became the parents of six children, ami de- 
parted this life in I860 and 1867, respectively. 
Like the parents of Mr. Keck, thej too were mem- 
bers of tlic Catholic Church. Joe 1''. Haegelin, the 
brother of Mrs. Beck, prior to his decease operated 
a large brewery in Atchison, Kan. The children 
are all living in America with the exception Of 
<ine daughter. Our subject's wife received a thor- 
ough education in a convent in France, where she 
was taught to speak the French and English lan- 
guages, She has proved a helpmate to her hus- 
band in the very truest sense of that word, and 
now with him she is enjoying the rest which comes 
to those who have labored industriously and been 
economical in their manner of living. 

Mr. Beck, of our sketch, has been more than 
ordinarily successful in his life calling, and is a 
man greatly respected in his neighborhood. He 
is well posted in the interesting past of this town- 
ship, which he has aided very materially in its 
marvelous Growth. 



jfclLEY WILSON is one of the enterprising 
agriculturists of Agency Township. Bu- 
chanan County, and the owner of a fertile 
farm, comprising three hundred and lifty- 
seven acres, his residence being on section 18. 
(ileal credit is due him for the success he has ac- 
quired through his indomitable energy and indus- 
try, for when he started out in life he was abso- 
lutely without means, his only capital being his 
Strong and willing hands, and with these he has 
moulded his fortune. 

Mr. Wilson was born in Tennessee in the year 
1821, and is a son of Lemuel and Rebecca (Reece) 
Wilson, who were both natives of North Carolina 
and the parents of eleven children, of whom our 
subject is third in order of birth. In his native 

State he grew to manh 1, there receiving a fair 

common-school education. In his twentieth Mar 
be left the Scenes and friends of his youth and 



determined to try his fortunes in the West. On 
coming to Buchanan County he was favorably 
impressed with the country and here concluded to 
locate, lie has since been engaged in farming. 
His first homestead, which he developed and 
greatly improved, consisting of two hundred acres 
in Curtis Township, adjoins the old Recce Farm. 
About the year 1MS2, Mr. Wilson purchased the 
latter, and resides in the old farmhouse, one room 
of which is the same that was built in pioneer 
days, when it, however, was made to accommo- 
date a whole family. 

In the year 1ST.I was celebrated the marriage of 
our subject and Elizabeth, daughter of Jacob 
Reece. one of the honored pioneers of this region. 
To them was born a family of thirteen children, 
only live of whom grew to mature years. Martha 
A. is the wife of .lames Wallace. Rebecca became 
the wife of G. Reynolds. Jacob P. is next in or- 
der of birth. M. Burnett, and Caroline, wife of 
William Woodruff, complete the family. 

Mr. Wilson is an old-line Democrat, and during 
the late war served for some time in the State 
militia. He is a typical Southern gentleman and. 
like all children of the sunny South, is warm- 
hearted and extremely hospitable. It is doubtless 
owing to his conservative business methods that 
he has become the owner of his present snug little 
fortune, all of which he has made for himself with- 
out assistance from Others, if we except what his 
sons, of course, have rendered him. During all 
the years of his residence in this county he has 
had the respect and esteem of his friends and ac- 
quaintances, and in the future his descendants (an 
refer with natural pride to him as the founder of 
their family in the West. 



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. NTON Kl.( IS, real-estate dealer, is one of 

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the best representatives of the German- 
American citizens in st. Joseph, which class 

have been a prominent factor in the pros- 
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tiers of this locality now living, and for over forty 
years has been identified with the history of the 
city. He was born in the district of Otenwald, 
Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, November 80, 1829. 
His father, whose giveu name was Jacob, was a 
farmer and carpenter. In Napoleon's army he was 
a teamster on the inarch to Russia. He had seven 
children who grew to maturity, only two of whom 
are living. 

Anton Klos passed his youth in the usual pur- 
suits of farmer lads, and in 1844, with his brother 
Adam, crossed the Atlantic to seek his fortune in 
the New World. They left the port of Havre in 
a sailing-vessel and after a voyage of thirty-nine 
days arrived in New Orleans. They came up the 
Mississippi River by boat to St. Louis, and there 
Mr. Klos served a two-years apprenticeship as a 
cigar-maker under Jacob Marshall. For that gen- 
tleman he continued to work three years more and 
then went to Howard County. 

In the spring of 1850, as previously stated, our 
subject came to St. Joseph, which was then only a 
small town. He rented a place and engaged in 
the manufacture of cigars on Mound Street, where 
the Francis Street Depot now stands. He was the 
first manufacturer of the kind in the city and was 
qnite successful from the start. Some four or five 
years later he engaged in the manufacture of smok- 
ing tobacco and continued in business during the 
war. He then became a manufacturer of plug to- 
bacco, at which he was employed till 1869. His 
next venture was handling and shipping leaf to- 
bacco, and when he left the business in 1877 he 
was the largest shipper of that product in this 
portion of the West. 

It was in 1877 that Mr. Klos first turned his at- 
tention to the real-estate business, as he had con- 
siderable money to invest and was a firm believer in 
the future greatness of the city. He bought prop- 
erty, improved the same, and now owns a number 
of desirable residences and stores. His family resi- 
dence is at No. 612 Sylvania Street, where he has 
lived since 1861, but in 1889 he put up a fine new 
home. 

During the war, Mr. Klos was a member of the 
City Council for one term, and in political faith is 
a Douglas Democrat. He was a member of the St. 



Joseph Regiment under Capt. John Dolman. Mr. 
Klos is much liked by the business men of St. Jo- 
seph, and bears a good reputation for integrity and 
correct business principles. 

In Buchanan County, in 1864, Mr. Klos and 
Alice Deppin were united in marriage. She was 
born in this county, where her father, a native of 
Pennsylvania, was one of the earh/ settlers, as he 
engaged in farming in 1838 in Monon Township. 
Mrs. Klos died, leaving two children: Harvey, who 
is a contracting painter; and Edward, who is inter- 
ested in the Sick Manufacturing Company. For 
his second wife Mr. Klos formed an alliance with 
Mrs. Rachel (Lawrence) Stephens, who was burn 
in Ohio. By her first marriage she had one child, 
David J., who lives in Chicago. Mrs. Klos died 
in this city January IS, 1891. 



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ILLIAM M. BACON has been Trainmaster 
the Kansas City Railway for six years, 
ich position he has filled to the satisfac- 
tion of all concerned. He is a resident of St. Jo- 
seph, and was born in Iowa City, November 30, 
1859, but was reared and educated in Des Moines, 
Iowa. Mr. Bacon's father, whose given name was 
George, was engaged in fighting on the plains of 
Iowa, consequently but little interest was taken in 
the educational affairs of his son, who passed his 
early boyhood days on the ranch. At the age of 
fourteen years he began as brake man on the Rock Is- 
land Railway, making his runs from Stewart, Iowa, 
for two years. At this time he went to Kansas 
City, and there was employed as switchman in the 
Council Bluffs yard, subsequently accepting a po- 
sition as brakeman, where he remained for four 
years. In 1879, he was promoted to the con duct- 
orship of the train, and continued in this line un- 
til 1882, when he was appointed general yard-mas- 
ter at St. Joseph, which he held until 18,x, r ), and 
then became conductor of the passenger train. In 
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Joseph and Creston, Iowa, and concluded t" accept 

the position of Assistant Superintendent for tlic 
Kansas City Railway Company, and now tias 
charge of one hundred and eighty men. 

A memorable event occurred in the life of our 
subject when he was united in marriage to Miss 
Mary A. Hunt, daughter of Mrs. Mina Hunt, of 
Kansas City, August 22, 1885. Mrs. Paeon «:h 
reared in Plattsburgfa and in this city, and as the 
result of her union with Mr. Bacon she became the 
mother of three children: Ed K.; Myrtle, who 
died when three years old; and a babe yet un- 
named. This agreeable and well-to-do gentleman 
and his wife are highly esteemed people, and have 
a great many friends in this community. Mr. Ba- 
con is a progressive man of to-day, and is an en- 
thusiastic worker in all matters of public progress, 
being always ready to do his part, as becomes a 
genuine representative American citizen, who is 
patriotic and self-reliant. 






PON A LI) M. MCDONALD. Prominent 
among the honored citizens of St. Joseph, 
Buchanan County, is this gentleman, who 
has long been engaged in business here and has 
been actively interested in public affairs. He has 
held important, official positions and has ever been 
found true to his trust. For the past ten years or 
so he has been a dealer in coal and wood, and 
since July, 1892, has been President of the Mc- 
Donald Feed 4 Fuel Company, which has a cap- 
ital stock of $6,000. The Vice-President is W. A. 

P. McDonald, and the Secretary C. ('. McDonald. 
The birthplace of our subject is Devon port, a 
suburb of Plymouth. England, and the date of the 
event was Decern her 19, 1818. His paternal grand- 
father. Malcom McDonald, was horn in the Isle of 
Skye, Scotland, and came to America at an early 
day, engaging in farming near Carlisle. Pa. The 
family are descendants of the clan of Ronald Mc- 
Donald, their lineal ancestor being Lord Somerled, 
who was lord of the isles of Louis and Skye, and 



some two hundred others. These islands were in- 
dependent in government from England, Scotland 
or Ireland in those days. Our subject- grandfa- 
ther Campbell was a Captain and from boyhood 

sailed the seas, lie, with his vessel and crew, was 
lo^t at sea and never heard from. 

William Mel >onald, our subject's father, was born 
in Carlisle, Pa., and was al80 a sailor, though his 
home was in Devonport, England, lie became a 
sailing-master in the English navy, and while in 
the service was taken prisoner by the Dane-. He 
showed his American papers, which vouched for the 
fact that he was horn in the United States, so thej 
let him go. At different times he was in danger 
of shipwreck. While visiting hi- sister in Penn- 
sylvania, he was stricken with paralysis and obliged 
to leave the navy. His family crossed the Atlan- 
tic in 1822. and until shortly before his death he 
engaged in teaching in Centre County, Pa. He 
was a Whig in polities. The death of Mr. McDonald 
occurred at Lockhaven. Pa., in 1839. 

The mother of our subject, Mary Campbell, was 
born in Belfast, Ireland, and was a daughter of 
('apt. Peter Campbell, who was bom in Scotland 
and was one of the Campbell clan from Argyle'. 
Grandfather Campbell held a civil position at Bel- 
fast. Mr. and Mrs. William McDonald were the 
parents of nine children, and of this number only 
four are now living. 

When nine years old. Donald McDonald came 
to the United states with the other members of the 
family, leaving Portsmouth in the sailing-vessel 
"Venus," and at the end of six weeks reached 
Philadelphia. He received a common-school edu- 
cation in Centre County, Pa., and in 1824 began 
winking on the turnpike at $15 per month. He 
was then apprenticed for three years in a general 
store at Milllinhurgh. lie continued a< a clerk in 
the various places of Louisville, Pottsville and 
Philadelphia. He then entered a wholesale com- 
mission house, "here he worked for one year, and 
then stalled lor the We- 1. For a time he clerked in 
Clinton County, and in 1887 went to Liberty. Mo.. 
by stage and canal to Hollidaysburg, and thence 
over the mountains to Johnston Canal, then down 

the liver by steamer, lie clerked until the fall of 
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Rich in charge of freight, lie went West with his 
company, using ox-teams, and passed the present 
site of Pueblo and various other now important 
Western cities. At the end of a year he returned, 
bringing back robes which he had received in trade. 
On his return to Missouri he taught school for a 
while, and in 1839 was married in Pennsylvania 
to Miss Jane Clawater, a native of that State. 

In the summer of 1839 our subject returned to 
Liberty, where he clerked until the year 1840, 
and then in partnership started a store in Platts- 
burgh, continuing there until 1849. He next 
located in Barry, and there engaged in merchan- 
dising for seven years, after which, in 1856, he re- 
moved to Stewartsville, De Kalb County, running 
a store there for about three years, and then sold 
out. 

In June, 1861, when the first troops came along 
the road, his son was killed, and after his burial he 
at once enlisted in the rebel army in the regiment 
of John T. Hughes. He was later Regimental Com- 
missary and was then given the position of Divi- 
sion Commissary, with rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, 
of the Fourth Division Missouri Guards. This 
position he held until after the battle of Pea Ridge, 
when Gen. Slack was badly wounded and the di- 
vision broke up. He entered as a private soldier 
in Col. Thompson's regiment, and was there ap- 
pointed Regiment Quartermaster, with the rank of 
Captain. He was later made Quartermaster of 
Gen. Jackman's brigade, with the rank of Major, 
and served as such until the close of the war. 

Once more arriving in St. Joseph, Mr. McDonald 
had to begin at the foot of the ladder of fortune, 
as war had swept everything away. In partnership 
with Mr. McLean he started a general dry-goods 
business on Felix Street, between Third and Fourth 
Streets, which business he ran for two and one-half 
years. After selling out he was an agent for life 
and fire insurance until 1874, when he was ap- 
pointed first Steward of the State Asylum, which 
position he held for six years. During this time 
the building was burned down and rebuilt. 

In 1880 our subject resigned his public position 
and with Mr. Conklin embarked in the lumber 
trade at the corner of Eighth and Frederick Ave- 
nues. They built up a goodly trade, and in 1882 



sold out to the Chicago Lumber Co., after which 
Mr. McDonald started in the retail wood business, 
later becoming a coal dealer also. The present 
company occupy a large building and keep feed 
of all kinds. They are manufacturers of chopped 
hay, etc., and have an electric dynamo to run the 
saw. 

The home of Mr. McDonald is at No. 1 16 North 
Thirteenth Street. To himself and wife were born 
seven children, three of whom are deceased, namely : 
Archibald James; Donald M., Jr., who was killed 
in the war; and Lucian. Those living are W. A. 
P., Kathleen. Clay G, and Jessie, wife of John E. 
Barrow, her home being in Sahna, Kan. The two 
sons, as stated at the beginning of this sketch, are 
members of the company in which their father is 
President, and Clay C. is Captain of the Wickham 
Rifles. 

Among the official positions Mr. McDonald 
has held are the following: Surveyor of Clin- 
ton County, Postmaster at Pittsburgh for nine 
years, Deputy County Clerk and Deputy Circuit 
Clerk of Clinton County. He was at the same 
time an Adjutant of the State Militia. He has 
been a member of the St. Joseph City Council and 
was City Assessor for one year. In politics he is a 
Democrat, and religiously is a member of the Pres- 
byterian Church. Fraternally, he belongs to the An- 
cient Free A Accepted Masons, of which he is 
ex-Secretary, and to the Royal Arch Masons and 
Council, in both of which he held a similiar office, 
and is also a Knight Templar. 



W. Gl BS< >X is the manager of the Central 
Drug Store of St. Joseph, Buchanan County, 
in which city he has made his home since 
'IfJ June, 1878. He is a practical and fine 
pharmacist, having followed this business since 
1864. He is a native of the Keystone State, his 
birthplace being in Chester County. The date of 
the event was August 27, 18 17. 




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Andrew J. Gibson, our subject's father, was born 
in tbe Quaker City, and was of Scotcb-Irish de- 
scent. He was a saddler and carriage-trimmer by 
trade, and worked at that calling in Philadelphia, 
but when he removed to Chester County, Pa., lie 
engaged in farming. In 1855 he removed to Iowa, 
locating in Linn County, near Marion. He went 
there with a few neighbors, who took up tracts of 
land and settled near each Other for company. 
Mr. Gibson improved bis land well and also be- 
came the owner of property in Marion. He de- 
voted himself to agricultural pursuits until 1878, 
when he retired and made Marion his home until 
his death, in September, 1891, when he had passed 
four-score years. He was a prominent member of 
the oldest Independent Order of Odd Fellows in 
the West. In the work of the Methodist Episco- 
pal Church he was also active, and was a man of 
such character that he commanded the respect of 
all who knew hiin. His wife, who was born in 
Philadelphia, bore the Christian name of Harriet, 
and was the daughter of Jacob Kuans. Mrs. (lib- 
son "s death occurred January .'! 1 . 1892, when she 
was in her eighty-first year. 

J. W. Gibson is one of six children, only two of 
whom are now living. He received a good edu- 
cation in the schools of Marion, Iowa, and in Feb- 
ruary. 1864, entered the drug store of that village, 
remaining in that position for four years, after 
which he went to Sedalia, Mo., and was a clerk in 
a drug store of that place from 1 808 until 1872. 
He next went to Brownsville, Mo., where he 
opened a store for himself and ran it for four 
years. In April, lK7(i, he sold out his business 
and went to the Centennial Exposition, remaining 
in the Fast until the fall. On his return to this 
Stall', iie assumed charge of a drug store in Se- 
dalia. 

In June, 1878, Mr. Gibson came to St. Joseph 
and bought out the Opera House Pharmacy, and 
in partnership with Mr. Taylor operated the same 
until 1882, when he sold his interest to Mr. Lori- 
nier. For one year he was not engaged in husi- 
0688, but at the end of that time accepted a clerk- 
ship with a linn in whose employ he remained for 
four years. For the succeeding year he was in 
charge of a drug business in Salt Lake City. Re- 



turning tO St. Joseph in 1889, he took charge of 

the Central Drug store, which is conveniently lo- 
cated at the corner of Frederick Avenue and 
Eleventh street. 

Fraternally Mr. Gibson is a member of Zeredatha 
Lodge, A. F. .v A. M.. and also belongs to st. 

Joseph Chaptei and Council. lie is a charter 

member of the Hugh De Payens Commandery. 

He is also a Knight Templar and belongs to Moila 
Temple, Mystic Shrine. lie deposits his ballot in 

favor of the nominees of the Republican party. 



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JOHN K. SNYDER. It is with special pleas- 
ure that we take up the history of one of 
the brave defenders of the 1'nion. who 
served for three years in the cause, be- 
ing elected twice the commanding officer and re- 
ceiving an appointment once from the Govern- 
ment. He now owns nearly one sect ion of land. 
the resultof his own industry and untiring efforts. 
Edward Snyder, deceased, the father of John R., 
was a native of Pennsylvania, and of German 
parentage. When he was a small child his mother 
removed with her family to New York City, where 
she brought up her children. With his brother. 
John Snyder, he removed to Indiana at an carlv 
day, settling in Washington County, where he 
married Melinda Sutherland, and while residents 
of that Stati' they had seven children born to them. 
In is:!'.) the family located in Andrew Couuty, 
Mo., and in 1840 settled in Treinont Township, 
where the parents resided until 1870. Their eld- 
est chilli, Elizabeth M.. is the widow of Wilson 
Mudgett; Margaret A. is the second in order of 
birth: Winslow 1*. lives on the old homestead; 
Hiram K. is the fourth in the family; Ilulda .1. 
became the wife of A. W. Meyers, of AtchlSOn, 

Kan; Jemima F.. now deceased, was the wife of 
F. W. Ray, of St Joseph; Edward A. lives on the 

Pacific (oast; and John R., our subject, is the 

youngest. 

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own way in the world, working for fifty cents per 
day. When he arrived in Missouri he had very 
little money, but he became one of the wealthy 
men of the county, owning in all over eleven 
hundred acres, all of which he lived to see under 
cultivation. He made considerable money in rais- 
ing hemp, but was a good general farmer. He was 
strictly honorable, always adhering to all contracts 
made, whether verbal or written, and was noted 
for his indomitable will power. He was a public- 
spirited man, and was liberal with his means in 
advancing the cause of religion and the good of 
mankind. His three youngest children received 
special educational advantages, and when the war 
broke out four of his sons enlisted in defense of 
the Flag. After the war was over he with all his 
sons became supporters of the Republican party, 
lie was a member of the Baptist Church in full 
fellowship. 

John R., our subject, attended college for two 
years, and in 1863 wedded Mary E. Ridge, who 
became the mother of three children: Annie E., 
who for the past six years has been a successful 
teacher in the schools of Augusta, Kan., and who 
attended the High School in Hiawatha, that Slate; 
Jesse W. and James R., who are both living in 
Augusta Kan., the latter having taught school for 
the past two years. 



1/ OHN J. ABELL, who is one of the earliest 
settlers of St. Joseph, having here made his 
home since 1854, was the first proprietor of 
the old Pacific House, which he ran for years 
successfully. Our subject was born in Jefferson 
County, Va., March 6, 1817, and passed his boy- 
hood in the county of his birth. His father, John 
Abell, was a native of Ireland, where his father ran 
large plantations. He, in turn, was also an agri- 
culturist, and owned a valuable farm in Jefferson 
County, Va., which he cultivated up to the time of 
his death. Our subject's mother, who was in her 
girlhood Miss Sally Forest, was born in Maryland, 



and was a devoted member of the Episcopal Church. 
She was the mother of nine children, onFy two of 
whom are now living, and of the number our sub- 
ject is the youngest. 

When a young man John J. Abell, Jr.. was Cap- 
tain of a company of cavalry in Virginia. About 
the year 1847 he engaged in keeping a hotel at 
Shannondale, which was known as the Shannondale 
House, and this he ran with considerable success 
for several years. On account of the AVestern 
fever which prevailed so extensively during the 
early part of the '50s, Mr. Abell started for Mis- 
souri by way of stages and boats, and after a long 
and tiresome journey arrived in St. Joseph, which 
was then a village of fifteen hundred people, per- 
haps. He started a boarding-house on Jule Street 
and afterward bought and operated the Planters' 
House, on the corner of Main and Francis Streets. 
When several years had elapsed he sold the same 
and entered into a compan3' called the Pacific 
Hotel Company, which built the old Pacific House 
on Third Street, between Felix aud Francis Streets. 
For fifteen years after it was formally opened Mr. 
Abell was in charge of the hotel as proprietor. 
During all these years it maintained a good repu- 
tation and was considered one of the best in the 
West. After a time our subject finally sold the 
house, which was afterward burned down and then 
rebuilt. For a number of years he has been retired 
from active business, having an ample competency 
wherewith to pass in comfort his remaining days. 

While living in the Old Dominion in 1841, Mr. 
Abell and Miss Betty Thompson were united in 
wedlock. The lady was the daughter of Mary 
Weather Thompson, and a sister of C. M. and Jef- 
ferson Thompson, well known to the citizens of St. 
Joseph. Mrs. Abell's death occurred in 1881. 
Her loss was deeply deplored by many who had 
learned to love her well and esteem her for her 
womanly qualities. Our subject's adopted daugh- 
ter, Martha, is the wife of Albert Bailey, and makes 
her home in this city. In his political faith Mr. 
Abell is a Democrat. He has always taken great 
interest in educational matters and was once a 
School Director. Few of those early pioneers and 
founders of St. Joseph's present phenomenal pros- 
perity are now living, and among these there is 



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no one more highly respected or having more 
friends than the gentleman of whom this is a brief 
history, and it gives us greal pleasure to present 
the same id the readers of the Biographical Re- 
cord < it' the worthy citizens and pioneers <>f Bu- 
chanan County. 



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EV. THOMAS II. HAWKINS. I„ this 
l>/ sketch we present to the attention of our 
■ Aim readers a short record of the life history of 
VS©a man who is well known throughout this 
section. For many years a prominent and much- 
esteemed minister of the Gospel, he has now re- 
tired from active service, and is living on his 
beautiful farm located on section .'50. township , r )7, 
range :!•'!. 

Henry Hawkins, the father of our subject, was 
horn in North Carolina. When attaining to ma- 
ture years he emigrated to Indiana, and, locating 
in Gibson County, developed a good farm from 
the- woods. Mrs. Martha (Hill) Hawkins, the 
mother of our subject, was horn in Tennessee, and 
accompanied her parents on their removal to the 
I loosier State in an early day. After her mar- 
riage with Mr. Hawkins she continued to reside 
there and aided him in every possible way to re- 
deem a home from the forest. As the reader 
doubtless knows, the country around about was 
very thinly settled, and the ear^- pioneers were 
subjected to many hardships and privations of 
which this later generation knows nothing, such 
as going many miles to market their produce and 
get their grain ground into flour, to say nothing 
of the fright which the frequent visits of Indians 
caused the little household. The father of our 
Subject aided very materially in the progress of 
his section, for he cleared and cultivated three 
farms, and at his death was one of the well-to-do 
agriculturists of Vanderburgh County, Ind. The 
parents reared a family of nine children, six of 
whom are Still living. They were devoted and 



consistent members of the Cumberland Presbyteri- 
an Church and grout I \ esteemed in their neighbor- 
hood. Mr. Hawkins was a Democrat in politic-. 

Rev. Thomas II. Hawkins "a- horn .March 12, 
1821, in Gibson County. Ind.. when- he was reared 
on his father's farm, and attended the district 

sel I. When attaining his twentieth year, he 

rented a farm on his own account, and two years 
later was married to Miss Mary Catlett. Mrs. 
Hawkins was also born in Indiana, in 1821, and 
by her union with our subject became the mother 

of one son. Samuel D.. wh akes his home in 

this county. She was a most lovable woman and 
departed this life in 18 19. 

The lady whom Mr. Hawkins chose a- his sec- 
ond wile was Miss Mary Stroud, likewise a na- 
tive of Indiana, to whom he was married June 
21, 1850. By this union were born three chil- 
dren, only one of whom is living. Martha .1.. now 
the wife of Francis Wood. She makes her home 
in Florida and has a family of Ave children. 
Mrs. Mary Hawkins died in I860, and January 2, 
1861. our subject was married to Eliza A. Harden, a 
native of Kentucky, and the daughter of George 
and Elizabeth Harden. Mr. Harden ha- the dis- 
tinction of being the Brs1 merchant to sell goods 
in Elizabeth town, Ky., which place was named in 
honor of his wife. After sixteen years of happy 
married life Mrs. Hawkins departed this life. In 
the year 1878 Mr. Hawkins was married to Miss 
Sarah .1. Richie, a native of Illinois, and the daugh- 
ter of Louis and Mary (Sil'ers) Richie. Mrs 
Hawkins was horn December 17. 1847, and hy her 
union with our subject has heeome the mother of 
three children, viz.: Lottie. Thomas II. and John 
William. 

Mr. Hawkins moved to Vanderburgh County, 
Ind., in 1847, where he purchased partially im- 
proved land, beautifully located on the Ohio 
River. Later he look up Ins abode in Evansville, 

the same State, and in the above year traveled 
West across the plains to Montana and Idaho on 

a prospecting tour, lb' made a stay of two weeks 

in Salt Lake City, and on the return trip bought 
a farm in Otoe County, Neb. This was in the 
fall of 1864, and in the following spring Mr. Haw- 
kins made permanent settlement on his present 



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property. II* 1 nuns erne hundred and twenty acres 
in the home farm, besides other property. 

Although reared by parents who were members 
of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Mr. 
Hawkins was in 1866 ordained a minister of the 
Baptist Church at Evansville, Ind. He has been 
a great Bible student and was an active worker 
in that denomination until 1892, when he par- 
tially retired, and now does not hold any charge. 

In politics Mr. Hawkins is a strong Democrat, 
and during the late war served as a member of 
the home militia. At the present time he super- 
intends the operation of his fine farm, and in ad- 
dition to raising the cereals breeds fine grades of 
Poland-China and Jersey-Red hogs. He is a man 
possessing fine intellect and reasoning powers, and 
one who has won the esteem and respect of all 
who know him. He has a fine and complete 
library, and still devotes a great deal of time to 
reading, and keeps thoroughly posted on all 
topics of public interest. 



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THOMAS WINN, a practical and thorough 
mechanic, occupies the important public po- 
sition of Building Inspector of St. Joseph, 
to which position he was appointed by the Mayor 
and Council in September, 181)2, to serve for a 
term of two years. He was formerly in charge of 
the school building for five years and is thorough- 
ly qualified to fill the responsible place he occupies, 
as he is master of the details and has himself been 
a builder for many years. Mr. Winn was born in 
Schuylkill Count}-, Pa., in the village of St. Clare, 
December 11, 1839. His father, Samuel Winn, 
was born in Yorkshire, England, and was a miner 
in his native country. He was married there, and 
came to America in an early day, locating in 
Schuylkill County, where he was engaged in min- 
ing anthracite coal, and was also interested in 
lumbering. He died in the year 1849 in the 
faith of the Episcopal Church, to which he had be- 
longed for many years. His wife, who was for- 



merly Miss Mar}- Moore, was born in Lancaster, 
England, and by her marriage became the mother 
of five children, of whom four are living. A 
brother of our subject, Samuel, was a member of 
the Seventh Pennsylvania Regulars, and served 
for three years, when he was commissioned Ser- 
geant. 

Mr. Winn of this sketch received his education 
in the common-schools of his native county, and 
in his early boyhood worked about his father's 
shop and was later apprenticed at the age of six- 
teen to the carpenter's trade, at which he worked 
for three years. For one year he worked at stair 
building, and then, going to Williamsport, Lycom- 
ing County, worked at his trade until the break- 
ing out of the war, when at the first call for troops 
he entered the service, becoming a member of the 
Fifth Pennsylvania Cavalry, which was called the 
Cameron Dragoons. He was mustered in as a 
private soldier, and was later promoted to the 
rank of Sergeant on account of his fidelity and 
bravery. The first skirmish in which lt.e took part 
was a severe one, and he was not off duty for 
many hours. He was afterwards in the Peninsu- 
lar campaign and the Seven Days' battle. After- 
ward, when going up the railroad at Barbara Bridge, 
he was wounded, being shot in the left ankle, and 
had to return to Ream Station to have it bound 
up, when he was taken prisoner and held one 
night, but made his escape, joining his regiment 
near Bermuda Hundred. He was also in the siege 
of Petersburg, and was wounded, receiving a 
minie-ball in the side. At this time, while still in 
the field, he was mustered out of service in Aug- 
ust, 1st; I, and then returning home, worked at his 
trade until 1866. 

Mr. Winn was married to Miss Mary Turner, who 
was born in Scotland, and from infancy was reared 
in Pennsylvania. In 1867, with his young wife, 
Mr. Winn came West, locating in St. Joseph, 
and entering the employ of Mr. DeClue; he later 
worked for R. K. Allen, for several years being 
his foreman in the shop. During that time our 
subject superintended the building of the City 
Hall, also constructing other buildings, and par- 
ticularly attending to building stairs. In 1876 
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ing a specialty of contracting and stair-building 
work. His trade became very hum', and in fact 
most of the stairs need in buildings in this oity 
have been made under his supervision. He erected 
three buildings J6r Gen. Craig, and also the Gar- 
lield mid Floyd schoolbouses. His shop is located 
on Kdmond Street, between Seventh and Eighth, 
his residence being at the coiner of Fourteenth 
and Kdmond Street-. Socially, Mr. Winn is a 
member of the Independent Order of < >dd Fel- 
low-, and is Senior Warden of St. Joseph Posl No. 
78, A. F. & A. M. The brave hoys in blue have 
always been dear to him, and he is a member 
of Custer 1'ost. <i. A. R.. Of this city. Though 
not a politician, he is greatly interested in the 
progress and prosperity of the party to which he 
belongs, he being a stanch Republican. 



<>IIN SAUTTER Among the large busi- 
ness enterprises of St. Joseph, one of the 

most successful is that of the Raumlc & 
Sautter Shoe Company, of which our sub- 
ject is Vice-President and General Manager. This 
company was incorporated with a capital stock of 
150,000, with L. Baumle, of Savanna, as President 
and representative of the firm on the road, and 
Mr. Owen as Secretary and Treasurer. The plant 
is located on the corner of Felix and Second 
st nets, occuping three Hoots. 20xll(i feet, and 
comprising various departments of cutting rooms. 
manufacturing, store and furnishing rooms. The 
building is furnished with elevators and well 
equipped with modern improvements, the firm 
employing seventy-five men, who average three 
hundred pairs of shoes a day. The company keeps 
six agents on the road continuously, their sales 
being largest in Kansas. Nebraska, Iowa. Missouri 
and the Pacific toast. They have been longer in 
business here than any other firm, and have ac- 
quired a reputation for fair dealing and thoroughly 
responsible work. They manufacture different 
grades of peg work, Standard, McKay and Good- 



year work. The building i- furnished with electric 
power, and all patterns for their goods are of their 

own exclusive design-. 

John Sautter was bom in Wurtemberg, Ger- 
many, a little south of the city of Stuttgart, on 
January 15, 1*17. His father, John M.. was also 

born in that locality, and was a weaver h\ trade. 
doing fine cashmere work, lie was a Lutheran in 
religious belief, and was called from his labors in 
1859, at tin age of forty-eight year-. Our sub- 
ject's mother, who died two years later, bore the 
maiden name id' Fredericks Schwartzkopf. John 
Sautter was the younger of two -mis. was reared 
in the village of Paffenhofen, and continued his 
education in the common schools until fourteen 

years of age. when he was apprenticed to a shoe- 
maker and worked at the business for three years, 
thus obtaining a practical experience, which lia- 
been of inestimable value to him in later years. 

On completion of his term of working at his 
trade, Mr. Sautter went to Baden, where he re- 
mained for a year, coining to America in the 
spring of 1 Hfifi. setting sail from Bremen and land- 
ing in New York City after a voyage of two 
weeks on the steamer "New York."' At the end 
of a week's time he had found employment in a 
factory, where he worked for three years, and 
then, going to Jersey City, worked as a cutter for 
the firm of Joseph Prof for two years, or until 
1870, when he went Wesl to Denver, remaining 
in that beautiful place until the fall. Soon after- 
ward he concluded to locate at St. Joseph, and be- 
came foreman for John P. Fink, who had the first 
shoe manufactory established in the city. In that 

gentleman's employ he i tinned until the year 

1ST."), when he cnteieil the employ of the Bucks 
Factory, at the expiration of a year being made 
foreman for the linn of Patterson, Noyes & Co. 

In IK'.IO he decided to -tart a manufactory for 
himself, and formed a partnership with M. V. 
Baumle and Fred Wen/., later taking into the lirm 
Charles Owen. They have, as before Stated, made 

a brilliant since— of the undertaking and are on 
the road to rapid fortune. 

In bis substantial residence at the corner of 
Twenty-third and Union Streets, Mr. Sautter and 
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Keuclile, delight to welcome their many friends. 
Mrs. Sautter was born in this city and passed her 
girlhood and school days here, her father, .John 
Keuchle, being for a many years engaged in the 
cooperage business. The union of Mr. and Mrs. 
Sautter has been blessed with two sons, Charles 
and John, who are the delight of their parents' 
home. Mr. Sautter is a member of Zeredatha 
Lodge, A. F. & A. M.; and of the Order of Red 
Men. belonging to Minnehaha Wigwam. He is 
politically a strong Republican. 



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Ol'IS L. EVANS since his childhood has 
been a resident of Missouri and since 1880 
jjj —^ has made his home in Agency Township, 
where he owns and carries on a well-improved 
farm, comprising one hundred and nineteen acres. 
Mr. Evans possesses the confidence and high re- 
gard of his fellow-citizens, because he is known to 
be a man of honorable principles, integrity and 
uprightness. 

The gentleman of whom we write was born in 
Garrard County, Ky., in 1815, and when five years 
of age came with his parents, Thomas II. and Betsy 
(Lunceford) Evans, to this State, settling in Clin- 
ton County, where the father entered a farm of 
two hundred and forty acres, which he had pur- 
chased prior to this time. He added another piece 
of land to his possessions, finally having a place of 
three hundred and sixty acres. He died in 186(1, 
leaving live children, of whom our subject is the 
eldest. The others are Nannie B., who became the 
wife of To! man Weldin, in Arkansas City, Kan.; 
Mary E. is the wife of Thomas Sandusky, of 
Gower; William G. lives in Clinton County; and 
Newton is deceased. The mother of these children 
survived her husband many years, dying in June 
L892, aged sixty-six years. 

Thomas Evans was born at Lancaster, Ky., and 
was a miii (if Joseph Evans, a native of Virginia, 
and a soldier in the War of 1812. He was of Irish 



extraction. Louis Lunceford, our subject's grand- 
father, was born in Wales, and married in Vir- 
ginia a Miss Withers, whose ancestors were among 
the aristocratic families of the Old Dominion. 

Louis L. Evans grew to manhood in Clinton 
County, Mo., where he was educated in the com- 
mon branches. After the death of his father, as 
he was the oldest in the family, the management 
of the farm and support of the family largely fell 
upon his young shoulders, and nobly did he ful- 
fill the trust. In 1877 he married Rebecca, daugh- 
ter of Wilson Modrell, who was one of the first 
settlers of Buchanan County, and highly respected 
in this region. Our subject and wife have four 
children: Virgil R., Lula M., Grace D. and Homer 
L. 

Personally, our subject is a very pleasant and 
agreeable gentleman to meet, as he is the possessor 
of liberal and advanced ideas, and has an affable 
and courteous manner, which makes friends of all 
with whom he chances to come in contact. lie 
casts his vote in favor of the Democratic part}', in 
the success of which he is much interested. Mrs. 
Evans is a lady of culture and refinement, who 
presides over her home with grace and womanly 
dignity. Both she and her husband arc hospitable 
people, whose home is always open for the enter- 
tainment of their many friends. They are both 
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and 
active workers in its various enterprises. 



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\fp^) DWARD ALVA V\ ELD. Among the well- 
ts] known farmers and stock-raisers of Jackson 
It — ^ Township, Buchanan County, is he of whom 
we write, who owns a farm of two hundred and 
seven acres, formerly the property of his father. 
To this place he removed in March, 1886, and two 
years later began raising thoroughbred horses, now 
owning nine of these, which range from yearlings 
up. 

Mr. Field was born in Platte County, Mo., near 
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George W. and Lucj E. (Duncan) Field, located 

about 1840, coming fr Kentucky. The father, 

who landed in the county a poor man, owned at 
the time of his death, in 1 885, over fifteen hundred 
acres, and was j ii-i I \ esteemed one of the mosten- 
ttTjirisiiijj agriculturists of tin- region. 1 It- was a 
practicing physician of unusual ability, and con- 
tinued actively in his professional duties until af- 
ter the close <>f the war. when he turned his atten- 
tion to agricultural pursuits, lie was a very suc- 
cessful business man and a skillful financier, but 
was noted for his lenient and accommodating dis- 
posil ion. 

Our subject i- on< of a family of eight children, 
of whom he is the second in order of birth. 
Desda, who died on the 15th of March. 1893, leav- 
ing two children, was the wife of J. L. Cormack, 
now Judge of the Probate Courtof Platte County; 

Paschal K. is a banker in Gower; William S. is a 
resident of Platte City; Lizzie E. became the wife 
of Edward L. Anderson, of Platte City; George 
W. is a practicing physician in Salt Lake City; 
.John T., M. I)., formerlya resident of St. Louis, is 
now Assistant Physician at Asylum No. 2; and 
Lulu E. i- an attendant at the Columbia College. 

In the place of his birth our subject passed his 
boyhood, and was early inured to farm work. 
Therefore it was nol at all strange that he decided 
to make that his vocation in life, for "As the twig 
i- bent, the tree is inclined." As he was born on 
the 7th of July, 1857, he is now consequently 
thirty-six years of age. and i> in the prime of life, 
lie has no cause to regret his selection of a life 
work, for though he has not been engaged in it 
mauj years, he has already been blessed with an 
abundant success. 

In the year 1889, at the home of tin' bride's 
father, William Royston, a marriage ceremony 
was performed which united the destinies of 
Mr. Field and Miss Annie Boy stun, who was born 
in Platte County, Mo., September 21, 1867, and 18 

a well-educated and cultured lady. She presides 
over her husband's home with womanly graci and 
dignity, extending a cordial welcome to their 
many friends. Her father. Mr. Royston, was one 
of the early settlers of Platte ( ounty, honored and 
respected by all who knew him. Our subject 



bis ballot in favor of the nominees and in -uppoi i 
of the principles >et forth by the Democratic 

parts, lie enjoys the confidence and respect of 
bis fellow-citizens to an eminent degree, and it is 

needle-- to Bay he is entirely worths of the same. 



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■ LFRED M. MORE Y, Superintendent of the 

WlI St. .lo-eph a- (Irand island Railroad, and 
Superintendent of the Telegraphic I tepart- 
mentof the same railroad, makes bis home 
in St. Joseph, lie hold- a very responsible and 
desirable position, and has worked himself up- 
ward war by year by bis encrgj and close appli- 
cation to business. The railroad company of 
which he is an employe have wisely recognized in 
him an able and thoroughly capable man. one who 
will ever be conscientious in the discharge of his 

duties. The birthplace of Mr. Moiey was in 
Chicago, III., the date of the event being Ma\ I. 
1858. H is father, Weslej L., was born on the Hud- 
son River, in tin- Empire state. His grandfather, 
Daniel, was a soldier in the War of 1 ,H 1 ■> will. 
Great Britain, and wa8a prominent man in Colonial 
history, our subject's iathcr was a bank cashier 
ill Rochester, N. Y.. and alter removing to Chi- 
cago embarked in the newspaper business. Ili- 
deatb occurred in Nebraska in 1879. For some 
time he had been a railroad man for the II. \ \\. 
Railroad, and was agent for the same company at 
Brownsville, Neb. lie was a well-known Mason, 
and, politically, a stanch ally of the Republican 
party, our subject 'a mother, Mary .1., daughtei of 
John Muiiii. was born in New York, where her 
father wa- a farmer, ibi death occurred in 1881, 
at ( tsborue, Mo. 

Our subject was one of tWO children who lived 

to mature years and was reared in New York and 
Missouri. He received In- education at Osborne 
and Quincy, 111., and while quite young learned 
telegiaphy. In 1873 he became baggage-n 
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Kansas City Railroad, where lie was stationed for 
two and a-half years. From that place lie was 
transferred to Pacific Junction, Iowa, as day opera- 
tor for the Kansas City, Burlington & Missouri 
and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. There 
he remained for seven months, when he was sent to 
Council Bluffs as day operator for the Kansas 
City ami Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. Three 
months later, or in 1887, he was finally located in 
St. Joseph in the general office of the Kansas City 
Road as operator, continuing in that place for seven 
months, and was then made Train Dispatcher, 
serving as such from 1878 to 1884. In the latter 
two years he was Chief Dispatcher, remaining 
in that position for two years, when he re- 
signed on account of broken health and rheuma- 
tism, and for six months traveled in the West, 
visiting in Nebraska and at other points. Returning 
home, he entered the employ' of the St. Joseph & 
Denver Railroad as Train Dispatcher, and has 
been in their service up to the present time, occu- 
pying various important positions. In January, 
1889, he was made Chief Dispatcher of trains, 
remaining as such until New Year's Day, 1892, 
when he was made Superintendent of the road 
and Superintendent of the telegraphic system. I u 
his politics he is a Republican, and socially, as 
well as in business circles, is highly esteemed and 
very popular. 



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(fpsA TEPIIEN I). KARRIS, a prosperous and en- 
^^£ ergetic agriculturist of Buchanan County, 
ltl/29) i- s widely know n as an excellent citizen, 
industrious and upright in character. lie 
is at present residing upon his valuable estate of 
five hundred and eleven acres located on section 1, 
Crawford Township. 

Isaac Karris, the father of our subject, was born 
in Kentucky, where his mother, known in her 
maidenhood as Nancy Karris, was also born. After 
their marriage the parents removed from the 
Blue Grass State to Indiana, thence to Illinois, and 



in 1838 took up their abode in this State, making 
their home on section 6, Jackson Township, Bu- 
chanan County, where they were among the very 
earliest settlers. Indians were very numerous in 
that early day and often proved quite troublesome, 
while game of all kinds could lie had for the 
shooting. Ilis claim was covered with scrub oak, 
but with his characteristic energy he set about 
clearing and improving it and at the time of his 
death, which occurred in 1879, he was the proprie- 
tor of a valuable estate, comprising three hundred 
and forty well-tilled acres. His wife, who preceded 
him tr the better laud by many years, died in 
1848. They were the parents of a large family of 
eleven children, to whom they gave good school 
advantages. 

April 14, 1840. Stephen D. Karris was born in 
the log house in this then new region. He was 
wisely trained to habits of industry, which later 
became his capital in life, and during the dull 
seasons on the farm attended school. When start- 
ing out in life on his own account he was married, 
in 1865, to Miss Emma, daughter of 'Alexander 
Campbell, whose father, James R. Campbell, was 
also one of the pioneers of this county. Mrs. 
Karris was born in 1837, and after her niariiage 
located with her husband on section 11 of this 
township. She proved to him a helpmate indeed, 
and together they accumulated some good prop- 
erty. After a residence in the above place for 
five years our subject moved upon the old home- 
stead, which he operated for three years. In 1873, 
however, he located on his present fine estate and 
annually reaps a harvest whose abundant returns 
are the reward of intelligent and persistent effort. 
Besides raising the cereals, — and he garnered 
three thousand bushels of wheat last year (1892), 
— Mr. Karris devotes considerable attention to the 
breeding of stock, making a specialty of mules. 

Mr. and Mrs. Karris have been blessed by the 
presence of two sons, who have enjoyed the excel- 
lent educational advantages of the neighborhood. 
They bear the respective names of Charles and O. C. 
Mr. and Mrs. Karris are members of the Presbyte- 
rian Church and are ever ready to assist in the 
support and good work of this religious organiza- 
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lie is also a charter member. Socially he is identified 
with Blue Lodge No. 10 at Agency Ford, having 
been a prominent Mason for the past twenty years. 
In hi> political affiliations lie i- a strong Democrat, 
and firmly believes in the principles of the party 
which receives his vote. He is also a member Of 
the School Board, and during the Civil War joined 
the Paw Paw Militia. Mr. Fan i- has two broth- 
ers residing in this county. Major and Isaac L. 



JAMES SAX ION. one of the honored early 
settlers of Tremont Township, Buchanan 
County, is one of the most extensive land- 
owners of this region, as he is the fortunate 
possessor of thirteen hundred and fifty acres, own- 
ing one quarter-section on Lake Contrary and 
many other valuable farms, among which we men- 
tion the island north of Agency, all of which he is 
developing and improving. He has for many 
years past been engaged in breeding and raising 
fine standard horses and Jersey cattle, besides do- 
ing a general farming business. 

Mr. Saxton was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in the 
year 181!), growing to manhood in the "Forest 
City." lie was the fifth in a family of nine chil- 
dren horn to .lames .1. and Hosetta (Shellhous) 
Saxton. who were natives of Bennington County. 
Vt., whence they removed to Cleveland in 1812. 
Their children all grew to mature years, and of 
these only four are now living: our subject; Cy- 
rus; Mary, Mrs. Kirliv, of St. Joseph; and Aurilla, 
Mrs. Andrews, of Whitesville, Andrew County, 
Mo. .lame- Saxton, Sr., was Captain of a com- 
pany in the War of 1*12. His father, Aaron Sax- 
ton, who was a native of Vermont and descended 
from an old English family, participated in the 
War of the Revolution. 

.lames Saxton was educated in the log cabin 

schools of Ohio, and on arriving at his majority 

departed from his father's fireside, going to Ka- 
cinc. Wis., where he remained until 1853, in the 

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meantime marrying Miss Melissa I rego. In the 
year just mentioned he located in the northern 
part of Wisconsin, where be continued to live 
until 1865, at which time he located on his pres- 
ent farm in Tremont Township. This place, which 
i- on sections 2 and II, has two hundred a 
within its boundaries and has been brought from 
its former undeveloped condition to its present 

slate, one of the finest farms in the county. 1>\ 

the indefatigable care and labor expended upon 

it !i\ the owner. There is on the place a twenty- 
two acre orchard, which hears abundantly. 

The union of Mr. and Mr-. Saxton ha- been 
bleSSCd with five children, who are as follows: 
Josephine, wife of John Oravattc, of St. Joseph; 
Eugenia, who is the wife of Zachary Garrett, of 
Buchanan County: Louisa, who became the wife 
Of David Lowden, of Ottawa, Kan.; Cyrus and 
Edwin C. who assist their father on the farm. 
They have all been well educated and are worthy 
citizens of the communities in which they dwell. 
Mr. Saxton is a stanch Democrat and much inter- 
ested in the welfare of his party. He is justly es- 
teemed One Of the leading citizens of the town- 
Ship, and in every possible way he has always 
used his best efforts to advance the prosperity of 
the same. 



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^•7-^IIOMAS IIAI.L. The village of Gowercon- 

//^-n tains no citizen more worthy than the sub- 
V_V ; jectof this sketch. Careful, temperate and 
industrious, he has been endowed by Nature with 
all the Christian virtU69 and is regarded ill his 
community a- one of it- nio-t useful and reliable 
men. For many years he was closely identified 
with the agricultural interests of Buchanan C > t > . 

and was a prominent factor in bringing about it- 

presenl prosperous condition. In 1872 he retired 

from his farm and removed to Cower, having ac- 
cumulated a competency and desiring to have 
more leisure and freedom from care, in order to 
enjoy more fully the attractions of hi- cozy home. 



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The Hall family originated in England, whence 
some of its members emigrated to America at an 
early day and settled in New Jersey, with the 
progress of which they were thereafter connected. 
The paternal grandfather of our subject, Thomas 
Hall, Sr., was born in that State, but removed 
thence to Kentucky; where his later years were 
passed. The parents of our subject, John J. and 
Elizabeth (Rice) Hall, were born in Ken tuck}', 
where also they were reared and married and spent 
their entire lives. 

Thomas Hall was born in Henry County, Ky., 
in December, 1816, and in that county passed his 
boyhood years. His educational advantages were 
few and were gained under a system widely dif- 
ferent from that now used in our schools. It 
may be said of him that experience has bee,n his 
chief teacher, and the valuable lessons learned in 
that school have been of the highest importance 
to him. His father was a blacksmith, and under 
bis supervision he learned that trade, which he 
followed for twenty years in Kentucky, residing 
in the village of Pleasureville. 

In 1858 Mr. Hall removed to Missouri and set- 
tled in Buchanan County, where he followed the 
calling of a farmer with marked success. He still 
owns two hundred acres of fertile land, all under 
cultivation, but his advanced age prevents him 
from doing anything more than superintend its 
improvement. In all his work be has had the 
cheerful co-operation and active aid of his wife, 
to whom he was married in 1837. She was in her 
girlhood Miss Edna E. Eallis, and was born in 
Kentucky, the daughter of George Eallis, a native 
of North Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. Hall are the 
parents of seven children, four of whom are liv- 
ing, as follows: John W., a resident of Gower; 
Davis S., who is living in Colorado; George T., 
who makes his home in Kansas City; and Eras- 
muth G, who is in Plattsburgh. 

Mr. Hall began in life at the foot of the ladder, 
without other resources than his own resolution 
and energy, and is now the owner of a fine prop- 
erty. He is one of the most liberal-minded men 
of the village of Gower and takes an interest in 
everything calculated to benefit the people around 
him, being willing to contribute of his time and 



means to bring about this result. Politically he 
is a Democrat, and in his earlier life was active in 
the party. With his wife he is a devoted mem- 
ber of the Presbyterian Church, with which he has 
been long identified. 



jkJft AliTIN HERSCH. One of the most com- 
fortable residences of Center Township, 
Buchanan County, is owned and occupied 
by Mr. Hersch, and is pleasantly located 
on section 36. He has made this section his home 
for over a half-century, and, as might be expected, 
is one of the best-known and most highly re- 
spected agriculturists of Center Township. He is 
now partially retired from active work of any 
kind and is spending the twilight of his honorable 
life quietly at home, surrounded by the comforts 
which are the result of his years of toil. 

The paternal ancestor of our subject, Martin 
Hersch, was a native of Lancaster County, Pa., and 
comes from a well-to-do Dutch family in that 
State. The maiden name of our subject's mother 
was Catherine Shade; she was also born in the 
Keystone State, where she spent her entire life. 
The parents reared a family of six children, and 
were prominent members of the Lutheran Church. 
Martin Hersch was an honored and respected citi- 
zen of the farming com nunity and by his upright 
and honorable course throughout life won many 
warm friends. 

Mr. Heisch was born February 26, 1817, in 
Lancaster Count}', Pa., and passed his boyhood 
days upon his father's estate in the usual manner 
of farmer lads, and received such a limited educa- 
tion as could be gleaned in the district schools of 
his neighborhood. When beginning to make his 
own way in the world, at the age of sixteen years, 
young Hersch learned the trade of a cooper, which 
occupation he followed duiiugthe winter months, 
and during the summer season worked at the 
house-painter's trade. 

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Western country, and thinking to gain a better 
start in the world, Mr. Hersch, in is:!7. made t In- 
trip to stark County, Ohio, and after remaining 
a -hurt time there, went to I n< 1 i a 11.1 . Two years 
later he heeaine a resident of Missouri, and being 
among the very earlicsl settlers of this Locality, has 
aided very materially in the development and ad- 
vancement of the same. He erected a "shanty" on 
his claim and kept bachelor's hall during the 
period of reclaiming his tract from its primitive 
wiidness. 

August 7. 1845, Mr. Hersch was united in mar- 
riage to Miss .Mary Jane, daughter of George and 
Margaret (Osborn) Baney, natives of Tennessee, 
whence they came to tenter Township in 1840 and 
spent their entire lives on a farm on section 36. 
Mrs. Hersch was one in a family of two children, 
and was born December 17. 1K27. ill Indiana. Her 
union with oar subject has been blessed by the birth 
Of three children, viz.: Henry. George and Cather- 
ine. The first-named married Miss Angeline 
Harness, and makes his home in this township; 
they have two children. .lame- 11. C. and Sadie-. 

G ge married Miss Minnie McWilliain.-. resides 

in Custer County. Neb., and has seven children, 
Willie, Leonard. Mary. Prank, Maggie, I.ydia and 
Iva. Catherine i> the wife of Alexander Hell and 
resides in Hiawatha. Kan., where they have a 
family of three children, viz.: Oscar, Henry and 
Martin. Mrs. Hersch. who was a most, lovable 
Christian lady, and a member of the Presbyterian 
Church, departed this life at her home March '■>, 
1893, and her remains lie buried in Sparta Ceme- 
tery. 

Martin Hersch is the proud possessor of two 
hundred and forty -four acres of excellent land, to 
the cultivation of which he still devotes a consid- 
erable portion of his time. In I860 he erected on 
his estate a commodious residence, which cost 
(2,500, and in which all the lumber used was 
of walnut. In addition to this he has large barns 
and other buildings on his farm, which afford am- 
ple accommodations for his grain and stock. 
Throughout his long career he has thrown into in- 
daily labors individual honesty and integrity, 
qualities which ennoble every man, whether rich 
or poor. From poverty lo prosperity, even step 



was won h\ honest work and brave efforts, and his 
biography is therefore most useful as an incentive 
to others. 

Beside rearing their own family of children, Mr. 
and Mr-. Hersch have fulfilled thedutiesof parents 
to two other.-, whom they took into their home 
when only -i\ week- old. They were the twin 
daughters of .lames and Sophronia (Hastings) 
Btchison, and were born in Buchanan County, 
February I, I860. They bore the respective names 
ot Isabella and Arabella. The former i- now the 

widow of Robert Pay ton. by wl she had four 

children: Edgar, Pearl, Estel la and Robert Newell. 
Arabella is the wife of August Anderson and re- 
sides in St. Joseph. She is the mother of four chil- 
dren: Tina Pearl ami Thomas Earl, twins, and 
Nellie Fay and Nettie May. al.-o twin-. 

Mr. Hersch Berved his township as School Direc- 
tor for many years and donated the land on which 
was erected the Willowbrook Presbyterian Church. 
In politic- he i- a Blanch Republican, the ranks of 
which party he joined in 1856 at the date of its 
organization. During the late war he became a 
member of the Twenty-fifth Missouri Regiment, 
serving his country for six months, during which 
time he did efficient work as a scout. He i- 
a gentleman of much influence in hi- community. 
and bears an enviable reputation for thrift among 
his fellow-agriculturists. 



HARLES N- sTINK i- one of tl Idest and 

most faithful employes of the St. Joseph & 
(.rand Island Railroad, having been in the 

steady service of that i ipany since 1871, most 

of this time a- an engineer. He was born near 

Decatur, Macon County, III.. September 6, 1851, 
and is a son of George and Rebecca (Tow 
Stine. The former was horn near Stuttgart, Wur- 
temberg, Germany, and crossed the broad Atlantic 
to the United State- when he had arrived at ma- 
ture years. He Bret located in Ohio, where he I'll- 

erased in farming for a while, and then set out for 



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the Prairie State. On bis arrival in Macon County 
he concluded to make a permanent settlement there, 
and was one of the first to enter land on Friends' 
Creek. He began at the bottom round of the 
ladder, erected a log house and cleared his farm. 
He later purchased another farm and became very 
prosperous. In 18.57 he became a resident of Linn 
County, Mo., living a retired life in Brookfleld 
until his death in 1861, when he was only forty- 
one years of age. He was a supporter of the 
Republican party. 

Mrs. Rebecca Stine was born in Pennsylvania 
and removed to Ohio with her parents, who were 
Of English descent. Her marriage was celebrated 
i ti Ohio. Seven children were born to herself and 
husband, and six of the number are still living. 
Henry W., who was in the Missouri Militia during 
the war, became an engineer on the Hannibal <fe 
St. .Joseph Railroad, and later on the Grand Island. 
He was made Division Foreman, being stationed 
at Hanover, Kan., where bis death occurred in 
1886. He was well known in St. Joseph and was 
a Knight Templar. Lavinia is Mrs. J. L. Houck, of 
Grand Island, Neb.; Eliza is the wife of Thomas 
Scales, in New Mexico; Warren is an engineer on 
the Grand Island Railroad, his residence being in 
Grand Island; Emma, Mrs. Thomas Foster, lives 
in Omaha; and Frank, who is stationed at Grand 
Island, is connected with the Union Pacific Rail- 
road. Our subject is the fourth in the family. 

Charles N. Stine lived in Illinois until six years 
of age, when he came with his parents to Mis- 
souri. This was in the spring of 1857, and the 
journey was made by railroad to Quincy and from 
there to Brookfield, Mo., by team. The^ encoun- 
tered numerous difficulties and were finally obliged 
to trade their horses for oxen on account of the 
condition of the roads. Mr. Stine received such 
advantages as were afforded by the common schools 
of Brookfield. After the father's death the fam- 
ily moved to a farm near the village, where our 
subject lived until the fall of 1871, when he 
started out from home to make his fortune. 

The railroad career of Mr. Stine was commenced 
in 1871, when he entered the employ of the St. 
Joseph & Denver Railroad as fireman. At the end 
of two years he was ^iven charge of a freight en- 



gine, which he ran for a like period of time. 
From that time up to the present he has been a 
passenger engineer and has been very fortunate in 
escaping casualties and wrecks. He is glad that 
the death of no one rests upon his conscience, nor 
has he ever been in a severe wreck. He has been 
kept steadily at work and has never been laid 
off, as railroad employes often are, for a repri- 
mand. It is now just twenty years since he fired 
the first engine that went over the St. Joseph, Mo., 
railroad bridge, at which time there was a great 
celebration. The engineer on the locomotive was 
William Sleepy, now master mechanic of the road. 
Mr. Stine runs engine No. 10, which is an eight- 
wheeler and one of the best on the road. His 
run is from St. Joseph to Hanover, a distance of 
one hundred and twenty-eight miles. Mr. Stine 
belongs to Division No. 107, Brotherhood of Loco- 
motive Engineers, of which he is Second Assistant 
Engineer. He is also a member of the Druids, and 
in politics is a loyal supporter of the Republican 
party. 

In the year 1882, in St. Joseph, was celebrated the 
marriage of Mr. Stine and Bertha Sorge, who was 
born in St. Louis. To the worthy couple have 
been born two children: Flossie M. and Earl. 



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RS. LOUISE WACHTER is the finest ca- 
terer and candy manufacturer in the Great 
West, besides assuming entire control of 
the best kept ice-cream parlors to be found 
in St. Joseph. She was born in Westphalia, Ger- 
many, June 19, 1853, to Henry Hagermeier. The 
grandfather of our subject, Henry Hagermeier, of 
the same place, was a railroad contractor and a sol- 
dier in the war from 1812 to 1815, distinguishing 
himself in the battle of Waterloo. He died in 1886. 
in his ninetieth year. 

Mrs. Wachter's father was also a railroad con- 
tractor, and in connection with his father during 
the years from 1852 to 1855 was engaged in con- 
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bruck ( :i distance of twelve German miles), which 
was the Emperor's railroad. For years after Mr. 
Hagermcier was located at a station on this line as 
agent for the railroad company. Tliis smalltown, 
which bore the name of Bruchmuehlen, wason the 
Hanover line, and here he lived, dying in 1869 
at the age of forty-two years. During his life- 
time he was a member of the Lutheran Church. 

The mother of our subject bore the maiden 
name of Louise King, and was the daughter of 
Henry King, a farmer in Herfordt. Mis. Hager- 
meier was born in the year i.s.">l. and died in her 
fifty-second year, having been the mother of 
seven children, of whom Mis. Wachter was the 
eldest. The others are as follows: Caroline, wife of 
Mr. II. Fable, of Germany; Dora, now Mrs. Lamp- 
kin, who resides in Hamilton, Ohio; Anna, who 
married Mr. August Zinsuieister, of Milwaukee, 
Wis.; Henry, who is the foreman in our subject's 
establishment; Frank, who is a private in the Ger- 
man army; and Carl, lieutenant in the same army 
with his brother Frank. 

The agreeable lady of whom we write was 
reared in Bruchmuehlen, Germany, receiving a 
common-school education, and in the spring of 
1871 came to America with her sweetheart, who 
had been in Boston for some time previous, and was 
at home on a visit. They left Bremen by steamer 
and went to New York, and thence to Boston, 
where they were married in the Lutheran Church, 
August 28, 1871. Mr. Herman Wachter was born 
in Westk vluer, in Westphalia, to John and Cather- 
ine Wachter. natives of Germany. lie came to 
America when eighteen years of age and learned 
the caterer's trade of George Ferrier, the most 
prominent confectioner and caterer in Boston. 
After a few years' practice at this business he 
started a confectionery shop in his own interest, 
making Of it both a wholesale and retail establish- 
ment. He continued in that business until 1881, 
when on account of his wife's health he came West, 
Btopping a few months in Chicago, and in Decem- 
ber came to St. Joseph, where they opened up this 
business in an old stone church. 

After the death of her beloved companion in 
1X8H, Mrs. Wachter continued in that line, locat- 
ing at No. 621 Feli.N Street, which she improved 



and remodeled, engaging in the manufacture of 
fine candies, ice cream, cakes, etc. She ha- a wide 
reputation as a caterer in furnishing refreshments 

tor reception- and parties. At present her confec- 
tionery parlor, in which is displayed French china, 
cut glass and mirrors, is 20x10 feet in dimensions. 
The workrooms measure 10x160 feet, and comprise 
three different apartments, divided into the candy, 
cake and ice-cream shops. Besides this line business 
establishment our subject owns a valuable resi- 
dence on Sixth Street, No. 819. She has four 
children, namely: Elisa, who attends Carrollton 
College and will graduate in the ( la-- of 'it.'!; 
Marie, who is at home; Henry and Ernest. The 
mother of these children is a member of the Ger- 
man Lutheran Church, and of the Ladies" Aid 
Society, and is also a zealous worker in the Young 
Woman's Christian Association. She is proving 
herself to be an excellent business woman, capable 
Of looking after the details of her work, and is 
rearing her children in a proper and praiseworthy 
manner. 



\||()IIN M. M« MICHAEL, who is now engaged 
in business in Aspen, Colo., is practically a 
son of Clinton County although he was born 
in Kenia, Ohio, on the 15th of March. I838i 
his parent-soon removing tO this locality. lie was 

educated in the Plattsburgb and Ridgely Colleges, 

and on leaving school went into his father's Store. 
By nature he was not suited to the mercantile busi- 
ness and therefore in 1868 he commenced studying 
law under .Indue I'oi lei, whose sketch we have writ- 
ten elsewhere in this RECORD. I Ic was intellectually 
SO acute, and progressed so rapidly with his legal 
studies, that the following year he was admitted 
to the liar. 

In tin' year 1X72 Mr. McMichael removed to 

Kansas * ity, where he took charge of the editorial 

department of the Evening NeW8, but at the expi- 
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founded the Lever, which lie continued to edit for 
several years, selling out finally to J. E. Jones. In 
the year 18611 our subject was elected to the Leg- 
islature, and in 187(1 made the race for Congres- 
sional honors, but was defeated in the Democratic 
Convention by a few votes. 

On the 5th of May, 1864, Mr. McMichael was 
married to Miss Julia Lincoln, a lady of good edu- 
cation and many noble qualities of heart. Since 
1858 our su.bject has been a devoted member of the 
Methodist Church. Though he has recently re- 
moved to Colorado, where he is engaged in busi- 
ness, his family are still making their home in this 
city on account of the better educational facilities 
afforded to their children. 



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\J MALSEED BELL, M. D. Prominent among 
the physicians in St. Joseph is our subject, 
who is a Professor of Chemistry at the 
Northwestern Medical College, and is the 
only analytical chemist in the city. He is a thor- 
ough student, having a great love of books, and 
devoting a great deal of his time to study, particu- 
larly in the lines relating to his profession. He 
enjoys a large and remunerative practice, and 
writes considerably for various medical journals, 
among these being the Western Sunj leal- Medical Re- 
porter. In the opinion of the brethren of his profes- 
sion Dr. Bell is a young man of unusual promise, 
having, indeed, already attained a position usu- 
ally accorded only to those far beyond his years. 

Dr. Bell was born in Philadelphia, January 8, 
1865, and attended the excellent public schools of 
that city. He graduated in the Class of '80 
from the Scientific Department of Girard Col- 
lege, with the degree of Bachelor of Science. 
While there he gave especial attention to the stud}' 
of chemistry, under the well-known Prof. Stevens, 
and to this branch of study has ever given 
especial thought. On leaving the college he was 
for two years a clerk in a drug store in the Quaker 
City, and then for a like period of time attended 



the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. From 
1884 to 1885 he was again employed in the mer- 
cantile business as a clerk, entering in the latter 
year the University of Pennsylvania, and there 
taking the medical and biological course. On ac- 
count of losing by investments, the Doctor came 
West in 1889, locating in Lincoln, Neb., where he 
engaged in the drug business for about two years, 
finally coming to this city Ln the fall of 1891, 
where, entering the Northwestern Medical College, 
he was graduated from that justly celebrated insti- 
tution in the Class of '92, and was at once elected 
to the Chair of Chemistry, having just closed his 
first year. 

The students recently presented to Dr. Bell, as 
a mark of their appreciation, some valuable addi- 
tions to his already large and comprehensive 
library. This little incident shows in some slight 
degree the great esteem in which the Doctor is 
held, not only among his pupils, but with the other 
members of the faculty and all who have had the 
pleasure to be thrown in contact with him, either 
in a business or social'way. He is an active mem- 
ber of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, be- 
longs to the Encampment, and was one of the 
organizers of East Lincoln Lodge, at Lincoln. The 
Doctor's social qualities have won for him a host 
of friends, and the fact of his being associated with 
many of the most affable gentlemen in the profes- 
sion, as well as the most talented, is also a proof of 
his recognized worth and ability. 



'if/ OHN H. UTZ is one of the enterprising 
farmers of township 56, range 35, his farm 
-^ being situated on section 19. Here he owns 
lv§sy' a place of fifty-three and one-third acres, 
and on it ten years ago he erected a fine residence, 
at a cost of 11,300, to which he has since built an 
addition. In 1892 he put up a barn at an expense 
of 1500, and has cleared and fenced the farm, 
which is now well cultivated. Besides this place 
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Hied ami ton acre*. Politically, he i- an active 

Democrat and has frequently been a delegate to 
conventions of the party, having also served as 
Central Committeeman and having been nomin- 
ated by his friends f<n- official honors. He is 
Secretary Of the Farmers' Alliance, and, fraternally. 
belongs to the Masonic order, being now Pasl 
Blaster of the I5lue Lodge, and having also held 
the offices nf Scribe and King in the chapter. < >ur 
public-school system receives his earnest support, 
and he has been a member of the School Board 
and is now Secretary of the same. 

Our subject, who is the only son in his parents' 
family, was born September 30, 1 84i), in Page 
County, Va., and was there educated in the public 
schools. lie came to Buchanan County when in 
lii> sixteenth year, and went immediately to work 
on his father's farm, remaining at home until 
reaching his majority. In September. 1KG 1 , he 
enlisted in Company A, First .Missouri Cavalry, in 
the Confederate service. This company was organ- 
ized at Rock House Prairie under Col. Cornell- 
our subject enlistingas a private for eight months, 
when he served as First Lieutenant. After taking 
part in the siege of Lexington and the Battle of 
Pea Ridge be closed his connection with the State 
service and returned home, only to be captured 
and placed under bonds. It was made so unpleas- 
ant for him that he entered the company com- 
manded by Capt. John Chestnut, being made Lieu- 
tenant. 

While the company was on its way South. Mr. 
Qtz was captured in DeKalb County, and tried by 
drumhead court martial as a spy, for making war 
inside of the Union lines, being lust sentenced to 
imprisonment during the war, but upon recon- 
sideration was sentenced to be hung, in company 
with II. W. Higbsmith and Polk Holland. Through 
the interposition of friends they obtained a re- 
prieve twice from President Lincoln, tic sentence 
being finally commuted to imprisonment during 
the war. Accordingly. Mr. Dtz was taken to 
prison at St. Louis, and then transferred to Jeffer- 
son City, where he remained until President John- 
son's proclamation releasing prisoners. 

On February 24, 1863, occurred the marriage 
of our subject and Mi-- Sarah K. Duncan, whose 



parents, B. M. and A. M. (Lawrence) Duncan, were 
both natives of Tennessee. They came to Mis- 
souri about l xn. settling in this township, where 
the father's death occurred. His wife is still liv- 
ing in Crawford Town-hip. Mrs. I tz was born in 
March, 1842, in Alabama, and i- the mother of ten 
children, who are all living: William H., Silas B., 
Robert Lee, John A.. .lane C., Amanda M.. Annie 
S.. Sarah E., Mary E. and Jessie V. Si las H. mar- 
ried Miss Bessie Cristal, and lives in this township; 
Robert Lee, who married Oeorgie Goodlive, is a 
resident of this township: and Jane C, wife of 
William Moore. Jr., lives in Crawford Town-hip. 
At the closing of the war Mr. (tz returned home, 
but found it unsafe to remain there, and went to 
Kansas, being a resident of Marshall County for a 
short time. Later returning, he settled on his 
present farm, where, in addition to raising general 
crops, he makes a specialty of stock-raising, partic- 
ularly jacks and jennets. 

John II. I'tz is a -on of Henry and Jane C. 
(Forrer) I'tz. natives of Warren and Page Coun- 
ties, Va., respectively. The former was born Jan- 
uary 1'.), 1809, of German descent, and the latter 
was born November 27. 1810. They were both 
brought up on a farm, and were married in Vir- 
ginia, where they lived until lN.'id. In the spring 
of isr, 7 they made a settlement on section 31, 
Center Township, which was then the County 
Poor Farm, of which Mr. I'tz had charge during 
that year, having been in the same business for 
five years in Virginia. In in/,* he located on a 
farm situated on section 20, which was his home 
until he was called from this life, July 11. 1884. 
His wife, who died February 2l\ 1893, was the 
mother of four children, of whom our subject i- 
the eldest, .lane E. i- the wife of Marion .lone-. 
of Hiawatha, Kan.; Man C, wife of Daniel Car- 
penter, lives in Andrew ( oiinty.Mo.; and Martha 
A., who became the wife of .lame- I . WatkinS, is a 
resident of Portland, Ore. The parents were both 
member- of the Methodist Episcopal Church 
South, in which they were active workers. Mr. 
I'tz was a man of firm conviction-, and possessed 
many warm friends. 

Our BUbjeCt and wife are member- of the Method- 
ist Episcopal Church South, at Sparta, in which 



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he is Trustee, and has in the past served as Stew- 
ard. He helped to (mild the fine church ediHce, 
being a member of the committee. He has been 
teacher and Superintendent in the Sunday-school, 
and is justly esteemed one of the pillars of the 
church. 



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ON. DAVID R. ATCHISON. First and 
foremost among the citizens of Clinton 
Count}' was the gentleman whose name 
heads this sketch. He was born August 
1807, in the little village of Frogtown, Ky., 
his parents having emigrated there from the older 
settlements of Pennsylvania. His father, being a 
man of wealth, gave to his son a liberal educa- 
tion, which well fitted him for the brilliant ca- 
reer which was before him. At the age of eighteen 
he was graduated from Transylvania University, 
and immediately took up the study of law under 
several of the leading lawyers of the day. On 
completing his legal studies, he emigrated west 
and located at the frontier settlement of Liberty, 
Clay County. This was about the year 1830, and 
four years later he was elected to the State Legis- 
lature and was appointed on the commission which 
located the county seat of Clinton Count}'. He 
was re-elected to the Legislature in 1839, his suc- 
cess and brilliancy as a lawyer having already at- 
tracted attention all over the State. 

In 1841 Mr. Atchison was appointed Judge of 
the Platte County Circuit Court, which necessi- 
tated his removing his residence to Platte City. 
Upon the death of United States Senator Linn he 
was appointed to fill the unexpired term, was 
elected to the Senate in 1845, and again four years 
later. He was elected President pro tem. of the Sen- 
ate at one time, and as the inauguration day of 
Zachary Taylor fell upon Sunday, it is said, more 
in jest than earnest, that Mr. Atchison was Presi- 
dent for one day. During these years he and the 
great, aristocratic Benton affiliated politically and 
were in entire accord, but in 1848 he attached 



himself to the party of Calhoun, and thus from 
that time forward, though representing the same 
State, they were political antagonists. By com- 
bining the Democrats with the AVhigs under his 
leadership, Gen. Atchison succeeded in defeating 
Benton in 1850. Our subject advocated many 
measures which brought down the condemnation 
even of his own party upon him. In 1855 he re- 
tired from the Senate, but continued to the end 
of his life to take an active interest in politics. 

Two years after his retirement from public life 
Mr. Atchison became a resident of Clinton County, 
where he resided until summoned by the angel 
Death. During the war he was active in the in- 
terests of the pro-slavery party, and at one time 
had command of a body of troops. His fine li- 
brary and valuable manuscripts were destroyed 
by the burning of his brick mansion in 1870. Ihs 
death occurred January 6, 1886, and his remains 
were interred in the old cemetery of this city. He 
was one of the ablest men of his day, and his 
opinions upon all subjects were of bhat pro- 
nounced character which makes a man the warm- 
est friends and strongest enemies. 



/j^, EN. JAMES W. DENVER, deceased, was an 
(It ( —- old citizen of Plattsburgh, Clinton County, 
^-EJ|i where he resided for many years. He taught 
school for some time, and afterwards engaged in 
the practice of the legal profession. He went across 
the plains to California, and at one time was Gov- 
ernor of Kansas, making an able and efficient pub- 
lic officer. He was a Representative to Congress, 
and tilled various other civil and military otlices 
of great public responsibility and trust. 

The General had the great honor of having the 
beautiful city of Denver, Colo., given his name. and 
indeed it may be said that his name is familiar to 
most of the old residents of the State. His death 
occurred in 1892, his loss being regretted by a wide 
circle of friends and acquaintances. He was a 



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worthy citizen, always taking an active pari in :ill 
public affairs and doing whatever was in hi- power 
to advance the besl interests of bis fellow-men. 



OHN B. SHERWOOD is numbered among 

the early settlers of Buchanan County. T<> 

the brave and hardy pioneers, who were 

' the founders of the country's prosperity, a 

debt of gratitude is owed which can never be re- 
paid, but we can perpetuate their lives in written 
record, and among those mosl worthy to be re- 
membered in this county is the gentleman whose 
life history we will here endeavor to briefly trace. 
Oursubject was born in Richland County, Ohio, in 
September, 1821, and remained at his birthplace 
until the fall of 1839, when his parents removed 
with their family to Missouri, locating on the 
farm where Henry Manville now resides. Here 
the father entered one hundred and sixty acres of 
land, and to its cultivation devoted himself for 
many years. 

John B. Sherwood is the eldest of six children 
born to James and Margeiy (Braden) Sherwood. 
The father was a native of Maryland, while the 
mother was horn in the Keystone State. The 
progenitors of the Sherwood family in America 
emigrated from England at a very early date in 
this country '8 history. Oursubject was educated in 
Ohio, and in his nineteenth year came west to seek 
his fortune. In 1842 he wedded Mary, daughter 
of John Ray, who wasone of the oldest settlers of 
the county. Mr. and Mrs. Sherwood reared a 
family of twelve children, all of whom grew to 
mature years. The mother departed this life when 
her youngest child was an infant. 

In 1861, Mr. Sherwood became a member of the 
Slate Guards, and after a few months entered tin 1 
Confederate service under Gen. Gates, taking part 
in a number of engagements, those of Corinth and 
[uk'a among them. In 1863 he was honorably 
discharged and returned home to his family. 
Though not an office-seeker, he has been (riven 



most of the local positions within the gift of the 

people ot Jackson Township. In educational 

measures, and particularly in the scl I- of the 

county, Mr. Sherwood has long taken great inter- 
est, lie is one of the old-time Masons, having be- 
longed to the fraternity since the war. He has al- 
ways been very fond of hunting, and while en- 
gaged in that -port in 1890 his son Albert was ac- 
cidentally shot and killed. In politics he ha- been 
an ardent supporter of the Democratic party all 
his life. 

The fertile farm belonging to Mr. Sherwood is 
situated on section 26, Jackson Township. This 
valuable farm, which he has wholly improved him- 
self, comprises one hundred and twenty Here-, 
though he formerly owned a quarter of a section 
of land, which he pre-empted. Though conserva- 
tive in his business methods, he lias not hesitated 
to adopt new ideas of merit and practical useful- 
ness. For many years he has done a general farm- 
ing business, anil has been numbered among the 
progressive agriculturist- of the region. For about 
half a century he has been foremost in every- 
thing pertaining to the developmen t Of this portion 
of the county, doing everything in his power to 
promote her interest-. His career ha- been notab- 
ly honorable and free from that petty ineanne-- 
and over-reaching to which SO many men resort in 
order to become well-to-do. The poor ami needy 
have never been turned away from his door, and 
to rich and poor alike a warm hospitality has al- 
ways been extended by members of his family. 



o 



/gss& ui- .ia.mi'.s ii. liiian is tneomest living 

I'lf^, son of the late Judge .lames W. Birch, his 
V^y birth having occurred in Fayette, Howard 



OL.JAMES H. BIRCH is the oldest living 

is 
d 

County. Mo.. November 1 I. 1881. With his fath- 
er he came to Clinton County in 1841, locating 
in Corinth. Il<- was educated in a log sehool- 
house, ami with his elder brother, Charles, volun- 
teered ill the Mexican War and was with Maj. 
Walker a portion of that time. When not yet 



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seventeen years of age he was discharged from the 
service as Corporal, the stripes of the office having 
been given him for gallant service on the field of 
battle. lie was a member of the bod3"-guard of 
Gen. Trice during the last of that war. 

On his return home Mr. Bircb studied law un- 
der the guidance of his father, then on the Supreme 
Bench of the State, and before he became of age 
entered upon the practice of his chosen profession, 
afterward graduating from the law department of 
the Cumberland Univeisity, in Tennessee. Both 
he and his father were decided Union men, and 
he accepted the appointment of Aide-de-Camp to 
Gov. Gamble, with the rank of Colonel, and served 
as such until toward the close of the war, when, 
being arrested by the Confederates and paroled, 
he resigned. He was a Democrat, and in 1868 be- 
came State Senator from the Third District, which 
comprises Clay, Platte and Clinton Counties, that 
being the first civil office he had held up to that time. 
He was a faithful representative of the people and 
was author of the law abolishing the office of pub- 
lic printer, placing the work open to competition 
and thus saving thousands of dollars to the State. 
His energy resulted in securing the Asylum at St. 
Joseph, for though beaten each winter, he perse- 
vered, introduced the bill at a fourth session and 
finally secured its passage. This was the first dollar 
ever appropriated for this portion of the State. The 
Colonel also carried through a bill establishing the 
office of Prosecuting Attorney as a court office, 
and abolishing that of Circuit Attorney. He wrote 
the law settling the controversy between the State 
and Public School Fund, on account of the sale of 
stock in the old bank of Missouri, whereby $900,- 
(MMi was added to the public-school fund, which 
shows plainly his attitude on the important sub- 
ject of education. Many other laws bear impress 
of his character, and in 1892 he was a candidate of 
the Republican part}' for Congress, being defeated 
only on account of having such a popular oppo- 
nent as A. M. Dockery. 

In 1H7."> Col. Birch went to the Pacific Coast, 
where he remained for three years on account of 
his health. His home is in a beautiful grove of 
natural trees, just within the southern limit of 
Plattsburgh, which he improved in 1859. Helms 



been twice married and by his last wife reared a 
family of nine children. He is vigorous in body 
and mind and in many respects is a most remark- 
able man. He is believed to be the youngest sur- 
viving soldier of the Mexican War, and was in the 
historical charge of Maj. John Walker at Santa 
Cruz, under the direction of Gen. Sterling Price. 
The father of our subject, Judge James W. Birch, 
was a Virginian by birth and emigrated to Platts- 
burgh in 1841, having removed to the State in 1826. 
He was for many years Register of the Land Office 
in this cit3',and in 1848 was appointed Judge of 
the Supreme Court of the State. In 1866 he be- 
gan the publication of the Clinton County Register, 
which is now called the Register Lever. He was 
a leading politician and one of the best-informed 
men of his day. He was summoned to his final 
rest on January 10, 1878. One of his brothers, 
Thomas E., also came to this county in 1841, and 
was Register of the Land Office under Gen. Taylor's 
administration. 



OGAN MAXWELL. The homestead owned 
and occupied by Mr. Maxwell is one of the 
most desirable and attractive within the 
limits of township 38, range 35, Buchanan County. 
It is pleasantly located on section 29, and is em- 
bellished with a comfortable residence and farm 
buildings of ample proportions. The place indi- 
cates in a marked manner the hand of thrift and 
industry, and portrays to even the casual observer 
the fact that it is the abode of those who belong 
to an old and distinguished family. 

The father of our subject, David Maxwell, was 
born in Kentucky about 1790, and was the son of 
Edwin Maxwell, a pioneer of Green River County, 
in the above State, and an old Revolutionary 
soldier. The mother of our subject bore the 
maiden name of Ellen Armstrong, her birth also 
occurring in the Blue Grass State, about 1793. 
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tive of South Carolina, who removed to Kentucky 
during the early days in the history of thai Male. 
He also took part in the War of the Revolution, 
serving as a Captain under Marion. The Arm- 
strongs were of Dutch descent, while the Max- 
wells were of Scotch origin. 

The parents of our subject spenl their entire 
lives in their native State, dying in Caldwell County 
in 1820 and 1832, respectively. They reared a 
family of five children, all of whom arc living 
with one exception. Logan, the eldest-horn, was 
born in Caldwell County, March 2f>. 1813. His 
father dying when he was a lad of seven years, he 
was Obliged to look OUt for himself, .and as the 
schools of that period were conducted on the sub- 
scription plan, he received but little education. 

In the fall of lS.'Sli Logan Maxwell came to this 
Slate, and the following year located upon his 
present farm. He has in his possession the patent, 
signed by President l'olk. which he regards as 
quite a relic. His property was a wild and uncul- 
tivated tract, and the nearest trading-post was St. 
Joseph, four miles distant. Mr. .Maxwell can re- 
late many an interesting tale of those pioneer 
days, as he is the oldest living settler in this re- 
gion. Where the prosperous city of St. Joseph 
now stands, he, in company with a comrade, cra- 
dled one hundred and fifty bushels of wheat. To- 
gether he and his friend ate their dinner on the 
hill which is now the site of the court house. 

The first work of Mr. Maxwell on taking up his 
abode in this county was to erect a log shanty, the 
floor being constructed of puncheon and the roof 
of clapboards. He worked very hard in redeeming 
his farm from its original wildness, and in order 
to purchase his first cow was obliged to make 
twenty-five hundred rails. He located here he- 
fore Buchanan County was organized, and has 
seen great changes during his long life in this 
county, in the development of which he has been 
a vers prominent factor. 

The lady to whom Mr. Maxwell was married in 
the spring of 1835 bore the maiden name of Sarah 
Beard. She was the daughter of Adam Heard, and 
was born in Tennessee iii L816. After a happy 
married life of fifty-six years Mrs. Maxwell died, 
on the 17th of June, L891. she had become the 



ther nf eleven children, of "hum five are 

living. John A.. »liii married Annie B. Hagen- 

hiieh. has four children ; Knielinr i- keeping house 
fur her father; Annie, the wife of Rev. ('.('. Arm- 
strong, of the Presbyterian Church, has two chil- 
dren; Charles, who married Minnie Nell-, ha- 

Beven children; and Julia, wl larried the Rev. 

A. M. Reynolds, makes her borne in Maryville, 
this Slate, and is the mother of three children. 

Mr. Maxwell has always taken an active inter- 
est in educational affairs, and has contributed liber- 
ally of his means toward its support, lie was in- 
strumental in getting the schoolbouse located on 

his property, and has heen a inemher of the Board 
for many years. He has heen prominently identi- 
fied with the religious interests of thisc mnity, 

both himself and wife having heen members of 

Hie Pre8byterian Church for many years. He is 

the founder of the Oak Grove Church, which is 

located on his land, and which is now in a pros- 
perous condition. In his younger day- he took 
an active part in the Sunday-school work, having 
tilled the position of Superintendent for nian\ 
years. 

In politics Mr. Maxwell, in early years an old- 
line Whig, now votes with the Republican party, 
having taken a prominent pail in ii- organization 
iii (his county. He has heen frequently senl as a 
delegate to its various conventions, and deserves 
the high esteem in which he is held in it- ranks. 

Edward S. Maxwell, a deceased son of our sub- 
ject, was a inemher of the l'aw Paw Militia during 
the Civil War. and while guarding the jail was 
overpowered and disarmed by the prisoners, who 
escaped. John A., another son, has occupied the 
position of Road Overseer of Districl No. 20 for 
five years during the Democratic administration, 

which -peaks well I'd h i- ahllil \ as an officer, a- he 

i- a strong Republican. He i- a prominent mem- 
ber of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and 
in the Sunday-school has officiated as Superintend- 
ent many time-. 

Logan Maxwell is now in hi- eightieth year, 
measures in height 8ix feet, three and three-fourths 
inches, and weigh- one hundred and -event v- ti vc 
pounds. Thirty-two years ago he Buffered greatlj 
from a caneer on his chin, but bavins had it re- 



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moved, has since that time been in almost perfect 
health, and bids fair to live to a much greater age. 
On the fiftieth anniversary of his marriage. May 
21, 1886, a beautiful poem, which we take pleasure 
in publishing, was written and read by a niece, be- 
fore the family and friends convened upon that 
occasion. 

THE GOLDEN WEDDING. 



Read at the Fiftieth Anniversary of the 

Marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell, 

May 21, 188G. 



BY A NIECE. 

Dear uncle, aunts and cousins, 

We have gathered here to-day, 
As another party did. just fifty years this May; 

Only Grandmama was then young, 
And Grandpapa brave and strong, 

And for them the days were full of hope. 
And life seemed fair and long. 

But we are glad to-day for the vows 
That then were said, 

And the blessings that have come 
From them on each of our young heads; 

And we would have them feel 
To-day that the years have not been for naught — 

That eternity can only tell the good 
Their lives have fraught. 

But the part assigned for me 
To-day is to tell, as I can best, 

The story of pioneering and of their 
Coming to the West. 

And I hope as we grow older the story I tell 
to-day 
May be to each a lesson that will cheer us on our 
way. 

'Twas only nineteen months from the day we 
celebrate now 
That Grandpa said to Grandma, 

"We will sell our horses, pigs and cow 
And with the money go out West 

And pre-empt some land; 
Other men are going, and I want to try my hand." 

And Grandma, with heroism as true as any ever 
sung, 
Left home and mother and family ties, 

Although her heart was wrung; — 
Thought not of herself, bat of her babe, 

And others God might give; 
And said: "We'll go, we will want a home some- 
where to live, 



Where we can keep the children and make them 
feel, come woe or weal, they have a shelter- 
ing wing." 
And so they started 'mid tears and sad adieux, for 
well they knew 
That years, not days, would come and go in 
slow review 
Before they met again, and some would pass into 
the shadowed land, 
And only there might they hope to clasp the 
loved hand. 
But hope and health were theirs, and the ever-chang- 
ing scene 
Soon chased away the gloom, and every day 
some new delight was gleaned. 
The trust}' rifle ne'er missed its steady aim, 

And each day brought down the choicest game, 
Which, after passing Grandma's skillful hands, 
And boiled over red hot coal, came out the 
choicest viands. 
Willi appetites w T hetted by each autumnal breeze, 
And rarest colors (lung upon the far surround- 
ing trees, 
No wonder sleep was sweet, and good the plainest 
fare, 
And all was sure preventive against foreboding 
care. 
But our ships cannot always sail upon the smooth- 
est seas, 
Nor does our changeful climate bring all her 
days like these; 
And so to our white-capped schooner the winter's 
chilling blast 
Came, bringing its disaster ere the Missouri line 
was passed; 
And the days that followed, in which their hearts 
were tried, 
And hardship followed hardship, 
When hope e'en almost died, 

Are the times that you and I should revere 
most of all, 
And love the more the dear gray heads when we 
the scene recall. 
We know our childish fancy with wonder has 
oft been stirred 
At the story of the trials, which in growing up we 
heard 
Of Grandpa leaving Grandma and coming on 
alone 
To find a place of shelter and to find a way to 
come. 
And how on returning found Platte River with 
ice afloat 
And a wild and drunken ferry-man, who would 
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And when darkness came upon them be was 
stranded <m a bar of Band, 



But telling of other things tbej told "f a frlad 
surprise 



His only hope to try the depth and wade out to They had one October morning,jusl after a bright 



the land; 
And to reach the nearest house he bad to walk 

a long six miles, 
A fierce north wind a blowing, and his clothes 
freezing the while. 
And when they refused him lodging (although 
he begged it sore), 
Chilled and faint and weary, he had to walk two 
miles more. 
The winter had set in. and the Christinas time 
was near * 
When they reached their little cabin, and with 
merry cheer 
They put in their household treasures and ar- 
ranged the little store. 
Grandpa "chinking" up the cracks, while ( Irandma 
scrubbed the puncheon floor. 
But I have often suspected that Grandpa's job 
ill some parts lacked. 
For I have heard Grandma say when awake at 
night she could count the stars through the 
cracks; 
We would think it a great privation to lie with- 
out bread for noon or night or morn, 
Hut they and all their neighbors lived for two 
weeks on potatoes and green corn. 
I have heard Grandpa tell with pride the story 
I tell now, 
Of the bargain that he made to own again a cow. 
lie was to have his meals, which meant cold 
greens and corn-bread, 
And to cut and split twenty-five hundred rails, — 
that's the way the contract read; 
We think that Grandpa must have had muscle 
and a goodly share of grit 
To undertake the bargain, and when commencing, 
not to quit. 
But while Grandpa used his muscle in splitting 
out the rails, 
Grandma alone in the cabin, only a stone's throw 
from the Indian trails, 
Called into requisition her strength and coin- 
age too; 
She spun the yam and watched the trail as far as 
eye could view. 
And many a painted warrior and many a pony 
pack 
She watched with trembling terror behind the 
chimney stack 
For where this house stands to-day the narrow 
ribbon ran, 



sunrise; 
Grandma was getting breakfast, when, looking 
through a crack, 

she discovered coming down the hill two men on 

horseback; 
She quickly spoke to Grandpa and I guess it 
excited him — 
'•Two men," she said," I do belie \ c it's John Mans- 
field, and your brother Jim." 
Ami I guess from what i hey say, no gladder daj 
to them had ever come. 

To look again on faces dear, and hear the news 
from home; 
For not a wind had they ever heard, for there 
was no postollice near. 
So we do not wonder that to the lonely heart- 

tbeir coming brought sweet cheer. 

After they came, other- came, and Uncle -1 i in 
never went back. 
And through life was never freer from care; for 
companion- they did not lack. 
Uncle John went back for Aunt Margaret, and 
they took up a claim, 
And Uncle Edward brought Aunt Tabitha, and 
they did the same. 
Uncle Jim lived at Grandpa's and called him- 
self an old "hatch." 
Said he was afraid to marry, for his wife might 
not know how to patch. 
I do not know when their things wore out where 
they got other clothes. 
For they bad then no general store, only a trading- 
post at Joe Robidoux'. 
Afterward II. C. Perry had a shop, where we 
now call St. .Inc. 
And I have heard Grandma laugh and tell of buy- 
ing calico. 
When Uncle Alby Saxton tried tin- color-, to 

prove 1 hem fast. 

By chewing samples, but those days long ago have 
passed. 

The clerk's a banker; — the print that then 
brought Bftj cents, 

Is sold for si\, and money'- quicker made and 

quicker -pent. 

The day- have come and gone, and of the chil- 
dren to them born 
Almost half were called away at childhood's earh 
morn; 

To a son and daughter and daughter's son the 

dark-winged angel came near noon. 



t^ueeras it may seem, through our play-mound With a marriage vow m- a funeral dirge, they left 



passed the smartly Indian. 



the threshold, all but one. 



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To her alone is left the care, with daily presence 
and daily prayer, 
To make their last day as bright and fair as can 
be made in this world, where 
Sin and death lurk in every spot and the saints 
have trials in their lot. 
But let us that come and go, 

Who have been sheltered here in weal or woe, 
Know that we can help make life sweet to the 
tired eyes and tired feet. 
We have them with us to-day. 
But in another fifty years we may all have passed 
within the golden gates, 
Where the Lamb his Bridal waits. 



3<.., L->E=L~, « 

3 <T>b § 



^fjUDGE JAMES W. MANSFIELD, ex-County 
I Judge, whose residence is in St. Joseph, is a 
I prominent politician in Democratic circles, 
Agg/' a member of the Buchanan County Club, 
and in August, 1892, was made a delegate from 
the county to the State convention at Centralis, 
and was one of the committee of six who drafted 
resolutions to present to the State Legislature. Of 
the six resolutions, all were adopted. The other 
members of the committee were Messrs. Davis, 
Macy, and Brossfield, County Judge from Macon. 
Judge Mansfield was born in Platte County, in 
this State, near the town of New Market, on No- 
vember 28, 1841. His father, John C. Mansfield, 
was a native of Kentucky. The latter was a son 
of the Rev. James W. Mansfield, a minister in the 
Missionary Baptist Church, lie organized a num- 
ber of congregations, built churches and was very 
active in the various enterprises of his denomina- 
tion. He was a native of the Old Dominion, took 
part in the War of 1812, was one of the early 
settlers in Kentucky, and was of English descent. 
Our subject's father was a farmer by occupation, 
and was married in Kentucky to Miss Mary Max- 
well, who was born ill Caldwell County. A sketch 
of her grandfather, Logan Maxwell, appears on 
another page of this work. In 1837 Mr. Mansfield 
(Mine Wcsi by boat, locating first on a farm about 
three miles north of St. Joseph, where he resided 



for only a year, and then settled in Platte County, 
where he resided until his death in 18.30. He was 
an extensive agriculturist, raising hemp and to- 
bacco principally. In 1850 he started overland 
to California, and departed this life at Bear River. 
He was an old-line Whig, and was at one time 
Justice of the Peace. After the death of her hus- 
band our subject's mother married Evan Chestnut, 
a well-known farmer of this county. For seven- 
teen years Mrs. Chestnut resided with our subject, 
dying at the age of seventy-seven years. 

In a family of four children, of whom our sub- 
ject is the only son, but two are now living. He 
resided in Platte County until 1857, when he came 
to Buchanan County, living with an uncle, Ed- 
ward Maxwell. He received common-school ad- 
vantages, and in 1862 crossed the plains with 
freight, having four mules to each wagon. He 
secured loads at Nebraska City, and went by way 
of Ft. Kearney to Denver, taking forty-two days 
on the trip. In April they went over the Snowy 
Range, sold out and sent the teams back, return- 
ing in the fall of 1862 by stage. He went to 
Caldwell County, Ky., and after a short time re- 
turned to this city. 

Judge Mansfield was married to Miss Bridget 
Welch, who was born near Dublin, Ireland, of 
Scotch-Irish parents. After his marriage he rented 
a farm in Buchanan County, which he carried on 
for a few years. In 1875 he removed to Clinton 
County, where he purchased a farm, and at the end 
of one year sold it, investing the proceeds in land 
in Tremont Township, this county. At the ex- 
piration of three years he sold that place and pur- 
chased one in Monroe Township, where he engaged 
in tilling the sod until 1885, when he finally lo- 
cated in St. Joseph. In this city he engaged suc- 
cessfully in a wholesale and retail wood business 
for a couple of years. In 1880 lie was elected 
Constable of Washington Township, and served 
as such for a few years, after which he engaged in 
the grocery business at the corner of Ninth and 
Olive Streets. In 1888 the Judge was elected a 
member of the Council from the Eighth Ward, 
serving on various important committees, among 
these being those referring to Streets and Alleys, 
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elected County Judge from the Secoad District on 
the Democratic ticket, occupying that position 
from January l. 1891, until New fear's Day <>f 
1898. 

Mrs. Mansfield, who was called to her Bnal rest 
January 22, 1880, left a family of seven children: 
John W., who for three years has been Assistant 
Superintendent of the County Poor Farm; Ed L., 
who is in the employ of the Street Railway of 
this city; Harry, who is a fireman on the Chicago 
& Northwestern Railroad, his residence being in 
Chicago; Charles, who is engineer on a passenger 
train of the Chicago St Northwestern, running 
from Chicago: Etta, Mrs. Augustine, who resides 
in St. Joseph; Bobby, a fireman on the Chicago & 
Northwestern Road, his home being in Chicago; 
and Nellie. James W. Mansfield was married in 
St. Joseph to Mrs. Kate Forbes, a native of Platte 
County, where her fat ier, Price Shortridge, was 
an early settler and large farmer. To our worthy 
Subject and his present wife have lieen born two 
children: Price and J. \\\. Jr. Judge Mansfield 
is a member of the Ancient Free & Accepted Ma- 
sons, and is recognized as a prominent and enter- 
prising business man and public-spirited citizen. 
He is entirely worthy of the high regard in which 
he is held by his wide circle of friends and ac- 
quaintances. 



^mmmm^m^* 



/^EORGK MEIERHOFFER. Occupying a 
II <— _ prominent place among the successful en- 
^^J| terprises of st. Joseph are the cooperage 
works of George Meierhoffer & Brother,\the sub- 
ject of this DOtice being the senior member of the 
Arm. They conduct an extensive and profitable 
business on the comer of Fifth and Sycamore 
Streets, where they keep a complete line of staves, 
heading hoops, head lining and hoop nails, their 
specialty being fruit barrels and liquor kegs. 
Their works are equipped with the most modern 
and approved machinery, and the engine and 
boiler are of sixty-horse power. 



At the time the linn located upon their present 

Bite in ins?, they erected a brick shop. and gradu- 
ally enlarged their capacity and increased their 
facilities for conducting business. The shop lias 
two wings, each 10x100 feet in dimensions and 
two stories in height. Dry kilns, outbuildings and 
other conveniences may also be found here. 
Steady employment is given to a force of seventy- 
five persons, and shipments are made to Kansas, 

Nebraska. Utah, Colorado anil other State-. 

Our subject was bom in Boonville, Mo.. Sep- 
tember 7, I 852, and is of immediate Swi-s de-cent. 
His father. Jacob Meierhoffer. was burn in the 
canton of Zurich, Switzerland, and there learned the 
trade of a millwright and cooper. In 1849 he 
emigrated to America, and located in Boonville, 
Mo., where for a time he engaged in farming; he 
later carried on business a- a cooper, and also fol- 
lowed the trade of a millwright. He continued 
thu- engaged until, having accumulated a comfoi t- 
able amount of this world's good-, he retired from 

active labors. The business is now conducted by 
his son Charles. A Democrat in politics, lie 
Served in the State militia during the Civil War. 
and was a man of positive convictions and honor- 
able life. His wife, Elizabeth, was born in the 
canton of Berne, Switzerland, and is >lill living. 
They were the parent- of seven chi Idren, ti vc of 
whom arc now living. 

The third in order of birth in the parental fam- 
ily, our subject was reared to manhood in Boon- 
ville, Mo., and so meagre were his educational 
advantages that, only during three months of his 
life was he able to attend school. A- ■ as 

strong enough to raise a hammer, he commenced to 
work in a cooper shop, ami acquired a practical 
knowledge of the business. He continued to work 
with his father until seventeen years of age. in 
1869, when lie came to St. Joseph and worked at 
his trade. For a time he was employed with O. A. 
Smith, a pork-packer, and he was also in the em- 
ploy of llax Brothers, being foreman in the 
cooperage department. In 1872 he purchased their 
cooper shop, and conducted it with such enterprise 
and ability that it rapidlj increased in magnitude, 
until they now conduct the largest cooper business 
west of St. Louis. In 1884 the lirm became George 



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Meierhoffer & Brother, tlie latter being Rheinholt 
Meierhoffer. 

In St. Joseph, in L876, occurred the marriage of 
our subject to Miss Louisa Herrick, who was bora 
in Germany. Tueyare the parents of six children: 
Nettie, Lena, Rheinholt. Edith, Bertha and George, 
Jr. The family occupies a pleasant residence in 
the city, and is highly regarded throughout the 
community. Mr. Meierhoffer is identified with a 
number of fraternal organizations, in each of 
which he takes a prominent part. He is a strong 
advocate of the principles of the Republican 
party, but is not radical in his political opinions. 



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<fl SALTER C. STEWART, a practical eiectri- 

\/\lll c ' an °'" ^ t- J° se P n ' ' s Superintendent of 
tyVj the Lighting and Power Departments of 
the People's Street Railway, Electric Light and 
Rower Company, and is a very popular gentleman 
in business and social circles. He was born near 
Fairfax Court House, Va., June 30, 1851. His 
paternal grandfather, James Stewart, was born in 
Scotland and spelled the name Stuart. Our sub- 
ject's father, H. H. Stewart, was born in Ohio and 
was quite a land-owner in that State, where he was 
reared to maturity. When a young man he re- 
moved to Virginia, where he married Ann Waller, 
who was born in Fairfax Count}' and was a daugh- 
ter of Lorenzo Dow Waller, an extensive planter. 
The latter afterward removed to near Hillsboro, 
Ohio, where he engaged in farming until his death. 
He was a Whig and afterward a Republican. When 
he removed to the North he liberated all his 
slaves. After becoming a resident of the Old Do- 
minion, II. II. Stewart engaged in general mer- 
chandising. In 1^56, he returned to Ohio and 
operated a store in Hillsboro, Highland County. 
He is now a resident of Missouri. His wife died 
in Ohio when our subject, who was an only child, 
was quite young, and he was brought up by his 
grandfather on his farm. 

In 1861, Walter C. Stewart went to Cincinnati, 



where he learned telegraphy and pursued various 
studies until 1869. Then coming West, he ob- 
tained employment as an operating agent on 
different railroads, among which were the Santa 
Fe, Missouri, Kansas & Texas and the Union Pa- 
cific. For a short time he was local engineer be- 
tween Atchison and Emporia. 

In 1876, our subject left the railroad service and 
accepted a position in the State Agricultural So- 
ciety at Manhattan, Kan., as professor of that part 
of physics pertaining to electricity, and was also 
book-keeper for the college. He gradually as- 
sumed the professorship of several other studies, 
and remained with the institution until 1878. For 
the next few years he was in the telephone busi- 
ness with the Western Union Telephone Company, 
building exchanges in Missouri and Kansas, among 
which are those of St. Joseph, Atchison, Kansas 
City and Topeka. When they were consolidated 
into the Bell Telephone System, Mr. Stewart was 
appointed superintendent of the company at St. 
Louis, and also of the one at Kansas City. When 
the Missouri & Kansas Telephone Company was 
organized, he entered its employ as manager of 
the St. Joseph, Atchison and Leavenworth ex- 
changes. 

Mr. Stewart became a permanent resident of St. 
Joseph in 1882, and the following year he was one 
of the organizers of the St. Joseph Electric Light 
and Rower Company, being made general superin- 
tendent. He drew the plans, supervised the build- 
ing (located on Fourth and Mitchell Avenues), 
put in the machinery and arranged everything 
properly. His next move was to resign as super- 
intendent of the Ft. Worth and Atchison lines, al- 
though he remained for a time superintendent of 
the St. Joseph exchange. In 1889, the People's 
Company bought out the St.Joseph Electric Light 
and Rower Company, and he then helped to organ- 
ize and build the city electric light works, super- 
intending the same for two veins. In January, 
1892, he left them, and in February was given his 
present position. The capacity of this plant is 
that of thirteen hundred horse power, which fur- 
nishes light and power for all the street-car lines 
and station motors, and is one of the largest of 
the kind in the West. In 1886 Mr. Stewart was 





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one of Hit' principal incorporators of the St Joseph 
District Telegraph and Messengei System, of 
which he was Vice-President until 1892, when he 
Bevered his i onnection with it. 

our subject, who was a1 one time tin' expert 
electrician of the Townsend-Houston Electrical 
Company, for which he traveled, is a member of 
the National Electric Light Association and was a 
member of 1 1 ; t- old American District Telegraph 
Association, which lias now passed out of existence, 
and was also a member of the National Telegraph 
Association, lie is much interested in civic socie- 
ties, being Past Chancellor of the Knight- of 
Pythias, of the Independent Order of Odd Fel- 
lows and Encampment, and belongs to Pocohon- 
tas Tribe, 1. < >. R M. In Masonic circles he be- 
longs to La Fayette Lodge No. 16, A. F. & A. M., 
at Manhattan, and to Mitchell Chapter No. 89, K. 
A. M. He is Deputy Grand Master of St. Joseph 
Council No. 9, and Generalissimo of St. Joseph 
Commandery No. 1. K. T. He is High Priest and 
Prophet of Moila Temple. Mystic Shrine. 

In the village of Irving. Marshall County, Kan., 
Mr. Stewart was united in marriage with MissAb- 
bie C. Weeks. .Mrs. Stewart was born in New 
York State, and is the mother of four children: 
Karl K.. Mabel. Walter C, Jr., and Ruth. 



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ANIEL A. FINN, of St. Joseph, is one of 

I the most popular engineers on the St. .h>- 
seph & Grand [aland Railway, and stand- 
high with the officials Of the road. lie 
was born in Monroe County. Mich., on May 5, 
1h:?h. and when only live years old his father's 
death occurred. A family named Farwell then 
undertook the task of rearing and educating liiin. 
and willi them he Lived until seventeen years of 
age, working on the farm where the Farwells 
mad) their home. 

Our subject commenced railroading about the 
year 1858, when he was twenty years old, ami 
since that time has stuck closely to the business 

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His first employment was as tin-man on the Creat 
Western Railroad of Illinois, now part of the 
Wabash system. For live year- be served in the 
capacity of fireman with that company, and after 
six months in a similar position with the Hanni- 
bal & si. Joseph Railway, be was placed in charge 
of an engine. This was in 1863, and with that rail- 
road he remained for the succeeding eight years. 
In the fall of 1^71 Mr. Finn became connected 
with the St. Joseph & Grand [stand Road, and 

since that time, for a period of twenty-two years, 

ha- done faithful service for them. For the past 
fifteen years he ha- been an engineer of passenger 
trains, his present run being on No. 1 west to 
Hanover, a distance Of one hundred and twenty- 
eight miles, and on the return trip coming east he 
has charge of No. I. Our subject i- the oldest 
engineer running into St. Joseph, a- this has been 
a terminal for his trips since 1863. While with 
the Hannibal A- St. Joseph he was in charge of 
many train- with material for the construction of 
the Union Pacific and other Western road-. Thus 
he lias been active in railroad circles for thirty- 
five years, and it is his intention to complete the 
quarter-century in the service of hi- present com- 
pany and then retire, devoting himself to his fam- 
ily and enjoying the fruits of hi- years of sturdy 
and industrious toil. 

On the 20th of September, 1865, at Brookfield, 
Mo., Mr. Finn and Miss Susan Matthews were un- 
ited in marriage. Mr-. Finn is :i native of the 
Buckeye State, anil by her marriage ha- become the 
mother of a son and a daughter, Eugene Maximus 
and Ollie. They were both educated in the pub- 
lic SChool8. Mi-- Ollie is a natural artist, has 
given considerable attention to painting, and has 
aided in the adornment of the home by BBVeral 
tine paintings. 

Our subject, ill 1888, erected a handsome resi- 
dence in River View, one of the prettiest parts ,,f 
the city. This home is well built and is gur- 
rounded l>\ a beautiful lawn. In politics, Mr. 
Finn is an active Republican, and ha- contributed 
much to the party'- SUCCeSS in this region. lie i- 
an enthusiastic Mason, and believes that the fra- 
ternity ha- been of great benefit to him. He i- .•! 
member of St Joseph Commander] No. I; St Jo- 



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seph Chapter No. 14; and Charity Lodge No. 33. 
He also belongs to the Mystic Shrine of Moila 
Temple. He numbers among his acquaintances a 
host of friends, not only among railroad employes, 
but in this city, which has been his headquarters 
for so many years. In personal manner he is gen- 
ial, cordial and warm-hearted, being of a generous 
and friendly disposition. 



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CDLEY ROACH is one of the old settlers of 
Buchanan County, Mo., having been en- 
gaged in carrying on the farm where he 
now resides since 1859. This place is located on 
section 17. Center Township, lie was born in 
Estill County, Ivy., in 1833. and eleven years later 
he came with his parents to Missouri. The father 
purchased a farm in Platte County, where Mr. 
Roach grew to mature years. The latter is the 
third in a family of ten children born to Henry 
and Mary (Wills) Roach, who were both natives 
of, and reared in. Kentucky. Our subject's pater- 
nal grandfather, Henry, was born in England, and 
after coming to America served all through the 
War of the Revolution, and was married in Vir- 
ginia to a Miss Fly. 

Dudley Roach's surviving brothers and sisters 
are as follows: Simpson, who lives in Sumner 
County, Kan.; Frederick, a resident of Muscotah, 
Kan.; Henry F., also of Kansas; Sarah A., widow 
of Washington Simmans, of St. Joseph; Michael, 
of Oklahoma; Polly A., wife of William Magger, 
of Platte County; Andrew, who lives in this coun- 
ty; Mel in da, wife of Albert Knapp, of Norton- 
ville, Kan.; and Jesse N., also of Kansas. 

Dudley Roach received a district-school educa- 
tion and was reared to manhood in Platte County. 
In 1853 he married Susan Finnell. and five years 
later he removed to his fine farm, which has six 
hundred acres within its boundaries. His success 
is due entirely to his own efforts and industry. 
Until recently he was extensively engaged in 
sheep-raising, but now raises mules and horses. 



On the farm is a twenty-acre orchard, which was 
planted by him. He has, in addition to his home 
farm, some valuable property in St. Joseph. 

Six children came to bless the union of Mr. and 
Mrs. Roach. Catherine; Mary, wife of John Ar- 
thur; John, a resident of Troy, Kan.; Simpson, 
also of that State; Henry, deceased; and Fountain, 
who still lives at home. They have all been given 
good school advantages. Mr. Roach has been 
prominently identified with educational move- 
ments, as he lias been School Director since locat- 
ing in the count}'. During the war he was a mem- 
ber of the State militia. For many years he and 
his wife have been members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, in the faith of which Mrs. 
Roach died February 11, 1880. Politically Mr. 
Roach is a stanch Republican. He is a Royal Arch 
Mason, and is a member of the Independent Order 
of Odd Fellows. No one is held in higher respect 
in this vicinity than is the gentleman of whom 
this is a brief record, for his career in all circles 
has been marked with strict honor, integrity and 
justice. 



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OOTLE, LEMON & COMPANY, bankers of 
St. Joseph, Mo. This prominent and re- 
liable firm, which has been one of activity, 
but which has passed through many trials and re- 
verses, has been successful, both in securing a com- 
petency and in establishing itself in the respect 
and the confidence of the citizens of St. Joseph. 
This firm was organized in July, 1881), with a 
capital of *1()(),<>00, and a general unlimited part- 
nership composed of the following members: Thom- 
as E. Tootle, formerly President of the Merchants' 
Bank in this city; John S. Lemon, of the Huell 
Manufacturing Co.; James McCord, of the Nave .fc 
McCord Mercantile Co.: Samuel N. Nave, of the 
Mokaska Manufacturing Co.; and Graham G. 
Lacy, Cashier. The business has steadily increased 
until it now has a deposit of >Gon.<Hio, and it is also 
correspondent of a number of country banks, 
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The members of this firm arc responsible with- 
out limit for the indebtedness of this bank, and 
their business is in such a health; condition, made 
>u by the excellent conduct of Snancial affairs and 
by the fidelity and efficiency of its members, thai 
they feel perfectly secure in soliciting the patron- 
age of the people. This establishment is thorough 
in all business transactions, and neglects nothing 
that conduces to the adrancemenl of itself and its 
patrons; it is also an active factor in the local 
growth and prosperity, contributing liberally to- 
wards anything that serves the city in its upward 
progress. 



l" ^ T. DAVIS, the subject of this sketch, is 
V^i one who for his energy and character 
lss\ merits the approval and respect of all. He 
was born December 26, 1837, in Buchanan 
County, the first white child born in this section. 
His father, Ishmael Davis, a native of Maryland, 
emigrated when quite young to Kentucky and 
married Miss Nancy McDaniel, of Lewis County, 
in 1831. Immediately after this marriage, desir- 
ing a new tield of labor, they turned their faces 
Westward, stopping at Plattsburgh, Mo., awaiting 
the ratification of the Platte Purchase, and finally 
securing a claim theron. where their eldest child 
was born. The elder Mr. Davis was a man of great 
force of character, a feature which hi- son ha- in- 
herited to a marked degree. 

A- soon a- he was old enough to study, our 
subject's father -cut him to the common schools 
of the county, at that time being very deficient 
in educational facilities. When sixteen years old 
he entered the Western lliuli School, with the idea 
of fitting himself for a thorough collegiate course, 
but he was doomed to disappointment, 
spending three studious years under esteemed 
teachers, he found that his schooldays were over. 
Hi- father was one of the unfortunate bonds- 
men for Leander Ellis, the defaulting Sheriff ol 



Buchanan County. To satisf j the claims against 
him Mr. Davis, sr.. gave up everything — the old 

homestead to which the\ had all become attached 
going with the rest Imbued with the true Amer- 
ican spirit of reproducing values, hi- son imme- 
diately left school to commence the struggle of 

life, and. if possible, repurchase the old home- 
stead h\ his ,,wn efforts. This he succeeded in 
accomplishing after various reverses and successes. 
Mr. Davis was married in February, 1859, to 
Miss C. L. Bordston, of Platte County, with whom 
he lived happily until her death in 1861. In 
lie was married to Mar\ .1. Bordston, giv- 
ing his little daughter a mother in the person of 
his wife's sister. Dp to 1866 he had been en- 
gaged in various pursuits, but had failed to tind 
one that he was willing to make a life business, 
until his attention was called to the milling in- 
terest, then in its infancy in the West. He saw 
in it a tield for future successes that was equal to 
his ambition, and al once embarked in an enter- 
prise thai was to bring him wealth and laudable 
notoriety. His tirst venture was in the purchase 
of the Platte County Union Mills, where his apt- 
ness and fitness for his new business were soon 
made evident. Finding that country milling was 
too narrow a field for his ambition, he sold the 
Union Mills and went to St Joseph, entering into 
a co-partnership with K. V. Riley in the well- 
known City Mill-. Soon after A. I'.ealtie. the 

nt Mayor of St. Joseph, purchased Mr. Riley's 
interest, and the mills were run under the firm 
11:11110 of R. T. Davis a- Co. until l s 7 G . when Mr. 
Davis became sole proprietor. An untiring de- 
votion to business soon made him master of mill- 
ing in all it- branches, and the manufacture of 
line winter wheat tlour became to him an all-im- 
portant subject. Many improvements were made. 

until his favorite brand, "St. Joseph No. I," be- 
came a byword in the We-t for everything excel- 
lent iii the flour line. No new invention of merit 

i s lo the front but what it can be found in 

iv Mills. 
To keep pace with tin' rapid progression of the 
present time requires persistent and energetic la- 
bor, but to take the lead, a- the subject of our 
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try, pluck and genius more often wanting than 
found. One secret of Mr. Davis' success lies in 
the fact of his always employing the best skilled 
labor to bu obtained, regardless of cost, justly 
feeling that in a business where the article manu- 
factured comes before the general public for its 
reputation, and where the merited reputation is 
not only a matter of dollars and cents to the pro- 
ducer, but a test of ability, the verj best means 
should be employed to make it the best that the 
market affords. 

In compliment to his successful perseverance 
and energy, the citizens of Buchanan County pre- 
sented Mr. Davis with a magnificent gold watch, 
upon the case of which was inscribed: "Presented 
to R. T. Davis, April 23, 1877, by the citizens of 
St. Joseph and Buchanan County, Mo., in appre- 
ciation of his fancy brand flour, 'St. Joe Xo. 1,' 
as being the best flour ever sold in St. Joseph, 
Mo." It is a compliment worth many a struggle 
to have it said, as it is of Mr. Davis, "He stands 
at the head of the milling business in the West." 
A man of strict integrity, a member of the Meth- 
odist Church, full of enterprise and public spirit, 
a consistent Democrat, and a self-made man, we 
can but feel that the sketch of such a life will 
prove of interest to the general reader, showing 
the young that "There is no royal road to fame 
and fortune," but that it can only be gained by 
perseverance and hard work. 



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PUDLEY M. STEELE, the subject of this 
! sketch, was born near Nicholasville, Jessa- 
mine County, Ky. His father, Samuel Camp- 
bell Steele, was born in Virginia, and at an early 
date removed with his father, David Steele, and 
his three brothers, David, Thomas and William 
Steele, to Kentucky. Samuel Campbell Steele, the 
father of Dudley, was a prominent farmer and 
operated a flour and saw mill, and also a distillery. 
for many years. He married Elizabeth Mitchum, 
October 12, 1812, daughter of Dudley Mitchum, of 



Woodford Count}', Ky., who became the mother of 
nine children, of whom two sons and two daugh- 
ters are still living. Dudley was only seven years 
old when he lost his mother, and his father died 
when he was a youth of fifteen, when the care of 
the family devolved on his elder brother, William. 
Our subject left school after attaining a fair Eng- 
lish education, with some knowledge of the classics. 
His first start in life was in Lexington, Ky.. where 
he obtained employment with Dudley M. Craig, 
one among the largest merchants of the city. 

At the end of several years Mr. Steele found his 
health impaired from close attention to business, 
and having read the glowing accounts then circu- 
lated in regard to the rich soil of Missouri, de- 
termined to seek his fortune in the Platte Pur- 
chase. He was opposed strongly by his friends, but 
persisted in his determination. In the spring of 
1842, when barely of age, he mounted his horse, 
which he rode to Louisville. There he embarked 
on a steamer bound for St. Louis. On arrival at 
that city he continued his journey on horseback 
until he finally landed where the city of St. Joseph 
now stands, in June, 1842, and in that year com- 
menced farming in Andrew County, three miles 
west of Rochester. While on the farm he was ap- 
pointed Justice of the Peace of the township by 
the County Court. This position he held one 
term. 

In 1847 Mr. Steele married Miss Mary E. 
Mitchum, whose father was a well-known farmer 
of Woodford County, Ky. One child, a daughter, 
came to bless this union. The mother was called 
from this life June 17, 184'J, when her child was 
only a few months old. The farming operations 
of Mr. Steele had begun to tell upon his health, 
and he concluded to abandon agriculture. Ac- 
cordingly, in May, 1850, in company with twenty 
men from Andrew County, with ten wagons and a 
small drove of cattle, they started for the Golden 
State. On account of the Indians they were ob- 
liged to make plans for defense, and he was elected 
Captain. After numerous adventures and experi- 
ences they finally arrived in California, having 
been just four months on the way. 

Mr. Steele, finding that stock-raising was one of 
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fornia, entered into partnership with James Mo- 
Cord, and together they continued dealing in 
stock until the health of Mr. McCord induced him 
td sell his interest to hi- partner. In the fall of 
1851, tin- latter al>o sold nut ami returned by way 
<if Panama in his Missouri home. In 1852 he 
again purchased -tuck fur the California markel 
and became a member of the linn of Steele, Mc- 
Cord & Co., which wa> for many year- one of the 
most prominent in dealing in ami raising American 
sturk in Upper California, tie crossed the plains 
three times with trains, always returning by tin- 
water route. 

In 1858 Mr. Steele wedded Eliza Smith May, of 
Washington County. Ky. She was a beautiful 
ami accomplished lady, a devoted Christian, ami a 
loving wife and mother. Only three years after 
her marriage, she departed this life after a linger- 
ing illness of more than a year. One of her chil- 
dren died when quite young, but the elder one. 
John M.. is still living. 

Mr. Steele was elected to the Legislature in 1856 
from the district comprising Colusa and Tehama 
Counties, by the largest majority ever given in 
that locality. After giving up his California busi- 
ness, he, with the other members of the linn, em- 
barked in the wholesale grocery business in this 
city, also opened a house in Omaha, Neb., and has 
been almost continuously interested in the gro- 
cery business in both cities ever since. In .March. 
1868, Mr. Steele and Miss Minnie Withers were 
married. Of their live children, three still sur- 
vive. That same year our subject was elected 
President of the Fire and Marine Insurance Co., 
and was twice re-elected. About this time he 
was actively interested in the promotion of the St. 
Joseph & Denver City Railroad, lie was elected 
President of the company but was obliged to re- 
sign, as the duties were too arduous. In 1876 he 
was made President of the Hoard of Trade, and in 
the same year was a Direotor of the Bridge Com- 
pany. 

Again embarking in the wholesale grocery busi- 
ness in 1872, under the firm name of I). M. Steele 
& Co., our subject secured a location on Fourth 
Street, but afterward bu ill the present house on 
Third and Messanie Streets. The firm in 1884 be- 



came Steele a- Walker, which it is at present. Their 
house al Omaha ha- built up a large trade and i- 
nOW ill Charge Of Dudley Smith, a wide-awake 

young business man. assisted by his son, John M. 

Steele, under the firm name of D. M. Steele A I ■•. 



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7 R \\K I', "i l-.\ VWINE, whose residence is 



n one of the beautiful suburbs of St Jo- 
i)> seph, namely Wyatl Park, is Citj Electri- 
cian and Superintendent of the St. Joseph City 
Electric' Light plant. This position is one involv- 
ing considerable responsibility and requiring tin' 
skill of an expert in the management, a- there are 
twelve dynamo-, each having a two-thousand 
candle power, and each furnishing illumination 
through thirty lights. Also in the near future the 
city's lighting capacity will probably be increased 

by the introducti f three more large dynamos. 

This position of Superintendent also involves a 
heavy financial responsibility, as the lighting of 
the streets costs something like *!" per year for 
each lamp. Put all burdens are light to those like 
Mr. Yenawine. who is amply able to discharge the 
duties of a difficult position, both by reason of 
love fur the work and unusual fitness fur it. 

Mr. Yenawine began work a- a line constructor in 
Keokuk, Iowa, about twelve years ago, erecting a 
telegraph and telephone line to Chicago. In that 
city he engaged in electric-light work for a time, 
coming to St. Joseph in 1**7, where he established 
the American District Telegraph Company. Soon 

after he added tO that the St Joseph l'.lei trie Supply 

Company. Pur the People's Railroad Companj this 

Concern did all of the wiring and put in all of the 

incandescent lights in the stations, in addition to 
the street construction work. 

In September. 1891, Mr. Yenawine became Su- 
perintendent of the city plant and City Electri- 
cian, being the Brat who ha- ever occupied that po- 
sition. He has about sixteen men regularly cm- 
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efforts, St. Joseph is as well lighted and brilliant a 
city at night as can be found on these Western 
prairies. Mr. Yenawine is absorbed in his work, 
and fully realizes the truth that electricity is the 
great and coming power which will move the 
world. He is an expert electrician, thorough]}' 
familiar with all the details of his work. He has 
recently superintended the wiring of the new 
Crawford Opera House. 

Mr. Yenawine was born near Louisville, Ky., 
August 23, 1853. When he was a lad he removed 
with his parents to Keokuk, Iowa, where he grew 
to manhood. In that city his father, W. II. Yen- 
awine, carried on a large mill. When sixteen 
years old Mr. Yenawine commenced traveling for 
a house in Chicago, continuing in its employ un- 
til he commenced electrical work about the year 
1881. His brother was in the employ of a tele- 
phone company at St. Joseph, and afterward be- 
came superintendent of the system. He also 
served for two years in Kansas City as Superin- 
tendent of the Missouri & Kansas Telegraph Com- 
pany. His death occurred on the 10th of June, 
1890, when he was still in the prime of manhood, 
being only thirty-six years of age. It was largely 
owing to this brother's interest and recommenda- 
tion that Mr. Yenawine cast his lot with the in- 
habitants of St. Joseph. 

In this city, September 3, 1889, was celebrated 
the marriage of Frank P. Yenawine and Mrs. 
Mamie Maisner. Mrs. Yenawine is a lady of su- 
perior education and natural talent, and presides 
over her pleasant home in a very agreeable man- 
ner. 



dfUDGE HARRY KEENE is one of the most 
popular gentlemen in the city of St. Joseph, 
I and is the only one who has been elected 
County Judge on the Republican ticket since 
the late disfranchisement. In 1888 he was nomi- 
nated and elected by a large majority, being the 
only representative of his party who succeeded in 



the race that year. His term lasted from January, 
1889, to December 31, 1891, and during this time 
man}- improvements were made at the County 
Poor Farm, under his direction, adding greatly to 
the comfort of the inmates and the credit of the 
county. Various modern appliances, such as 
electric lights and steam heat, were placed in the 
institution, and during his administration a great 
change for the better was made on the roads in 
different districts. " These are only a few instances 
among many of the power he exercised for the 
good of his fellow citizens and constituents. 
Judge Keene is now engaged in the real estate 
business, and is Assistant Secretary of the Uvalde 
Irrigation, Manufacturing & Water Company of 
this city. 

The birth of our subject occurred in Bristol, 
England, September 18, 1847, his parents being 
Joseph and Elizabeth Churchouse Keene. They 
were both natives of England, as had been their 
ancestors for many generations. On the paternal 
side our subject's forefathers followed the, peaceful 
pursuit of tilling the soil. A sister of his mother, 
Mrs. Hodge, was a missionary to Canada. In 
1850 Joseph Keene sold his large farm in Eng- 
land and came to America with his oldest brother. 
Hi' located near Dubuque, Iowa, where he engaged 
in farming, trying to get a home and start in the 
New World before sending for his family. In 
1855 he returned and made all arrangements for 
their speedy emigration and started back, but from 
that day was never heard from, and it is supposed 
that he was murdered in Pennsylvania. The 
mother came to America some years after our sub- 
ject, and died in Park Ridge, Cook County, 111., in 
1877. She was a devoted member of the Epis- 
copal Church, and a woman of lovely Christian 
character. 

Our subject is one of thirteen children, four of 
whom were sons and nine daughters, and only five 
of whom yet survive. His oldest brother, Joseph 
C, was in Company A., First Iowa Infantry, en- 
listing at the first tap of the drum for the three 
months' service, and then for a period of three 
years. He died in Belleville, Republic County, 
Kans., in 1 S92, was an ex-County Judge, Justice 
of the Peace, and a prominent man in that state. 



PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL KKCORD. 



669 



Our subject was reared on a farm near Bristol, the 

place of his birth, and attended the con □ 

schools. He was onlj ten years of age when he 
was apprenticed to the drag business for three 
years, and next, until 1864, was in the employ of 
a butcher. He was then fireman on the Bristol A. 
Exeter Railroad for three years, when in 1867, he 
decided to seek his fortunes in America, and ac- 
cordingly left Liverpool on a steamer, the "City 
of Paris,'' which fated vessel went to the bottom 
on the return trip. At the end of eight days Mr. 
Keene landed in New York city, going directly to 
Chicago and worked until the following spriug on 
a farm in Cook County. Coming to St. Joseph, he 
obtained employment as fireman on the old Platte 
County Railroad, which later became the Missouri 
Valley, and is now the Kansas City Line. In 
1870 he became an engineer and was in service for 
seven years between Kansas City and Omaha, dur- 
ing all those years being so fortunate as not to be 
in any serious wreck. In 1877 he retired from his 
position as engineer, running a restaurant, on Ed- 
mond street until 1880, when he sold out and 
turned his attention to manufacturing soda and 
mineral water, taking as his partner James Hay- 
ward, under the firm name of Keene & Hay ward. 
Their manufactory was on Third street, and there 
they continued in business until 1890, when they 
sold out, since which time our subject has been 
largely engaged in the real estate business. 

In 1890 Mr. Keene became interested in the 
Uvalde Irrigation. Manufacturing & Water Com- 
pany of Uvalde County, Tex. The company owns 
twenty-five thousand acres, and their object is ob- 
taining a water supply for irrigating that dry por- 
tion of the state by means of canals connecting 
with the Mississippi river. The sum of $350,000 
was required for the construction of these aque- 
ducts, but the returns are sure, as by this means 
a large part of country otherwise useless is re 
claimed for farming purposes. This county is on 
the line of the Southern Pacitic Railroad, ninety- 
three miles west of San Antonio. 

Probably no man in this vicinity is more inter- 
ested in civic societies than is Judge Keene. par- 
ticularly in the Masonic fraternities. He is 
Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Mis 



si>uri of the An -mi, t I i.-. ,v Accept, d Masons; is 
a member of St. Joseph Lodge, No. 78, Ancient 
free \ Accepted Masons; of St. Joseph Chapter, 
No. 14, Royal Arch Masons; was thrice Illustrious 
Master of the Royal & Select Masons, St. .bis, |,i 
Council, No. 9; is a member of St. Joseph 
Commandery, Lodge No. 4, Knights of Pythias. 
He belongs to the Temple Shrine, and a charter 
member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. 
In 1880 he became a representative of the Sub 
ordinate Lodge, and rose through the different 
offices of the Grand Lodge, being appointed in 
November of 1892 Deputy Grand Master of the 
Grand Lodge of Missouri. In 1886 he was made 
District Lecturer of the Twelfth District .if this 
state, which includes Buchanan, Andrew and De 
Kalb counties. From 1887 to 1892 he held the 
commission of Deputy Grand Master of the 
Twelfth .Judicial District, and in ISSN was ap 
pointed Representative of the Grand Lodge of 
Colorado, from Missouri, by Grand Master Will 

iam D. Todd, and still holds the appoint men! . 



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f(OHX A. DOLMAN, Judge of the Police 
^. I Court of St. Joseph, has been a prominent 
{J officer before the public in this locality for 
many years, and has been intimately con 
nected with most of the important, enterprises car- 
ried on in this city. He has always given his time 
and efforts to the general good, and but little 
toward the advancement of his personal interest. 
Though he saw others around him making fort ones 
lie did not avail himself of the many chances open 
to him to do likewise, but has carried into practice 
his idea that much wealth is not a desirable thing. 
few movements toward the extension of city limits 
and privileges have been set on foot but lie has 
endeavored to promote the same. During the 
format ive period of t he St . Joseph &< (rand [aland 
Railway he was Secretary ami has always been 

closely connected with all railroad enterpt 

centering in this city. 



G70 



PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 



Mr. Dolman was born nearZanesville, Muskingum 
County, Ohio, on February 1, 1822, and was reared 
to manhood on his father's farm. On reaching his 
majority he started out to seek his fortune aud 
first went on a flat-boat from his native town to 
New Orleans, taking goods to that city. He then 
came up the river to St. Louis, and for five years 
was a clerk in the office of the Missouri Republican, 
now called the Republic. Col. George Knapp was 
then the proprietor of the paper, and in 1852 our 
subject accompanied the latter to the celebration 
in Hannibal in honor of breaking the ground for 
the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad, since which 
time Mr. Dolman has been closely connected with 
all interior improvements. In 1849 he engaged in 
the real estate business in St. Louis and five years 
later came to this city, representing St. Louis 
owners of land lying close to the city, their object 
being to divide, plat and place them on the 
market. St. Joseph's business portion then was 
east of Main street, and occupied space that has 
long since become the bed of the Big Muddy river. 
Mr. Dolman perceived the importance of this citv 
as a commercial center and resolved to cast his lot 
among her citizens. He at once brought his family 
from St. Louis aud for thirty-nine years has been 
closely identified with everything that has added 
to the prosperity of the "Electric City." Scarcely 
an addition to the place at those early days but 
was promoted by his energy and activity. Largely 
through his ability, enthusiasm and personal at- 
tention the village of a few hundred souls grew 
into a city, its once limited streets now stretching 
for miles in each direction. Beautiful wooded 
spots, then in the open country, were set aside as 
parks, now the present magnificent breathing places 
for the city, and the surrounding forests and corn 
fields were turned into beautiful homes for the 
rapidly increasing populace. The subdivisions of 
South St. Joseph, Northwest St. Joseph, part of 
Patee's Addition and part of Smith's Addition 
were added under the improvement and extension 
companies in which Mr. Dolman was much in- 
terested. 

Though Mr. Dolman has never occupied the 
Mayor's chair he has filled equally important po- 
sitions, at the present time serving his twelfth year 



as a dispenser of city justice. He was first elected 
as Recorder in 1859, serving as such for three 
years, when Jefferson Thompson was Mayor. After 
an interval of nineteen years we find him again in 
the Recorder's seat, being elected in 1882 for two 
years. In 1886 he was again chosen and served 
for four years, being succeeded by Judge Sanford 
in 1890, which gentleman, an able jurist and up- 
right citizen, died while an incumbent of the office, 
and our subject was appointed to fill the unexpired 
term of seven months, and at its expiration in 1892 
was elected for the seventh time as Judge of the 
Criminal Court in this city. The business of this 
court has kept pace with the city's growth and 
from the few criminal cases that he was called to 
pass upon in 1859 the Judge now decides upward 
of three thousand cases a year. While the stern 
demand of the law requires prompt and unsympa- 
thetic decisions in the disposal of the numberless 
cases incident to every city, Judge Dolman has a 
heart which is quick to respond to innocent suffer- 
ing, and many offenders are let off with. good ad- 
vice and a word of sympathy when a less tender 
Judge would impose a sentence carrying with it 
a sense of shame and a degrading rather than an 
ennobling influence. In addition to his judicial 
service to the city the Judge has served as City 
Register and Assessor, also being a member of the 
City Council for several years, and was County 
Coroner for some time. Though never admitted 
to the bar, the Judge is well read on law, his ad- 
vice and counsel being highly esteemed. 

Upon the outbreak of hostilities in the late Civil 
War Judge Dolman early became a member of a 
company of militia, which Gen. Bassett had raised, 
and on his promotion our subject was made Cap- 
tain, first of Company F, enrolled Missouri mili- 
tia, and later of Company M, Third Provisional 
Regiment, a command that was incidentally in the 
United States service. Afterward our subject be- 
came a member of Company F, Eighty first Regi- 
ment, and in addition to his duties in the ranks he 
was made General Mustering Officer for Northwest 
Missouri. He was Judge Advocate of the Military 
Commission and Commissary of Exemptions and 
during the latter part of the service was Major on 
the staff of Gen. James Craig. 



PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 



671 




s APT. MICHAEL M. KANE i- Chief of 
the Fire Department and is deserving of 
great credit for the fine system of protec- 
tion from liivs which is so generally commended 
in St. Joseph. Since 1879 Mr. Kane has been con- 
aected in some capacity with this department, but 
at th.it time the city was furnished with only two 
stations. As the city has increased in population 
and building enterprises have been advanced in all 
portions, it has been found necessary to have ad- 
ditional protection, and they now have nine wcll- 
equipped fire engine stations, employing forty-four 
men, twenty-three of whom have been added since 
our subject was made Chief. He has also two as- 
sistants and lias a wide field of supervision. lie 
keeps well posted on the modern methods of cop- 
ing with lire and has made a special study of Chi- 
cago's provisions for lire protection. 

Mr. Kane was born in Cole County, Mo.. August 
15, 1855. and is a son of .lames and Mary (Burke) 
Kane. The parents were both natives of County 
Tipperary, Ireland, and emigrated to America 
when young. The former was foreman of the 
building of tunnels on the Missouri Pacific near 
Jefferson City for some time, and in the fall of 
1856 came to St. Joseph, where he engaged in 
steamboat ing on the Missouri River for some years, 
and latei engaged in teaming and freighting until 
shortly before his death, which occurred in April, 
1888, he having reached the age of seventy-three 
years. Our subject's mother died in 1878, leav- 
ing a family of seven children, all but, one of 
whom are yet living. 

.Mr. Kane, who is the eldest of the family, re- 
ceived a good education in the public schools and 
attended the Christian Brothers' College at Si. 
Joseph, lie early commenced to make his own 
way in the world, and worked in a brick-yard un- 
til 1871. lie was apprenticed to Charles Sher- 
wood, Jr., to learn the drug business, but at the 
em! of three years he found it too confining and 
therefore entered the employ of F. 1,. SommerS A 
Co., cracker manufacturers, continuing with that 
firm until April. 1879, at which time he firsl be- 
came connected with the lire department, being 

engaged as :i substitute. So faithfully did be per- 
forin his duties that he was retained iii service, 



and at the end of eighteen months was made fore- 
man of one of the two existing companies. In 
1882 he received an appointment as Assistant 
Chief from (apt. Posegate, who was Mayor at that 

time. In that capacity he acted for three \ear~. 
and was then raised to the rank of ( [lief of the 
Department by II. R. W. Hartwig. 

\iiout thi- time it was considered, and justlj 
too. that politics should not enter into the <pic>- 
tion of appointments, and since that time all has 
been left in the bands of the Chief, who i>. of 
course, in a position to know belter than the out- 
ride public the men who are qualified to fill 
higher positions. In 1885, when Mr. Kane as- 
sumed charge as Chief, there were four stations 
only in the city, since which tune be has been ac- 
tive in seeming much additional protection and 
has more than doubled the number of Stations 
lie takes great pride in the etlicieucy of this de- 
partment, which is so largely under his control, 
and which he has year by year drilled, until it has 
now become one of the best in the Western cities. 

Mr. Kane was an organizer of the Park Bank, 
was formerly a Director and is still a stockholder, 
lie also owns interest in different building and loan 
associations, is a member of the Ancient Order of 
I nited U'm kmen and of the Sherman Club. He is 
at present First Vice-president, and on the Execu- 
tive Committee. of the Association of chief Engi- 
neers, and attend- the meetings Of the A--ocia- 
tions every year, iii 1891 going to their conven- 
tion in Detroit, and the following year to Louis- 
ville, Ky. Our subject is a Democrat, and is a 
member of the Catholic church, attending the 

Cathedral. 



A V I I) SE R I.KS was born in Tuscarawas 
m County. Ohio. Ma\ 2, 1839. His father. 
John W., was born in the same county, 
while his grandfather. David, for whom he was 
named, was a British subject, but on coming to 
America soon espoused the cause of freedom \>\ 



672 



PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 



entering the ranks of the American army under 
Gen. Putnam, and fighting for American freedom 
until peace was declared. He died at a ripe old 
age. 

Our subject had but a very meagre chance for 
obtaining an education, yet had enough to enable 
liiin to pass through life very creditably thus far, 
always managing his business himself, all through 
the various vocations he has followed, such as 
farmer, stock and grain shipper, and merchant. 
He is now back at farming again, the only inde- 
pendent life a man can satisfactorily lead. His 
wife, to whom he was united in 1861, was Miss 
Prudence Salisbury, of Ohio, born in 1841, a daugh- 
ter of Peter and Martha (Abrams) Salisbury, for- 
merly of Massachusetts, and a descendant of an old 
English family of note in their native country. 

They have two children to bless their home, 



David, Jr., born November 10, 1863, and Italda 
P., born February 2, 1865, a modest-appearing 
young lady of much note in her circle of ac- 
quaintances. She possesses a fine musical talent, 
accompanied by a soft contralto voice, full of 
pathos and meaning in rendering her songs. 

Mr. Series is one of the substantial farmers of 
this section. He raises and feeds large numbers 
of cattle and hogs, and has a good acreage of 
cereals of all kinds. He is a Republican of a de- 
cided kind, but aspires to no political notoriety, 
his farm interests needing his whole attention. 
He is a supporter of the Baptist Church, to which 
he is very much attached, as likewise are his wife 
and children. A kind and devoted Christian hus- 
band and father, a good neighbor and citizen, he 
deserves well of the community in which he lives. 





BIOGI^^Ksfl Li. 



.... : 



U>ercrombie, R. M 174 

AI..-I1. J. J I M 

Academy of Mm- Sacreil 

Heart nil 

Adams, Jolin 23 

Adams, John y 33 

Adams, W. K 206 

Adkins, Hon. G. G BOS 

A.lsit.S. M 174 

Albrechl & Huber 270 

Allgaler, M.s 546 

Aiubr se,J. W 1*7 

Andrews, L. G 527 

Andria Joseph 453 

Inge), John 132 

Arnholt Cant. Philip 888 

Arthur, Chester A ... 99 

Uhbrook, Mahlon 128 

Uchiaon, Hon. I>. B 650' 

Atkinson, F. M 126 

Audriano, QustaTUS 474 

Austin, J. M., M. 1> 377 

\» lesbury, Thomas ,".7o 

Aylesbury, W. T .M7 



13 



I, W.M 628 

Baker, B, E M4 

Bauble, ttaj. A.T 138 

Beck, Dominlck 624 

Behr, "ti 589 

I:. II, .1. M..M. n his 

it. Dr. J.T 268 

II. i. John "17 

O. D 160 

mtahT.Q. 1 587 

rstaff, W.l 

Birch, Col. J. II 668 

Bland, W. W., M. l> 583 



: 



Bloomer, John .".in 

Boone, H c :i:«; 

B K.R 388 

Boring, J. A us 

Mo wen, H. J 157 

Boyd.C. H..H.D 110 

Bi i- - W. E 199 

Breckenrtdge, Judge A. A .58] 

Brewster, A. W 

Brilhart, Prof. 1>. S 171 

Br< der, .'■ >hn 163 

Brown, A. H 

Brown, C. F 358 

Brown, Hon.T. A 2K8 

Browne, Francis 523 

Browne, W. J 

Bryan, .1. s . 188 

Buchanan. James 7.". 

Buckingham, H. G 239 

Buechele, William 384 

Buell, G -ge 133 

Burgess, T.J 118 

llurke. Dr. H..J 602 

urnes, C. F in: 

Burnes, H..n..T. N 264 

Bumham.C. N 190 

Busbnell, Rev. Albert 'J7H 



Cahlll.F. U 548 

Campbell, O. B., M. D 186 

Canady.C. M 317 

II, mi. J. H 287 

P.J :.in 

Carpenter, B, S. . m; 

Carpenter, B, r . M l> 143 

I irpi oter, W. II 188 

Cars C, W 815 

Carson, 8. .1 168 

Carson, s U 128 

Carter, ('. M Isl 

(caviezel, .1 A 131 

Chambers, Frank 397 

Chastain.C. Vt ,, M. 1> 368 

< Ihrlstopher, Hiram, M D 126 

ii,i'. B 525 



Cleveland, 8. Grover 108 

Cloud, s I. . M D 808 

Coberly, W. D ■'■<■'■ 

Cochrane, H.8 

Collins, Frank 

Connell. K T 

Connett, ll T 600 

II. M 108 

( iopeland, Abner 142 

Corbitt, J. H 18 

Corby, John 

I orington, .1. C 417 

< Jornelius, W . \ t ; it> 

Cowan. Hon. S.D 125 

Cozine, G. l 865 

Crawford, " H..M. D 503 

Cr,,ws. Thomas 568 

Crowther, E. .1 269 

Cnllen. Rev. B. J 29J 

Curd, Isaae 283 

l in li~. Harry 178 

Custer.J.E 227 

Czech, Charles 



1) 



Daily, W. F 687 

i on, K. M 878 

Dai is, 1 1. in. Abraham r.to-" 

Davis, Capt. .1. ll 

Davis, John "'17 

Davis, K. I 665 

DaWSOn, Will nun 41,0 

Deaklns, J. a 510 

De Fonda, I E 314 

od.John 

. Ceil. .1. W 

Uberl :i7'.i 

DeStelguer, Eugene ISO 

Devorss, Rev. Hiram 506 

Dolman, .1. A 689 

in, Hon. F. A .--'■' 

bertv, \. H 

[ lass.J. W 

II Q. W . M. I' 260 

Downea, William 

Drals, James 161 



J G 

Dumbell, John 629 

Dunn, II. W 

Dyer, I.T.,Jr 193 



E 



Eckel, E.J in 

Flam. U.T...M. ll 

C. P 507 

Fills. F. B Mil 

Flhs. T. M Jlls 

Elmeodorf, ll. 1 287 

F.i list, F. F 

Sstep, .lae.,1, -J7.t 

Evans, I,. I. ua 

Evans, T. W 128 

Swing, W.J i B 



/ 



li. W. ti 826 

Farris.S. 1) 610 

FauceU, K. H 294 

\. .1 60S 

Ferrell, Judge .hum's Ill I 

Field, F. A 688 

Field, P.B 

Fillmore, Millard 81 

Finn. I'. A 

Force, D. H (28 

Foster, George 828 

il. l > 

.J.A..M.D ti : 

Fuller!. .n,, I. II 166 

I hi \ ,.\ e, F. 1' 588 



11:11111, I 8. . 
tiaim. B. \ 



.497 

III 



674 



INDEX. 



Gant. J. O. K.,M. D 446 

Gardner, E. 31 496 

Garfield, .Tames A 95 

Sates, Col. Elijah 127 

Gates,.!. E 601 

Gates, L. W„ M. D 583 

Gaugta.C. T 477 

Geiger, Jacob, M. 1) 141 

Geiwitz, J. G 197 

Qernandt, William 378 

Getchell.H. G 234 

Gibson, H E 374 

Gibson, J. A 349 

Gibson, J. \V 630 

Gibs W. E 457 

Gilmer, O. M 195 

Goetz, M. K 510 

Good, G. M 410 

Good, J. R 198 

Gooding, John 577 

Goodwin, Tobias 508 

Gore, J. A..M.D 230 

Graham, Rev. F. W 447 

Grant, Ulysses S 87 

Grebel. Hugo 538 

( hreenard, Stephen 621 

Grill, W. U 445 

Grubb. Judge J. P 223 



H 



Haefeli, Wernbard 305 

Hall, Thomas 643 

Harrison, Benjamin 107 

Harrison, William Henry. . . . 51 

Hartwig, Hon. H. K. W 203 

Hawkins, Rev. T. H 6:55 

Hayes, Rutherford B 91 

Haymore, J. P 496 

Heck, Herman 290 

Heddens, J. W., M. D 193 

Herach, Martin 044 

Heuschele. Phillip 4*0 

Hllgerl , Michael 363 

Hinckley, A. C 56s) 

Hockaday, \V. D 196 

Hoffman, w. R 199 

Hohl, G. M 200 

Horn.C. L 304 

<r Hubacher, C. A 155 

Hudspeth, J. D 607 

Hull, James 468 

Hull, J. C 313 

H I, William 360 

Hyde, A. C 605 



Jackson, Andrew 43 

Jefferson, Thorras 27 

Jester, John 560 

Johnson, Andrew 83 

Johnson , J. F 319 

Johnson, J. K 35fi 



K 



Kane, Capt. M. M 671 

Earns, G. S 608 

Kastor, H. W 300 

Kearny, Charles 216 

Keene, Hon. Harry 668 

Keily, Rev. Denis 418 

Kelley, Hon. H. S 120 

Kemper, Hon J. Q. A 500 

Kennedy, J. J 557 

Kennedy, Thomas 517 

Kercheval, J. K 324 

Kessler, Jacob 403 

King, C. C 376 

Kingsbury, C. P 416 

Kirk, Hon. A. D 258 

Kline, H.J 439 

Klos, Anton 627 

Knapp, George 565 

Kneer, J. C 48!) 

Knight, C. F., M. D 556 

Krug, Henry, Jr 519 

Krumm, William 898 

Eunkler, Kev. Seraphim 407 



La Follett, Jeremiah 100 

■ Land is, Israel 340 

Lechtman, Isaac, M. I> 298 

Lemon, J. S 138 

Leonard, J. L 437 

Lewis, F. W 393 

Liebig, William 339 

Limbird, Hon. James 277 

Lincoln, Abraham 79 

Linnenkamp, Rev. C 475 

Little, P. C 622 

Loan, Gen. B. F 172 

Logan, J. S., M. D 161 

Lower, Henry 546 

Lower, Isaac 455 

Lykins, J. A 350 



[ng'cs, Charles 

Islaub, A. F 



.2)3 

.415 



M 



MacDonald, Capt. C. C 257 

Mai linger, Jacob 383 

Hadlson, James 31 



Mansfield, Hon. J. W 658 

Marshall. D. E 404 

Martin, Bert 484 

Martin, Rev. Charles 209 

Martin. Patrick 572 

Martin, Z. T., M. D 425 

Mast, Fritz 528 

Matney, W. M 493 

Maxwell, F. W 520 

Maxwell, Logan 654 

■locale, J. F 408 

McCauley, Jacob 614 

McCorkle, N. M 366 

McCrauor, C. D., M. I) 549 

McDonald, D. M 629 

McDonald, H. L 228 

McDonald, J. 1 618 

McDonald, R. L 119 

McDonald, W. F 612 

Mclnerny, Joseph 251 

Mclntyre, H. B 565 

McMichael. J. M 647 

Meadows, W. C 528 

Mcierhoffer, George 659 

Meyer, C. F 229 

Meyer, Oscar 479 

Michel, John. - 539 

Millan, Hon. J. A 275 

Miller, Prof. C. F, 205 

Miller, D. C 345 

Miller, I. N.,M. D 216 

Mitchell, Hon. James 217 

Monroe, James 35 

Montgomery. John 148 

Moore, Benjamin 359 

Moore, E. T. , M. D 467 

Moran, John 519 

Morey, A. M 639 

Morgan, R. S 611 

Morley, Patrick 460 

Morris, G. w 297 

Morrison, W.S., M. D 469 

Moss, J. B 204 

Mudge.S. R 536 

Muehe, G. L. H 303 

Muehleisen , John 206 

Mil II. -n. L. N 533 



N 



Nash, E. H 176 

Nash, R. M 326 

Neely, E B 27fi 

Nelson, N. P 369 

Newberry. O. P 405 

Newman, Rev. Andrew 429 

Nielson, Hans 121 



o 



Oppeaheimer, Joseph. 
Owen, J. A 



.250 
.117 



Packard, C. E 390 

Packard, J. L :;i;i 

Patton, Bernard 317 

Pfeiller, Joseph 151 

Phillips, Hon. F. D 387 

Pierce, Franklin 71 

Piner, J. A 289 

Polk, James K 59 

Posegate, Capt. F. M 210 

Potter, T. E., M. D 287 

Puree]], Michael, M. B 285 

Pyne, M. B 353 



Q 



Quinn, Jeremiah 429 



R 



Rea.R. W., M. D 


...488 


Read, A. D 


...533 


Reed. M. A 


...131 


Reynolds, H. B 


...621 


Reynolds, J. J 


...530 


Reynolds, S. D., M. D 


...404 


Richmond, J'. M., M. D... 


. ..323 


Riley, J. B.,M. D 


...165 


Ritchey.J. c. M. Ii 


...396 






Roberts, Hon. J. C 


..217 




...426 


Robinson, J. H. C, M. D.. 


..104 


Rogers, Capt. J. S 


...152 



Sallee, William 183 

Samuel, (i. W 131 

Sandusky. O. A 220 

Sal sky, w. h 599 

Sautter, John 637 

Saxton, Cyrus 235 

Saxl on, James 643 

V Schlupp, N. J 353 

Schuster, Col. A. N 119 

Scott, Samuel 579 

Senor, S. D., M. D 561 

Series, David Oil 

Sheldon, Allen 367 

Shepherd, Hon. w. M 124 

Sherman. G. L., M. D 571 



INDKX. 



675 



Sherwood, Re. . E. B 258 

Shan I, J B tv.vs 

Sherwood, W. M :«• 

Shirley, W. M 280 

Shall, O.J 580 

Siemens, C. J . M. D 170 

Simmon, John 500 

Simmons, F. A., H I' 4ln 

Skouten, Allen 593 

Smedley.J. M 314 

Smith, Hon. Qeorge 504 

II. II 545 

Smith, Capt. I. S 333 

Smith, Rodney 554 

Smith, 11. .n U . I! -2SH 

Snowden, II. <> 224 

Snyder.J. H., M. I> 115 

Snyder, .1. it 633 

Snyder, W. P 47:1 

Sowdon, A. l; 460 

Sparks, J. H..! 57s 

Spencer, Bon " M 136 

i. ii. M 486 

Spratt, E. 11 320 

Spratt, w. E 154 

Stafford, J. B 315 

Staley, W.C 594 

Stanton, Hon, W. U 280 

Stark*. .1. " 219 

Slarks. W F., M. I' 4011 

Starr, . I. W ;1I7 

Steele, Hon. D. M 886 

Steele, w.T 364 

Stephens, J. IB7 



Stewart, Robert, SI. I> 213 

Stewart, W. C 

st C. N IMS 

Suns., n. 0.0 :'.ts 

St. Joseph < Commercial 

College ...Ml 

St. Mim. -I, ins Church ..028 

SI. .in-. Knar 

>■ St. . ult. r.. I. W 175 

Stringfellow, Hon.J. II 171 

Stringfellow, Maj. W. E 219 

Strop, C. V 470 

Stuart, I.. I'.. M. |i 114 

,- Stupin , 1.. .1 206 

Swartz, Joseph 5t;:i 

Sweeney, M. K 555 

Swenson, Miss Marie 1st, 



Talbot, 1. s.. M. |i 515 

Taylor, Zacbary G3 

Thomas, it. ll 860 

Thompson, C. M 248 

Lemon .v Co tK>4 

Tootle, Milton 104 

roi pey, H. K :170 

Turner, Hon. E. W 156 

Turner, Col. Winslow 388 



I "ill lie-. , II.. I. T. E 

T\ lor. Col. J. V 

T.\ l.r. John 






r 



si, J. I„ 

I II 



I 

648 



Van Buren, M.n-t in . . 47 
Van Doventer, O.E 215 



w 



Wachter, Mrs. Louise r.lii 

.. Egid 184 

w agner, Rev . Domonlcli . . .411 
Walker, E.T 159 

Washiii_ii.ii. i ieorge lit 

Watson, Elijah 295 



Weaver, Oapl T. E 

u eckei le, Casper 170 

,Oarl 

West, i barli 

Weyiii.iiin. M I , M ll 

Wickenhoefer, Jacob 177 

Wldman, William. . .... 

Wild, E. 11 308 

Wilkerson, Van Huron 335 

U illiain*. J. II n : 

Prof, J. [1 11:1 

Wils J. M 

Wilson, Riley 

Wilson, W. N .1 ; 

Winn, 1 A38 

rd,J. II 

Womaob, w. 1: 

Wood, II. w 214 

Woods <" K 

Woodson, II. hi. Silas. ... 

Wray, E. M 299 

Wright, I' B 

Wyatt, .1 U I.M 



I M 

Venawine. K. P 687 

Young, Oapl . Qeorge 513 

Young, K. 1 590 

Young, Hon. Waller 



PORTRAITS. 



Adams/John 22 

Adams, John Q 38 

Amlriano, Joseph 452 

Arthur, Chester A 08 

Ashbrook, Mahlon 122 

. Maj. A.T 132 

Berghoff, J. T., M. D 202 

Browne, Francis 522 

Buchanan, James 74 

Burgess, T.J 412 

Cleveland, S. Grover 102 

Cloud, S. E 302 

Ooberly, W. D 342 

Crawford, W. 11., M. l> 502 

Cullen, Rev. a. .1 292 

Curd, Isaac 292 

W. F 680 

Davidson, E. M :tr-j 



Davis, Capt. J. II 232 

Dyer, J. T., Jr 192 

Estep, Jacob 272 

Fillmore, Millard 66 

Finn, V. A 662 

Qarfield, James A 114 

Jacob, M. 11 ...1111 

1 ling, John ">7t 

' ling, Mrs. .1. E 575 

Grant, r. S 36 

Harrison, Benjamin 106 

Harrison, W. H 50 

Hartwlg.H it. w 202 

Hayes, K.B 90 

ll, d. lens, .1. W.,M. I) [92 

Bilgert, Michael 362 

Hinckley. A. C 

Hull, J. C 312 



Hyde, A. C 

Ingles, < Ibarles 242 

Jackson, Andre* . 42 

Jefferson, Thomas 26 

Johnson, Andrevi 8*2 

Lincoln ..braham 78 

Logan, J S..M.D 1(10 

Uadinger, Jacob 

Madison, James :io 

Monro. .I. ;; 

Morj ! " 1: s 610 

■ iwen, .1. A lit; 

Pfeiffei . Col James 150 

Franklin 70 

Polk. J. K 58 

Reed, M. A 130 

Rej molds, II H 820 

Richmond, .1. M 123 



William 

Mrs William... . 

.lame. KI2 

Sherwood, Rei . Ellshs 252 

Sherwood, J. B 652 

Skouten, Allen 592 

Snyder, Edward 172 

Snyder, .1. 1; 832 

' . Robert , M. D 212 

Stringfi How, II. .11. .1 N 170 

swartz, Joseph 

Zaobary 

Tyler, John 

Van Buren, Bfartin 41; 

Washington, George 18 

Williams, 1. U 

Williams. Marietta 012 

Wilson, Riley 

-e 



VIEW'S. 



Academy of the Sacred 

Heart Ill 



christian Brothers' 
Heuschele, Phillip isi 



j( Kessler, 



,1a. 'oh I'M 

rollett, Jeremiah. ■ ■ i"i 



11, William Mil 

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